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IREWG DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURE 2008: SUSAN CAHN

Susan Cahn, Dept. of History
"Desegregated Desires: Adolescent Girls in a Changing South"

April 9, 2008

4 pm, 250 Baird Hall (Baird Recital Hall), North Campus

Dr. Cahn will speak on the subject of her most recent book, "Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age" (Harvard University Press, 2007).

Gender Across Borders III Sciences Keynote Speaker Tanya Furman

TANYA FURMAN

Friday, April 4, 10:45am
Clemens Hall 120, UB North Campus

Tanya Furman of Pennsylvania State University-University Park, Professor of Geosciences and Assistant Vice President & Associate Deanfor Undergraduate Education, has worked to identify best practices for organizations wishing to develop mentoring programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). She has developed an innovative series of programs that promise a substantial effect on increasing underrepresented students considering STEM-based career opportunities, and has built collaborative relationships at other academic institutions that now use her programs.

12th Annual International Women's Film Festival

January 31-March 6, 7 pm Thursdays

Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre
639 Main Street (across from Shea’s Theater), Buffalo, NY 14203

Our 2008 theme is "Body Counts"--click on the links below for images, trailers, synopses and more!

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL 2008

JANUARY 31: MADE OVER IN AMERICA (USA, 2007, 65 min., Documentary Feature, Directed by Bernadette Wegenstein & Geoffrey Alan Rhodes)--with shorts on women and body image!

FEBRUARY 7: CLOSE TO HOME/KAROV LA BAYIT (ISRAEL, 2005, 90 min. Feature, Color, In Hebrew with English subtitles, Directed by Vardit Bilu and Dalia Hagar)

FEBRUARY 14: DUNIA, KISS ME NOT ON THE EYES (EGYPT/LEBANON, 2005, 105 min., Feature, Directed by Jocelyne Saab)

FEBRUARY 21: AMU (USA/INDIA, 2005, 96 min, Feature, Directed by Shonali Bose)--rescheduled for March 20, 2008

FEBRUARY 28: DAM STREET/HONG YAN (CHINA, 2005, Feature, Directed by Li Yu)

MARCH 6: BODY COUNTS Night of Shorts: WNY women make movies on the theme of the body

Ticket prices: $8.50 general, $5 students & seniors

Free parking: M&T bank lot on Washington Street behind theatre
Bring parking lot stub to box office

The Gruber Women's Rights Prize

The Gruber Women's Rights Prize includes a $500,000 unrestricted monetary award and gold medal, and honors individuals who have made significant contributions to human rights that advance the rights of women and girls around the world. Recipients are selected by a committee of distinguished experts in the field. The 2008 Gruber Women's Rights Laureates were Yanar Mohammed, Sapana Pradhan Malla and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. For more information on the 2008 recipients, visit:

http://www.gruberprizes.org/GruberPrizes/WomensRights_LaureateOverview.php?id=72&awardid=47

12th Annual Film Fest: Dam Street/Hong Yan

12th Annual International Women's Film Festival

Program Details

February 28
DAM STREET/HONG YAN, 2005, China, Director Li Yu, Color Feature, in Mandarin with English Subtitles. In the early–1980s, Xiao Yun—a sixteen year–old girl living in small riverside town in China—discovers she is pregnant. The local community is stunned, her family loses face and she and her boyfriend are expelled from school. In the aftermath, her boyfriend leaves her, and she gives birth and is then forced to put her child up for adoption.

Ten years later, her relationship with her family strained and ostracized by residents of the town, Xiao Yun is reduced to working as a singer in a local song and dance troupe. And her only real companion is Xiao Yong, a fiercely affectionate boy who protects her from the critical eyes of the community until a marriage proposal discovers the limits of their friendship, and the depth of her unresolved past.

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