The West Virginia University Center for Womens Studies plans an open house, a Fireside Chat series and other opportunities to share information and research among its upcoming fall activities.
1999 Stitzel Endowment Teachers Maryanne Reed, associate professor of journalism, and Christine Martin, School of Journalism dean, will begin the semester with a Fireside Chat titled”Battling for the Story: The Women Who Covered the Vietnam War”at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, in the Mountainlair Rhododendron Room.
Their talk is supported by the Judith Gold Stitzel Endowment for Excellence in Womens Studies Teaching and Learning.
The Center faculty and staff will host a 4-6 p.m. Open House on Friday, Sept. 15, in 218 Eiesland Hall.
As part of Diversity Week, Sept. 25-29, the department will present the video”On the Way Home”at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, in the Mountainlair.
A second Fireside Chat will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in the Mountainlair Greenbrier Room. Amanda Gray, a graduate student in history, will present”The Changing Legal Rights of Women in West Virginia from 1862-1872. A talk by Chris Brehm, a political science doctoral student, titled”Campus Climate for Women, Minorities and Gays Among the Southern Regional Education Board Universities”will follow.
A Foreign Languages Colloquium will present talks on the theme”The Female Gaze in Literature and Film”Oct 12-14 in the WVU Mountainlair.
On Thursday, Oct. 19, Cindi Katz, of the City University of New Yorks Environmental Psychology Program, will lecture on”Topographies of Global Change: Reworking the Contours of Everyday Life”at the National Research Center for Coal and Energys Assembly Rooms A&B.
Dr. Katz will also present a Regional Research Institute Colloquium on”The Hidden Geographies of Social Environment Psychology”at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Oct 20, in the Mountainlair Rhododendron Room.
A third and final fireside chat at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in the Mountainlair Greenbrier Room will feature Carolyn Nelson, a visiting assistant professor, on”Revolting Daughters and Shrieking Sisters: New Women of the 1890s.”
For more information, contact the Center for Womens Studies, 304-293-2339.