Women in the Curriculum and
Women’s Studies Program
Spring 2007 Lunch Series
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
All lunch series programs are held in the Bangor Room,
Memorial Union unless otherwise noted,
and all are accessible
January
23, Tuesday
Singing Girls, Mystics and Aristocrats:
A Survey of Women’s Roles and Their Influence
On Western Art Music
*Lisa Nielson, Graduate Student, IPhD, Ethnomusicology
30, Tuesday
The Politics of the ‘Boy Crisis’: A Case Study of the Maine Task Force on Gender Equity in Education
*Lyn Mikel Brown, Professor of Education and Human Development, Colby College
*Mary Madden, Assistant Research Professor of Education and Human Development
February
7 Wednesday, noon, Alfond Arena
Maine Women’s Basketball
(Free tickets available for WIC attendees, 581-1228)
National Girls and Women in Sports Day
21, Wednesday, Coe Room
Gossip and Spies in the Forest: Women’s Role
in Mediating Resource Management Activities
in an Amazonian Forest
*V. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Note: Visiting Diversity Libra Professor Radha Hegde,
Associate Professor of Culture and Communication
at New York University, will speak
Wednesday, February 21, 3:30, 115 DPC
& Tuesday, March 27, 7:30, 100 Neville.
28, Wednesday
The Most Significant Feminist Thinker of the Twentieth Century: Have We Regressed or Progressed Since Simone de Beauvoir?
*Doug Allen, Professor of Philosophy
March
20, Tuesday
Supporting Gender Equality: Policies That Work
*Anita Nyberg, Professor of the National Institute for Working Life in Stockholm, Sweden
27, Tuesday
From Chiapas to Orono:
Women’s Rights as Human Rights
*Sarah Bigney, Undergraduate in International Affairs with a concentration in Peace Studies
*Ashley Miller, Undergraduate in History
*Tiffany Warzecha, Undergraduate in Anthropology
Part of Human Rights Awareness Week
April
4, Wednesday
Käthe Kollwitz (1887-1945): Representations of Loss
*Madelon Kohler-Busch,
Assistant Professor of German
11, Wednesday
Reinventing Disability and Sexuality
*Liz Depoy, Professor of Social Work and Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Education,
Center for Community Inclusion
*Stephen Gilson, Professor of Social Work, and Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies
17, Tuesday
Education Anytime, Anywhere, for Anyone:
Radical Teaching and Technology in the 21st Century
*Sandra Haggard, Associate Professor of
Biological Sciences, University College, Bangor
*Tina Passman, Associate Professor of
Classical Language and Literature
*Yvonne Thibodeau, Adjunct Faculty,Peace Studies
25, Wednesday
Investigating the Role of the German Soldiers’ Wives During the American Revolution
*Anette Ruppel Rodrigues, Adjunct Faculty, German
May
1, Tuesday
Franco-American Women's Leadership:
Effecting Change and Creating Knowledge
*Laurie Meunier Graves, Editor or Wolf Moon Journal
*Marie-Ann Gauvin, Editor of Fanal, Club Francais
*Ann Roy, Director, Acadian Village and Bilingual Educator
Co-sponsored by the Franco American Women's Institute
For more information
or to request an accommodation:
WIC/WST Program
5728 Fernald Hall, Room 101
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5728
(207) 581-1228 FAX (207) 581-1218
www.umaine.edu/wic
