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ADVANCING WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP FOR A JUST WORLD
Institute for Women’s Leadership Consortium • Fall 2014 Calendar of Events
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6
16 Days of Activism Against GenderBased Violence Information Session
Come learn about how you can get involved in a global
campaign to end gender-based violence on campus! Dinner
provided.
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Douglass Campus Center, Meeting Room E
Sponsored by: Center for Women’s Global Leadership and
Douglass Residential College
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9
Douglass Film Series and Global Village Plenary
Six Days: Three Activists, Three Wars,
One Dream
This inspiring documentary follows three brave human rights
defenders in Liberia, Abkhazia, Georgia, and Iraq giving insight
into everyday struggles to improve the status of women
worldwide.
7:15 p.m.
Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College and Douglass
Campus Dean
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Knowledge and Power: Issues in
Women’s Leadership
Plenary Speaker: Amani Al-Khatahbeh
Founder of muslimgirl.net
Director, Media Department, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee
Washington, D.C.
10:55 – 12:15 p.m.
Voorhees Chapel
Douglass Campus
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8
A workshop on responding to gender-based violence in the local
community and preparing for the New Brunswick Domestic
Violence Awareness Coalition March and Rally on Saturday,
October 18; facilitated by Elaine Hewins, CSW, DVS,
Domestic Violence Education & Awareness Program Coordinator,
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Community Health
Promotion.
6:00 p.m. Dinner will be served.
Douglass Lounge, Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College and the Institute
for Women’s Leadership
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
Knowledge and Power: Issues in
Women’s Leadership
Douglass Society Induction Ceremony
10:55 – 12:15 p.m.
Voorhees Chapel
Douglass Campus
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College and Associate
Alumnae of Douglass College
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Douglass Film Series:
Transforming Cultures Initiative:
Douglass Residential College Students
Respond to Gender-Based Violence
Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of
Love
Terna Tilley-Gyado and Wazina Zondon use traditional
storytelling and conversation as the medium for exploring the
broad range of their experiences as queer Muslims.
8:30 p.m.
Trayes Hall A, Douglass Campus Center, 8pm
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College and the Campus
Deans of Douglass, College Ave, Cook, Livingston, and Busch
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8
I Am a Girl
In I AM A GIRL, we meet six young women from around the
world who face extraordinary challenges. As they come of age in
the way their culture dictates, we see remarkable heartwarming stories of resilience, bravery and humor.
7:15 p.m.
NJC Lounge, Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by: the Douglass Campus Dean and Douglass
Residential College
Douglass Campus Fall Picnic and
Involvement Fair
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
Enjoy food and music from a DJ while learning about campus
organizations.
Community March and Rally to Raise Awareness
about Domestic Violence
12:00-2:00 p.m.
College Hall Grounds
Sponsored by the Douglass Campus Dean and Douglass
Residential College
“Everyone deserves a safe home, free
of domestic violence”
OCTOBER 8-10
“Marking Time: Prison Arts & Activism
Conference”
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Douglass Residential College Presents:
A Conversation with Carla A. Harris
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Author of Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a
Wall Street Vet
4:00 p.m.
Voorhees Chapel
Douglass Campus
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
IWL Consortium Welcome Reception
Greet new colleagues, learn about plans, and join colleagues to
kick-off a new academic year.
12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by: Institute for Women’s Leadership Consortium
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
RUPA Presents
Jessica Valenti: Yes Means Yes:
Battling Rape Culture and Moving
Towards a Positive Sexuality
Come spend a captivating evening with Rutgers Alumna and
founder of Feministing.com. Explore Rape Culture and what
moving towards a positive sexuality means.
Resource Fair: 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Begins: 8:00 p.m.
Douglass Campus, DCC in Trayes Hall.
Sponsors: Rutgers University Programming Association and
Office of Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance; Center for
Women’s Global Leadership; Douglass Residential College; and
Douglass Campus Dean
An international conference and multi-site art exhibition,
featuring:
• Presentations by artists, activists, scholars, and community
groups
• Lectures, workshops, poetry readings, and performances
• Art by current and formerly incarcerated individuals,
collaborative groups, and artists/activists responding to
mass incarceration.
Keynote speaker: Reginald Dwayne Betts, Poet and
Author of A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning,
Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison and Shahid Reads His
Own Palm. For more information please see: irw.rutgers.edu
Organized and hosted by the Institute for Research on Women.
