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Women's Center Fall 2013 Schedule

Also, don't forget about our weekly events, such as our wellness program, and our support/discussion groups (including women's empowerment for female staff and faculty at UW Oshkosh, a domestic violence/intimate partner violence support group for female UW Oshkosh students, and a biweekly discussion group with female veterans on the Oshkosh campus and in the community).

Date/Time/Place

Event

 

September 17th

7:00pm

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African American Studies Fall Lecture: Byron Hurt

 Hurt will be the guest speaker for AAS’s Fall. Mr. Hurt’s talk, “Revisiting Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” will focus on his documentary regarding gender representation found in the lyrics of today’s popular music.

Cosponsors: CARE, BSU, the Women’s Center, and the English Department

September 18th 

4:00pm

Reeve 305

$tart $mart Salary Negotiation

Register online at http://goo.gl/1gXs8

Cosponsors: AAUW, Wage Project, UW Credit Union, Diversity and Inclusion Programs, Career Services, Office of Student Affairs

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September 25th

6:00pm

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Fair Housing Workshop

“Red Flags of Housing Discrimination”: How it impacts women and members of the LGBTQ community – and what you can do if you face housing discrimination.

Cosponsored LGBTQ Resource Center

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October 1st

7:00pm

Sports Complex

Field Trip! 

Join the Women’s Center staff as we support UW Oshkosh’s Women’s Soccer team!

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October 9th

5:30pm

Reeve Union

Fox Valley Take Back the Night

CARE (Campus for Awareness and Relationship Education), UWO Women's Center, University Police, Harbor House Domestic Abuse Programs, Christine Ann Domestic Abuse Services, Reach Counseling Services, Counseling Center/Campus Violence Prevention Program

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October 15th

6:00pm

Reeve 307

Film Series:Mirrors of Privilege

 Cosponsored with Diversity and Inclusion

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October 17th

6:30pm

Reeve Ballroom A

FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture

A creative activist effort from Baltimore formed to upset the culture of rape and promote a culture of consent.

Brought to you by the Women’s Advocacy Council (cosponsored by Women’s Center and CARE)

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October 22nd

3:00pm

Reeve 215

$tart $mart Salary Negotiation

Register online at http://goo.gl/1gXs8

Cosponsors: AAUW, Wage Project, UW Credit Union, Diversity and Inclusion Programs, Career Services, Office of Student Affairs

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October 26th

1:00pm-3:00pm

Women’s Center

Rosie the Reader!

Celebrate Halloween dressed as your favorite women’s rights activist because it’s children’s story hour at the Women’s Center!

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October 29th

12:00-1:00pm

Women’s Center

Women's and Gender Studies

Brown Bag Lunch: Communication and Negotiation of Gender Standards of Injustice

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October 30th

6:00pm

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Film Series: Bronies

Let’s talk about My Little Ponies, masculinity, and bullying

Cosponsored with LTBTQ Resource Center and Diversity and Inclusion Programs

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November 5th

6:00pm-8:00pm

Reeve 307

Film Series:Girl Rising

Cosponsored with Diversity and Inclusion

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 November 6th


5:00pm-7:00pm


Women's Center

Owning Your Skills: Gendered Language in Professional Communication

Join the Women's Center and Career Services for a workshop about gendered language in the business world.  Are women effectively communicating their successes and accomplishments in their resumes and during interviews? Bring your resume to this workshop and find out!

Cosponsored with Career Services

November 14th

1:20pm-2:50pm

Reeve 307

Global Google Hangout 

Join the Women’s Center for a conversation with: Olah Saleh, a former UN volunteer for refugees with a focus on maintaining gender equality (from Syria); Afrah Nasser, a Yemeni blogger on women’s rights, democracy and politics of Yemen whose blog has been featured as one of CNN.com’s 10 must-read blogs from the Middle East; Somayyeh Mottaghi, originally from Iran, who will speak about her research on Iranian women’s approach to the CEDAW. We will also be joined in person by Alia Arafeh, a UW Oshkosh student from Jordon, who has studied honor killings, as well as the Arab Spring.

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 November 19th

12:00pm-1:00pm

Women's Center

Women's and Gender Studies

Brown Bag Lunch: Feminist Pedagogy

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November 20th

5:00pm

Reeve 305

$tart$mart Salary Negotiation

Register online at http://goo.gl/1gXs8

Cosponsors: AAUW, Wage Project, UW Credit Union, Diversity and Inclusion Programs, Career Services, Office of Student Affairs

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November 21st

6:30pm

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Panel on Popular Culture: The Hunger Games

Cosponsor: LGBTQ Resource Center

Panelists: Justine Stokes (Radio, TV and Film), M. Geneva Murray (Women's Center and Women's and Gender Studies), Diane Crotty (English Department), and Liz Cannon (LGBTQ Resource Center).


 To print a schedule please follow the link.
Women's Center Fall 2013 Tentative Schedule
 
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