IREWG / Gender Institute
GENDER WEEK 2006 

ALL GENDER WEEK EVENTS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC      

MONDAY OCT. 9

Poster Display – All Day
JUDITH LAMPASSO
SAM JUREYDA, Orthodontics, IREWG Recipient of 2005-06 Gender Inst. Research Award
Effect of Fosamax on osteoblastic cells
LOBBY of HARRIMAN HALL & Health Sciences Library
 
9:00 – 11:50  am
Nancy Wilk, Nursing
 Open Class on Women’s Health: Contraception
1110 Kimball Tower, SC

11:30-2 pm
Liberation Bake-Off Drop-Off & Open Judging
STUDENT UNION LOBBY

1:30 – 3:00 pm
JUDITH HEUMANN
Round Table, Progress in Disability Research
108 HAYES HALL, SC

2pm
LEW MANDELL, Management
Financial Literacy & Gender
320 JACOBS HALL, NC


4:00 – 5:30 pm   
Gender Week KEYNOTE:
JUDITH HEUMANN
World Bank, Lead Consultant Global Partnership on Disability & Development
A Global Perspective on Gender, Disability and Development   
105 HARRIMAN HALL, SC


6 – 8 pm
BORN INTO BROTHELS
Free Film on children of sex workers in India
BALDY room 684

TUESDAY OCT. 10

9 am – noon Round Table 
Judith Heumann
Meeting with school members
BUFFALO PUBLIC SCHOOL 84

11:30 am-1 pm
Liberation Bake-Off Prizes & Graduate Poster Award Winners
STUDENT UNION LOBBY

3:00 -4:00 pm
PIYA PANGSAPA,
Women’s Studies, IREWG Recipient of 2005-06 Gender Inst. Research Award
Economic Development and the Politics of Cross-Border Migration in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region   
280 PARK HALL NC


6-8 pm
PANEL Social Work
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Learning from Adolescent Women about Gender, Empowerment, and Social Change in 21st c.

Panelists:

Rainelle Camp, Growing Green, Massachusetts Avenue Project
Michela Davis, Gay and Lesbian Youth Services
Monique Murphy, Teen Reality Theater, Planned Parenthood
Marie Schuster, WNY Girls' School Coalition: Afghanistan Project
Gabrielle Vanoy, National Conference for Community and Justice

215 NAT. SCI. BDLG., NC

WEDNESDAY OCT. 11

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Lambda Kappa
Sigma, Pharmacy
Lupus & Women’s Wellness
STUDENT UNION LOBBY

2:00 – 3:00 pm
The Gender Gap in Student Population at UB
PANEL DISCUSSION w/
Lois Weis, Jeremy Finn, Michael Ryan and Henry Durand
474 BALDY HALL, NC 

3:00-5:00 pm   Panel
Assoc. Women Full Profs, VP for Faculty Affairs, IREWG
Getting to Full Professor
Mary A. Bisson, Deborah Chung, Lucinda Finley,
Jo Freudenheim, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Susan Udin,
Lois Weis
145B STUDENT UNION, NC

4 – 5 pm
STACY HUBBARD, English, IREWG Recipient of 2005-06 Gender Inst. Research Award
“Deadlier than the Male:” Hillary Rodham Clinton and
the Politics of Sympathy
412 CLEMENS HALL

5:00 – 7:30 pm
AMY GOODMAN, Host of Democracy Now! 
Media Study & IREWG
as part of
A Forum on Torture
LIPPES CONCERT HALL, SLEE HALL, NC



THURSDAY  OCT. 12
 
7:00 pm
“Abortion Controversy in Context”  Keynote by
EYAL PRESS
 Author, Absolute Convictions: My Father, A City, and the Conflict that Divided America
Baldy Center, Faculty Affairs,  Law, IREWG
Reception following presentation
106 O’BRIAN HALL, NC


FRIDAY OCT. 13

9 am – 5 pm
Baldy Center, Faculty Affairs,  Law,  IREWG
“The Abortion Controversy in Context”
www.law.buffalo.edu/
baldycenter.htm
LETRO COURTROOM,
1st floor, O’BRIAN HALL, NC

Noon – 1 pm
ASIA AT NOON
Asian Studies
NIHARIKA BANERJEA Ph.D. cand. in Sociology.  Poor Women's Mobilization & Participatory Practices in Kolkata, India: A Critical Review
280 PARK HALL, NC

Noon – 1 pm
SYLVIA FRAZIER-BOWERS
Univ. North Carolina, Oral Biology
Understanding the Genetic Basis of Craniofacial Disorders: From Phenotype to Genotype
215 FOSTER HALL, SC

1pm – 2pm
Oral Biology
A Career in Health Sciences Research : Mentoring Session  With Dr. Frazier-Bowers. All Graduate Students Welcome
215 FOSTER HALL, SC

8pm
SHOES!  one woman show
with FRANCINE CONLEY
Romance Languages, IREWG
WOLDMAN THEATRE,
112 NORTON, NC



RELATED EVENTS

Fri. Oct. 6, 6 pm
Artist Andrea Zittel researches, designs & models domestic settings for experimental living structures. Her exhibition, Critical Space, will open after this lecture.
ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY

Tues. Oct. 10, 7:30 pm
Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies
UB Progressive Alliance,
WNY Peace Center
112 CFA, Screening Room

Oct 12 – 14:
Dept. of English
On Words: Robert Creeley
Poetry readings by Howe, Lauterbach, Waldrop. see
http://wings.buffalo.edu/
AandL/english/OnWords.htm

Mon. Oct 16    7:30 pm :
Leslie Burger, American Library Association President Elect
UB ALA GSA
120 CLEMENS   see
http://wings.buffalo.edu/sils/alas/index2.html

Ongoing:
UB Art Galleries:
Tibetan Art exhibits  see
http://www.ubartgalleries.buffalo.edu/