Fall 2009-Spring 2010 Events Schedule
APPETITES
Fall 2009
Frances Moore Lappé – Opening Convocation
September 10, 2009 – 8pm – Swasey Chapel
“Why Hunger in a World of Plenty?”
That is the question that world food and hunger expert Frances Moore Lappé will address as the opening keynote speaker for Denison University’s 2009-10 campus theme, “Consumption.” Lappé, whose most recent book is “Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad,” will speak at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, in Swasey Chapel (200 Chapel Drive). Lappé is the author or co-author of 18 books, including the well-known “Diet for a Small Planet,” which J.M. Hirsch described as “the blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint since long before the term was coined.” Lappé is the co-founder of three organizations including the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter, Anna Lappé.
Spring 2010
Giving Voice Productions
Six week residency at Denison University – “Promiscuity, Pleasure and Promise: The Sex Lives of Teenagers”
January 8 – February 21, 2010
Giving Voice Productions is committed to expanding the horizons and the definitions of theatrical form. It is their goal to “meet” contemporary audiences and create a space where pressing, raw, and relevant material can exist in an aesthetic of beauty and grace. They believe that this dynamic allows audiences to not only enjoy the theatrical event, but also receive and contemplate the subject matter.
Giving Voice Productions is committed to creating theatre from real and contemporary issues that are alive within the community. Through live performance and outreach efforts, they endeavor to inform, educate, entertain, and spark community discussion. Their performances are followed by in-depth talk-back sessions, which encourage the audience to be in dialogue with the artists and foster connections within the community.
Juliet Shor
February 4, 2010 – Time and Location TBA
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies. Schor's latest book is Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (Scribner, September 2004). Born to Buy is both an account of marketing to children from inside the agencies and firms and an assessment of how these activities are affecting children.
Schor is author of the national best-seller, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (Basic Books, 1992) and The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need. The Overworked American appeared on the best seller lists of The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe as well as the annual best books list for The New York Times, Business Week and other publications. The book is widely credited for influencing the national debate on work and family. The Overspent American was also made into a video of the same name, by the Media Education Foundation (September 2003).
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Schor went on to receive her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts. She also holds a chair in the Economics of Leisure Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Marie Wilson
March 2, 2010 – 4:30pm – Slayter Auditorium
An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years, Marie C. Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ® Day and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World (Viking 2004).
In 1998, Wilson founded The White House Project in recognition of the need to build a truly representative democracy – one where women lead alongside men in all spheres. Since its inception, The White House Project has been a leading advocate and voice on women’s leadership.
Before she took the helm at The White House Project, Wilson was, for nearly two decades, the President of the Ms. Foundation for Women. She is an honorary “founding mother” of the Ms. Foundation. In honor of her work, the Ms. Foundation has created The Marie C. Wilson Leadership Fund.
Over the last thirty years, Wilson’s accomplishments span becoming the first woman elected to the Des Moines City Council as a member-at-large in 1983, co-authoring the critically acclaimed Mother Daughter Revolution (1993, Bantam Books), and serving as an official government delegate to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in 1995.
Wilson has been profiled in The New York Times “Public Lives” column, has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, National Public Radio and other national programs and is quoted widely for her expertise. Born and raised in Georgia, Wilson has five children and four grandchildren. She resides in New York City.
Guerrilla Girls On Tour
“Feminists Are Funny – The Food Edition”
March 4, 2010 – 7:00pm – Ace Morgan Theatre
Guerrilla Girls on Tour, an internationally acclaimed anonymous theatre collective, will present Feminist Are Funny – The Food Edition – an energetic romp through humorous historical moments in the lives and works of world renowned master chef Julia Child, acclaimed food writer M.F.K. Fisher, and the grand dame of southern cooking Edna Lewis. In addition to sharing the rich history of these women, the comedy also focuses on issues surrounding women and food such as body image, nutrition and global hunger. Feminists Are Funny – The Food Edition celebrates Guerrilla Girls On Tour’s famous posters, street theatre actions, and highlights current local issues and statistics on the relationship of women and food in each state they tour through.
Guerrilla Girls On Tour creates original comedies, vaudevillian-like street actions, edgy visual works and empowering residency programs that dramatize women’s history, advocate on behalf of women and artists of color and uses a fresh, unique approach to address current political issues.