Seeds of Change: Gender, Scholarship, and Social Justice wraps up this week with talks by two of the most respected scholars in their fields: Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University; and Dr. Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago Law School.
Professor Mona Domosh has been elected Vice President of the Association of American Geographers.
For her mentorship, scholarship, and teaching, Professor Ivy Schweitzer has been awarded the Modern Language Association's Division for American Literature Before 1800 Lifetime Achievement Award, the first person to receive the award since 2009.
April 8: Zainab Salbi (Women for Women International) and Leslie Lewin (Seeds of Peace), moderated by Peggy Epstein Tanner '79.
April 25: Dr. Cornel West, Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary
May 15: Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University
May 17: Dr. Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago Law School
Body Politics is made possible thanks to The Katy Lebowitz 1976 Academic Enrichment Fund.
April 30: Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund
May 2: A Conversation on Legal Activism, Families, and Reproductive Rights featuring Sarah Weddington, Anita Allen, and Janet Benshoof
May 3: Legal Symposium featuring Anita Allen, Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Janet Benshoof, President and Founder, Global Justice Center; and a student panel on contraception at Dartmouth
May 8: Dean Spade, Associate Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law
Dartmouth's Day of Reflection, April 24, 2013.
Three Dartmouth Women's Paths Toward a Work-Life Balance.
Check out Science in Greenland: It's a Girl Thing, a video created by Dartmouth women graduate students in the IGERT Polar Environmental Change PhD Program at the Institute of Arctic Studies, featuring field work in Greenland in Summer 2012.
Professor Michael Bronski's recently published book A Queer History of the United States was honored with the 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award by the American Library Association.
