Discussions of Gender and Culture at Center of Women’s History Month Events

The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, along with other departments, will present several campus events that will explore the compelling intersections of gender and culture to commemorate March as Women’s History Month.

The diversity of topics will span centuries and delve into how fashion, literature and exile have impacted women in the past and the present.

Sabreen Kadhim

To Be a Woman, Journalist and Poet in Baghdad Today: A Conversation with Sabreen Kadhim, featuring Sabreen Kadhim, will be held on Thursday, March 10 at 6 p.m. in the Berger Gallery, College Hall. Now exiled, Kadhim has worked as a television reporter at Al-Hurra TV and has experienced the effects of the rise of militias in Iraq. A winner of the 3rd UNESCO poetry contest, Kadhim’s poems have been widely published in Iraqi newspapers and magazines. She is currently living at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, the Department of Political Science and the Raymond J. Kelley Endowed Chair in International Relations.

Jan Beatty

Author Jan Beatty will present Women’s Bodies: The Road and The Map on Tuesday, March 15, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Genesius Theater. Beatty is known for her four full-length books of poetry, including The Switching/Yard, which was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2013. She has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon and Carlow University, where she currently directs the creative writing program, runs the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops and teaches in the school’s Master of Fine Arts program.

Dr. Amelia Rauser

Venuses in Prison and Colony: Abjection and Neoclassical Fashion in the 1790s, featuring Dr. Amelia Rauser, is slated for Tuesday, March 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Africa Room of the Union. A professor of art history at Franklin and Marshall College, Rauser will discuss her study of the radical style of “undress” in the 1790s and its connection to the aesthetic, political and scientific thought of the historical moment.

For more information, contact the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at wsgs@duq.edu.