·          WID Event Schedule from 2002-2003

Oct 4                                                                     Welcome Reception

4:30-6 p.m.,
120 Mershon Center
1501 Neil Ave

Oct 16                                                               Kate Cloud (GAP, UIUC):

4:30 pm                                    “Globalization and the employment of poor rural women:

Lessons learned from the Gender and Agribusiness Project”
 [Africa, Eastern Europe, Thailand]
120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave.

Nov 1                                                           Trafficking in Women Symposium  
2-6 pm.                                 Co-sponsored with Slavic and East European Languages & Literature

“Documentary showing and speakers from
Czech Republic, Netherlands, Stop-Traffic-USA”

[organized by Yana Hashamova]
Faculty Club Main Lounge

Nov 12                                                            Somali Women’s Panel
4:30 pm                                       “Somali Immigrant Women in Columbus, Ohio”

Panelists will be Somali women in Columbus

[organized by Merry Merryfield]
120 Mershon, 1501 Neil Ave.

Jan 24                                           Bina Sharif (actor) & Fawzia Afzal-Khan (commentator),
7 pm.                                                         [co-sponsored with Dept. of Theatre]

“Performance on Afghan Women”
Drake Union Theatre

Jan 30                                                       Leti Volpp (Law, American University)
4:30 pm.                                            “Women, culture and difference: Beyond the
                                                        discourse of feminism versus multiculturalism”

  120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave.

Feb 12                                  Maliha Zulfacar (Afghanistan, Cal State San Luis Obispo)  
 noon                                  [organized by Afghan Women's Leadership Project,
                                           co-sponsored by Office of International Affairs and
                                         Coca Cola Foundation/Critical Difference for Women Grants Program]
                                                          "The pendulum of gender politics in Afghanistan"
                                                                               A brown-bag lecture

March 13                                               Martha Craven Nussbaum (Univ. of Chicago)  
5:30 pm                                                           University Research Lecture:
                                                    "Gender, Capabilities and Fundamental Entitlements”

  A reception will be held at 4 pm in the Ohio Union Main Lounge

April 22                                              "Ventre Livre"
7-8:30 pm               a film about reproductive rights and sterilization in Brazil
                                       
  film followed by comments and discussion
                               Co-sponsored by VOX undergraduate student organization
                                  Commentators: Lucia Costigan, Spanish and Portuguese;
                                            Linda Bernhard, Nursing and Women's Studies
                                                        Place: Dreese Lab 113

May 12                                      Anne Brodsky & Tahmeena Faryal, RAWA
5 pm.                        "Appropriating Women's Issues in a Time of War: RAWA, Afghan                                                                                                      Women, and the Continued Need for Resistance"  

[Organized by Afghan Women's Leadership Project]
120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave.

May 15                                             Sonia Alvarez (UC Santa Cruz)  
4:30 pm.             “Looking for Feminism 'In Movement': Views from Latin America”

120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave.

May 29                                 Dora Barrancos (Head, Women’s Studies Program,
 3:30 pm                     Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Former legislator for the
                                            Govt. of  Buenos Aires, Historian and Sociologist)
                                             "Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Argentina:
                                                      An Examination of the XXth Century"

                                 [Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Latin American Studies,
                                        Women’s Studies and OSU-WID, organized by Donna Guy]