Bronner '14 at Foreign Policy Group

This summer, Kristyna Bronner '14 will have the opportunity to live and work in Washington, D.C., as a communications intern at Women's Foreign Policy Group (WFPG). The nonprofit group is an independent, nonpartisan, educational membership organization that promotes global engagement and the leadership, visibility and participation of women in international affairs. In her position, Bronner will ...  More >>

China, India & Greece for Salisbury Winners

This summer, three students will pursue their ambitious academic passions across the globe with the assistance of the Charles H. Salisbury Summer International Internship Stipend Award. Founded in 2007, the annual award provides financial support to students pursing internships abroad. Annie Mandart '14, a writing and rhetoric and women's studies double major, will use her stipend to travel to Be...  More >>

Bayer on Women’s History

A recent guest editorial in the Finger Lakes Times by Professor of Women's Studies Betty Bayer marked significant moments in women's history and the women's movement, as well as the contrast between media images of women in power and the reality of inequality for women in today's workforce. Quoting Susan Douglas, Bayer writes, "Something's out of whack here." Bayer also points to the Steubenville...  More >>

Love-In with Elephants in Thailand

Recently, 27 HWS students spent three weeks in Thailand exploring the importance of love and compassion in Buddhist and Thai culture. The trip was the first of a new January-term program offered through the Center for Global Education. Proposed and developed by Professor of Women's Studies Betty Bayer, the course, "The Revolutionary Power of a Love-In with Elephants: Environmentalism, Peace and H...  More >>

Richards: the Future of Women’s Health

Ninety-seven years ago, just ten days after opening her Brooklyn-based birth control clinic, Margaret Sanger was arrested for handing out pamphlets to women lined-up around the block. At ten cents apiece, the pamphlets containing basic information about reproductive health were in violation of the law. Nearly a century later, Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America ...  More >>

Cecile Richards Opens Spring Forum

Cecile Richards, a national leader in the field of women's health and reproductive rights, will kick off the spring President's Forum Series on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. As president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Richards oversees an organization with nearly 800 affiliate health centers nationwide. Planned Parenthood provides health care services...  More >>

Pre-doctoral Fellow Explores the Common

This academic year, the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men welcomed Alex Pittman, the 2012-2013 Fisher Center faculty research pre-doctoral fellow. Pittman's research has focused on the research theme of Gender, Collectivity, and the Common. Pittman's project, "Dispossessive Acts: Space, The Body, and Other Properties," moves across a range of aesthetic objects, all of which rotate arou...  More >>

Hayes-Conroy Presents Latest Research

Through her latest research on socio-spatial difference, HWS Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Jessica Hayes-Conroy joined with her sister, Allison Hayes-Conroy, a visiting professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University, to explore how a community-based activist group in Medellin, Colombia, uses bodily movement, such as dance, to encourage nonviolence. This research is addres...  More >>

Tea and Revolution Dec. 6

The Women's Studies Department is staging a revolution on campus - one that can be held over a piping hot cup of tea. On Thursday, Dec. 6, the faculty invites students from across campus to join "Tea and Revolution," at 7 p.m. in the Fisher Center. The roundtable discussion seeks to build community and generate space on campus for dialogue. Celebrating their 40th anniversary, members of the Women...  More >>

Poet Ely Shipley Offers Reading

Poet and Essayist Ely Shipley read from his work at 5:30 p.m on Thursday, Nov. 29, in the Blackwell Room of Demarest Hall. Shipley's reading was one of many events planned in celebration of the 40th anniversary of women ‘s studies and the 10th anniversary of LGBT studies. Shipley was the first from an exciting and talented group of young transgendered poets to publish a book with a national ...  More >>