Events
Schedule of Events
Michiana Monologues
WOST Public Forum
Gloria Kaufman Memorial Lecture
WOST Fall 2009 Public Forum Events
WOST Public Forum talks are a long-time Friday campus tradition. About once per month, we sponsor an academic talk followed by lively discussion on a topic related to a chosen theme. All members of the campus community are welcome to attend Public Forum talks, scheduled from noon to 1p.m.
The "Brown Bag" Public Forum Series
Our popular Friday "Brown Bag" (public forum) series takes on the rural/urban campus theme. Please join us & bring your lunch!
Fri Oct. 23: Women’s Studies Public Forum in 225 SAC, noon – 1pm
“Low Blows & Hard Knocks in St. Louis:
Helping Women Survive Poverty & Domestic Violence”
Meg Schnabel from ROW-St. Louis (Redevelopment Opportunities for Women)
Click here for Meg Schnabel's (MSW) Public Forum Presentation
Fri Nov. 13: Women’s Studies Public Forum in 2170 DW, noon – 1pm
“Lost in Space: Fictions of Women in Suburbia”
Kelcey Parker, English Department
Fri Dec. 11: Women’s Studies Public Forum in 2170 DW, noon –1pm
“Constance de Salm (1767-1848):
An Enlightened Girl and her Beloved City”
Lesley Walker, World Language Studies
Past Events:
January 23th at noon
Linda Chen - Political Science, “Revolutionary Women in Latin America”
February 20th at noon
Christina Gerken -Women’s Studies, “The Feminist Revolution in American Cultural Studies”
April 10th at noon
Andrea Rusnock – Art History, “Women on the Collective Farm: Feminizing the Countryside”
Women's History Month Events
March is Women’s History Month! Each year, our program celebrates with public events. 2009 events include:
March 4 “Local Women Speak” - a panel of local women civil rights activists and community organizers talk about their experiences. Moderated by Dr. Monica Tetzlaff of the History Department and the Civil Rights Heritage Center
March 11 WOST pizza party
March 25 “Running In High Heels” film screening and discussion with local women who have run for political office. Moderated by Dr. Elizabeth Bennion of the Political Science Department and the American Democracy Project
All Month: Women’s History Exhibit, first floor of Schurz library
Gloria Kaufman Memorial Lecture
Who was Gloria Kaufman?
Gloria Kaufman joined the English faculty of IU South Bend in 1967, at a time when the campus was expanding its reach into the community. In addition to teaching Chaucer, Shakespeare, and other classics, Gloria developed the course B250, the first Women’s Studies course on the South Bend campus. Her course, a speakers’ series open to the public, brought a number of influential and controversial guest lecturers to campus. It expanded the minds and spirits of generations of IU South Bend students. One of her students noted that she taught them to “use our power to create kindness.”
Gloria Kaufman created the Women’s Studies program at IU South Bend, which has grown now to include a major and minor. She established the first Women’s Resource Center on the campus and served as affirmative action officer. Besides numerous scholarly articles in her field, she edited two anthologies of feminist humor: “Pulling Our Own Strings: Feminist Humor and Satire,” 1980 (with Mary Kay Blakely) and “In Stitches: A Patchwork of Feminist Humor,” 1991. A filmmaker, she wrote and directed 14 documentaries, with titles such as “Women, Ritual, and Religion” and “The Politics of Feminist Humor.” Upon retiring from the university, she began to produce videopoems, short two to six minute films combining words, music, and images. Gloria Kaufman left a strong, vibrant Women’s Studies program when she retired from IU South Bend. The current members of the Women’s Studies Governing Board embrace the challenge of carrying on her legacy for present and future IU South Bend students.
Thanks to generous community donations to the Kaufman Fund, we began a Gloria Kaufman Memorial Lecture series in 2005. Below is a list of our speakers.
Felicity Nussbaum from the English Department at UCLA was the inaugural speaker in January 2005
Judy Norsigian of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves was our speaker in November 2005
Gail Bederman from the History Department at the University of Notre Dame was our speaker in March 2007
Janell Hobson from the Women’s Studies Department at SUNY-Albany was our speaker in Oct. 2008
And this year: … mark the date!
Wed Nov. 18 DW 1001 7:30 pm: 2009 Gloria Kaufman Memorial Lecture
Ellen Ernst Kossek, Michigan State University, speaking on
“Managing Flexstyles:
Women, Work, and Family in a Flexible Job Age”
Prof. Kossek is Distinguished Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior at Michigan State University's Graduate School of Labor & Industrial Relations and a national expert on life-family balance.
A reception will follow Professor Kossek’s presentation
