Sponsored by the IUP Women’s Studies Program and the English Department.

Vegan food will be served.

• Wednesday, April 22, 2009
• Time: 7:00 p.m.
• Location: Ohio Room, HUB

• Friday, April 17, 2009
• Time: 3:30 pm
• Location: 113 Uhler Hall

Sponsored by: Psychology Department 

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009

Time: 3:30 pm

Location: Monongahela Room, HUB

Presented by Women’s Studies 

Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Time: 1:30-2:30 pm.

Location: 112 Leonard (Nicholson Library)

Presented by Women’s Studies 

John G. Burt will speak on Women’s Rights and the Anti-Slavery Cause.

In pre-Civil War Pennsylvania, abolitionists campaigned against slavery on multiple fronts. Among the most important abolitionists were Pennsylvania’s women, including Pittsburgh’s Jane Swisshelm, a pioneering journalist and civil rights advocate. Swisshelm was the first woman reporter to cover the U.S. Congress and was a key advocate in reforming Pennsylvania law which affected the rights of women. Burt will shed light on her contributions to the lives of professional women, women’s civil rights and the abolition of slavery.

Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: HUB, Monongahela Room

Presented by Women’s Studies 

• Date: Friday, March 20, 2009
• Time: TBA

Presented by Women’s Studies

• Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009
• Time: 2:00 pm
• Location: 201 Stabley Library

Women’s Studies

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Lecture: “Gender, Media, and Human Rights”
Monongahela Room - HUB
Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

Friday, March 7, 2008

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Luncheon Seminar: “Domestic Violence: Activism and Strategy”
Oak Room A
Due to limited seating, RSVP Sharon Aikins at saikins@iup.edu in order to reserve a seat at the luncheon.

Mallika Dutt is the founder and executive director of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization using innovative high impact education, media, and popular culture to transform communities and bring about social change. Breakthrough works through offices in India and the United States, the world’s two largest democracies, on several issues including women’s rights, sexuality and HIV/AIDS, and racial justice and immigrant rights.  See a more complete biography of Ms. Dutt.

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Lecture: “Closed Passages: Muslim Women, Islamism, Feminism”
Crimson Event Center, Folger Hall
Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Luncheon Seminar “Muslims in the West”
Oak Room A, Foster Hall
Due to limited seating, RSVP Sharon Aikins at saikins@iup.edu in order to reserve a seat at the luncheon.

Dr. Haideh Moghissi is a professor of sociology at York University in Ontario, Canada, cross-appointed in the School of Social Sciences, in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York School of Women’s Studies, and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. A more complete biography of Dr. Moghissi is available.

Artist Ann Rosenthal will lecture on campus Thursday, February 7 at 5:00 p.m. in 225 Sprowls Hall.  It is free and open to the public.

Ann Rosenthal brings to communities thirty years experience as an artist, educator, and writer.  Her art installations address the local manifestation of global concerns, including climate change, food safety, and nuclear waste.  Most recently, her work has been shown at the Andy Warhol Museum, Exit Art, the Hudson River Museum, several northeast universities, and in Japan.  She partners with trail organizations and post-industrial communities to reconnect citizens, educational institutions, and youth to their forgotten waterways as sites of common experience, history and possibility.  Her essays on eco/community art and interdisciplinary pedagogy have been published in several journals and anthologies.

Ms. Rosenthal's lecture is co-sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the IUP Women's Studies Program.

Special note:  Her lecture will be followed by the opening reception (6:00-8:00) of the exhibition "Four Degrees: Artistic Views on Climate Change," in Kipp Gallery (first floor of Sprowls Hall).

Mallika Dutt is the founder and executive director of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization using innovative high impact education, media and popular culture to transform communities and bring about social change. Breakthrough works through offices in India and the United States, the world’s two largest democracies, on several issues including women’s rights, sexuality and HIV/AIDS and racial justice and immigrant rights.

Mallika has been at the cutting-edge of the human rights movement for more than two decades exploring creative ways to incorporate human rights values into people’s daily lives. She has received several awards, is a sought-after public speaker, and has been interviewed by more than a hundred local and global media outlets on a range of human rights issues.

Mallika has authored several articles and essays including the widely referenced "With Liberty and Justice for All: Women's Human Rights in the United States." She was also the co-author of the globally utilized manual, "Local Action Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls," which has been translated into more than ten languages.

Prior to founding Breakthrough, Mallika was the program officer for the Human Rights and Social Justice Program at the Ford Foundation’s New Delhi office. Mallika has also served as the Associate Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University and as the director of the Norman Foundation. She began her professional career as an Associate at Debevoise and Plimpton in New York City.

Mallika is a founder of Sakhi for South Asian Women and has served on several boards and committees, including the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Project and Asia Watch, The Sister Fund, Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Lt. Governor Committee on Public Police Relations, Committee on Sex and Law - the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the U.S. NGO Coordinating Committee for the U.N. World Conference Against Racism. She is currently on the Board of WITNESS.

Mallika is a member of the New York State Bar. She has a J.D. from NYU Law School, a master's in International Affairs from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College.

Mallika grew up in Kolkata and Mirzapur in India and currently lives in New York with her husband Sumit Daniel Ghosal and their dogs, Piko and Sulta.

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Her colloquium topic will be “Closed Passages: Muslim Women, Islamism, Feminism.”

Haideh Moghissi, is a professor of sociology, cross-appointed in the School of Social Sciences, in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York's School of Women's Studies and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. She is also a member of the executive committee of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Dr. Moghissi was a founder of the Iranian National Union of Women and member of its first executive and editorial boards, before leaving Iran in 1984. Her publications include articles in refereed journals and chapters in edited volumes and following books: Three-volume Women and Islam: Critical Concepts in Sociology (ed.) London: Routledge (2005); Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis, London: Oxford University Press 2000 (Zed Press, 1999, winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award); and Populism and Feminism in Iran: Women's Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement, London: Macmillan Press; New York: St.Martin's Press (1994.). She has served as coordinator of Certificate for Anti-Racist Research and Practice (CARRP) and chair of the Executive Committee of Centre for Feminist Research at York University. She has served as a commentator on Iran and women in the Middle East on BBC World Service, CBC, Radio France, and Voice of America, and on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of Journal of Comparative Public Policy, the Rutledge Women and Politics Series, Resources for Feminist Research , and Women in Struggle and Equality (Tehran). As head of Old Manuscripts Division, National Archives of Iran, she was responsible for the evaluation and classification of historical documents.

http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~diaspora/team/haiden.htm

From SIGNS homepage

Haideh Moghissi was a founder of the Iranian National Union of Women and a member of its first executive and editorial boards before leaving Iran in 1984.  She teaches sociology and women’s studies at York University in Toronto.  Her Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis (London:  Zed Books, 1999) was awarded the Year 2000 Choice Outstanding Academic Books Award in Sociology.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/SIGNS/journal/issues/v29n2/290239/290239.html