ANNUAL EVENTS
11th Annual WGS Conference
Under the Radar:
A Speakers Series Celebrating Queer Issues and Diversity
SPRING 2008 EVENTS
January
Friday January 25th, 8:30-1pm at the Red Shoes
Annual Faculty Retreat, Theme: Women's Way of Knowing
February
Monday February 11th, 12-1:30pm 225 Peabody Hall
WGS Faculty Meeting
*Katrice Albert will provide an update on the Women's Center bldg & job search*
Tuesday February 12th, 6-8pm at the Women's Center
Gender on Film presents: I Spit on Your Grave
March
Thursday March 6th, 6pm in the Design Building Auditorium
WGS Conference Keynote Speaker, AnaLouise Keating
Reception following at the French House
Friday March 7th, All day in Peabody Hall
Annual WGS Student Conference
Friday March 7th, 5pm in the Design Building Auditorium
Under the Radar presents readings by: Ana-Maurine Lara and Lenelle Moise with Solimar Otero
Wednesday March 12th, 5-6pm at the Women's Center
GBLSU/WOW/WGSGO Meet and Greet
Wednesday March 12th, 6-8pm at the Women's Center
Gender on Film presents: Transparent
Thursday March 13th, 3:30pm in the Hill Memorial Library
Telling Stories from Hemingway's FBI File: Conspiracy, Paranoia, and Masculinity
Debra Moddelmog, Ohio State University
William A. Read Lecture
Thursday March 13th, 7pm at the International Cultural Center at LSU
The Vagina Monologues $5, Presented by WOW at LSU. Proceeds benefit the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault
Tuesday March 25th, 3-4:30pm 225 Peabody Hall
WGS Faculty Meeting
Friday March 28th, 6pm at the International Cultural Center
Women in Performance Night sponsored by WGSGO & The Women's Center
April
Wednesday April 9th, 6pm at the African American Cultural Center
Under the Radar presents: Queer Theory's Ecstacy, Seth Clark Silberman
Followed by a closing reception for the series
Monday April 14th, 6-8pm at the Women's Center
Gender on Film presents: Don't Need You: The Herstory of Riot GRRL
Wednesday April 16th, 12-1:30 225 Peabody Hall
WGS Faculty Meeting
Tuesday April 22nd, 8pm in the LSU Union Ballroom
Women's History Month Keynote Performance: Jennifer Lanier
May
Sunday May 4th, 2-5pm at Higland Porch
Annual WGS Awards Ceremony
FALL 2007 EVENTS
December
Tuesday December 4th, 6-8pm at the Women's Center
Gender on Film presents...Children of Men.
Discussion will focus on representations of masculinity, population, immigration, and infertility. Popcorn and refreshments served!
Wednesday December 5th, 9am
Women's Center Core Committe Meeting: Final Plans
Wednesday December 5th, 12Noon in 3515 CEBA
Women in Engineering Program/WGS Brown Bag Luncheon
Please RSVP to jmkemp@lsu.edu
Wednesday December 5th, 5:30pm
Faculty Happy Hour
November
Tuesday 6th, 4-6pm at the Women's Center
LGBT Empowerment Forum. Join us for an LGBT-affirming follow-up to the September Student Debate. Light Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by WGS, the School of Social Work, & the Office of Social Service Research and Development
Tuesday 6th, 6-9pm in Allen 139
A film screening of feminist, independent filmmaker Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames
Monday 12th, 6-8pm at the Women's Center
Gender on Film presents...Matrubhoomi.
Discussion will focus on polyandry, patriarchy, and female feticidel. Popcorn and refreshments served!
Tuesday 13th,12-1:30pm in the Grand Salon Room in the French House
WGSGO Fall Luncheon: New Faculty, New Directions
RSVP to lsuwgsgo@gmail.com by Nov. 5th
Thursday 15th, 1-3pm in Lockett 134
Director's Lecture and Workshop with feminist, independent filmmaker Lizzie Borden.
Thursday 15th, 5-9pm in 145 Coates (reception following)
Screening of the Sundance Award-winning film Working Girls and a Q&A with director Lizzie Borden.
