Gender-related events (upcoming):

Tuesday, Dec. 6, 5:30pm, Albright Auditorium: Mosaic NY presents NOW WHAT?
Are you looking for ways to engage more deeply with others to prevent microaggressions, build a community based in equity and justice, increase empathy, and understand diverse experiences? Mosaic NY wants you to join us on Tuesday, December 6th at 5:30 p.m. in Albright Auditorium as we perform pieces about issues such as racism, mental health, and un/healthy sexuality followed by a dialogue with the audience. Help us build community and brainstorm new approaches to addressing these issues (and others) on the HWS Campus, in Geneva, and beyond. This performance and talk-back is open to the public. All seating is FREE and first-come, first-served. Doors open at 5:20 p.m

Wednesday, Dec. 7, 7:00pm, Geneva Room: The Culture of Respect Film Series: SEXISM - TRANSPHOBIA presents All about My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999, Spain). Presenter: Professor Juan Liébana (Spanish and Hispanic Studies).

Gender-related events (past):

Tuesday, Sept. 6, 5:00pm, Community Room, Geneva Public Library: Stephanie Kenific '17, "Our Schools: Building an Anti-Bias Classroom."
2016 Woodworth Fellow and William Smith senior Stephanie Kenific leads a participatory workshop on anti-racist and intersectional curriculum in public schools. Stephanie is currently engaged in reshaping the Common Core Learning Curriculum to serve anti-racist and feminist principles in the context of a 9th grade English classroom. This workshop will be her first public presentation of the ongoing project and will take the form of a complete lesson. Attendees can expect to engage in critical discussion regarding language, race, and radical education. A model fish-bowl conversation with HWS students will activate Stephanie’s curriculum and provide a model for action-based intergroup dialogue in the classroom.

Wednesday, Sept. 7, 7:00pm, Geneva Room: The Culture of Respect Film Series: RACISM presents 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee, 1997, US). Presenter: Dr. Maurice Charles (Chaplain of the Colleges) and Professor Janette Gayle (History).

Thursday, Sept. 15, 5:00pm, Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men (2nd floor of Demarest Hall): LGBTQ & Allies Initiative is hosting a Meet and Greet.
Connect with allies and find out about the different resources available on campus and in the community.

Friday, Sept. 16, 6:30pm, Davis Gallery at Houghton House, Art and Architecture Department: Professor Christine Chin, Gallery Talk: Pocket Organs.
Christine Chin is an artist whose work makes humorous and ironic commentary on contemporary issues of technology and the environment. Recent projects have addressed artificial intelligence, genetically modified food and alternative energy. The works in the series Pocket Organs imagine a near future where biotechnology has become accessible to the public, and resourceful individuals have taken control over their own health by engaging in home tissue culture and hacking medical devices. Following the trend of DIY "Kits" which are available to aid hobbyists in everything from electronics to cheese making, Pocket Organs Kits can replace or augment body systems, circumnavigating institutionalized medicine that is either inaccessible or unresponsive to the needs of the average individual. The objects presented are fictional and are created using silicone and various other materials in the studio, then photographed. The exhibit is open Aug. 26 - Sept. 23, 2016; gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9:30-4:30pm and Saturday, 1:30-4:30pm. For more information, call 315-781-3487.

Monday, Sept. 19, 7:00-8:00pm, Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men: Women's Studies Tea--Walking on Broken Glass.
With the first female presidential nominee, has the "glass ceiling" truly shattered? How does gender affect the perception and practice of leadership? Not a major? No problem--all are welcome!

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 7:30pm, Albright Auditorium: the Media & Society program presents Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977, US).
The Media and Society Program is pleased to announce a special screening of Saturday Night Fever on Tuesday, September 20 at 7:30 pm at Albright Auditorium. The event will also feature a series of shorts curated by Media and Society faculty members. ​The event is FREE and open to the HWS students, faculty, and staff. Originally released in 1977, Saturday Night Fever is known for its carefully choreographed disco scenes, original soundtrack by the Bee Gees, and its southwestern Brooklyn filming locations. The film, directed by John Badham, features iconic performances by John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, and Donna Pescow.

Wednesday, Sept. 21, 7:00pm, Geneva Room: The Culture of Respect Film Series: AGEISM presents Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953, Japan). Presenter: Professor James-Henry Holland (Asian Studies).

