Women's and Gender Studies Events around Boston
The Simmons College Women's Center
and Women's and Gender Studies, Cinema and Media Studies Minor Presents
--LUNAFEST--
A national festival of films by, for or about women.
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 7:00 p.m.
LUNAFEST Films
C103, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Suggested Donation $6 - $8
In addition to providing national exposure for emerging women filmmakers, LUNAFEST also supports one of the most important causes for women today by donating proceeds from the festival to The Breast Cancer Fund.
Films embody a wide range of topics, and include issues such as women's health, sexuality, spirituality, cultural diversity, body image and the environment.
-Free Lunabars-
Contact: Diane E. Hammer, Director
Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change
617-521-2480, diane.hammer@simmons.edu
Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 5:30 - 7:30PM
"HOW ARE THE DAUGHTERS OF EVE PUNISHED? RAPE AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR"
Crystal Feimster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Comment: Nina Silber, Boston University
Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Room
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138, TO RESERVE A SPACE PLEASE CALL 617-495-8647
Thursday, March 18, 2010 -5:30 - 7:30PM
"GRANDEURS WHICH I HAD HEARD OF: WOMEN TRAVELERS AND PRINT CULTURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ATLANTIC"
Carolyn Eastman, University of Texas at Austin
Comment: Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215, TO RESERVE A SPACE PLEASE CALL 617-495-8647
Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 5:30 - 7:30PM
"MAKING 'FALSE DELICACY' TRUE: THE PASSIONS OF FEMALE MORAL REFORMERS,"
April Haynes, Massachusetts Historical Society and American Antiquarian Society
Comment: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College
Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Room
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138, TO RESERVE A SPACE PLEASE CALL 617-495-8647
