2012 Events
(en)Gendered Exhibit Opening Reception
Join SBAI at Sage as we announce the winners of our 2012 annual undergraduate juried art show: (en)Gendered. In honor of our 25th anniversary, the theme for this year is "Failure is Impossible: Feminism's Past, Present, and Future." This will be your only chance to view ALL of the amazing entrants! Lynn Duggan, Professor of Art at Nazareth College and this year's guest juror, will give a gallery talk and announce this winners and honorable mentions. Enjoy refreshments and mingle with students and staff at one of our favorite events! The top art pieces this year will be exhibited at the Art and Music Library from 1/26/12 to 2/23/12.
- Art Opening
- Friday, January 20, 2012
- 5:00 PM
- Location: SAGE Art Center
Failure Is Impossible Mentoring Series: Grant Writing for Graduate Students and Junior Faculty
The third segment of SBAI's mentoring series will be a lunch and talk with Debra Haring, Assistant Dean for Grants and Contracts, on grant writing for junior faculty and graduate students. Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP to sbai@rochester.edu by January 23.
- Luncheon and Discussion
- Wednesday, January 25, 2012
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Lattimore 540
Focus on the Future: SBAI Research Seminar with Mary Greitzer
The second SBAI research seminar for the 2011-2012 academic year will feature Mary Greitzer, Assistant Professor of Music Theory. Greitzer will discuss her work titlted "Shrieking the Body Electric: the Traumatized Voices of Diamanda Galas and Babbitt's Philomel." Her work deals with electro-acoustic solo vocal performances addressing sexual violence, with themes of voice, body, trauma, madness, redemption, transfiguration, and cyborg feminism in the vein of Donna Haraway. Lunch will be provided! Please RSVP to sbai@rochester.edu by 1/25/12.
- Research Seminar
- Friday, January 27, 2012
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Lattimore 540
Spring Research Grant Applications Due
Open to Faculty Associates and Affiliates, graduate and undergraduate students. Contact sbai@rochester.edu or 275-8318 for more information.
- Applications Deadline
- Wednesday, February 8, 2012
- Location: Lattimore 538
Susan B. Anthony Legacy Dinner
Sponsored by the Anthony Center for Women's Leadership. Contact the Center by emailing aimee.bohn@rochester.edu for more information.
- Dinner
- Thursday, February 9, 2012
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
- Location: May Room, Wilson Commons
Susan B. Anthony Birthday Tea
Join SBAI and Dean Raffaella Borasi as we go to place yellow roses on Susan B. Anthony's grave in honor of her birthday, and then return to Lattimore 540 to enjoy some cake and special artifacts from the Rare Books Library. If you'd like to come, please email sbai@rochester.edu! We'll meet at 3:15 to depart.
- Celebration
- Wednesday, February 15, 2012
- 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
- Location: Mt. Hope Cemetery and Lattimore 540
Hearts and Stolas Annual Valentine's Day Lecture
For the Third Annual Valentine's Day lecture, sponsored by the Department of Religion and Classics and The Susan B. Anthony Institute, Krishni Burns of the University of Buffalo will give her talk "Apollo Rejected: Apollo as the Archetypal Failed Lover in Ovid's Metamorphoses." Refreshments will be provided.
- Lecture
- Thursday, February 16, 2012
- 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
- Location: Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Focus on the Future: SBAI Research Seminar with Takkara Brunson
Takkara Brunson, post-doctoral fellow at the Frederick Douglass Institute, will present her work "Remnants of Slavery on the Eve of Independence: Afro-Cuban Women Define Freedom, 1886-1900." Please join us for lunch and discusson! RSVP by February 16 to sbai@rochester.edu.
- Research Seminar
- Wednesday, February 22, 2012
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Lattimore 540
Fourth Annual Two Icons Lecture with Michelle Gordon
The annual Two Icons Lecture examines the intersection of race and gender, and honors the legacy of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Michelle Gordon, Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern California, will give the lecture "'Baby, You Could Be Jesus in Drag': Lorraine Hansberry and Black Domestic Workers on Being The Help." This annual lecture is co-sponsored with the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies. The event is free and open to the public. Contact sbai@rochester.edu or 275-8318 for more information.
- Lecture
- Wednesday, February 29, 2012
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Location: Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
Women Leaders in the Workplace: What We Can Learn from First Ladies
Ann McDaniel, Senior Vice President of The Washington Post, will talk about what women in medicine and science can learn from watching successful and powerful women in politics and business. The seminar is part of the 2011-2012 Diversity Seminar Series sponsored by the School of Medicine and Dentistry Office for Diversity and the Simon School of Business. Seminar is followed by a networking reception. To register, please contact Grace Fuller at grace_fuller@urmc.edu. Faculty, Staff, Residents, and Fellows are all welcome.