Wednesday, Sept. 28, 7:00-9:00pm, Geneva Room: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “'You Can’t Fix a Broken Foundation': Black Women’s Housing in the 1970s.”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. In the words of Cornel West, “This brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has emerged as the most sophisticated and courageous radical intellectual of her generation.” Her talk will draw from her work in progress, Race for Profit: Black Housing and the Urban Crisis of the 1970s, which looks at the federal government's promotion of single-family homeownership in Black communities after the urban rebellions of the 1960s. She considers the impact of the turn to market-based solutions on  Black neighborhoods, Black women on welfare, and emergent discourses on the urban “underclass.”

Thursday, Sept. 29, 4:45-6:00pm, Houghton House 112, Art and Architecture Department: Ryan M. Pfeiffer + Rebecca Walz, Lecture: Pantheon. [See below for description.]

Friday, Sept. 30, 6:30pm, Davis Gallery at Houghton House, Art and Architecture Department: Ryan M. Pfeiffer + Rebecca Walz, Gallery Talk: Pantheon.
Ryan M. Pfeiffer + Rebecca Walz are collaborators who live and work in Chicago. Drawing from their research into prehistoric and ancient art, historical erotica and archeo-anthropology, their works synthesize concerns about sex, death, myth and transformation. While utilizing strategies of reproduction, sourcing and bibliographing, the resulting pictures veer between silent hieroglyphic frieze and dense depictions of orgiastic revelry. Working on the drawings simultaneously, they view the act of collaboration as a dissolution of their individual identities. Curated by Alysia Kaplan, Assistant Professor of Art. The exhibit is open Sept. 30 - Oct. 28, 2016 (but closed during Fall Recess); gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9:30-4:30pm and Saturday, 1:30-4:30pm. For more information, call 315-781-3487.

Wednesday, Oct. 5, 5:30-8:30pm, Bartlett Theatre: HWS Impact: How Are You Seen and Not Seen?
HWS Impact is designed as a platform for students to engage in the collective exploration of our campus culture through the exchange of stories, ideas and experiences. The event will feature student storytellers sharing personal narratives and small dialogue groups. Student storytellers include Josiah Bramble '19, Edisson Cabrera '18, Sophia Melvin '18, and Ifunanya Okeke '19. To attend the event, register at hws.collegiatelink.net by 12:00 noon on Monday, Oct. 3.The event is sponsored by the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning, the Centennial Center for Leadership, the Office of Intercultural Affairs, Student Activities, the Social Justice Studies program and the Athletics departments.

Wednesday, Oct. 5, 7:00pm, Geneva Room: The Culture of Respect Film Series: ANTI-SEMITISM presents Aftermath (Władysław Pasikowski, 2013, Poland). Presenter: Professor Michael Dobkowski (Religious Studies).

Thursday, Oct. 13, 7:30pm, Smith Opera House, Geneva: The Tournées Film Festival presents La belle saison / Summertime (Catherine Corsini).
Synopsis: It’s 1971 and Delphine (Izïa Higelin), the only child of a farming couple in the Limousin, stuns her rural community by moving to Paris to go to university. Once in the city, she quickly gets swept up in the feminist movement and falls in love with the sophisticated activist Carole (Cécile de France). But when her father has a heart attack, Delphine must return to help her mother on the farm—and Carole follows. Through the love story between two women who must struggle not only against homophobia but class divisions, Catherine Corsini’s Summertime presents a gripping portrait of an age of political and social ferment, pungently bringing to life the political and social movements familiar to contemporary viewers through the work of the great French thinkers of the last half century. But as its title indicates, Summertime also has a lightness befitting both the newfound freedoms and occasional zaniness of the urban seventies and a timeless, tender idyll in the countryside. In this respect, the film strikes an interesting contrast with Abdellatif Kechiche’s 2013 Palme d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color, another love story between two women from different backgrounds. Where Kechiche took a formalist, nearly anthropological approach to depicting sex between two women, Corsini shows her characters together in a relaxed manner that has the ring of authenticity—and suggests that love is love, no matter who is doing the loving.

Wednesday, Oct. 19, 7:00pm, Geneva Room: The Culture of Respect Film Series: HOMOPHOBIA presents The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein, 1984, US). Presenter: Professor Linda Robertson (Media & Society).

