May 1: Women Writers and Artists

Join us on May 1 for our last program of the 2009-2010 season, as we return to a favorite theme, local women writers:

Women writers and artists:
Giving voice to women's stories through writing and photography

Mixing It Up: Women at Crossroads Write a Stinger Cookbook
Kimberly Drake
Visiting Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Program, Scripps College

The World Split Open: Women Writing, Teaching Girls
Elline Lipkin
Poet and Fellow, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA

Blessed Are These Hands: Reflections on Women's Values @ the Turn of the 21st Century
Susan Kullmann
Historian, Photographer, and Instructional Technology Consultant, Scripps College

Moderator: Wendy Smith
Associate Professor, Department of English
California State University, San Bernardino

Co-Organizer: Sue Castagnetto
Coordinator, Intercollegiate Women's Studies of the Claremont Colleges

Program begins at 10am; the seminar reception table opens at 9:30ish. At the end of the program at noon, we will meet on the patio for lunch together. You may bring your own lunch, or purchase a sandwich lunch at reception (limited supply). There is no pre-registration or reservation taken, and the program is free to all in attendance.

March 20: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction

Join us March 20, 9:30am-12pm at the Huntington for our next stimulating program of scholarship presented for a diverse audience.

Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

Plenary Speakers:

Sherry Velasco
Professor and Chair
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Southern California

Chikako Takeshita
Assistant Professor
Department of Women's Studies
University of California, Riverside

Deborah Mindry, PhD
Global AIDS Research Fellow
UCLA Program in Global Health

Moderator:
Julie Nack Ngue, PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Lecturer, Department of French and Italian
University of Southern California

And save the date for our last panel of the year, May 1, when we return to the popular annual "LA Writers" theme.

January 30: Trafficking in Women Worldwide

Join us for the next Huntington Women's Studies Seminar! Details below:

Trafficking in Women Worldwide
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Jennifer Musto
Ph.D. Candidate
UCLA Department of Women's Studies

Kay Buck
Executive Director
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)

Julianne McMurtry
Professor of Sociology
Mount St. Mary's College

Moderator:
Karon Jolna
Lecturer
UCLA Department of Women's Studies

9:30am - 10am -- Registration
10am -12pm -- Program
12pm -- Lunch on the Garden Terrace

And save the date for our next program, "Women, Power and Science," to be held on March 20, 2010.

November 14: The Queen's Bench: Women's Voices in the Judiciary

Come join the Women's Studies Seminars on November 14, for a lively and timely roundtable discussion on women and the US Supreme Court. The panelists will be:

Jane S. De Hart
Professor of History
University of California, Santa Barbara

Rachel F. Moran
Founding Faculty
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law
Berkeley Law School

Donna Schuele
Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Law & Society
University of California, Irvine

Moderator: Mary R. Boland, Associate Professor, Department of English
California State University, San Bernardino

As usual, the program will start at 10am, and end at 12noon, followed by lunch on the garden terrace (you may purchase a lunch ticket at registration, or bring your own lunch). The program is free and no reservation is required.

Preview of the 2009-2010 schedule of seminars

The dates are firm, but the topics will no doubt get refined as the planners work their ways on these seminar programs:

November 14: Women and the Supreme Court

January 30, 2010: Trafficking in Women

March 20, 2010: Women, Power and Science

May 1, 2010: Women Writers and the Middle East

Huntington Women's Studies Seminars--now on Facebook!

If you like to organize your schedule or share announcements with friends using Facebook, now you can include the Huntington Women's Studies Seminars in that habit. Join our Facebook group, and automatically get announcements and reminders about our seminars; you can also see who else is planning to attend and refer friends to the event announcements.

May 2: Our annual "Women Writers in LA" panel!

Here are the confirmed speakers our annual "Women Writers in Los Angeles" panel, planned for May 2, 10am-12noon. This has become an annual favorite of the seminars' audience, always worth attending.

Gayle Greene is a professor of literature and women's studies at Scripps College, who has published numerous articles in both scholarly and popular intellectual venues. Her non-fiction works include The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation (2001) and the recent Insomniac (2009), which mixes memoir with scientific reportage and addresses the scientific neglect of a disorder that affects millions.

Dorothy Randall Gray is Los Angeles-based poet, author of the best-selling book Soul Between The Lines: Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through Writing. Dorothy has been a commentator for National Public Radio, literary consultant to the United Nations Committee on Women, and delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing which commissioned her to create a poem for their opening ceremony, as well as a featured reader and workshop facilitator at many universities, cultural institutions and venues. She is the founder and executive director of the Heartland Institute for Transformation.

Corina Gamma holds an MFA from Claremont Graduate University and teaches fine art photography at Long Beach City College. Her work has been featured in several solo exhibitions as well as numerous group exhibitions. She directed the 2005 documentary, Ties on a Fence: Women in Downtown Los Angeles Speak Out, a beautiful film about homeless women in downtown L.A., narrated in their own voices.

There will be a screening of Ties on a Fence following the presentations, during lunch.