- Seminar and Networking
- Wednesday, March 7, 2012
- 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
- Location: Class of '62 Auditorium (G-9425) at UR Medical Center
"!Women Art Revolution" Film Screening
Synopsis: "Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art Movement to the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements and explains how historical events, such as the all-male protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions. The film details major developments in women’s art of the 1970s, including the first feminist art education programs, political organizations and protests, alternative art spaces such as the A.I.R. Gallery and Franklin Furnace in New York and the Los Angeles Women’s Building, publications such as Chrysalis and Heresies, and landmark exhibitions, performances, and installations of public art that changed the entire direction of art. New ways of thinking about the complexities of gender, race, class, and sexuality evolved." Film series sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, The Little Theatre, and the Multi-Media Center. Event is free and open to the public.
- Film Screening
- Wednesday, March 7, 2012
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location: Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester
Women's History Month Field Trip
Visit and tour the Women's Rights National Historical Park, The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, the Harriet Tubman House, and Woman Made Products Gift Shop. We will enjoy a lunch program in Seneca Falls, "A Dialogue on Reason, Religion, and Mrs Stanton's Bible," sponsored by the Women's Institute for Leadership and Learning and the Women's Interfaith Institute featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton (as played by Dr. Melinda Grube) and Rev. Allison Stokes. Sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, The Anthony Center for Women's Leadership, The American Studies Program, and The Department of Religion and Classics. To join the trip and for more information, please email sbai@rochester.edu
- Trip
- Thursday, March 8, 2012
- 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- Location: Seneca Falls, NY and Auburn, NY
"Afghan Star" Film Screening and Discussion
Synopsis: "After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop Idol has come to Afghanistan. Millions are watching the TV series ‘Afghan Star’ and voting for their favorite singers by mobile phone. For many this is their first encounter with democracy. This timely film follows the dramatic stories of four contestants as they risk all to become the nation's favorite singer. But will they attain the freedom they hope for in this vulnerable and traditional nation?" Film series sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, The Little Theatre, and the Multi-Media Center. Email sbai@rochster.edu for more information. Tickets are $5.
- Film Screening
- Wednesday, March 14, 2012
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location: The Little Theatre, Rochester, NY
"Mother: Caring for 7 Billion" Film Screening
Synopsis: "Mother, the film, breaks a 40-year taboo by bringing to light an issue that silently fuels our most pressing environmental, humanitarian and social crises - population growth. In 2011 the world population reached 7 billion, a startling seven-fold increase since the first billion occurred 200 years ago."Mother: Caring for 7 Billion" features world-renown experts and scientists including biologist Paul Ehrlich, author of “The Population Bomb;" economist Mathis Wackernagel, the creator of the ground-breaking Footprint Network; Malcolm Potts, a pioneer in human reproductive health; and Riane Eisler, whose book “The Chalice and the Blade” has been published in 23 countries." Film series sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, The Little Theatre, and the Multi-Media Center. Email sbai@rochester.edu for more information. Film is free and open to the public.
- Film Screening
- Wednesday, March 21, 2012
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location: Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester
Completed Graduate Certificate Applications Due
Graduate Certificate Applications are due in late March of each year for May graduates. Part I: Graduate Certificate Plans are due in November of each year. Contact sbai@rochester.edu or 585-275-8318 with questions.
- Application Deadline
- Thursday, March 22, 2012
- Location: Lattimore 538
Focus on the Future: SBAI Research Seminar with Stephanie Li
The next installment of the SBAI research seminar series for the 2011-2012 academic year will feature Stephanie Li, Assistant Professor of English. Li will present her work "Linguistic Double Counciousness in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee." For questions and to RSVP contact sbai@rochester.edu or 275-8318.
- Research Seminar
- Thursday, March 22, 2012
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Lattimore 538
"On the Past, Present, and Future of Feminism"
Nancy Cott, the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and the Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, both also at of Harvard, will give this year's Susan B. Anthony lecture during the 19th Annual International Graduate Student Research Conference. Event is free and open to the public. Email sbai@rochester.edu for more information.
- Keynote Lecture
- Friday, March 23, 2012
- 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
- Location: Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library
The 19th Annual International Graduate Student Research Conference
In honor of SBAI's 25th Anniversary and the legacy of Susan B. Anthony, the theme of this year's conference will be " 'Failure Is Impossible': Feminism's Past, Present, and Future." This years program will feature Keynote speaker Nancy Cott, director of the Schlesginer Library and professor at Harvard University. Check the graduate page for the call for papers! A conference schedule and details can be found by visiting the Graduate Students webpage on this site. Contact sbai@rochester.edu or 585-275-8318 with questions.