Thursday, Oct. 20, 7:30pm, Smith Opera House, Geneva: The Tournées Film Festival presents Mon amie Victoria / My Friend Victoria (Jean Paul Civeyrac).
Synopsis: In My Friend Victoria, writer-director Jean Paul Civeyrac shifts the action of Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing’s short story “Victoria and the Staveneys” from London to contemporary Paris, but otherwise remains faithful to Lessing’s tale of a young black woman’s uneasy relationship with a wealthy white family. Victoria (Guslagie Malanda) becomes fascinated with the family as a little girl, then later has a daughter out of wedlock with one of the sons. As she struggles both with a sense that she is losing her daughter to this bourgeois family and the growing resentment of her own son, who has a black father and does not enjoy the family’s attention, Victoria provides an unusual and welcome insight into the situation of foreigners in France today: in the most concrete terms, privilege is within her reach, but never truly hers. At first glance, My Friend Victoria is a departure for Civeyrac, a discreet but fascinating auteur whose films have sometimes flirted with the supernatural. Yet the character of Victoria and the subtle performance of Guslagie Malanda allow him to escape the clichés of social-message films and draw on the mysterious tone of his previous features to create a person whose silences open a world of questions. The film is sponsored by the Hobart and William Smith Colleges French Club.

Thursday, Oct. 20, 7:30pm, McDonald Theatre, Gearan Center for the Performing Arts: HWS Theatre Department presents She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen. Directed by Chris Woodworth, Assistant Professor of Theatre. [See below for description.]

Friday, Oct. 21, 7:30pm, McDonald Theatre, Gearan Center for the Performing Arts: HWS Theatre Department presents She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen. Directed by Chris Woodworth, Assistant Professor of Theatre.[See below for description.]

Saturday, Oct. 22, 2:00pm or 7:30pm, McDonald Theatre, Gearan Center for the Performing Arts: HWS Theatre Department presents She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen. Directed by Chris Woodworth, Assistant Professor of Theatre.
She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans who goes on an epic adventure in her deceased sister's imaginary world of Dungeons and Dragons. In the course of her journey she will meet killer succubus cheerleaders, nasty goblins, deadly fairies, and a five-headed dragon. Set against the backdrop of 1990s pop culture, this dramatic comedy has a beautiful message of love and will, as the New York Times suggests, "slash and shapeshift its way into your heart." Not recommended for young audiences. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at Area Records, the College Store, and at the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts (room 202, Monday-Friday, 2:00-4:00pm). A limited number of free tickets will be available to HWS students with ID one hour before each performance.

Friday, Oct. 21-Sunday, Oct. 23: Seneca Falls Dialogues, Lean Out: Gender, Economics and Enterprise. Community Center and Gould Hotel, Seneca Falls, New York.
Welcome to our fifth biennial conference! This conference began in 2008, when a small group organized the first Dialogues to reaffirm the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments. We are excited about the record number of submissions from faculty, students, artists, and activists for this year’s conference, “Lean Out: Gender, Economics and Enterprise.” Our program demonstrates this topic’s timeliness and the many intersectional perspectives it raises on culture, identity, work, power, and justice. Student admission: $50 (includes Friday evening event/catering, Saturday continental breakfast, Saturday concurrent panels, Saturday evening dinner and keynote address, Sunday champagne brunch and programming).

Monday, Oct. 24, 7:00pm: Smith Lawn: Take Back the Night March.
Female-identifying and gender-queer students are invited to join the march at 7:00pm.

Monday, Oct. 24, 8:00pm: Coxe steps: Take Back the Night Vigil.
All members of the community are invited to join the vigil at 8:00pm.

Monday, Oct. 24, 8:00pm: McDonald Theatre, Gearan Center for the Performing Arts: HWS Theatre Department presents It Can't Happen Here.
HWS Theatre is joining the nationwide night of readings of IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE. This reading of Tony Taccome and Bennett S. Cohen's new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's cautionary tale about political demogoguery is in conjunction with Berkeley Rep's current production. Can the United States fall victim to fascism? Come check out this precautionary tale. The FREE reading is directed by Heather May. Actors: Casey Cady, Bob Cowles, Emily Fisher, Michael George Gonzalez, Megan Hall, Charles King, DeWayne Lucas, Natalie Knott, Clare McCormick, Jennifer Mitchell, Joanne Saracino, Alessio Summerfield, Kelly Walker, and Chris Woodworth. For more information about the Berkeley Rep production and nationwide readings, http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1617/10650.asp.

