Open House
Friday, October 12, 2007
3:30 - 4:30 p.m., WGS Office
To WGS alumni and core faculty

The WGS office will host an informal open house (for Homecoming). "An informal gathering of alumni and friends"
Stop in if you can.

The Shape of Water
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Film Producer-Director
Kum Kum Bhavnani.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
4:30 p.m., Buttrick Hall, Room 101

Kum-Kum Bhavnani is a scholar, writer, and cultural critic who has worked periodicaly with broadcast media in the UK in the 1980s, before coming the the USA in 1991. She created the radio programs for her trade union organizations interviewing organizers such as Arthur Scargil (Leader, Mineworkers Uniion).

She was also the initiator and billed as researcher for Resist and Survive (30 minutes: directed by Dee Dee Glass and broadcast on Channel Four on 16th February 1993). That program followed three black women's groups in Manchester who worked on ecomonic (employment co-operative), health (challenging white-defined notions of sickle cell anemia) and cultural/sexual (hair and sexulaity) aspects of black women's daily lives in the UK.

 

 

Complex Coalitions: Feminist and Religious Activists in the U.S. Living Wage Movement
Women’s and Gender Studies and Warren Center Seminar Series Professor Melissa Snarr, Assistant Professor, Ethics and Society
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
11:30a.m. - 1:15p.m.
The Conference Room, Warren Center

Professor Snarr's writing, teaching, and community involvements center on the intersection of religion, social change and social/political ethics. She teaches courses ranging from "Modern Christian Political Thought" and "Religion and War in an Age of Terror" to "Religion and Social Movements." Her work employs a variety of methodologies within Christian social ethics, comparative ethics (focused on Islamic political thought), philosophical ethics, and sociological theory that continually place the construction of normative commitments in conversation with socio-historical context.

Her most recent book, Social Selves and Political Reforms , (Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2007), focuses on Christian views of moral formation and their affect on political engagement. Her current book project (and activist engagement) explores the role of gender and religion in the U.S. living wage movement. She has also published generally in the area of feminist theological ethics.