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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"

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Women’s and Gender Studies 2012-13 Distinguished Lecture

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of Women's Studies and English at Emory University. Her fields of study are feminist theory, American literature, and disability studies. Her work develops the field of disability studies in the humanities and women's and gender studies.

"Disability Stories"

Wednesday, March 27 at 7:00 pm
Elaine Langone Center Forum

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Women's and Gender Studies Student Speaker Series

Spring 2013

4:30pm Willard Smith Library

2/19 - Mona mohammed: Girls Reproductive Healthcare in Yemen: Provision vs. Tradition

3/7 - Steph Wyld - The Real Power at Play in the Sports Business

3/25 - Malyse Uwase - The Multiple Faces of Conflict: Rape Used as a Weapon of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo

4/1 - Lima Ahmed - Women's Interest in Political Discussions

4/11 - Kety Silva - A Home Away From Home

Social Science Colloquium

2012-13: Mass Incarceration in the United States

The U.S. has the largest number of prisoners, and the highest rate of incarceration, of any country in the world. This year's colloquium will explore the social, political, and economic consequences of mass incarceration in American society.

Spring Speakers

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013
7 p.m. in the ELC Forum
Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Temple University Department of History
March 21, 2013
4-6 p.m.
Hunt Hall 101 - Living Room, Hunt Formal
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, Tina Dixon Spence, Executive Assistant to the Director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society.

For more information on the colloquium or individual speakers, contact one of the series faculty coordinators: Atiya Kai Stokes-Brown or Michael Rabinder James.