Hobart and William Smith Colleges - betty bayer

Bayer Gives Three Talks

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Over this past year, Betty Bayer, professor of women's studies and recipient of the Colleges' 2009 Community Service Award, delivered three lectures in Canada. Invited to speak on a panel on critical histories and psychology, Bayer spoke on feminist critical history at the recent annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, Ontario. Her paper tackled the assumed development o...

Japanamerica-An Intercultural Animation

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Fisher Center Speaker Discusses Anime's Impact Last week, the HWS campus was animated about watching, discussing and attending lectures about Anime, the recognizable and renowned form of Japanese animation. A four-day Anime Event organized by the Fisher Center came to a soaring close with the lecture, titled "Pop Culture in a Multipolar Japan," given by Roland Kelts. Explaining the genesis of "Japana...

Four Days of Anime

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Fisher Center Hosts Special Animation and Gender Events As a part of its 2008-2009 Fisher Center Series on Animation and Gender, the lecture series will host a special four-day event centered on Japanese Anime and its impact on Western culture and the world as a whole. The event will begin with a screening of the ground-breaking Anime film, "Grave of the Fireflies" (or " Hotaru no haka") at 6:30 p.m. ...

A Writer's Physical Body of Work

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Even the introductions couldn't prepare the Fisher Center Series' crowded Geneva Room audience for the intricate stitching together of prose and argument, fiction and lecture, gender and animation masterfully crafted by Shelley Jackson, writer and professor at the New School in New York City. "Jackson's works are of the needle-art, where words and bodies come into contact in a stitched form in her acc...