Tuesday, Oct. 25, 7:00pm, Geneva Room: Linda Dynel, the author of Leaving Dorian, speaks on domestic violence. October is Domestic Violence Month. This talk is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the Office of Title IX Programs and Compliance.

Wednesday, Oct. 26, 7:00pm, Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men: Frank B. Wilderson III, Professor of Drama at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California at Irvine.
Frank Wilderson is an award-winning writer, activist, and critical theorist who spent five-and-a-half years in South Africa, where he was one of two Americans  to have held an elected office in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid. He also worked clandestinely as a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK).
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Wilderson that President Nelson Mandela considered him “a threat to national security.” Wilderson was asked to comment. The book Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid is that “comment.” Incognegro received the American Book Award, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award, the Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement of the Highest Order, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.Wilderson is also the author of a book on cinema, politics, and race: Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press, 2010). His poetry, creative prose, critical, and film production are predicated on the notion that slavery did not end in 1865; the United States simply made adjustments to the force of Black resistance without diminishing the centrality of Black captivity to the stability and coherence of civil society. This assumptive logic has helped catalyze a new school of thought in the academy and beyond, called Afro-Pessimism.

Thursday, Oct. 27, 6:00pm, Guntzel Theater, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls: the Sentiments & Declarations Lecture Series presents Professor Elizabeth Belanger, "A Perfect Nuisance: Working-Class Women and Neighborhood Development in Civil War St. Louis."
How did everyday women experience the Civil War? How did they fight for their political beliefs, allegiances and neighborhood territory in a divided city? "A Perfect Nuisance" examines civilian complaints against Confederate-sympathizing women in St. Louis, providing an overlooked perspective on the spatial politics of a divided city during the Civil War. Blending the use of geographic information systems (GIS) with analysis of primary source documents, the research documents how working-class women enlisted the powers of government to enforce their own views of their neighborhood, and in doing so, they buttress their own claims of influence and legitimacy over those spaces. At the heart of "A Perfect Nuisance" is the story of how one scholar used a collection of sources, which others had looked at through the lens of military history or dismissed as simply evidence of fights between women, to rethink how these documents speak to a distinctly working-class and gendered experience of the city. This event is co-sponsored by the Women's Rights National Historical Park, the National Women's Hall of Fame, the Women's Studies Department, the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, and Student Affairs, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In need of transportation? Please contact Tina Smaldone (smaldone@hws.edu) or x3347.

Thursday, Oct. 27, 6:30pm, Everson Museum of Art, Hosmer Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse: Susan Goodier, Ph.D., "Centering Black Women: Race in the Women's Suffrage Movement."
Join Susan Goodier, Ph.D., a scholar who focuses on U.S. women’s activism from the period of the Civil War through the First World War. Goodier’s talk will put in context, the suffrage movement and the place of women of color in it. Goodier holds master’s degrees in Gender History and Women’s Studies, and a doctorate in Public Policy History, with subfields in International Gender and Culture and Black Women's History. She teaches New York State and Women's History courses at SUNY Oneonta, and serves as book review editor for the New York History journal.

Wednesday, Nov. 2, 7:00pm, Geneva Room: The Culture of Respect Film Series: CLASSISM presents A Place at the Table (Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush, 2012, US). Presenters: Professors Keoka Grayson and Elizabeth Ramey (Economics).

Monday, Nov. 7, 7:30-9:30pm, Coxe 007: HWS GirlUp hosts Monday Movie Night: He Named Me Malala.

Tuesday, Nov. 8, 8:00pm, Vandervort Room: HWS Votes Election Night Party.
The party will include favors, trivia, food and commentary, as well as screens playing the results as they come in. Students, staff, faculty, and community members (including local politicians) will all be invited to attend some or all of the party.

Wednesday, Nov. 9, 7:00pm, Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men: Premilla Nadasen, “Labor of Love: Social Reproduction and the Politics of Care."
The "caring economy" has often been used to describe the labor of social reproduction--both paid and unpaid labor in the home. But is the language of care a useful framework to analyze this work?  And if so, from whose perspective? This paper will examine the politics of care in movement for household workers' rights in the 1970s. Paid domestic workers were emotionally invested in the work, yet they never saw it as a labor of love. Their claim for rights was based in a language of entitlement and erasing rather than highlighting the artificial distinction between work inside and outside the home. Premilla Nadasen is an associate professor of history at Barnard College and a scholar-activist who writes and speaks on issues of race, gender, social policy and labor history. She is most interested in visions of social change, and the ways in which poor and working-class people, especially women of color, have fought for social justice. She has published extensively on the multiple meanings of feminism, alternative labor movements, and grass-roots community organizing. She is the author of the award-winning Welfare Warriors, which documents the welfare rights movement claim to a basic minimum income in the 1960s. Her most recent book is Household Workers Unite (Beacon 2015), a history of domestic worker activism in the post-war period.

Thursday, Nov. 10, 5:30pm, McDonald Theatre, Gearan Center for the Performing Arts: NOW WHAT?
Mosaic NY wants you to join us as we perform pieces about issues such as racism, mental health, and un/healthy sexuality followed by a dialogue with the audience. Help us build community and brainstorm new approaches to addressing these issues (and others) on the HWS Campus and in Geneva. This performance and talk-back is open to the public. All seating is FREE and first-come, first-served. Doors open at 5:20 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 10, 6:00pm, Vandervort Room: Women's Collective presents Megan Falley, An Evening of Queer and Feminist Poetry.
A performance of original work followed by a workshop on sexual assault and survivorship.

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7:00pm, Vandervort Room: “Citizen and Citizenship: A Faculty Panel Discussion,” with Professors Kathryn Cowles (English), Keoka Grayson (Economics) and Angelique Szymanek (Art History), and moderated by Professor Rob Carson (English).
This will be an opportunity for the campus community, particularly first-year students, to focus on the question of citizenship and the contemporary challenges it poses in the United States and as reflected in the common read, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric.

Wednesday, Nov. 16, 7:00pm, Geneva Room: The Culture of Respect Film Series: ABLEISM presents Including Samuel (Dan Habib, 2007, US). Presenters: Professors Mary Kelly and Diana Baker (Education).

Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:00-8:00pm, Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men: Women's Studies Tea: Making Space: Healing, Mobilization, Vision.
Please join us for tea, dessert, and dialogue as we reflect on the importance of finding and creating space for radical acts of love, self-care, empathy, and community organizing.

Friday, Nov. 18, 5:30pm, Geneva Room: HWS Pride presents True Tea Party--presentation and question-and-answer session with Kat Blaque.
Kat Blaque has been invited to speak about the white-washing of LGBTQ+ history, its effects, and the implications it has for activist organizing at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality today. This event will consist of Kat's talk, followed by a Q&A session.  Inspired by Kat's "True Tea" video series, tea will be provided for all attendees.​ Kat Blaque is a prominent trans and anti-racist activist, YouTuber, speaker, writer, and children's book illustrator.  You can find her work on YouTube here, and you can learn more about her and her art here. We hope to see you there! This event is co-sponsored by the departments of Women's Studies, Education, Africana Studies, and Social Justice Studies.

Monday, Nov. 21, 4:30-6:30pm, Sanford Room: Political Science Forum:"Understanding the Trump Presidency."
A forum discussion with members of the Political Science Department. Light refreshments will be served.

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 12:00 noon, Scandling Center steps: HWS Students in Solidarity have organized a Campus Walkout.
We will be gathering on Tuesday, November 29th to stand in solidarity with those who have been targeted by Trump’s hateful rhetoric and proposed policies. This event will be a space for our community to support one another; students, faculty, and staff members alike. Likewise, we are working to call on HWS to stand with colleges and universities across the country who are actively investigating ways through which their respective campuses can be made into sanctuary spaces. You may know, the #SanctuaryCampus (See https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-the-sanctuarycampus-movement for more information) movement advocates for making college campuses protected spaces for undocumented students. We will congregate at the Scandling Center Steps at noon, followed by a march around campus, concluding with an open-forum in front of Scandling to share thoughts and plans to mobilize. Please come and show your support.

Wednesday, Nov. 30, 5:30-6:30pm, Houghton House: From Slave to Citizen.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion is hosting a student art exhibit, titled From Slave to Citizen, which explores themes such as resilience, oppression, and resistance inspired by Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric.

Wednesday, Nov. 30, 7:00-9:00pm, Smith Opera House: reading, talk, and question-and-answer session by Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric.

Last updated 2 December 2016