Co-Sponsors: Alfa Art Gallery; American Friends Service
Committee’s Prison Watch Program; Art Library, Rutgers—
New Brunswick; Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT
Communities; Department of American Studies, Rutgers—
New Brunswick; Heldrich Hotel; Institute for Women and Art;
Mountainview Program; New Brunswick Public Library; Office of
the Chancellor of Rutgers—New Brunswick; Office of the
Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers—
New Brunswick; PUEG Center at UNAM (National University of
Mexico); Rutgers—Camden Center for the Arts; School of
Criminal Justice at Rutgers—Newark; University of Michigan’s
Prison Creative Arts Project; William James Association; Zimmerli
Art Museum at Rutgers-New Brunswick. This program is made
possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the
Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the
Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations
in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National
Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the
Humanities. This program has also been made possible by
generous funding from the Puffin Foundation Ltd.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Join DRC in a community march and rally to raise awareness of
gender and domestic violence.
First Reformed Church, 9 Bayard St, New Brunswick
11:00 a.m.
Sponsored by: New Brunswick Domestic Violence Awareness
Coalition
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23
The Artist as Philanthropist:
Artist-Endowed Foundations as a New
Force in Cultural Philanthropy and the
Emergence of Women Artists as
Donors in this New Field.
Alejandro Anreus, President of the Joan Mitchell Foundation
Kathleen Mangan, Executive Director of the Lenore Tawney
Foundation
Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of the Helen
Frankenthaler Foundation
Christine J. Vincent, Study Director The Aspen Institute’s
National Study of Artist-Endowed Foundations.
Panel Moderator: Alison R. Bernstein, Director, Institute for
Women’s Leadership.
Panel Respondent: Alberta Arthurs, Former Director of Arts
and Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation
4:00 p.m.
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by: Institute for Women and Art; Institute for
Women’s Leadership; The Aspen Institute’s National Study of
Artist-Endowed Foundations.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
2014 Latina Summit: The Power of You!
Conference designed to showcase and empower Latina women
Featuring 5 tracks: Young Latina Leadership; Civic
Engagement/Leadership Development; Health and Wellness;
Education; and Tapping Your Creativity. Free to Rutgers students
with ID. For information and to register, visit:
www.latinasummit.org.
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by: LUPE Fund, Inc.; Douglass Residential College;
and Douglass Campus Dean
IWL Director’s Dialogue
“Women and Leadership in South
Africa”
A Conversation with Jane Bennett, Director, African Gender
Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Alison R.
Bernstein, Director, Institute for Women’s Leadership.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Knowledge and Power: Issues in
Women’s Leadership
Plenary Speaker: Diana Reyna
Negotiating Basics Workshop
A workshop to demystify the negotiation process for those on
the academic job market.
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by: Institute for Research on Women and the Office
for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and
Mathematics
Brooklyn Deputy Borough President
10:55 – 12:15 p.m.
Voorhees Chapel
Douglass Campus
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
Douglass Film Series:
IRW Distinguished Lecture Series
The Mosuo Sisters
C. Riley Snorton
A tale of two sisters living in the shadow of two Chinas, this
documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marlo Poras follows
Juma and Latso, young women from one of the world’s last
remaining matriarchal societies.
Black Sexuality Studies, Cornell University
“From the Down Low to the First Gay Rapper, Or
Tracing a Trajectory from Glass to Plastic”
4:00 p.m. Reception
4:30 p.m. Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by: Institute for Research on Women
7:15 p.m.
Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by: the Douglass Campus Dean and Douglass
Residential College
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
An Evening with Debra Zimmerman
Executive Director of Women Make Movies and 2014 Laurie
Chair in Women's Studies at Douglass Residential College
7:15 p.m.
Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College; Institute for
Women’s Leadership; Women’s and Gender Studies
Department; and Douglass Campus Dean
5:30 p.m. Public Lecture
Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series
Douglass Library
8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
RSVP encouraged / womenart@rci.rutgers.edu
http://iwa.rutgers.edu/programs/momentum/events/
Sponsored by: Institute for Women and Art, Estelle Lebowitz
Memorial Fund, and the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese
4:00 p.m.
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by: Institute for Women’s Leadership
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22
MOMENTUM:
WOMEN/ART/TECHNOLOGY
An exploration into the intersection of technology, art
practice, and feminism.
Join distinguished guest Nafis Sadik, former director of the
UNFPA, and other global experts to discuss solutions to global
problems affecting women, in commemoration of the 20th
Anniversary of the United Nations International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD). Refreshments provided for
pre-registered attendees.
Drop in to learn how to edit Wikipedia articles—and why you
should.
