November 20: Women’s Studies and Ms. Magazine

Women’s Studies and Ms. Magazine
Bringing Ms. Magazine to the Classroom
and Feminist Scholarship to Ms.

A round-table discussion between

Katherine Spillar
Executive Editor, Ms. Magazine

Ina Coleman
Managing Director, Ms. in the Classroom

Dianne Bartlow
Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, CSU Northridge

Audrey Bilger
Associate Professor of Literature and Faculty Director of the Writing Center, Claremont McKenna College

Moderated by
Karon Jolna
Chair, Huntington Library Women’s Studies Seminars
Lecturer, UCLA Department of Women’s Studies

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Saturday, November 20, 2010
9:30- 10am – Registration
10-12noon – Program
12noon – Lunch on the terrace
Huntington lunches $12-14 at registration or bring a brown bag

THE PROGRAM IS FREE AND NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED
Save the date for our next program: January 29, 2011

Dates for 2010-2011 Seminars!

We can't unveil any programs or themes yet, but here are the dates for the four seminars this year:

November 20
January 29
March 5 and
May 21

Remember that all programs are Saturday mornings, 10am-12noon, with registration before and lunch afterwards on the garden patio. Stay tuned for more information soon about program specifics.

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