Sister2Sister Leadership Retreat
A retreat to motivate, engage, and dialog with women of color at the University of Mississippi. Registration required - please visit inclusion.olemiss.edu
Sponsor: Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement
Being G. I. Jane - A Conversation
Join us for an open forum where individuals can engage with women who have served or are serving in the military.
Oxford Conference for the Book: The Appalachian South
Panelists include Jessie Wilkerson, Karida Brown, Elizabeth Catte, & Meredith McCarroll Sponsor: Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Performance: The Vagina Monologues
Join RASA for a dramatic reading of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues
Sponsors: Rebels Against Sexual Assault (RASA) and the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
SarahTalk: "Revealing Narratives: Teaching Women Avant-Garde Theatre Artists"
Instructional Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Peter Wood presents his research on women in avant-garde theatre.
Sponsors: The Isom Fellows Program
Becoming G.I. Janes: Understanding the history of Women in the US Armed Forces Description:
Sponsors: The Departments of Military Science, Naval Science, and Aerospace Studies.
9:30 AM - Unsung Heroes: America's Female Patriots presented by the Department of Military Science
11:00 AM - presented by the Department of Naval Sciences
12:30 PM - The WASP and the Integration of Women into the United States Air Force" presented by the Department of Aerospace Studies
Film Screening: JANE
The Environmental Film Series is proud to present JANE. This National Geographic film recounts the life of Jane Goodall and her research that challenged the male-dominated scientific consensus of her time and revolutionized our understanding of the natural world through her dedicated research on chimpanzees. The Environmental Film Series is an annual partnership with the Environmental Studies Minor Program and the Office of Sustainability to screen a film that tackles an environmental issue or subject.
Sponsors: The Environmental Studies Minor Program and the Office of Sustainability
The CICCE Presents the Artist MILCK
The 5th Annual Women’s Empowerment Keynote Address will be presented by MILCK, a recording artist and activist who empowers others to overcome adversities and rise up against negativity and oppression.
Sponsors: Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement
"It Gets You Off Your High Horse, Really": Queer Truckers and Rolling Sexualities, Anne Balay
Award-winning author, Dr. Anne Balay will give a talk based on her latest book, Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
Sponsors: Arch Dalrymple III Department of History, Sarah Isom Center, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, and the College of Liberal Arts
Conference Keynote: "The Queer South: Where the Past Is Never Past and the Future is Now"
Dr. Minnie Bruce Pratt presents her keynote address during the annual conference luncheon and business meeting.
Performance and Q &A: “Put a Little Honey in My Tea”
Dr. E. Patrick Johnson performs a selection of oral histories from his books Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History and Honeypot: Southern Black Women Who Love Women. Free and open to the public.
Presented by the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement
Conference Keynote: “The Beekeeper: on Collecting the Stories of Black Southern Women Who Love Women.”
Dr. E. Patrick Johnson presents his keynote on his new book, “Black, Southern, Queer, Women.”
The Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference
The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies hosts the 2019 SEWSA conference that brings together scholars on and practitioners of women’s, gender, and sexualty issues from across the southeast and throughout the United States. Registration required.
Sponsors: Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, the College of Liberal Arts, and Visit Oxford
Representations of Gendered Identities and Ideologies in Austrian L2 Secondary Textbooks
Presented by Eva-Maria Graf, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, this talk will address how gendered identities and ideologies are represented in Austrian L2 secondary school textbooks. The focus will be on methodological challenges faced by researchers looking into linguistic representations of gender and where to draw the line between “gender discourse” and “gendered discourse.”
Sponsors: Department of Modern Languages and the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies