Category: Women’s Studies

Frey-Spurlock and Adkins host information session on SAG, SOS

On Wednesday, Oct. 10, Sociology and Criminal Justice Assistant Professor Dr. Connie Frey-Spurlock and Sustainability Officer Kevin Adkins offered an informational session for SIUE students entitled “Student-Faculty Synergy and Institutional Change: A Story of Sustainability and Feminist Methodology.” The event was co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies department and the Sustainability Advisory Group (SAG).
The presentation offered […]

Oct 14, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Coffee With Cool Women features genome analyst Elise Waldman

Elise Waldman speaks with undergraduates at Coffee With Cool Women
SIUE’s Women’s Studies program, directed by Dr. Catherine Seltzer, kicked off its first in a series of “flash mentoring events” called Coffee With Cool Women on Thursday, September 27th, 2012. The Coffee With Cool Women series, organized and conducted by Seltzer, invites successful women to share […]

Sep 30, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Women’s studies website, blog offers virtual community

Image courtesy of http://barnard.edu/headlines/womens-studies-then-now
The Women’s Studies department at SIUE offers graduate and undergraduate women the opportunity to share their insights, speak their minds, and contemplate the historical and contemporary situations of women in society through both academic and extracurricular endeavors.
Besides Coffee With Cool Women, various panel discussions, and informative lectures, the department is reaching out […]

Sep 30, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Women’s studies hosts IWIL panel

The Hon. Barbara Brown addresses students at the IWIL panel
On Wednesday, September 26, at 6 p.m., SIUE’s Women’s Studies program hosted a panel with members of the Illinois Women’s Institute for Leadership (IWIL) in Peck Hall.
The guest lecturer was the Hon. Barbara Brown, who is the Randolph County Circuit Clerk. The panelists at the event […]

Sep 30, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Lt. Carole Presson at SIUE's Coffee With Cool Women Series

Coffee with Lt. Carole Presson.

March 21, 2012, SIUE students shared a cup of coffee and a conversation with Madison County Sherriff’s Office Lieutenant Carole Presson.
Presson shared the benefit of her nearly twenty years of experience in law enforcement spending over half of her career in investigations. Her specializations include child abuse, child death investigation, sex crimes, and homicide. Presson […]

Mar 26, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Baumgardner and Richards: Manifesting Feminism

Monday, February 27, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards will be visiting SIUE to give their talk “Manifesting Feminism: How to Live Your Values.” This talk is presented by the SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences Women’s Studies program and like all their events is free and open to the public.
The talk will be held in the […]

Feb 19, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Alison Reiheld: To Care is Human

February 16, 2012, Alison Reiheld, assistant professor from SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences Department of Philosophy, presented her lecture titled “To Care is Human: Just Caring For Caregivers Wherever They May Be.”
The presentation, part of the SIUE Women’s Studies Program lecture series, discussed the social difficulties faced by caregivers both domestically and abroad.
“Care giving […]

Feb 19, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Coffee With Cool Women: Joann Condellone

Joann Condellone raised a cup with SIUE students as part of the Women’s Studies Program “Coffee With Cool Women” series. Condellone worked as a certified nurse midwife from the 1960’s up until four years ago when she retired.
Condellone started her career in the Women’s Army Corps as a cryptographer in 1959. She decided to study […]

Feb 13, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Coffee with Véronique LaCapra

Last Wednesday Véronique LaCapra from St. Louis Public Radio sat down to coffee with a group of SIUE students. The meeting was part of the women’s studies program’s “Coffee With Cool Women” series, the goal of which is to allow students to converse with professionals in a casual environment.
Students had the opportunity to talk to […]

Nov 07, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

Women, war, and peace series continues

The Women, War, and Peace series continued this past week at SIUE with another event in Abbot Auditorium in Lovejoy Library. Part of a joint effort by Peace and International Studies and Women’s Studies, the series has been showing parts of a PBS special series called ‘Women, War, and Peace.’
On Tuesday, a small group of […]

Oct 31, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post