Questions? Comments? Email us at: [email protected]B.C. WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES NEWS & EVENTS September 29, 2011 Visit us on Twitter: twitter.com/BCWomensStudies Friend us on Facebook: “Jane Gender” Dancehall Artist Lady Saw: Performing Sexual Politics at Home and Abroad Professor Patricia Saunders, presenter Wednesday October 26, 2011 4:30 p.m. in Devlin 101 This presentation will examine the social and political rhetoric of two prominent women in Jamaican popular culture and nationalist politics in order to examine the intimate relationships between sexuality, nationalism and consumer culture. The WRC presents UnCovered a new book club & discussion group when: Thursday, September 29th at 5 PM where: Women’s Resource Center in McElroy 141 With Whom: Professor Abigail Brooks from the Sociology Department Discussion thematics: Sexualization, Medicalization and Objectification of the Female Body Through the Life Course contact the wrc for the reading list, with any questions, or if you would like to rsvp - [email protected]The Lowell Humanities Series presents: Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns Wednesday, October 5th, 7 PM in Gasson 100 Isabel Wilkerson, Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University, was the first black woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the first black American to win for individual reporting. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship to complete the research for The Warmth of Other Suns, her epic account of the Great Migration, which also won the Mark Lynton History Prize.
Wednesday October 26, 2011 4:30 p.m. in Devlin 101
This presentation will examine the social and political rhetoric of two prominent women in
Jamaican popular culture and nationalist politics in order to
examine the intimate relationships between sexuality, nationalism and consumer culture.
The WRC presents
UnCovereda new book club & discussion group
when: Thursday, September 29th at 5 PM
where: Women’s Resource Center in McElroy 141
With Whom: Professor Abigail Brooks from the Sociology Department
Discussion thematics: Sexualization, Medicalization and Objectification of the Female Body Through the Life Course
contact the wrc for the reading list, with any questions, or if you would like to rsvp - [email protected]
The Lowell Humanities Series presents:
Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other SunsWednesday, October 5th, 7 PM in Gasson 100
Isabel Wilkerson, Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University, was the first black woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the first black American to win for individual reporting. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship to complete the research for The Warmth of Other Suns, her epic account of the Great Migration, which also won the Mark Lynton History Prize.
