January 24, Tues 4:30, A.D. White House
LGBT: Ian Lekus '92
The Gay Deceivers: Vietnam-Era Draft Evasion and Redemptive Masculinity
February 2, Thurs 4:30, A.D. White House
Messenger Lecture: David Savran, Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
Branding as Cultural Performance
February 7, Tues 4:45, Toboggan Lodge
ICM: Shelley Feldman, FGSS/Development Sociology and Chuck Geisler, Development Sociology
Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession as Lived Experience
February 10, Fri 4:30, Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
FGSS: Feminism Mapped: celebrating 40 years. Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Shelley Feldman, Judy Long, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Mary Beth Norton, and Shirley Samuels will situate their work within a larger historical context and, with the help of current Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies students, engage the audience in an exploration of how to move feminism forward.
February 16, Thurs, Willard Straight Theatre
7:00: A.D. White Professor-at-Large Anne Carson, Canadian poet, essayist, translator; Classics/Comparative Literature, U Michigan
"Contempts," a study of profit and non-profit in the works of Homer, Moravia, and Jean Luc Godard
7:30 Cornell Cinema Film screening: Contempt (Le mépris) by Jean Luc Godard (103 min)
February 17, Fri 7:30 pm, Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz CPA
A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Anne Carson and Robert Currie
"Bracko" A recitation of fragments of poetry by Sappho with four voices and accompanying video
"Cassndra Float Can" A lecture on translation (includes multimedia and student participation)
February 17-18, Cornell International Law Journal, Cornell Law School
Forces Without Borders: Non-State Actors in a Changing Middle East Symposium
February 29, Wed 4:30, 258 Goldwin Smith
Messenger Lecture: David Savran, Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre,
CUNY Graduate Center
The Kindness of Strangers?: Branding American Theatre in Postwar Europe
February 29, Wed 4:45, Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
ICM: Daphne Brooks, English and African American Studies, Princeton University
Black Swan(s) Rising: Blues Women, Female Minstrels & the Gendered Politics of
Sonic Afromodernity
March 1, Thurs 4:30, A.D. White House
FGSS: Srimati Basu, Women & Gender Studies, University of Kentucky
Playing Off Courts: The Everyday Life of Divorce and Domestic Violence Claims in
Kolkata, India
March 3, Sat 4:30, H.E.C. Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
PCCW: Amy Siskind '87, Economics; president/founder of The New Agenda; http://thenewagenda.net
A Girlfriends' Guide to Making It In 'The Real World'
March 6, Tues 4:30, Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
University Lecture: Lori Ginzberg, History and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State U.
Rights, Racism, & "A Very Radical Proposition": Grappling with the Complex Legacies
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
March 12, Mon 12:15, G08 Uris Hall
SAP: Aziza Ahmed, Northeastern University, School of Law
The Unintended Consequences of U.S. Feminist Activism on HIV Programs in India
March 13, Tues 4:30, A.D. White House
LGBT: Ellen Gainor, Theatre, Film, & Dance
So You Think You Can Dance Straight? Same-Sex Ballroom and Reality Television
March 28, Wed 4:45, Toboggan Lodge
ICM: Dagmawi Woubshet, English
The Feelings of Motherless Children: AIDS Orphans and their Epistles to the Dead
March 30, Fri 4:30, Schwartz CPA, Film Forum
Messenger Lecture: David Savran, The Queer Brand on Broadway: The American
Musical from Porter to The Book of Mormon
March 30-April 1, Schwartz CPA
TF&D: Resoundingly Queer Conference
http://theatrefilmdance.cornell.edu/events/resoundinglyqueer.cfm
March 30-31, Myron Taylor
Cornell Law School: Women and Sustainable Development Conference
April 9, Mon 12:15, G08 Uris Hall
SAP: Lisa Trivedi, History, Hamilton College
Women at Work in India: Photographs from Ahmedabad, 1937
April 11, Wed 4:30, 165 McGraw
History: Jane De Hart, History, UC Santa Barbara
Ruth Bader, Class of 1954
April 12, Thurs 4:30, G8 Myron Taylor
Cornell Law School:Jane De Hart, History, UC Santa Barbara
The Challenges of Writing a Biography of a Sitting Supreme Court Justice
April 30, Mon 4:30, 374 Rockefeller
S&TS: Sarah Richardson, History of Science and Studies of Women, Gender, and
Sexuality, Harvard U.
Sex Itself: Conceptualizing Sex Differences in the Human Genome