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Gender symposium to be held
"Gender Across Borders," a graduate student symposium on gender, will be held from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday in the Natural Sciences Complex, North Campus.
The symposium will feature research on women and gender throughout history to the present, with an emphasis on national and international trends in women's issues. More than 60 abstracts from students in the U.S., Canada and Ireland will be presented.
The symposium also will include a panel for emergent women scientists and a poster session.
Martha Gimenez of the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will deliver the symposium's keynote address. Her talk, entitled "Globalization and Gender: Political, Economic and Theoretical Considerations," will take place from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in 225 NSC.
Other topics to be covered among the 19 panels to be presented include "Gender, Society and Inequity;" "Women and Violence;" "Women on the Border: Displaced Women, Job Discrimination and AIDS," and "Female Voice in Early Modern Literature
The conference will be free and open to the public, but pre-registration required by emailing name; student status, if applicable, and interest in the conference (entire day, part of the day or keynote only) to ub-irewg@buffalo.edu
The conference is being organized by the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender and is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Association, the Anthropology GSA, the Department of African-American Studies, the Classics GSA, the Research Group in the History of Ideas and the Linguistics GSA.
For further information, visit the Gender Institute's Web site at www.womenandgender.buffalo.edu, or contact the institute at 829-3451 or ub-irewg@buffalo.edu.
Schanzer to speak at Emeritus meeting
George O. Schanzer, professor emeritus of Spanish, will give a lecture titled "Nipples for Naples: Military Government and other Cosmopolitan Anecdotes" at a meeting of the Emeritus Center, to be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday in 102 Goodyear Hall, South Campus.
The talk will free and open to the public.
For further information, call the Emeritus Center at 829-2271.
Craft Center sets spring workshops
The Creative Craft Center, located in 29 Harriman Hall, South Campus, will offer spring workshops, beginning the week of March 22.
Workshops are scheduled in basic photography, flash photography, architectural photography, nature photography, black and white darkroom, knitting and crocheting, embroidery around the world, techniques in fabric design, beginning and advanced stained glass, jewelry casting, beginning watercolor and mixed media for children ages 7-10.
Workshops will run from 7-10 p.m. one night a week for six weeks. Some workshops, including multi-media for children and a couple of photography courses, will run on weekend afternoons. Fees are $40 for UB students and $70 for others. The multi-media class is $65, with a $10 fee for supplies. Early sign-up is advised.
For more information, a schedule and a map, call 829-3536 from 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday or 7-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday.
Survey to assess quality of UB Libraries
Randomly selected UB faculty members and students are being invited via email to participate in a national, Web-based survey that will measure the quality of the UB Libraries.
The libraries' staff asks that those who are invited to participate in the LibQUAL+ 2004 survey to do so before March 31 and help the UB Libraries evaluate and improve services.
A summary of actions and improvements made in the libraries in response to the previous 2002 LibQUAL+ survey may be viewed at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/LibQUAL/actions.html
For further information, contact libqual@buffalo.edu or Karen Smith at kfsmith@buffalo.edu.