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Women at work theme of Gender Week
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“Gender Week provides an interdisciplinary forum for people from disparate departments and research areas to come together on the topic of gender.”
Women at work will be the theme of this year’s Gender Week: Gender Matters @ UB, a series of more than 20 lectures, panels and other events from Sept. 21-25 that will highlight the wide range of gender-inclusive and sex-specific scholarship being done at UB and by visiting scholars.
Gender Week activities range from a workshop on how to get published in peer-reviewed academic journals as a graduate student or junior faculty member to a screening and discussion of the film “The Naked Feminist,” an award-winning documentary about feminist women working in the American pornography industry.
On Tuesday, former UB professor Susan Hanson, a faculty member at Clark University in Massachusetts and a past president of the Association of American Geographers, will deliver a keynote address titled, “Gender and Mobility: Implications for Sustainability.”
“Gender Week provides an interdisciplinary forum for people from disparate departments and research areas to come together on the topic of gender,” says Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, co-director of the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG), which is sponsoring Gender Week.
Towards that end, Gender Week will feature the Intersextions forum, a panel that gives researchers studying sex and sexuality an opportunity to exchange ideas and information. The Friday event is scheduled to include graduate and undergraduate student scholars in fields ranging from medicine and biomedical sciences to architecture and urban planning.
A series of events titled “Women Working in Digital Media” will feature presentations by people ranging from Patricia Tomaszek, a digital literature researcher at Germany’s University of Siegen, to Tammy McGovern, assistant director of Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources, a local artist-run nonprofit media arts center.
Other Gender Week activities will cover such topics as expectations about looking and acting female in the workplace, sex work and the human rights of women and children, women and caste in India, woman students’ experiences in information technology classrooms and efforts to create gender equity at UB.
For detailed information on Gender Week events, click here or stop by IREWG’s offices in Suite 207 of The Commons, North Campus.
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