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Sin Big: Why Mary Daly’s Insights (and Her Limitations) Are Valuable to Us Now
Sin Big: Why Mary Daly’s Insights (and Her Limitations) Are Valuable to Us Now Thurday, March 1 | 1:10 p.m. | Wilson 112 Mary Daly, radical feminist elemental philosopher (and sometime theologian) spurred much of feminist thought from the 1970s forward. Her work is provocative, historically important, and troubling, but still influential. Is the…
Posted by bednarma on February 22, 2018 in News
Crip Times 2018: Queer/Disability Politics in a Post-Truth Era [Women’s and Gender Studies]
Crip Times: Queer/Disability Politics in a Post-Truth Era Tuesday, March 27 | 4:10 p.m. | Stevenson 4 (Lecture Hall) 327 Robert McRuer, Professor of English at George Washington University, will discuss his recent book, Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance, and the implications of his argument for the present moment. In the book and elsewhere, McRuer contends that disability is…
Posted by bednarma on February 16, 2018 in News
P.R.I.D.E. Trainings [Office of LGBTQI Life]
P.R.I.D.E. Trainings Tuesday, March 13 | 5:30–8:30 p.m. | Kissam 216 Monday, March 19 | 2:00–5:00 p.m. | Rand 308 The P.R.I.D.E. (Pursuing Respect, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity) program aims to create a visible network of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) individuals and their allies by providing an avenue through which any…
Posted by bednarma on February 16, 2018 in News
Let Your Anchor Down Faculty Dinner Series: Ableism Through the Years
Let Your Anchor Down: Ableism Through the Years Wednesday, March 14 | 6:00 p.m. | Sarratt 325/327 Join us as we host Dr. Forber-Pratt, a Paralympic ambassador and Assistant Professor from the Peabody College of Education. RSVP: https://anchorlink.vanderbilt.edu/event/1671784
Posted by bednarma on February 9, 2018 in News
Harry C. Howard, Jr. Lecture Series
Harry C. Howard, Jr. Lecture Series with Danielle Allen Tuesday, March 13 | 4:10 p.m. | Community Room, Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology,…
Posted by bednarma on February 9, 2018 in News
44th Annual Antoinette Brown Lecture [Vanderbilt Divinity School]
44th Annual Antoinette Brown Lecture: Thelathia “Nikki” Young, Ph.D., Bucknell University Thursday, March 22 | 7:00 p.m. | Benton Chapel As the 2018 Antoinette Brown Lecturer, Dr. Young will deliver the lecture titled, “Willful Behavior, Inherent Value, and Moral Imagination: The Making of a Black Queer Ethic.” We find ourselves in the midst of a neoliberal resurgence…
Posted by bednarma on February 9, 2018 in News
Before #MeToo: Histories of Sexual Harrassment with Dr. Allison Elias [Women’s and Gender Studies]
Before #MeToo: Histories of Sexual Harassment Wednesday, March 14 | 4:00–5:30 p.m. Dr. Allison Elias, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Owen Graduate School of Management In this conversation, we will take a look at histories of sexual harassment in the workplace before recent efforts that brought this topic into mainstream discourse. Dr. Elias, an expert on…
Posted by bednarma on February 9, 2018 in News
Supporting a Survivor [Project Safe]
Supporting a Survivor Tuesday, March 20 | 5:30–6:30 p.m. | Rand 308 Do you have someone important in your life who has been impacted by intimate partner violence? Do you have a hard time knowing how to be supportive? Then this is the workshop for you. Come and learn about how trauma impacts survivors, as well as…
Posted by bednarma on February 9, 2018 in News
March Yoga for Trauma Survivors [Project Safe]
Yoga for Trauma Survivors Tuesday, March 27 | 9:15–10:45 a.m. | Center for Student Wellbeing In collaboration with the Center for Student Wellbeing, Project Safe will be offering a 90 minute program for Survivors of Trauma. The first 30 minutes will be an informative session about the ways trauma impacts the body and the benefits of yoga…
Posted by bednarma on February 9, 2018 in News
Sexual Assault and Mental Health [Project Safe]
Sexual Assault and Mental Health Tuesday, March 13 | 5:30–6:30 p.m. | Rand 308 Trauma and sexual assault impacts survivors in many different ways. One of the ways trauma can manifest is through struggles with mental health which can include anxiety, depression, PTSD, and others. Come learn about how mental health is impacted by trauma…
Posted by bednarma on February 9, 2018 in News
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