Date (Start and End): 
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Women’s Center Fall Reading Selection:
Reasons to Be Happy
by Katrina Kittle

Book Discussions:
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
12:00-1:00 p.m.
&
Tuesday, October 23, 2012*
12:00-1:00 p.m.
*The author will join us for this discussion.

Women’s Center, 148 Millett

Date (Start and End): 
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Friday, October 19, 2012 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Friday, October 26, 2012 - 11:15am to 12:15pm

Have you read or would like to read the WSU 2012 Common Text, Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok?

If so, you are invited to join the WSU Women’s Center’s and English Club’s themed book discussions.

Friday, October 5, 2012
Gender & Gender Roles
10:10-11:05 a.m.

Friday, October 19, 2012
Immigration & Immigrant Life
9:05-10:00 a.m.

Friday, October 26, 2012
Socioeconomic Status
11:15 a.m.-12:10 p.m.

Women’s Center, 148 Millett

Date (Start and End): 
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 11:00am to 2:00pm

Embodied pedagogy creates space in the classroom for students to engage the course material and their peers in emotional, experiential, and practical ways as well as intellectual ones. In this way, embodied pedagogy educates the whole person by affirming and supporting each student’s bodily, emotional, and practical intelligence.

Date (Start and End): 
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Join Women’s History Month Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Jennifer McWeeny for this small group discussion of her 2010 Hypatia article, “Liberating Anger, Embodying Knowledge: A Comparative Study of María Lugones and Zen Master Hakuin.” The article “strengthens the theoretical ground of feminist analyses of anger by explaining how the angers of the oppressed are ways of knowing. Relying on insights created through the juxtaposition of Latina feminism and Zen Buddhism, [Dr.

Date (Start and End): 
Friday, June 15, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, July 6, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, July 13, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, July 20, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, July 27, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Do you knit or crochet or wish you could learn? Do you want to help make a difference in people’s lives on our campus and in the greater community while taking part in a centuries-old tradition of service? The WSU Service Knitting Circle is composed of faculty, staff, and students, and meets every Friday at noon in 162 Millett Hall (CoLA Conference Room). The group works together to make beautiful blankets and afghans for children and teenagers through Greene County Children’s Services and baby layettes and other items for WSU students who are new parents.

Date (Start and End): 
Friday, March 16, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, April 6, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, April 13, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, June 1, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, June 8, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Do you knit or crochet or wish you could learn? Do you want to help make a difference in people’s lives on our campus and in the greater community while taking part in a centuries-old tradition of service? The WSU Service Knitting Circle is composed of faculty, staff, and students, and meets every Friday at noon in 162 Millett Hall (CoLA Conference Room). The group works together to make beautiful blankets and afghans for children and teenagers through Greene County Children’s Services and baby layettes and other items for WSU students who are new parents.

Date (Start and End): 
Thursday, April 5, 2012 (All day)

Held the first Thursday of April at Wright State, this annual event was created by the Ms. Foundation for Women, creator of Take Our Daughters to Work Day in 1993. Celebrated at Wright State University since that same year, Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day invites WSU faculty and staff to bring their sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and other special children in their lives to campus. After an opening session, children ages 8-15 attend concurrent sessions that explore careers in the sciences, business, technology, arts, and other fields.

Date (Start and End): 
Friday, September 28, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, October 19, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, November 2, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, November 16, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, October 26, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, December 7, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, December 14, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, December 21, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Service Knitting Circle

Date (Start and End): 
Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Join us to discuss our summer reading selection, Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok. Kwok’s debut novel tells the story of Kimberly Chang, who emigrates from Hong Kong to Brooklyn with her mother. The pair barely make ends meet, and Kimberly navigates being an exceptional student during the day—earning accolades and opportunities for her academic achievement—and being a Chinatown sweatshop worker at night—earning pennies for each piece of clothing she prepares.

Date (Start and End): 
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Join us to discuss our Spring reading selection, Trash by Dorothy Allison. The collection of short stories was published in 1988 and reprinted in 2002 with a new introduction, “Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories,” and a never-before-published story, “Compassion.” Trash won two Lambda Literary Awards as well as the American Library Association Prize for Lesbian and Gay Writing (www.dorothyallison.net). Trash is a precursor to Allison’s novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, which was a National Book Award finalist.

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