Fordham Classroom, Douglass Library
All day
Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College and the Rutgers
Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs
(GAIA); and the Douglass Campus Dean
11:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Douglass Residential College and the Margery
Somers Foster Center
TUESDAY, NOV. 25 – WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Campaign
Knowledge and Power: Issues in
Women’s Leadership
Plenary Speaker: Debra Zimmerman
Executive Director of Women Make Moview
2014 Laurie Chair is Women’s Studies at Douglass College
10:55 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Voorhees Chapel
Douglass Campus
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College, Institute for Women’s
Leadership and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Momentum: Women/Art/Technology presents innovative uses of
technology by women and transgender artists through
exhibitions, symposia, film screenings, and public discussions.
Since 2011, Momentum artists have challenged gender-biased
notions of who employs technology and showcased women
artists’ sustained ability to break new ground in uncharted
artistic realms
Momentum concludes with a two-part exhibition series and
catalog with an essay by art historian Anne Swartz; an online
festival of video works entitled MTV: Momentum Technology
Videos; and the launch of the Momentum Directory, a
networking gateway linking the public to women and
transgender artists who embrace varied technologies in their
artistic production, and other arts professionals who engage in
critical explorations in the field of gender, feminism, art, and
technology.
JULY 28 – NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Douglass Global Summit
Dialogues on Improving the Health
and Dignity of Women and Girls
Worldwide
Wikipedia Editing Marathon
Public lecture by
Grimanesa Amorós
Themes and
Exhibitions
Institute for Women and Art 2014 – 2015 Academic Focus:
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
5:00 p.m. Reception
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
2014 Theme -From Peace in the Home
to Peace in the World:
Let’s Challenge Militarism and End
Gender-Based Violence!
Beginning on November 25, International Day for the Elimination
of Violence Against Women), and concluding on December 10,
Human Rights Day, this global campaign focuses on genderbased violence as an international human rights violation.
Sponsored by: Center for Women’s Global Leadership
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1
Java and Justice and Douglass Film Series:
Delicious Peace
Join us for a screening of the film Delicious Peace and an openmic coffeehouse on the theme of gender-based violence as part
of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
Campaign.
GRIMANESA AMORÓS
Momentum: Women/Art/Technology
2014-15 Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist in Residence
Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series Galleries, Douglass Library
8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Gallery Hours: M-F 9am-4:30pm
http://iwa.rutgers.edu/programs/momentum/exhibits/ or
womenart@rci.rutgers.edu
Free and open to the public
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1
MTV: Momentum Technology Videos
Online video festival launch
The Institute for Women and Art presents MTV: Momentum
Technology, an online festival of video works. The juried works
appear in a video playlist that runs continuously, giving access to
viewers 24/7.
http://iwa.rutgers.edu/programs/momentum/mtv
Momentum: Women/Art/Technology is sponsored by the
Institute for Women and Art, a center of the Office of
Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, Rutgers University, and
funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Mary H.
Dana Women Artists Series is a program of the Institute for
Women and Art in partnership with Rutgers University Libraries.
Rutgers co-sponsors include: Art Library, Rutgers University
Libraries; Center for Cultural Analysis; Department of Art
History; Department of Women’s and Gender Studies; Douglass
Residential College; Fine Arts Department-Camden; Institute for
Research on Women; Institute for Women’s Leadership;
Margery Foster Somers Center, Rutgers University Libraries;
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Visual Arts Department; Office
of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion; Office for the Promotion
of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics; Paul Robeson Galleries-Newark; Rutgers Center
for Digital Filmmaking; School of Communication and
Information; Zimmerli Art Museum. Other co-sponsors are:
Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission; Ford
Family Foundation; New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Amorós’ exhibition is sponsored in part by the Estelle Lebowitz
Memorial Fund, and the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, Rutgers.
7:15 – 10:00 p.m.
Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College and the Douglass
Campus Dean
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3
Understanding Forced Marriage –
A Community Forum
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Learn about forced marriage and how survivors have healed
from the violence that has occurred in these relationships.
IRW Distinguished Lecture Series
Juana María Rodríguez
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
For more information contact vawc@ssw.rutgers.edu or visit
vawc.rutgers.edu
Sponsored by: Center on Violence Against Women
Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California-Berkeley
“The Edge of Encounter: Sexual
Narratives and the Limits of
Representation”
4:00 p.m. Reception
4:30 p.m. Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by: Institute for Research on Women
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
IRW Distinguished Lecture Series
Saya Woolfalk
The Institute for Women’s Leadership
Consortium conducts the IWL
Consortium Initiative on Women &
Health. This initiative recognizes that
women’s health around the world is
shaped as much by social, economic,
political and environmental forces as by
biology. The IWL Initiative on Women &
Health features a two-year series of
courses, activities, and programs
designed to stimulate university-wide
engagement around this topic.