- Conference
- Saturday, March 24, 2012
- 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
- Location: Rush Rhees Library
Women in Music Festival Opening Concert
For directions, parking and more information visit http://www.esm.rochester.edu/wmf/.
- Concert
- Monday, March 26, 2012
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Main Hall, Eastman School of Music, Gibbs Street entrance
Women in Music Festival - Performance by Publick Musick
Publick Musick will perform music by Braoque composer Isabella Leonarda. For directions, parking and more information visit http://www.esm.rochester.edu/wmf/.
- Concert
- Monday, March 26, 2012
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location: Church of the Blessed Sacrement - Rochester, NY
Jos Truitt of feministing.com
Jos Truitt, blogger on feministing.com and speaker on feminism, reproductive health, grassroots organizing, and transgender issues will give a lecture about using a gender analysis approach to feminism by taking a critical look at how gender is often missing from feminist thought and politics. Truitt will also discuss how transgender issues are central to feminism and how transgender frames can sharpen feminist analysis. She will explore ways in which gender intersects with other identity categories, as well as the challenges and complexities of navigating both a personal experience approach and broader identity-based critique in the work for gender justice. Tickets are $4 for undergraduates and $6 for everyone else and can be purchased at the door. The lecture is open to the public and cosponsored by SBAI and Women's Caucus. For more information email slewis25@u.rochester.edu.
- Lecture
- Tuesday, March 27, 2012
- 7:00 PM
- Location: Hawkins-Carlson Reading Room, Rush Rhees Library
Women in Music Festival - Performance by TubaCOR
Sponsored by the Eastman School of Music. More information at http://www.esm.rochester.edu/wmf/.
- Concert
- Tuesday, March 27, 2012
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location: Hatch Recital Hall, Easman School of Music
"Miss Representation" Film Screening and Discussion
Synopsis: "Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself." Film series sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, The Little Theatre, and the Multi-Media Center. Film followed by a panel discussion. Tickets are $5.
- Film Screening
- Wednesday, March 28, 2012
- 7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
- Location: The Little Theatre, Rochester, NY
Women in Music Festival - Music After 1900 Performance
Music After 1900 will perform music by Hilary Tan. Sponsored by the Eastman School of Music. For more information visit http://www.esm.rochester.edu/wmf/.
- Concert
- Thursday, March 29, 2012
- 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
- Location: Ciminellie Formal Lounge, Eastman School of Music
Women in Music Festival - Lorraine Desmarais Open Rehearsal
Lorraine Desmarais and the New Jazz Ensemble Rehearse. Event sponsored by the Eastman School of Music. More information at http://www.esm.rochester.edu/wmf/.
- Concert
- Thursday, March 29, 2012
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Location: Room 120, Eastman School of Music (entrance at 26 Gibbs Street)
Women in Music Festival - Lorraine Desmarais Performance
Lorraine Desmarais, jazz pianist and composer, will perform with the New Jazz Ensemble (Dave Rivello, director).
- Concert
- Saturday, March 31, 2012
- 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
- Location: Kilbourne Hall, Eastman School of Music
Out in Reel Film Series Screening of "Paragraph 175"
The first screening in our Out in Reel series for LGBTQI Awareness Month at the University will be "Paragraph 175". Via tellingpictures.com: The Nazi persecution of homosexuals may be the last untold story of the Third Reich. Paragraph 175 fills a crucial gap in the historical record, and reveals the lasting consequences of this hidden chapter of 20th century history, as told through personal stories of men and women who lived through it: the half Jewish gay resistance fighter who spent the war helping refugees in Berlin; the Jewish lesbian who escaped to England with the help of a woman she had a crush on; the German Christian photographer who was arrested and imprisoned for homosexuality, then joined the army on his release because he “wanted to be with men”; the French Alsatian teenager who watched as his lover was tortured and murdered in the camps. These are stories of survivors -- sometimes bitter, but just as often filled with irony and humor; tortured by their memories, yet infused with a powerful will to endure.
- Film Screening
- Tuesday, April 3, 2012
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
- Location: Ryan Case Methods Room (1-9576) - URMC
Summer Research Grant Applications Due
Open to Faculty Associates and Affiliates, graduate and undergraduate students. Contact sbai@rochester.edu or 275-8318 for more information.
