WORLD Co-Curricular Activities

Current Semester:

Spring 2009 WLD 120 Assemblies

(All are scheduled from 11:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. in Bush Memorial Hall)

  • February 2 - A Lecture with Dr. Leibo
  • February 11 - Film - The Killing Fields
  • February 18 - Film - Arab and Jew
  • March 25- A Lecture with Dr. Manijeh Sabi
  • April 6 - A Lecture with Dr. Sybillyn Jennings
  • April 15 - A Lecture with Dr. Andor Skotnes

Spring 2009 WLD 420 Co-Curriculars

Wednesday, February 15 @ 12:30-1:30 p.m. Upton Center

Women's Studies Occasional Forum featuring Ellen Murphy: "Second Life: Gender in the Virtual World"
RSVP to Bonnie Kerr kerrb@sage.edu

Tuesday, February 24 @ 6-8:45 p.m. (to be confirmed)

In Her Shoes with Rev. Bonnie Orth
Interactive program on Domestic Violence

Monday, March 2 @ 7p.m. Little Theater

"In Our Right Mind" by Dale Allen
Sponsored by The Office of Cultural Enrichment and Diversity and the Helen M. Upton Center for Women's Studies

Thursday, March 5th @ 1-2 p.m. Wool House

"Young Women and Feminism" Liz Funk
Sponsored by The Helen M. Upton Center for Women's Studies and Wool House

Thursday, March 5 @ 2:30-3:30 p.m. Upton Center

"The New Media is Your Media: Blogging and Writing Professionally" Liz Funk
Sponsored by the Helen M. Upton Center for Women's Studies

Thursday, March 5th @ 7 p.m. Bush Memorial

Women's History Month Convocation Lecture "The Female Ideal in Gen Y and Beyond: A Lecture on the Supergirls by Liz Funk
Sponsored by the Helen M. Upton Center for Women's Studies

Tuesday, March 17 @ 7 p.m. Bush Memorial

The End of Blackness- A Lecturewith Debra Dickerson
Sponsored by the Department of Management, The Allies Center for the Study of Social Responsibility and the WORLD Program

Wednesday, March 18 @ 12:30-1:30 p.m. Upton Center

"Linked to Lincoln: Emma Willard, Ada Hurd and the Crusade for Education and Human Rights" by Jim Moore
Sponsored by The Helen M. Upton Center for Women's Studies and The Sage Colleges Libraries

Wednesday, March 25 @ 12:30-1:30 p.m. Upton Center

Eve's Quest - women's history game

Wednesday, March 25 @ 7p.m. Bush Memorial

Hoffman Lecture in Sociology and Social Policy
"No Man's Land: A photojournalist's examination ofthe effect of immigration on the women left behind in Mexico" FeaturingDana Romanoff

Sponsored by The Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the Helen M. Upton Center for Women's Studies

Friday, April 3 @ 1:30-3:30 p.m. Robison Gym

Social Responsibility Fair

Learn and Experience! There will be vendors selling fair trade items, fair trade products, educational displays and interactive ways for you to learn about the issues of social responsibility including diversity, environmental, social, political, labor, and community. Free Ben & Jerrys ice cream to all who attend.

Past Semesters:


Fall 2008 Semester

Co-curricular activities to be announced shortly -- check back soon!


Spring 2008 Semester

Co-curricular activities from this past spring -- currently under construction.


Fall 2007 Semester

  • WLD 420 Food Faire

    • Sept. 18, 2007 from 6 to 9 pm
    • MPR, Troy Campus

Spring 2007 Semester

  • Black History Poetry Reading

    • Feb. 15 at 7 pm
    • Opalka Gallery, Albany Campus
  • David Mamet's Boston Marriage

    • Feb. 23 at 6:45 pre-show presentation, show begins at 8 pm.
    • Rensselaer County Historical Society, Second Street
  • The Sage Colleges 2007 Gospel Celebration

    • Saturday, Feb. 24 at 6:30 p.m.
    • Bush Memorial Hall
  • A Day Apart: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath

    • Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.
    • Bush Memorial Hall
  • Giving Voice to the Powerless: Rebecca Clarren Reports from the Field

    • Women's History Month Convocation and Hoffman Lecture in Sociology and Social Policy
    • March 1 at 7 p.m.
    • Bush Memorial Hall
  • Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (theatrical workshop on beauty and body image)

    • March 8 at 8 p.m.
    • Meader Little Theater
  • Carol Ann Donahue Poetry Reading Featuring Marilyn Nelson

    • March 22 at 7:30 p.m.
    • Bush Memorial Hall
  • Where Ethnicity and Disease Intersect

    • Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Lecture
    • March 28 at 7:30 p.m.
    • Bush Memorial Hall
  • Geneva Sayre Lecture Featuring Elizabeth Gold, Ph.D.

    • March 29 at 8 p.m.
    • Bush Memorial Hall
  • Fifth Annual Social Responsibility Fair

    • April 5 from 3:30 - 5:00
    • Multi-Purpose Room
  • Women's Studies Community Activism Panel: Local Women Changing the World

    • April 12 at 7 p.m.
    • Bush Memorial Hall
  • Sandra Gilbert

    • 2007 Sarah Chapman Lecture in the Humanities
    • April 17 at 7:30 p.m.
    • Bush Memorial Hall