Current events
‘Rethinking Gender’ Series
Fall 2017 through Spring 2018
Rethinking Gender provides a forum for presenting the research of feminist faculty at The University of Akron and nearby colleges and universities.
All Rethinking Gender talks will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 316 of the Student Union on our campus (see on map).
Wednesday Sept. 13, 2017, noon-1 p.m.
Isa Rodríguez-Soto, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UA
“Perceptions and Prevention of Zika Virus in Puerto Rico”
Wednesday Oct. 11, 2017, noon-1 p.m.
Lyz Bly, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Cleveland State University; Creative-Destroyer at Destruction Homestead
"Feminism 2017: What I Learned at an Outdoor Market in a (mostly) Muslim Neighborhood in Paris."
Wednesday Nov. 8, 2017, noon- 1 p.m.
Valentino L. Zullo, Ph.D. student, Department of English, Kent State University, Maternal Depression Therapist at Ohio Guidestone
“She’s Got to Be Strong, She’s Got to Be Fast, and She’s Got to Be a Man: The Problem of Female Identification in Superhero Comics”
Wednesday Feb. 14, 2018, noon- 1 p.m.
Cynthia Andrews, Executive Director, Oberlin Community Services
Jeanine Donaldson, Executive Director, Elyria YWCA
Tania Boster, Associate Director, Bonner Center at Oberlin College and Conservatory
“Rethinking Women in Poverty Through Empowerment, Education, Employment: A Collaborative Approach”
Wednesday March 14, 2018, noon-1 p.m.
Samuel Dwinell, Assistant Professor of Instruction, UA School of Music
“Queer Outta Compton: Race-ing the Closet in Hip Hop Documentary”
Wednesday April 11, 2018, noon- 1 p.m.
María Alejandra Zanetta, Distinguished Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture, UA
“Anticipations of Ecofeminist Thinking in the Paintings of Maruja Mallo and Raquel Forner”
Additional events
The Center For Constitutional Law at Akron presents a talk by Professor Julie Suk, Cardozo Law School: "The Constitution of Mothers: Gender Equality and Social Reproduction"
Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, 12:15 pm, Law School, Brennan Moot Courtroom, Free and open to the public. Pizza will be served!
The UA Women's Studies Program welcomes New York Times best-selling author Rebecca Traister, who will speak March 15, 2018, 7-9 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre.
Traister is a writer at large for New York Magazine and the author of New York Times best-seller All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation. Over the course of her extensive research, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change--temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more. Exhaustively researched, brilliantly balanced and told with Traister's signature wit and insight, her work is a remarkable portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman.
This event is free and open to the public. Book signing and reception to follow the talk.