- Application Deadline
- Thursday, April 5, 2012
- Location: Lattimore 538
Out in Reel Film Series Screening of "Brother Outsider"
Learn about the life and work of Bayard Rustin, a visionary strategist, activist, and the unknown hero of the civil rights movement. Rustin was silenced, threatened, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and fired from important leadership positions, largely because he was an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era. Series Presented by SBAI, Pride Alliance, the Warner LGBTQI and Allies SIG, the Pride Network, and the Film and Media Studies Program.
- Film Screening
- Monday, April 9, 2012
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location: Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester
Dissertation Award Applications Deadline
Contact sbai@rochester.edu or 275-8318 for more information.
- Application Deadline
- Wednesday, April 11, 2012
- Location: Lattimore 538
First Annual Rainbow Lecture with William Eskridge, Jr.
The first annual Rainbow Lecture on LGBTQI issues will feature William Eskridge, Jr., John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School. Eskridge has defended same-sex marriage both in the court room and as a scholar. Among his many publications, he co-authored the leading casebook on sexuality issues in law, "Sexuality, Gender, and the Law," as well as the important monograph, "Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet." Eskridge’s most recent book, "Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse?," examines gay marriage and society in Scandinavia, where gay couples have been able to marry since 1989.
- Lecture
- Thursday, April 12, 2012
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Location: Sanctuary, Interfaith Chapel
Out in Reel Film Series Screening and Panel Discussion of 575 Castro Street
"575 Castro Street" is a short film by Jenni Olson that was commissioned by FilmInFocus.com to be showcased online in conjunction with the theatrical release of "Milk." The film reveals the play of light and shadow upon the walls of the Castro Camera Store set for Gus Van Sant’s film. The audio track is an edited version of the 13-minute cassette that Harvey Milk recorded in his camera shop a few weeks after his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which made him one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. Labeled simply: “In-Case” the tape was to be played, “in the event of my death by assassination.” Following the screening, a panel of community members, students, faculty, and staff will address the changing nature of the LGBTQ movement what the future holds for today's young activists. Presented by SBAI, Pride Network, Pride Alliance, Warner LGBTQ & Allies SIG, and the Film and Media Studies Program.
- Film Screening and Discussion
- Wednesday, April 18, 2012
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
- Location: Hoyt Auditorium
Undergraduate Research Conference
Faculty-nominated students are chosen to share their exceptional work in gender and women's studies (including research papers, final projects, and posters). Winners of the (en)Gendered Juried Art Show, as well as those minors and majors who had an Independent Study or Internship, will also present. The keynote lecture will be given by Jane Roberts on Women, Population, and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.
- Conference
- Friday, April 20, 2012
- 9:30 AM - 3:45 PM
- Location: Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
"Women, Population, and the U.N. Millenium Development Goals" Keynote Address
Jane Roberts will give her keynote talk at the Undergraduate Research Conference on Gender and Women's studies. Her talk is titled "Women, Population, and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals." Roberts is visiting New York State to address the United Nations Association of Rochester and the American Association of University Women's state convention. Roberts and her friend Lois Abraham started a grassroots movement in 2002 called "34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF)" to ensure the humanity and rights of women and girls across the world. Their effort has raised over $4 million, and they were recognized in 2005 with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. In 2005, Roberts published a memoir titled 34 Million Friends (of the women of the world) about her experiences fighting for social justice with Abraham. You can learn more at her website: http://www.34millionfriends.org/
- Keynote Lecture
- Friday, April 20, 2012
- 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
- Location: Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library
Out in Reel Series Screening and Panel Discussion on Transgender Youth
Two short, award-winning documentaries will be screened - "No Dumb Questions" and "The Family Journey: Raising Gender Nonconforming Children" - followed by a panel discussion with transgender youth and young adults. Presented by SBAI, Pride Alliance, Pride Network, Warner LGBTQ & Allies SIG, and the Film and Media Studies Program.
- Film Screening and Discussion
- Thursday, April 26, 2012
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location: Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester
Associates and Affiliates Spring Retreat
More information to be announced. Contact sbai@rochester.edu or 275-8318 with questions.
- Retreat
- Thursday, May 3, 2012
- 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
- Location: Interfaith Chapel
Failure is Impossible Mentoring Series: Junior Faculty Publishing Lunch
The last installment of the Failure is Impossible Mentoring Series for the 2011-2012 academic year will be a lunch and discussion on publishing for junior faculty. Contact sbai@rochester.edu or 275-8318 for more information.
- Lunch and Panel Discussion
- Wednesday, May 9, 2012
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Lattimore 540
Commencement
Join us to celebrate our graduating students, certificate winners, and award winners. Please RSVP to sbai@rochester.edu!
- Commencement
- Sunday, May 20, 2012
- 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
- Location: Welles-Brown Room
