GENDER WEEK 2007 FINAL CALENDAR

All Gender Week events are free and open to the public

Check back often for updates or call 716.829.3451; click on the "read more" link for events throughout the week.    

Sept 21-Oct 5, 9 am -5 pm
RED HOT BUFFALO WOMEN'S ART
Special Gender Week exhibit

The Poetry Collection

Special Collections

CAPEN 420, NC

(use elevator in library)

Come and view the papers of Buffalo women artists:  poetry, journals, art and radical paraphernalia from the 1960s through the 1980s.

MONDAY  SEPT. 24

10am-2pm
Liberation Bake-Off
Gender Institute
STUDENT UNION LOBBY, NC

4 pm
SARAH SCHULMAN, author & activist

United in Anger: The ACT UP Oral History Project keynote

CLEMENS 120, NC

(Schulman will read from her new novel, THE CHILD, on  Sun. Sept. 23 at 3 pm at Hallwalls. FREE Event)

4- 5 pm

WILLARD D. MCCALL, Ph.D., Chair, Oral Diagnostic Sciences

Muscle/Jaw Mechanics And Gender. Work in Progress Seminar 

FOSTER HALL 215, SC

10am-2pm

Liberation Bake-Off

Gender Institute

HARRIMAN HALL LOBBY, SC

***** 

10:00 am – 2 pm

Breast Implants – Absolutely Safe?

HARRIMAN 105, SC

A three part presentation on the biosafety of the materials used in implants, the psychology of the motivation for their use, and the making of a documentary which tells the experiences of women who have had them.  Attend all or part!

10:00 – 10:30 am  CAROL CIANCUTTI-LEYVA,  Film producer and Director,  on the making of her controversial documentary “Absolutely Safe”

10:30 am- 12:00 pm  Screening of ABSOLUTELY SAFE

Noon Lunch – Box lunches will be provided for the first 50 guests; additional light snacks  

12:15- 1 pm  ROBERT BAIER & ANNE MEYER

Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces and School of Dental Medicine

 “ ‘Don’t confuse the gel with the shell:’ The Safety of Materials Used in Bioimplants”  

1 – 2 pm      LORA PARK

Asst. Prof, Dept Psychology, UB

“Understanding Appearance Concerns among College Students”

***** 

DAWN MARTIN-HILL, McMaster Univ. Director, Indigenous Studies Program  Onkwa’nistenhsera: Mothers of Our Nations

Film screening and lecture

CLEMENS 1004, NC

WEDNESDAY SEPT. 26

Noon – 12:50 pm

Spanish Women Writers  SPA 452 OPEN CLASS with Playlets (in English)

All welcome

BALDY 110, NC

Noon – 1 pm BROWN BAG

YOSHIKO NOZAKI, UB Educational Leadership & Policy

The Japanese Textbook Controversy over the Military  'Comfort Women': History, Epistemologies, and Peace & Justice  Education

Grad. School of Education

BALDY 474, NC

2 – 4 pm

SUE ROSSER, Georgia Inst. Technology. The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed

Dean,School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Vice-Provost for Faculty Affairs; Office of Postdoctoral Scholars; Dean, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; UB/Buffalo Public Schools Science Partnership; Dean, School of Public Health and Health Professions, Gender Institute

STUDENT UNION 330, NC

7pm

TALES OF THE NIGHT FAIRIES

Film screening and discussion

PARK HALL 280, NC  

THURSDAY SEPT. 27

10-11:30 am

Graduate Works in Progress

Films and presentations from Gender Institute graduate students

CLEMENS 904, NC

Noon-1:30 pm

GLENNA BETT, UB Ob-Gyn, Physiology & Biophysics

Biological Sex Differences: It's not what you think

FARBER 144, SC

12:30 – 2 pm

JENNIFER MORGAN, Assoc. Prof., Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU

Racial Thinking and Colonial Numeracy: Gender and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Early Modern Reading Grp; Gender Institute

PARK HALL 280, NC

2 – 3:30 pm

LORIENE ROY,  President, Amer.Library Assoc; Director, Ctr for Women’s & Gender Studies, UT Austin

Working in a Feminized Profession: How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves

University Libraries; Gender Institute

BAIRD HALL 250, NC

FRIDAY  SEPT. 28

Noon

ROBIN LALLY, Nursing

Acclimation Post Breast Cancer Diagnosis

School of Nursing

125 BIOMED BLDG, SC

Noon – 12:50 pm

Spanish Women Writers  SPA 452 OPEN CLASS with Playlets (in English)

All welcome

BALDY 110, NC

2 pm

LESLIE FRY, sculptor & public artist

The Human Body in Western Art

American Studies

Gender Institute

CLEMENS 1004, NC