Women's History Month Convocation
Monday, March 4, 2013
7 p.m. – Bush Memorial Hall

[Dr. Carrie Baker]Free and open to the Community

Civic Engagement and Social Change:  The Case of Sex Trafficking

Dr. Carrie Baker teaches courses on gender, law and public policy, including topical courses on sex trafficking, sexual harassment, reproductive justice and violence at Smith College in Massachusetts.  Her current research is on sex trafficking. Baker wrote a feature article in the summer 2010 issue of Ms. magazine on domestic minor sex trafficking and writes for Ms. magazine blog. She is also the chair of the Law and Public Policy Interest Group of the National Women's Studies Association.

 

[Half the Sky]Half the Sky Screening and Panel Discussion
Monday, March 25, 2013
6:30 p.m. –Bush Memorial Hall

Free and open to the Community

Moderated by Elaine Houston, Today’s Women/Education Reporter, WNYT-TV News Channel 13. All over the world women are seizing the opportunity to confront oppression and to seek meaningful solutions through healthcare, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls. The linked problems of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality – which needlessly claim one woman every 90 seconds – present to us the single most vital opportunity of our time: the opportunity to make change.

 

Miss Representation Screening and Panel Discussion
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
6:00 p.m. – Bush Memorial Hall

[Miss Representation]Free and open to the public

Part documentary and part call-to-action the "Miss Representation" project explores how the media's misrepresentations of women have led to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence.

The panel will discuss how to build different aspirations for young women – and expectations among their male counterparts – by incorporating change not only in the academic curriculum, but also in the culture of our schools and communities.

PANELISTS: Jennifer Bryan, Psychologist; Lori Caplan, Superintendent, Watervliet City Schools; Penny Perkins, Assistant Professor Of Communications, The Sage Colleges; Susan Scrimshaw, President, The Sage Colleges; and Bob Winchester, Board Member, Niskayuna Board of Education

MODERATED BY: Albany City Court Judge Helena Heath-Roland and Director, Helen M. Upton Center for Women’s Studies, Russell Sage College, Shealeen Meaney

6-6:30 pm Reception | 6:30-8 pm Screening of Miss Representation | 8-9 pm Panel Discussion

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2012 Events

Women’s History Month Convocation
Monday, March 12, 2012
7 p.m. – Bush Memorial Hall

Free and open to the Community

Professor, author, and activist Dr. Virginia Eubanks will be speaking on the topics of feminist participatory action research and community activism which are explored in her book, Digital Dead End.   Dr. Eubanks is the co-founder of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP), a grassroots anti-poverty and welfare rights organization, and teaches in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She edited the cyberfeminist ‘zine Brillo and was active in the community technology center movements in the San Francisco Bay Area and Troy, New York.   

 

Historical Fashion Show
Friday, March 16, 2012
7 p.m. – Bush Memorial Hall

 [Historic Fashion Show Flyer] 

In celebration of Women’s History Month, The Helen M. Upton Center and the Rensselaer County Historical Society are presenting a Historical Fashion Show.  This event brings together clothing and accessories from the RCHS collections and joint research by women's studies students and RCHS staff to explore trends in gender, fashion, and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States. 

For more information, please call (518) 244-2306. 

 

Women's History Month 2012 Events

       Our 2012 calendar:

[2012 WST Calendar] 

Download a full event calendar [pdf]

Throughout the year the women's center sponsors a number of programs and events that are open to The Sage Colleges community and the public:

• Women's History Month Convocation -- March
• Women's History Month Activities -- March
• Occasional Forums -- year round
• Annual Helen M. Upton Women of Achievement Dinner -- May
• Films, Lectures, Workshops and Performances
• Annual Ice Cream Social -- September