Speakers' Series

The Women’s Studies Institute's Speakers' Series for 2005-2006 presents the following events:

• October 6, 2005. Dr. Amira Jarmakani, speaking on"Veiled Intentions: Investigating the 'imperial right of the camera' to Represent Arab Womanhood" at 3:00 p.m. in the Troy Moore Library (939 GCB). This talk is co-sponsored with the Middle East Center at Georgia State University. Dr. Jarmakani is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Georgia State University.

• October 24, 2005, Dr. Amanda Swarr, speaking on"Sex in Transition: Apartheid and the Remaking of Gender and Race" at 4:30 p.m. in the Troy Moore Library (939 GCB). Dr. Swarr is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

• January 10, 2006, noted artist Karen Finley, performing a piece entitled "The Virgin Mary Was Pro-Choice" at 4:00 p.m. in the Gallery of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Art and Humanities Building. A Q & A.and opening reception will follow the erformance.This event is co-sponsored by the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design and the Women's Studies Institute.

• On January 11, 2006, a panel discussion featuring students from the WSI entitled "Considering Karen Finley: Women's Bodily Rights and Reproductive Freedom in Global Perspective" will take place in the Troy Moore Library (939 GCB). This event is sponsored by the Women's Studies Institute.

• On February 2, 2006, "Silent Voices Shouting through Redemption: A Look at Queer Black History," a Black Queer Variety Show, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Senate Salon, Student Center. This event will include scenes from Black Queer History; poetry readings, performance art, visual arts, games, and speak-outs. The event is presented by BlackOUT (the Black Queer Student Organization) and the Women's Studies Institute.
• On February 16, 2006, Silvana Paternostro will speak on "Gender in Latin America" at 3:00 p.m. in the Troy Moore Library (939 GCB). This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and the Women's Studies Institute.

  Following are some past events presented by the WSI:

• March 14 - 18, 2005. The Women's Studies Institute, Special Collections of the University Library, and the Georgia Campaign for Microbicides co-hosted a traveling exhibit, "Giving Women Power Over AIDS," responding to the global AIDS epidemic.
• Prof. Alisse Portnoy spoke on "Rhetorics of Opposition" on November 15, 2004.
• Miss Lil's Camp, an award-winning documentary film about Lillian Smith by Suzanne Niedland and Anberin Pasha, was shown on October 24, 2004, in Speakers Auditorium, Student Center.
• Jill Nelson, author of Sexual Healing, Police Brutality: An Anthology, Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, and Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman, spoke on “Finding Our Literary Voice: Race, Gender and Politics,” on October 5, 2004, at 7 p.m. in the Troy Moore Library.
• bell hooks, author of Ain’t I A Woman?, Black Women and Feminism; Feminist Theory from Margin to Center; Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics; and other works
• Barbara Smith, author of All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, but Some of Us are Brave (with Gloria T. Hull and Patricia Bell Scott)/ Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology; The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom)
• Phyllis Chesler (author of Women and Madness)
• Mimi Abramovitz, author of Regulating the Lives of Women
• Carole Ashkinaze, journalist and former columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution