Gender, Politics, and Society

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Upcoming Events
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
From Left to Right: The Uses of Anti-Americanism on the Streets of Interwar Paris
Brooke Blower - Assistant Professor of History, Boston University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Parenting Support in Europe: A Critical Account of an Emerging Policy
Mary Daly - Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology, Social Policy, and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Past Events
Friday, December 2, 2011
Reflections on 20 Years of East-West Collaboration: The Network of East-West Women in New York and Poland, 1991-2011
Ann Snitnow - Associate Professor of Literature, The New School
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location:
 
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
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Friday, November 4, 2011
The New Façade of Autocracy: Putin and Hypermasculinity, 1999 to the Present
Elizabeth Wood - Professor of History, MIT
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location:
 
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Can Politics Change Birth Rates? Some Recent Lessons from Germany
Elisabeth Niejah - Visiting Scholar, CES
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in Europe: Rescaling Social Policies towards Multilevel Governance Arrangements
Yuri Kazepov - President, ISA Research Committee on Urban & Regional Research
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Rescheduled from March 24th - Engendering the European Demos, between Norms and Markets
Muriel Rouyer - Invited Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Université de Nantes
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Good Buyer: Gender, Citizenship, and Consumption in the Making of Postwar France
Rebecca Pulju - Assistant Professor of History, Kent State University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Exclusive Rights: Adoption and Gendered Biographical Patterns in Contemporary France
Bruno Perreau - Assistant Professor of French Studies, MIT
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Friday, November 12, 2010
Socialist Boot Camp in Bulgaria: Building Third World-Second World alliances during the International Decade for Women
Kristen Ghodsee - Visiting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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Monday, October 18, 2010
My Body, my Self. The Biopolitics of Beauty between Feminism and Commodification in Germany
Paula-Irene Villa - Department Head and Professor of Sociology/Gender Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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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
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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
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
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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
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Sex, Love, and Letters: Reading Simone de Beauvoir 1949-1963
Judith Coffin
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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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,
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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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
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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
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
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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
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