Calendar of Events 1996-1997

9/96 Opening “Smash” luncheon and meeting of the Kirkland Project, with music by “Doctuh” Mike Woods.

9/27/96 “Citizen and Cultural Politics” series: Janet Halley, Stanford Law School, and Mary Bonauto, Director of Civil Rights at Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders in Boston, lectured on the legal and civil rights of gay men and lesbians.

9/20/96: “Citizen and Cultural Politics” series: Lisa Lowe, University of California at San Diego, lectured on the notion of the Asian immigrant as citizen.

10/2/96: Brown Bag Lunch Series: “Actors, Victims, or Pawns? Women’s Roles in the Struggle Against Islam in Central Asia, 1926-41.” Shoshanna Keller.

10/2/96: Lecture on the current state of Israeli politics with particular attention to implications for women and lesbians. Haya Shalom, Israeli grassroots activist.

10/8/96: “Race, Class, and Gender: The Metaorganization of American Capitalism.” Karen Brodkin, University of California, Los Angeles.

10/10/1996 “Citizen and Cultural Politics” series: Beverly Guy Sheftall, Spellman College, lectured on “Reinventing the University.”

10/10/96: Film and Discussion: “Black Is, Black Ain’t.”

10/14/96: Slide lecture on Jewish identity. Cynthia Madansky.

10/29/96: Brown Bag Lunch Series: “Is there a Feminist Pedagogy for Men,” Carl Rubino.

10/30/96: “Globalization and the Nation: Toward a Multicultural Feminist Critique.” Ella Shohat.

11/21/96: Brown Bag Lunch Series: “The Islamic Home: ‘l’Amor la fantasia’ by Assia Djebar, as Case Study.” Martine Guyot-Bender.

1/97 Reading on Gender and Science

1/20/97: Spring semester opening reception, Emerson Gallery.

1/30/97: Brown Bag Lunch Series: “Listening to Women’s Voices: How I’m Trying to Understand Puritan Women’s Spiritual Equality.” Margaret Thickstun.

2/12/97: Brown Bag Lunch Series: “Follow-up to Feminist Pedagogy for Men.” Steve Orvis and Barbara Gold.

2/18/97: Off-campus reception for KC alumnae, with special guests Nancy Rabinowitz, Kirkland Project coordinator, and Leandre Waldo ’97, research associate.

2/19/97: Brown Bag Lunch Series: “The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of America’s Commitment to Racial Equality.” Phillip Klinkner.

3/4/97: Brown Bag Lunch Series: “Rooms without Walls: Marge Piercy and the Politics of Gardening.” Naomi Guttman.

3/8/97: Off-campus reception for KC alumnae, with special guests Nancy Rabinowitz, Kirkland Project coordinator, and Leandre Waldo ’97, research associate.

4/2/97: Off-campus reception for KC alumnae, with special guests Nancy Rabinowitz, Kirkland Project coordinator, and Leandre Waldo ’97, research associate.

4/2/97 Catherine Stimpson, director of the MacArthur Fellos program, “Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Modernism,” co-sponsored by the women’s studies department.

4/10/97 Dorothy Ko, Rutgers University, “Tootbinding and the Civilizing Process,” co-sponsored by the history department.

4/11/97 Beth Ritchie, Hunter College, “Battered Women in a New York City Jail: When Gender Bias and Race Collide,” co-sponsored by the Irwin Chair in Women’s Studies.

4/13 & 14 Film and Discussion: Parthiba Parmar: “Jodie: An Icon” and “Warrior Marks”

4/14/97: Brown Bag Lunch Series: “Meditation on Chalk Grafitti: ‘Alexander Hamilton was a gay, black man?’ Thoughts on Race Theory, Identity/Politics and Jews.” Melanie Kay/Kantrowitz.

4/19/97 Patty Coleman K’76 and Julie Zuckerman ’81 lead a panel discussion titled “Kirkland Matters: In and Out of the Life.”

4/25 Film and Discussion: Su Friedrich: “Hide and Seek” and Yvonne Rainer: “Murder and Murder”

5/2 Film and Discussion: Ross McElwee: “Six O’Clock News,” “Sherman’s March” and “Time Indefinite”

6/7/97 – 6/8/97: Exhibition “The Kirkland Story.” From the Kirkland College archives.

6/7/97 The Kirkland Vision: informational meeting about how to get involved with the Kirkland Project.

6/7/97 Alumni College Panel: “An Innovative Curriculum for the 21st Century: Diversity and Community.

”Note: Many events co-sponsored with other campus groups.