Women's Studies Events

Spring 2012

All UConn Stamford Campus WOMEN'S STUDIES EVENTS are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, March 21
3:00 PM, A2

“Reel Women: Gender & Realism in Documentary Film”
Filmmakers Immy Humes and Bari Pearlman will show film clips and talk about their work

Tibetan nuns, pitbull trainers, Lizzie Borden fans, mah jongg addicts -- these are some of the women who appear in prize-winning documentaries by Bari Pearlman and Immy Humes.

Don't miss this lively event when two politically engaged directors discuss the way documentary never just records reality but shapes it, revealing (and concealing) the work of gender, ethnicity, class, and race.

This event is co-sponsored by the WS Center and the Program Committee

Thursday, March 29
3:30 PM, MPR (Room 108)

Masum Momaya, Ed.D. (Harvard University), international women's rights activist, weekly columnist, and curator of a recent exhibit at the International Museum of Women in San Francisco, will provide a critical review of Half the Sky, by Kristof and WuDunn.

This event is co-sponsored by the WS Program, Zero Tolerance, UConn Reads, and the Program Committee Partially funded by the Activity Fee of Stamford

Tuesday, April 3
6:00 PM, MPR (Room 108)

Yesenia F. Selier on the power of hip hop in critiques of the state in Cuba and the U.S.

This event is sponsored by the WS Center

Monday, April 16
5:30 PM, A2

Sonny Singh and Manissa McCleave Maharawal will give an update on Class/Race/Gender Activism and Occupy Wall Street

This event is co-sponsored by the WS Center and Zero Tolerance
Partially funded by the Activity Fee of Stamford

All events are at UConn-Stamford and are free and open to the public.
Free parking is available in the UConn-Stamford parking garage on Washington Blvd.  Follow the signs for visitor parking.
http://www.stamford.uconn.edu/maps.htm
Contact ingrid.semaan@uconn.edu for more information