New York-based Artist
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
“Saya Woolfalk: World Builder”
4:00 p.m. Reception
4:30 p.m. Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by: Institute for Research on Women
$tart $mart Salary Negotiation
Workshop
Learn to negotiate for the pay you deserve! Open to all Rutgers
undergraduates. Pre-registration required; see
https://douglass.rutgers.edu/skills-development-andprofessionalization-workshops.
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Meeting Room E, Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by Douglass Residential College
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7
The 97th Annual Yule Log Ceremony
Celebrate the season in this cherished Douglass tradition with
songs and readings from many cultures.
4:45 p.m.
Voorhees Chapel
Sponsored by: Douglass Residential College
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Douglass Film Series:
Miss Representation
Miss Representation explores how mainstream media contribute
to the under-representation of women in positions of power and
influence in America
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11
Undergraduate Learning Community
Final Project Presentations
7:15 p.m.
NJC Lounge, Douglass Campus Center,
Sponsored by: the Douglass Campus Dean and Douglass
Residential College
3:00 – 5:00 p.m
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by: Institute for Research on Women and Division of
Student Affairs, Office of Residence Life
The Institute for Women’s Leadership
Consortium and the School of
Communication & Information are
collaborating on the new Women, Media
& Tech Initiative to examine the ways
media, including information technology
and digital media, are reshaping culture
and power relations in the world. The
initiative features a series of programs,
events and educational opportunities to
examine the relationships of media
technologies to democracy, social
change, gender/racial equality, and
public policy.
FOR REGISTRATION AND EVENT INFORMATION,CONTACT THE INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CONSORTIUM MEMBERS:
Institute for Women’s
Leadership
Institute Contact
Information:
The Institute for Women’s
Leadership is a nine-member
consortium within Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey,
dedicated to the study of women
and gender, advocacy on behalf of
gender equity and to women’s
leadership for a just world.
Founded in 1991, the consortium
examines leadership issues and
advances women’s leadership in
education, research, the arts,
sciences, politics and government,
the workplace and the world.
162 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555
848-932-1463
Fax: 732-932-4739
iwl.rutgers.edu
Email: iwl@rci.rutgers.edu
Alison R. Bernstein, Director
Douglass Residential
College
(founded 1918)
Department of Women’s Center for American
and Gender Studies
Women and Politics
(founded 1970)
(founded 1971)
Institute for Research
on Women
(founded 1976)
Center for Women’s
Global Leadership
(founded 1990)
The Center for Women
and Work
(founded 1993)
Institute for Women
and Art
(founded 2006)
125 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
848-932-2900
Fax: 732-932-8877
douglass.rutgers.edu
Email: dcdean@rci.rutgers.edu
Jacquelyn Litt, Dean of the College
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
162 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
848-932-9331
Fax: 732-932-1335
womens-studies.rutgers.edu
Email: womenst@rci.rutgers.edu
Abena Busia, Chair
160 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555
848-932-9072
fax: 732-932-0861
irw.rutgers.edu
Email: irw@rci.rutgers.edu
Nicole Fleetwood, Director
160 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
848-932-8782
Fax. 732-932-1180
cwgl.rutgers.edu
Email: cwgl@rci.rutgers.edu
Radhika Balakrishnan,
Executive Director
50 Labor Center Way
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-4614
Fax: 732-932-1254
cww.rutgers.edu
Email: cww@rci.rutgers.edu
Dana Britton, Director
640 Bartholomew Rd. #125A
Piscataway, NJ 08854
848-932-3726
iwa.rutgers.edu
Email: womenart@rci.rutgers.edu
Connie Tell, Acting Director
Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin,
Founding Co-directors
R U T G E R S ,
Eagleton Institute of Politics
191 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
cawp.rutgers.edu
Email: CAWP@rci.rutgers.edu
732-932-9384
Fax: 732-932-0014
Debbie Walsh, Director
Office for the Promotion
of Women in Science,
Engineering and
Mathematics
(founded 2007)
640 Bartholomew Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
732-445-1244
sciwomen.rutgers.edu
Email: sciwomen@rci.rutgers.edu
Natalie Batmanian, Director
Center on Violence
Against Women and
Children, School of
Social Work
536 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
848-932-4367
Fax: 732-932-6023
vawc.rutgers.edu
Email: vawc@ssw.rutgers.edu
Judy Postmus, Director
Associate Alumnae
of Douglass College
181 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
848-932-2880
Fax: 732-932-2883
douglassalumnae.org
Email:
douglassalumnae@winants.rutgers.edu
Valerie Anderson ’81, MBA,
Executive Director
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