Talk: Dr. Amy Froide (Nov. 11, 7:30 pm)


The Program in Women’s and Gender Studies

Presents

 

Dr. Amy Froide

Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Author of Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England

 

Playing the Stock Market for Marriage and Profit: Englishwomen as Financial Investors 1680-1750

 

Tuesday November 11

7:30pm

Combs 139

 

For more information:  Allyson M. Poska aposka@umw.edu

Event (9/24): Ferguson in Historical Context

Women’s and Gender Studies

and

the Department of History and American Studies present:

 

Ferguson in Historical Context

 

Wednesday September 24

7-9pm

Monroe 210

 

Dr. Jess Rigelhaupt, Dr. Will Mackintosh, and Dr. Claudine Ferrell will provide some historical background to the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri followed by a discussion with the audience

 

For more information contact Dr. Allyson M. Poska  aposka@umw.edu

Talk Tonight (2/15): “Let’s Go to Guantanamo! An On-the-Ground Perspective on the 9/11 Trial”

Molly Crabapple illustration 1-1Sociologist and human rights expert Lisa Hajjar will speak this evening, February 25th at 7pm in Monroe 116 on the topic of the military commission trial for Khaled Sheikh Muhammad and four other men accused of responsibility for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a case often referred to as “the trial of the century.” In this talk, entitled “”Let’s Go to Guantanamo! An On-the-Ground Perspective on the 9/11 Trial,” Dr. Hajjar will offer a first-hand perspective on what it is like to go to Guantanamo, and will discuss the critical and contentious issues that this case raises.

The talk is free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend.

Talk (2/25): “Let’s Go to Guantanamo! An On-the-Ground Perspective on the 9/11 Trial”

Molly Crabapple illustration 2-1Sociologist and human rights expert Lisa Hajjar will speak next Tuesday, February 25th at 7pm in Monroe 116 on the topic of the military commission trial for Khaled Sheikh Muhammad and four other men accused of responsibilityfor the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a case often referred to as “the trial of the century.”

In this talk, entitled ““Let’s Go to Guantanamo! An On-the-Ground Perspective on the 9/11 Trial,” Dr. Hajjar will offer a first-hand perspective on what it is like to go to Guantanamo, and will discuss the critical and contentious issues that this case raises. The government is striving to pursue accountability for 9/11, but justice is complicated by the fact that all five defendants were held for years in secret prisons and tortured by the CIA, and everything surrounding this case is shrouded in secrecy, which severely impedes the legal process. Hajjar will discuss how the military commission system is struggling to contend with these complicated issues in a multi-defendant death penalty case.

Lisa Hajjar is a professor of sociology at the University of California — Santa Barbara. Her research and writing focus on law and legality, war and conflict, human rights, and torture. She is the author of Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005) and Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights (Routledge, 2012). She serves on the editorial committees of Middle East Report, Jadaliyya, and Journal of Palestine Studies. She is currently working on a book about US torture and the role of lawyers. In 2014-2015, she will be the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut.

All are welcome.

 

This Wednesday (2/19): Talking History with Dr. Kimberly Kutz

kutz_photoTALKING HISTORY – A research roundtable in which faculty share their works in progress with students and colleagues. This month featuring Professor Kim Kutz, speaking on:

“Mr. Disney’s Winkin’ Blinkin’ Lincoln: Walt Disney’s Abraham Lincoln Robot and Civil Rights at the 1964 World’s Fair”

Wednesday, February 19th 4:00-5:00 PM, Monroe 210

Questions? Email wmackint@umw.edu

Event this Friday (4/5): “Japan: Two Years after the 3/11 Earthquake-Tsunami”

On Friday, the University of Mary Washington will be hosting a series of lectures, a live music performance, and documentary film screening devoted to the topic of Japan’s 3/11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Schedule:

2:00-3:00 pmDr. Steve Rabson lecture, “Aftershocks: Political and Social Reverberations of 3/11 and other Recent Earthquakes in Japan”

3:00-4:00 — Dr. Susan Fernsebner (Dept. of History and American Studies) lecture, “Sichuan 2008, Fukushima 3/11, and Sino-Japanese Relations”

4:00-5:00 — Live Performance of Traditional Japanese Koto Music by Miyuki Yishikami

5:00-6:30 — “Live Your Dream” Documentary Film centering on the life of Virginia native Taylor Anderson, one of the two Americans to die in the tsunami at Fukushima, where she taught English after graduating from Randolph-Macon College. It features interviews of local residents, including her students, and of her family who describe her lifelong interest in Japan and her adjustments–sometimes humorous–to living there.

Location for all events: Lee Hall 412

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies

Talk: “Educational Opportunities for Women in the Early American Republic”

 On Thursday, April 4th, Dr. Lucia McMahon will share a talk entitled “Educational Opportunities for Women in the Early American Republic.”

In her new book, Mere Equals:  The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic, Lucia McMahon narrates the experiences of educated women in the new nation.  Emboldened by access to new educational opportunities, young women envisioned lives of intellectual equality, but they did so in a world marked by continued gender inequality in legal and political realms.  Yet in their social and personal relationships, women attempted to live as the “mere equals” of men.  Their efforts reveal how early national Americans grappled with both the promises and constraints embedded in their understandings of gender roles and relations.

Dr. McMahon is associate professor of History and assistant chair at the Department of History at William Patterson University.

The talk will be held at 7 pm in Lee Hall room 411.

Sponsored by the Department of History and American Studies, the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library,
the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Women’s and Gender Studies.

For more information, please contact Will Mackintosh at wmackint [at] umw.edu