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Bestselling author to speak for Women’s History Month
Bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan will give a keynote address for Women's History Month. Bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan will give a keynote address, “Gender and Imagination: An...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day celebration planned
March 8 is the 100th annual International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women of the past, present and future. Wright State University will...
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Symposium keynote speaker to discuss sexual violence
The keynote lecture of the 2012 Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium will address the racial implications of the SlutWalks movement. In cities across America, victims of sexual crimes and their...
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Women’s Center and Women’s Studies sponsor scholar-in-residence
On Thursday afternoon, March 8, Jennifer McWeeny, Ph.D., will lead a reading group focused on her article “Liberating Anger, Embodying Knowledge: A Comparative Study of María Lugones and Zen Master...
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Celebrating 20 years of leadership, resource sharing, events and advocacy
Due to the recommendations of the Task Force on the Status of Women in the Academy and the work of many administrators and allies, the Women’s Center opens in 1993. Mary Beth Pringle, Ph.D., chair of...
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Workshop to examine economics, democracy and violence in India
The Wright State departments of economics, English, religion, women’s studies and the Women’s Center are sponsoring a workshop that will examine Indian economic policy and the new controversial face of...
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TED TALKS
Rewriting the formula for college success. Enhancing learning through brain stimulation. Bringing numbers to life. Examining racial identity. Learning leadership secrets. These are the topics of talks...
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More than 900 people experience TEDxDayton
Diverse speakers and performances that touched on everything from translational leadership to the color of music were featured in the inaugural TEDxDayton, an event designed to spread ideas and...
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Brilliance lost
Stefan Pugh On Stefan Pugh’s office door is a plaque that reads “Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research,” a declaration not only of this professor’s remarkable accomplishments in the field...
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Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality Symposium celebrates identity and social...
Jakobi Williams, Ph.D., associate professor at Indiana University, talked to participants after delivering the keynote lecture at the Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality Symposium. Nearly 50 years have...
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Women’s History Month residency to feature CNN VP of diversity and inclusion
As part of her Women’s History Month residency, Geraldine Moriba will deliver the second Anita Hill Annual Lecture on Gender Justice on March 13. Geraldine Moriba, the vice president of diversity and...
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Wright State women give new meaning to confidence
Wright State’s Kappa Delta sorority collaborated with the Women’s Center to promote greater self-confidence in women and girls through the “Confidence U” film project. The statistics are sobering. It...
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Women’s Studies Quilt Show raises money for scholarships
Brenda Hanes of Stewart Heritage Farm, Alpaca Yarns, presented “Alpaca from Farm to Fashion” at the Women’s Studies Quilt Show. Handmade quilts depicting sawtooth cats, a pile of pineapples and other...
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Forums, film screenings, civil rights trip to commemorate Voting Rights Act...
IIyasah Al-Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, will speak at Wright State on Feb. 18 during “Daughters Rising from the Dust: Children of the Civil Rights Movement Speak Out,” part of “The Phoenix...
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Women’s History Month residency to feature trans activist and biologist
Julia Serano, a transgender activist, biologist and spoken-word performer, will visit Wright State March 24-26 as the Women’s History Month Scholar-in-Residence. Julia Serano, Ph.D., a transgender...
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Women’s Center sponsors student artist and activist
Student Charmaine Renee, an art major, is using art to express her concern about sexual violence and to help victims tell their stories. Renee is participating in action to raise the voices of those...
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Apocalypse now
Zombies & Gender in Pop Culture, a course taught by Wright State lecturer Andrea Harris, examines the social impact of zombie shows. As images of a zombie apocalypse in “The Walking Dead” unspool...
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College of Liberal Arts recognizes community partners at internship celebration
Alexandria Gray, an English major focusing on professional writing, was one of the students who participated in the College of Liberal Arts Internship Breakfast Celebration. From the English language...
View ArticleWright State U professor feeds students’ brains with academic analysis of...
Excerpt Many young people have an undying interest in zombies, so a southwest Ohio college professor focuses a class on them. Andrea Harris of Wright State University teaches “Zombies & Gender in...
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Acclaimed poet visits Wright State for reading and workshop
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie has been published in the Crab Orchard Review, BOMB, Paris/Atlantic, Go, Tell Michelle (SUNY), Listen Up! (One World Ballantine) and Revenge and Forgiveness (Henry Holt)....
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