EVENTS CALENDAR FALL 2009
Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, Women's Studies and Gender Studies
SEPTEMBER
The New Transnationalism in Literary and Cultural Studies: A Lecture Series
"Global Epistemologies of the New Transnationalism in Literary and Cultural Studies"
Susan Stanford Friedman
Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wednesday, September 30, 3:00 PM
Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor
Co-sponsored with the English Department
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OCTOBER
Gannon Scholar Program
Hunger Week Book Club
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Wednesday, October 14, 3:00 -4:00 PM
Wednesday, November 4, 2:45 - 3:45 PM
Piper Hall, Second Floor
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Rana Husseini
"Murder in the Name of Honor"
Monday, October 19, 4 PM
Piper Hall, First Floor
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Gender Research Seminar
Wednesday, October 28, 4-6 PM
Piper Hall, First Floor
WSGS 30th Anniversary Celebration
"Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future: 30 Years of Women's Studies at Loyola"
Thursday, October 29, 4-5:30 PM
Piper Hall, First Floor
NOVEMBER
Gannon Scholar Program
Hunger Week Book Club
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Wednesday, November 4, 2:45-3:45 PM
Piper Hall, Second Floor
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Maaike de Haardt
Gannon Center Visiting Scholar
Tasting the Divine: Religious Reflections on Every Day Life
Thursday, November 5, 3:30 PM
Piper Hall, 2nd Floor
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Gannon Scholar Program
Sustainable Dinner and Discussion
Reflections on In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Monday, November 9, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Piper Hall, First Floor
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Women of the Word: A Colloquium of Catholic Women Poets
Thursday, November 12
Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor Meeting Room
9:15 AM Welcome
9:30 AM Readings by Carolyn Alessio, Linda Nemec Foster, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Stella Ann Nesanovich
1:30 PM "Seeing Catholicity in Women's Literary Imagination" Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
2:00 PM Faith and the Poet's Craft: Four Women's Perspectives
4:00 PM Reception in Piper Hall
*Co-sponsored with the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage and
The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University
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The New Transnationalism in Literary and Cultural Studies: A Lecture Series
The Physics of Blackness: Agency and Morality in the Postwar Era
Michelle Wright
Associate Professor of English, Northwestern University
Wednesday, November 18, 3:00 PM
Information Commons, 4th Floor
Co-sponsored with the English Department
Women's Lifelines: Storytelling, Sisterhood, & Global Health Solutions
Presented by Nicole Paprocki, Gannon Scholar
Special Guest: Deni Robey, Vice President of Americans for UNFPA
Thursday, November 19, 3:00 PM
Piper Hall, First Floor
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity.
Nicole will share her experience in the field as the 2009 Americans for UNFPA Student Award Winner for the Health and Dignity of Women in Bangladesh.