Gender, Politics, and Society
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Past Events
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Private Life of a Noble Jewish Woman in Tsarist Russia: Gender in the Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova (1862-1952)
ChaeRan Freeze
- Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and Graduate Chair of Women\'s and Gender Studie, Brandeis University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ON: Equal Rights in Europe: What Difference has the EU Made?
Francoise Picq
- Professor, University of Paris IX Dauphine
Patricia Thane - Professor, University of London
Zita Gurmai - President, PES (Party of European Socialists) Women
Patricia Thane - Professor, University of London
Zita Gurmai - President, PES (Party of European Socialists) Women
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Location:
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Paradoxical Lives: Nostalgia, Modernity and Race in European Women’s Writing in Colonial Algeria
Patricia Lorcin
- Professor of History, University of Minnesota
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Sex, Love, and Letters: Reading Simone de Beauvoir 1949-1963
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Gender Equality Politics and Policies in the European Union
Susanne Baer
- Professor of Law, Director of the Gender Competence Center, Humboldt University
Maria Bustelo - Professor of Political Science, Complutense University
Myra Ferree - Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin
Emanuela Lombardo - Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Complutense University,
Mieke Verloo - Professor Verloo, Professor at the Nijmegen School of Management, University of Nijmegen, Research D,
Maria Bustelo - Professor of Political Science, Complutense University
Myra Ferree - Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin
Emanuela Lombardo - Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Complutense University,
Mieke Verloo - Professor Verloo, Professor at the Nijmegen School of Management, University of Nijmegen, Research D,
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Politics of Intersectionality: Quotas for Women and Minorities in France and India
Mona Krook
- Visiting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Values, Equality, and Differences in Liberal Democracies: Muslim Headscarves in Europe
Eleni Varikas
- Université de Paris VIII and Birte Siim, Aalborg University, Denmark
Birte Siim - Professor, Institute for History, International and Social Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Michele Lamont - Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African American Stud, Harvard
Birte Siim - Professor, Institute for History, International and Social Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Michele Lamont - Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African American Stud, Harvard
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Spheres of Influence: Women in Postwar Bosnia
Dr. Cynthia Simmons
- Boston College
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Goldman Room, Busch Hall