October
Sept 28th-Oct 7th, Women's Council of Greater Baton Rouge presents:
Women! A Week-Long Celebration
Monday 8th, 3-7pm at the Women's Center:
The Clothesline Project: Drop by anytime on Monday October 8th, from 3pm till 7pm at the Women's Center and join Women Organizing Women and the LSU Women's Center to take a stand against violence toward women and children.
Tuesday 9th, 6pm at the Women's Center:
GBLSU will be hosting a Coming Out Forum to help raise awareness about the coming out process as a part of events around National Coming Out Day on October 11th. The meeting will be held in the Women's Center. Everyone is welcome to come either with questions about the coming out process or with stories to share about their own coming out experiences or even simply to listen to what people have to ask and say.
Sunday 14th, 6:30-8:30pm at Baton Rouge Magnet High School
Take Back the Night March! Join Women Organizing Women and the Battered Women's Program for a candlelight vigil and empowerment march in honor of sexual and domestic violence vicitms. Take a stand against violence towards women!
Wednesday 17th, 6:30pm at the African American Cultural Center
Under the Radar...A Speakers' Series featuring Laura Harris & Jamey Hatley.
Thursday 25th, 6-8pm at the Women's Center
Gender on Film presents...Carrie.
Discussion will focus on representations of menstruation, embodied gender, and femininity as supernatural. Popcorn and refreshments served!
Saturday 27th, 2pm
WGSGO and WOW's Academics & Activism: Necessary Negotiations?
Contact lsuwgsgo@gmail.com for more information
September
Tuesday 5th, 5pm at the Women's Center:
Women's & Gender Studies Graduate Organization (WGSGO) Meeting
Sunday 9th, 11am: WGS Faculty, Students, and Friends Brunch
Email for details.
Monday 10th, 12-1:30pm in 225 Peabody Hall:
WGS Faculty Meeting
Monday 10th, 7:30pm at the Women's Center:
A visit from the Feminist Majority Foundation Campus Organizers to discuss the regional leadership conference and national campaigns for the 07-08 year.
Tuesday 11th, 5pm in the Caddo Room, 3rd floor Union:
GBLSU: Gays, Bisexuals, Lesbians, Supporters United Meeting
GBLSU's General Weekly Meeting. Always same place and time.
Wednesday 12th, 6-8pm at the Women's Center:
Rainbow Rush seeks to welcome members of the LGBTQ community and their allies to LSU’s campus and give participants an opportunity to meet each other, make campus/ community contacts, learn more about resources available for LGBTQ students, and gather student input regarding preferences for future programming centered on LGBTQ culture and issues.
Thursday 13th, 6pm at the African American Cultural Center:
Like Jazz: a staged reading of jazz/blues/prayer poems & performance/literature
by Sharon Bridgforth
Thursday 13th, 7:30pm at the Women's Center:
VOX's Fall Meeting and Margaret Sanger's Birthday Celebration
Wednesday 19th, 5pm at the Holiday Forum in the Journalism Building
Panel/Debate/Conversation in response to Mr. Denton's article in The Reveille
Wednesday 19th, 7pm at the Women's Center:
Women Organizing Women Back to School Potluck
Thursday 27th, Noon in the Baratariam Room, Union
QRSIG Meeting #1. Come hear Director Jennifer Abraham talk about the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History and the services that it offers qualitative researchers.
Thurs 27th & Fri 28th, 9:30-11am in the International Room, Union:
Safe Space Training. Email safespace@lsu.edu to RSVP
Sept 28th-Oct 7th, Women's Council of Greater Baton Rouge presents:
Women! A Week-Long Celebration
Friday 28th, 7-9pm at the Unitarian Church (8470 Goodwood Blvd):
"Gather the Women to Save the World": Internationally known author and Jungian analyst, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, issues a call to action to women of all ages to save the planet, our society, our economy, our family structures an ourselves. Call 338-1170 to RSVP.
Saturday 29th, 9:45-1pm at The Red Shoes (2303 Government St):
"Women's Wisdom, Circles and the Sacred Feminine": In an intimate workshop setting, internationally known author and Jungian analyst, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, will discuss how the phases of the moon and goddess archetypes are aspects of the three phases of women's lives. Call 338-1170 to RSVP.
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