WOMEN'S STUDIES UPCOMING EVENTS
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES 2019
The University of Akron Vagina Monologues Presents: A Benefit Production of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues
Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019 | 8 p.m.
E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall - Akron, Ohio
Tickets are $10
V-Day is a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. Proceeds benefit The Rape Crisis Center of Medina and Summit Counties.
RETHINKING GENDER SERIES 2018 - 2019
Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program, 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 noon - 1 p.m.
Friday Sept. 14, 2018
Student Union room 316
Dr. Kara Kvaran, Women's Studies Program
"Sexual Identity in Horror Films"
Friday Oct. 5, 2018
Student Union room 335
Dr. Amanda Weinstein, Assistant Professor Economics Department
"What Women Want: Estimating Gender Differences in the Quality of Life across Cities"
Friday Nov. 9, 2018
Student Union room 308
Dr. Mira Mohsini, Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology
“Exploring Muslim Veiling Through Women’s Work and Mobility in India”
Friday Feb. 8, 2019
Student Union room 316
Dr. Cortney Benjamin, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Spanish Department of Modern Languages at The University of Akron
“Spectacular Traveling Women in the 17th-Century Hispanic World: Nuns, Cross-Dressers, Soldiers, and Avengers”
Friday Mar. 8, 2019
Student Union room 308
Dr. Stacey Nofziger, Associate Professor Department of Sociology
Dr. Robert Peralta, Associate Professor Department of Sociology
“Gender Identity and Crime on Campus: An Examination of Patterns Over 20 years”
Friday Apr. 5, 2019
Student Union room 316
Mary biddinger, Professor of English of the Akron Series in Poetry
Noor Hindi, NEOMFA student and managing editor of The Devil Strip
“A Rethinking Gender Poetry Reading with Mary Biddinger and Noor Hindi”
WOMEN'S STUDIES 2019 GUEST SPEAKER
ASHANTÉ REESE, PHD —Co-sponsored by an EXL Center Student-Driven Initiative
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, 7 p.m. at The Student Union Theatre
Dr. Reese will speak on food insecurity, race, and empowerment. She is a 2017 Southern Foodways Alliance Smith Symposium Fellow, and the author of a forthcoming book, Between a Corner Store and a Safeway: Race, Resilience, and our Failing Food System.
BEVERLY GOODEN
Saturday, Apr. 3, 2019, 7 p.m. at Student Union Ballroom
Beverly Gooden is a nationally known domestic violence survivors advocate and founder of #WhyIStayed. She has been on Good Morning America, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and covered in the Washington Post, TIME magazine, and other publications.