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January 2013

Monday
January 21 at 7pm
LC Forum



Queer Film Series
Pariah (2011) Rated: R

Co-sponsored by the Office of LGBT Awareness, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender,  the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Samek Art Gallery

Tuesday
January 29 at 7:30pm
Campus Theatre

Film Screeting of  Hermans's House, a look at the injustice of solitary confinement and the transformative power of art.

Co-sponsored Event

Wednesday
January 30 at 7pm
LC Forum

Dean Spade (Seattle University School of Law, fellow in the Engaging Tradition Project at Columbia Law School)

"Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law"

Co-sponsored with the Office of LGBT

Thursday
January 31 at 4:30pm
Willard Smith Library
(VL 125)

CSREG Faculty Colloquium
Lauren Fordyce (Anthropology)

"Accounting for Responsibility: Vital Statistics and Prenatal Care Among Haitians in South Florida"

February 2013

Monday
February 4 at 7pm
LC Forum

Black History Month Keynote Lecture

Koritha Mitchell (Ohio State University)
"Living with Lynching: African American Drama and Citizenship"

Co-sponsored with the Office of MSS

 

Wednesday
February 13 at 7pm
LC Forum

2012-13 Social Science Colloquium:
Mass Incarceration in the United States

"Lock Up America: Why Mass Incarceration Matters to our Cities, our Economy, and our Democracy"

Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Temple University Department of History

Thursday
February 14 at 4:30pm
Willard Smith Library
(VL 125)

CSREG Faculty Colloquium

Nikki Young (Women's and Gender Studies)

"I am not That Hungry: Creative Resistance, Black Queers, and Family"

Monday
February 18 at 7pm
LC Forum


Queer Film Series
Weekend (2011) Rated: NR

Co-sponsored by the Office of LGBT Awareness, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender,  the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Samek Art Gallery

Tuesday
February 19 at 7pm

Campus Theatre


Film Screening of the film Jonestown: The Life and Death of the People's Temple with post-screening discussion with Emmy-winning producer Stanley Nelson.

Co-sponsored with the Griot Institute

Wednesday
February 20 at 7pm

TBA

Public lecture by Stanley Nelson, Emmy-winning producer

Co-sponsored with the Griot Institute

March 2013

Monday
March 18 at 7pm
Gallery Theatre



Queer Film Series
Mosquita y Mari (2012) Rated: NR

Co-sponsored by the Office of LGBT Awareness, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender,  the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Samek Art Gallery

Thursday
March 21
4:00 -6:00
pm
Hunt Hall 101 (Living Room)
Hunt Formal

2012-13 Social Science Colloquium:
Mass Incarceration in the United States

"People, Policies & Prisons: Experiences with Incarceration in PA" This event features a panel discussion of the policy-based social and economic factors that contribute to criminal behavior and sentencing, and also shape the experiences of incarceration and re-entry into society.

The panel features: John Wetzel, Secretary of the PA Department of Corrections, Ann Schwartzman, Policy Director at the Pennsylvania Prison Society, Tyrone Werts, Executive Director of the Lifers Safety Initiative, formerly incarcerated at SCI Graterford, and Tina Dixon Spence, Executive Assistant to the Director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, formerly incarcerated at SCI Muncy.

Wednesday
March 27 at 7:00 pmLC Forum

 

2012-13 Women's and Gender Studies Distinguished Lecture

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory University)
"Disability Stories"

A Co-sponsored event

April 2013

Thursday
April 4 at 4:30 pm
Willard Smith Library
(VL 125)
CSREG Faculty Colloquium
Vincent Stephens (Multicultural Student Services)

"Rocking the Closet: Queer Musicians and the Limits of the Closet"