News & Events
Upcoming Events
UH Women's Studies Alumni to Speak
- Join us for a talk by Tiphanie Yanique: "Writing the Other: a craft talk on race, gender and publishing your first book of fiction"
- April 16 at noon
- UH Honors College (M.D. Anderson Library)
- Co-sponsored with the UH Creative Writing Program
Patti Smith: Just Kids
- Join Houston writer, performer and visual artist Patti Smithfor a reading from her exciting new memoir JUST KIDS
- Monday, April 16 at 7 pm.
- Cullen performance Hall on UH campus
- $5 general admission at the door
- $35 with preferred seating + signed copy of JUST KIDS (pre-purchase online through Brazos Bookstore)
Living Archives Series
- Designing Women: Three Architecture Deans
- Panelists: Patricia Oliver, University of Houston
Ikhlas Sabouni, Prairie View A&M University, and
Sarah Whiting, Rice University - April 27, 2010 from 11am-1pm
- Elizabeth Rockwell Pavilion (2nd floor of M.D. Anderson Library)
- Lunch provided with RSVP
- Seating is limited. To reserve your space e-mail wost@uh.edu or call 713-743-3214
- $5 for the general public, free for members of the Friends of Women’s Studies, seniors, staff and students.
- Convenient parking is available in the Welcome Center garage. Click here for a map and directions.
Table Talk 2010 Recap
- Thank you to all of our graduate student volunteers!!!
- Date: Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010
- Place: Hilton Americas
- Co-chairs: Andrea Georgsson and Sarah Cooper
- Special honorees:
Mayor Annise Parker and Commissioner Sylvia Garcia - 2010 Conversationalists
Past News & Events
2010
- 13th annual Table Talk (February 2010)
- Living Archives: An Interview with Dr. Renu Khator, UH President and Chancellor (February 2010)
2009
- Living Archives: An Interview with Harris Co. Comissioner, Precinct 2 Sylvia Garcia (December 2009)
- Opening, Interconnectivity by UH Senior Angela Whitford (November 2009)
- Screening of Sonia Báez-Hernández’s documentary "Territories of the Breast" (November 2009)
- Living Archives: An Interview with Houston First Lady Andrea White (October 2009)
- National Coming Out Day Celebration (October 12, 2009)
- East End Live Art: Artists/Mothers (May 10, 2009)
- Screenings of Who Does She Think She Is? (May 9-10, 2009)
- Graduate Certificate Commencement and Luncheon (May 1, 2009)
- Donna DeCesare presentation at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (co-sponsored with UH Visual Studies, et. al.) (April 28, 2009)
- Living Archives: Women and Mental Health: Effect on the Family (April 2009)
- “Their Idol, Their Vision: Womanism, Feminism, and the Rise of Barbara Jordan in Houston”-- guest lecture by Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin, Visiting Professor of African-American History, George Washington University, Co-sponsored by History department and Center for Public History's Tenneco Lecture Series (March 30, 2009)
- Women's History Month Film Series: Iron Jawed Angels, The Magdalene Sisters, Real Women Have Curves, Sisters of '77 with special guests Janice Blue and Peggy Hall (Feb.-March 2009)
- 12th Annual Table Talk (March 2009)
- Blue Lias, or the Fish Lizard's Whore, a solo play about fossilist Mary Anning (February 26, 2009)
- "Can I Be a Feminist and...Date Men, Eat Meat, Be Religious?"-- an interactive talk with nationally celebrated writers Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (February 25, 2009)
- Living Archives: Houston's Shia Ismaili Women: Education and Ethics (February 2009)
2008
- GLBT Studies Minor featured on gayagenda.com (December 2008)
- "Gender, Creativity and the New Longevity" Conference with keynote speaker Katha Pollitt (November 2008). Read Dr. Elizabeth Gregory's thoughts on gener and the new longevity here.
- Opening, Thrive!, exhibit in conjunction with "Gender, Creativity and the New Longevity" Conference (November 2008)
- GLBT Studies Minor announced and featured in Houston Chronicle (October 20, 2008)
- Opening, Olive Brides by Bissan Rafe (October 2008)
- Living Archives: 18 Million Cracks--Women in Politics 2008 (October 2008)
- Deirdre Moloney, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC: “Differential Regulation: Female Immigrants and Immigration Policy in the Early 20th-Century United States” (March 2008)
- Not For Sale Awareness Week, Anti-Human Trafficking group (March 2008)
- Living Archives: Pakistan Today (March 2008)
- A conversation about Feminine Beauty and the Work of Miwa Yanagi, featuring Elizabeth Gregory (February 2008)
- 11th Annual Table Talk (February 2008)
2007
- Drive FAMILY Friendly: Family Friendly Policy in Texas (November 2007) The Houston Chronicle story
- Living Archives: Women in the Military (September 2007)
- Graduate Certificate Commencement and Luncheon (April 27, 2007)
- Special Film Screening "The Shape of Water" (March 2007)
- 10th Annual Table Talk: "A Tapestry of Women" (March 7, 2007)
- Dr. Jeanne Scheper co-hosts KPFT¹s Go Vegan Texas, "Sistah Vegan: Decolonizing Our Bodies" (February 26, 2007)
- Free Film Screening of Ma Vie en Rose (February 21, 2007)
- "Queering Childhood," lecture and discussion with KARL BRYANT, Sociology and Women's Studies. Bryant will be joining the faculty at SUNY New Paltz in Fall 07. (February 20, 2007)
- Living Archives: "Women Who Run" (February 2, 2007)
- Feminist/GLBT Pedagogy Seminar (January 2007)
2006
- Living Archives presents "Katrina Survivors: Mothers and Daughters"
- Jeanne Scheper, James Surls and J. Pittman McGehee on “A Provocative Conversation about the Forces that Divide Our Society Along Gender Lines and the Creative Quest for Balance,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- Hats Off to HER-story!
- Women's Month Transnational Film Festival
- “Girls! Girls! Girls! Consuming Identities in Girls Night Out,” a gallery talk by Jeanne Scheper in conjunction with the exhibition Girls Night Out, Blaffer Gallery Art Museum
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