Schedule of Events
Spring 2025 Faculty Research Lunches
Join us and learn about exciting research by Dickinson faculty and staff, followed by time for Q&A. Lunch is provided. Cosponsored by the WGRC and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Tuesday, January 28, 12:00-1:00pm, Stern Great Room
Professor Alyssa Decker (ENST) - "Plants and People: The Benefits of Diversity in Green Roof Research"
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Dr. Allyssa Decker studies the relationships between green roof plants, the soils they grow in, and the microclimate surrounding them, but she is also continually thinking about ways to improve diversity and representation within her field. There is a vast body of research documenting the importance of plant diversity in green roof systems, yet this value of diversity is not as evident when looking at the community of people researching these unique ecosystems. Inspired by Black scholars and activists, Professor Decker explores the experiences of the underrepresented in her field to find pathways to make this work more accessible. This talk will highlight connections between the importance of diversity in ecosystems to the need for promoting diversity within the community of scholars working on green roofs and green infrastructure systems.
Thursday, March 27, 12:00-1:00pm, Stern Great Room
Professor Andrienne Su (CRWR) – Tasting the Poem: Notes on Writing Literature and Food, and a Reading from Hot, Sour, Salty,Sweet
- Dickininson poet-in-residence Adrienne Su reads exerpts from her new essay collectio, Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet. which combines writing about poetry and writing about cooking and eating. Professor Su will also talk about the development og the collection and its links to her teahing, which has long included both genres.
Tuesday, April 22, 12:00-1:00pm, Stern Great Room
Professor Andrea Lieber (RELG) -(Topic TBA)
Fall 2024 Faculty Research Lunches
Join us and learn about exciting research by Dickinson faculty and staff, followed by time for Q&A. Lunch is provided. Cosponsored by the WGRC and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Thursday, September 12, 12:00-1:00pm, Stern Great Room
Professor Jacquie Forbes (EDST) - “There’s No Plan B: The Integral Labor off Black Women Educators During the COVID Lockdown Era”
- In January 1023, a multi-institutional group of researchers and practitioners known as THE BLESS Collective began to host gatherings of educators, community members parents, and recent alumni to gather reflections on the abrupt changes to schoolinh brought on by COVID's height -- particulsrly Black Women -- highlights the disproptionate ways that educator labor becomes ill-defined and ultimately gendered --particularly in moments of global emergency. Using racial capitalism anf gendered orginzations as frameworks, this presentation hight;ights important labor patterns in the world of K12 education
Tuesday, October 29, 12:00-1:00pm, Stern Great Room
Provost Renée Cramer – What Happens When You Get What You Want? - An Interpretive Feminist Approach to Powe, Practice, Visibility, and Recognition
- This presentation explores a two-decade- long scholarly obsession with the power of legality to constrain and open opportuity for the recognition to identify and legitimation of practice. It explores the tensions inherent in becoming visible and legitimate- the seemingly paradoxical loss of autonomy that can occur with the gaining of acknowledged power. Insistent on narrativity as a key element of both feminist and interpertive scholarship, the talk synthesizes three major scholarly projects, and seeks conversation and input on the future of the work -- while acknowleging the particular standpoint from which I currently write
Thursday, November 21, 12:00-1:00pm, Stern Great Room
Jill Anderson (Library) - "I Work For Fun, and I Get Fun Out of My WORK": The Arts in Lois Hobart's Girls Career Fiction, 1955 - 1961 (Girls’ Career Fiction from the 1930s through 1960s)
- This presentation, part of a larger project on the mid- twentieth- centery girls' art career fiction, will focus on the vocational fiction of photographer and Glamour jobs editor Luis Hobart with particular emphasis on her young-adult novels Katie and Her Camera (1955) and A Palette for Ingrid (1956). Hobart's art- career novels, showed young women actively training in and practicing their vocation within a circle of like minded friends, colleague, mentors, and even love interests
- These novels and other arts-orientated career texts raise interesting questions about girls creative and intellectual desires and labor during an era in which girls' intellectual lives have gone largely uncosidered. Suggesting the possibility of locating creative anf intellectually oriented girls in communities of practice which overlapped with- rather than by definition exluding- love and marraige, these novels instead offered young women readers model of relationships of all kinds centering on creative and intellectial affinities.
Love Your Body Week - February 10-15, 2025
LYBW is a campus-wide week of learning about the messages, positive and negative, that we receive about bodies, bodily size, shape, function, and appearance. What ways has our relationship with our body been shaped by these messages, and how might we shift that dynamic? Our events are designed to give you information, to challenge you, and to celebrate bodies of all shapes, sizes, and abilities. Show yourself the love!
Schedule-
- Monday, February 10th 2025-
- Kickoff Soiree - @ Allison Community Rm (5-7pm)
- Lets get LYBW started right with a DJ, dance/ musiccal performances, activities and lots of food!
- Kickoff Soiree - @ Allison Community Rm (5-7pm)
- Tuesday February 11th 2025-
- Love Your Atypical Brain & Body - @ Social Hall (11:30- 1:30pm)
- Join the team from ADS for activities, swag and information about neuro- and body diversity on campus and in our culture. stop in anytime during you lunch break!
- The Adventure of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!- @ Landis House ( 6:30 - 8PM)
- Follow two drag queens and a transwoman on vibrant, heartfelt roadtrip across the Australian outback spreading glitter, joy and acceptance where ever they go. Dinner included!
- Love Your Atypical Brain & Body - @ Social Hall (11:30- 1:30pm)
- Wednesday, February 12th 2025
- Nutritional Info Session - @ Social Hall (12- 1pm)
- Join human resourses for an expert information session on nutrition
- Strength Training Session- @ Kline (12:30- 1:30pm)
- Join Girl Gains and Athletics for expert-led strengh training sess- no expirence need , but please RSVP on EnageD
- Wind down Wednesday- @ Landis House (4-6pm)
- CSSJ invites you to join us for snacks, convesation crafs and comfort
- Keynote: Out of Time: Fatness, Disability, and Fat Crip Time - @ Stern Gr Rm (7- 8:30pm)
- Dr. April Herndon explores the way fat and disable bodies are often depicted as being part of the past but not part of a collective future because they are seen as to expensive, a reminder of vulnerabilty and to much in general.
- Nutritional Info Session - @ Social Hall (12- 1pm)
- Thursday, February 13th 2025
- Open Dance Class - @ HUB Dance Studio (12- 1pm)
- This class will be led by DTG and includes stretching, strengthening, basic techniques, and a short combination. No dance expirence needed!
- Open Dance Class - @ HUB Dance Studio (12- 1pm)
- Friday, February 14th 2025
- Food, Sex, and Sleep: Pleasure vs. Shame - @ Allison Community Rm (8- 9:15pm)
- Professional sex educator- led discussion on how our culture condemns bodily desires and glorifies ignoring and restricting our bodies instead -- plus get all you sex questions answered! ( Co- hosted by PALS)
- Food, Sex, and Sleep: Pleasure vs. Shame - @ Allison Community Rm (8- 9:15pm)
- Saturday, February 15th 2025
- Body Postitive Swim Time - @ Kline Pool (2- 4 pm)
- A body- friendly, family friendlt swim. Students, faculty, staff, and families all welcome!
- Body Postitive Swim Time - @ Kline Pool (2- 4 pm)
Take Back the Night - Wednesday, April 9 2025