Events
Poster for "Women Empowering Women"
Women Empowering Women
with Yasmin Dwedar Esq., Supervising Attorney, Crime Victim Treatment Center’s Legal Services Program
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
5-6 p.m.
Register via Zoom
Yasmin Dwedar Esq., a Muslim-American featured in Moustafa Bayoumi’s classic book, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin 2008) and in Vice Media's "Next-Gen Women Lawyers Explain How They’re Creating Change in a Complex System" (June 2021). Ms. Dwedar currently serves as the Supervising Attorney of the Crime Victim Treatment Center’s Legal Services Program. She also serves on the board of the Sonia and Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program (SCSJIP) and the New York Women's Bar Association's board of directors and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
Support
Supported by the Rapid Response Honorarium Program and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities.
Sponsors
Women’s and Gender Studies in cooperation with the Department of Africana Studies, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Black Faculty and Staff Association, Office of Diversity and Equity Programs, Muslim Women’s Leadership Development Project, and The Women’s Center.
Flyer for the 2021 Women's Leadership Mentor Symposium
Women's Leadership Mentor Symposium
A Virtual Symposium
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
12:30–2:15 p.m.
via Zoom (pre-registration required)
The Women's and Gender Studies Program with The Women's Center at Brooklyn College cordially invite you to our eight annual Women's Leadership Mentor Symposium. This This virtual symposium will feature alumnae and professionals from a variety of fields. Students will have the opportunity to speak with those in their area of interest.
Keynote Speaker - Joyce Moy, Executive Director, Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI), CUNY
Joyce Moy is currently the Executive Director of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI), of the City University of New York (CUNY). The mission of the institute is to support, facilitate, disseminate and conduct research on issues of importance concerning Asian Americans and global Asian communities.
She was the first Asian American regional director of a U.S. Small Business Administration Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in New York State. Joyce was a former practicing attorney, and has taught at Queens College, the Cornell University School of Law, and the CUNY School of Law.
She is an advisor to the Queens Borough President’s General Assembly comprised of diverse leaders from throughout Queens, and a member of the University Advisory Council on Diversity for the City University of New York. She has served on the NYS Governor’s Taskforce on Small Business, as co-chair of a past NYC Comptroller’s Taskforce on Public Benefit Agreements, the board of Asian Women in Business, and as Vice-Chair of the board of the North East Regional US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce.
She is the 2021 recipient of the University Advisory Council Diversity Award for Leadership in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and has received the Madam CJ Walker Award, Queens Star Mentor Award, NY Women’s Chamber of Commerce Woman of Excellence Award among many others.
She received her B.A. from Stony Brook University, and J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law.
Sponsors
Co-Sponsors
- Asian American Studies Working Group, American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Children and Youth Studies, Communication, Linguistics, Studies in Religion, Urban Sustainability
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Namulundah Florence, NFlorence@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Irva Adams, IAdams@brooklyn.cuny.edu
718.951.5476
Green Wave: Feminisms in the Global South - a series of talks and discussions
In Cooperation
Departments of Modern Languages and Literatures, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Sociology, Television, Radio & Emerging Media, the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, and the Women's and Gender Studies program
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Bernardita Llanos, WGST Endowed Chair, 2021‐2023
BLlanos@brooklyn.cuny.edu
718.951.5476
LASTESIS: Pop Feminism from the Global South
with Milena Grass, Catholic University of Chile, Translator and Theater Scholar
Thursday, October 28
5-6:30 p.m.
Now That They See US: Feminist Collective, Performance and Film
Now That They See US: Feminist Collective, Performance and Film
with Documentarian Martha Gregory, NY Fashion Institute of Technology, Filmmaker and Editor
Monday, December 6
2:15-3:30 p.m.
Martha Gregory is a filmmaker and editor based in Brooklyn, NY. She’s currently an adjunct professor at Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC while continuing to work in both fiction and non-fiction filmmaking as an editor, producer and director. From Feb. 2017 thru Dec. 2019, Martha was a Visiting Professor of Film at Kenyon College in Ohio.
Martha’s short doc Three Red Sweaters won Best Documentary at Aspen Shortsfest in 2017 and the Jacob Burns Creative Culture Award. It screened at festivals worldwide and is a vimeo Staff Pick. Martha and long time friend and collaborator Drew Lewis co-wrote a feature-length screenplay called Roadkill that was a semifinalist in the 2020 Slamdance Screenplay Competition.
