2005-2006 Laura C. Harris Symposium
Gender and The Body
Eve Ensler September
19, 2005
4:00 p.m.,
Slayter Auditorium
Eve Ensler has devoted her life to stopping violence against
women. She is the Obie-Award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, a
play celebrating women’s sexuality and strength and based on Ensler's
interviews with more than 200 women. Her most recent work, The Good Body, addresses why women of all cultures
and backgrounds - whether undergoing Botox injections or living beneath burkhas
- feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in, to be
accepted, to be good. Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues has been translated
into over 35 languages and has been performed in theaters all over the world.
Her experience performing The Vagina Monologues inspired her to create
V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.
Anne Fausto-Stegrling October
18, 2005
4:30 p.m.,
Burton Morgan Lecture Hall
Anne Fausto-Sterling is Professor of Biology and Gender
Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University. She serves as Chair of the Faculty Committee
on Science & Technology Studies. A Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, she has received grants and fellowships in both the
sciences and the humanities. Author of scientific publications in developmental
genetics and developmental ecology, Fausto-Sterling has achieved recognition
for works that challenge entrenched scientific beliefs. Her most recent work, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the
Construction of Sexuality (2000), examines the social nature of
biological knowledge about animal and human sexuality. A biologist and
feminist, Fausto-Sterling once wrote that we should dump our two-sex system in
favor of five.
Emily Martin March
29, 2006
4:30 p.m.,
Burton Morgan Lecture Hall
Dr. Emily Martin is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Her research interests include anthropology
of science and medicine, gender, money and other measures of value, the
ethnography of work in China
and the U.S. She has taught in the departments of
Anthropology at Princeton and Johns Hopkins University.
Martin’s book, entitled Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in
American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS (1994), explores
American’s understanding of health and immunity by showing how the ideal of
“flexibility” shapes everything from immunology research to fitness training. Martin’s earlier work, Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (1987, revised
2001) explores the different ways that women’s reproduction is
viewed by science, society and greater American culture.
Seminars
Dr. Kathya Araujo October 31-November 9, 2005
Psychoanalysis,
Feminism & Culture
Director of Psychoanalysis, Gender Studies Program
Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiniano
Informal Talks
Women in LatinAmerica November
3, 2005
4:30-5:30pm, Shepardson College Room
Redemocratization
Process: Truth or Fiction? November 8,
2005
1:30-2:30pm, Shepardson College Room
Women’s Studies
Programs in Latin America: November 10, 2005
Between Misrecognition & Desire
4:30-5:30pm, Shepardson College Room
Faculty Reading Group
Sexing the Body by Anne Fausto-Sterling October 13, 2005
11:30am-1:00pm, Shepardson College Room
Performances
The Shape of
Things September 30, October 1,4,5,6,7,&8
8:00pm, Burke Black Box
Boldly Expressive!
Music by Women October 30, 2005
3:00pm, Burke Recital Hall
Exhibitions
Textiles of the
Burma Hills September 23 thru December 11, 2005
5:30-7:30pm, Burke Hall Art Gallery
Around the World
and Back Again: September
23 thru December 11, 2005
5:30-7:30pm, Burke Hall Art Gallery