Eye/Contact: Feminism and Queer/cuir Cultures in Chile’s Social Revolt
Eye/Contact: Feminism and Queer/cuir Cultures in Chile’s Social Revolt
with Dr. Carl Fischer, Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University
Thursday, September 30, 2021
5-6:30 p.m.
via Zoom
Dr. Carl Fischer is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham University. He is the author of Queering the Chilean Way: Cultures of Exceptionalism and Sexual Dissidence, 1965-2015 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016) and co-editor (with Vania Barraza) of Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World (Wayne State UP, 2020). His writing has been published in American Quarterly, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Hispanic Review, and Comunicación y medios, among other academic journals. Before getting his Ph.D. he worked as a translator for the Chilean government for several years.
Bernardita Llanos M.
Endowed Chair Reception
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
3-4 p.m.
via Zoom
Join us in welcoming our new Endowed Chair 2021-2023, Bernardita Llanos M., who brings a diverse and international professional experience and education as well as exposure to multiple cultures, academic institutions, and countries.
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NFlorence@brooklyn.cuny.edu
IAdams@brooklyn.cuny.edu
718.951.5476
Flyer for Conversations with Barbara Smith
Conversations With Barbara Smith
with Barbara Smith, author, activist, and independent scholar
Friday, April 9, 2021
Noon–1:30 p.m.
Part of the Activism > Knowledge > Policy series of the WGST Internal Endowed Chair
Barbara Smith is an author, activist, and independent scholar who has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. She was among the first to define African American women's literacy tradition and to build Black women's studies and Black feminism in the United States.
She was a co-founder of the Combahee River Collective and of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U.S. publisher for women of color to reach a wide national audience. She served two terms on the Albany Common Council (2006–13). In 2005, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Flyer for Black Trans Voices
Black Trans Voices
Thursday, March 25, 2021
12:30–2 p.m.
Part of the Activism > Knowledge > Policy series of the WGST Internal Endowed Chair
- Kylar Broadus
- Sanina L. Clark
- Azure D. Osborne-Lee
- Tamara M. Williams
- Tat Bellamy
Flyer for Conversations with Dee Farmer
Conversations with Dee Farmer
with Dee farmer, transgender prisoners' rights activist and litigator
moderated by Shannon Miller
Friday, March 5, 2021
Noon–1:30 p.m.
Part of the Activism > Knowledge > Policy series of the WGST Internal Endowed Chair
Dee Farmer is a legal expert and consultant for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. A legend in the transgender rights movement, she was the first transgender plaintiff to bring a case before the United States Supreme Court. In 1994, her landmark case, the unanimous Farmer v. Brennan decision, established that prisoners have a right to be protected from harm and that prisons are responsible for their safety. The case stems from the sexual assault she suffered at an Indians federal prison where she had been placed among male inmates, a transfer levied upon her as punishment while in a minimum-security facility. In 1986, she was given an exceptionally harsh sentence of 20 years in federal prison and 30 years in state prison for nonviolent crimes. Cited by thousands of courts, Farmer v. Brennan was also foundational to the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003.
Shannon Miller is the legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Flyer for What 2020 Has Taught Us About Our Present and Our Path to Liberation
What 2020 Has Taught Us About Our Present and Our Path to Liberation
with Imani Rupert-Gordon
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Imani Rupert-Gordon is the executive director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR). NCLR is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education.
Previously, Imani served as the executive director for Affinity Community Services. Affinity is a social justice organization that works with the entire LGBT community with a focus on Black women. She also served as the director of the Broadway Youth Center, part of Howard Brown Health in Chicago, providing wrap-around services for LGBTQ youth experiencing housing instability.
Rupert-Gordon received a master's degree from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Sponsored by the Brooklyn College Endowed Chair of Women and Gender Studies and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities.
Poster for the 2020 Women's Leadership Mentor Symposium
Women's Leadership Mentor Symposium
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
12:30–2:15 p.m.
The Women's and Gender Studies Program with the Women's Center at Brooklyn College welcome you to our seventh annual Women's Leadership Mentor Symposium. The symposium features alumnae and professionals from a variety of fields. Students will have the opportunity to speak with alumnae and professionals in their area of interest.
Keynote Address
- Hon. Trustee Una S. T. Clarke, serving member of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York
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Irva Adams
E: iadams@brooklyn.cuny.edu
P: 718.951.5476
P: 917.727.6729
Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Women's Center.
