Women's Research Network
This on-going program, co-sponsored with the Women's studies Program, provides a forum for women academics to present their own scholarly research and to consider issues related to research by or about women.  All seminars are held at the Women's Center and open to the BGSU community.  No registration necessary

Spring 2012 Special Events

Love Your BODY Through Thick & Thin (PDF Flyer)
A three part series that focuses on YOU and improving your relationship with your body.

EveryBODY Rocks:  Love Your Body at Any Size
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 6 pm

NoBODY’s This Perfect:  Media and Society’s Influence on your Body
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 6 pm

STARVED Movie & Discussion 
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 6 pm
A short documentary that delves into the dysfunctional 
relationship women face with food and their bodies.

Vagina Monologues (PDF Flyer)  
Eve Ensler's play that started a revolution

Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8 pm 
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 8 pm
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 2 pm

Tickets $10/Students $8
Tickets available for purchase in room 206 at Bowen Thompson Student Union 
from 11 am through 3 pm on January 31, 2012, February 2, 2012, and February 9, 2012.  
You may also contact Jessica Zur-Linden at jessidz@falcon.bgsu.edu 
if you wish to still purchase tickets but
unable to purchase tickets at the times listed above.

Presented by Organization for Women's Issues (OWI).  Proceeds donated to the Cocoon Shelter.

Mardi-Gras: Made in China (PDF Flyer)
Date:  Monday, February 20, 2012 at 7 pm
Where:  The Gish Film Theater & Gallery, 104 Hanna Hall

Winner of 21 national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival—where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity—to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China—where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night.  Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly affect the people who both make and consume them.  As part of the GWC's Feminist Film Series, this event is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact brockw@bgsu.edu.

Women's History Month - March 2012 Events
Covering Women: Journalism, Politics, and Activism

Black and Female: A Double Portion, a Brown Bag Series
Presenter:  Rose Russell, feature writer for the Toledo Blade
Date:  February 29, 2012 at noon
Where:  The Women’s Center, 107 Hanna Hall

Rose Russell, Blade Feature Writer, will discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages that she has had as a black female journalist. Russell will share the good and the bad that she has experienced. Come listen to what she has found to be beneficial and not so pleasant after thirty-eight years in journalism.

Women of Ciudad Juárez:  Femicide and Other 21st Century Challenges to 
Human Rights in the Americas
Presenters: Dr. Susana Pena, BGSU Women’s Studies & Dr. John Kaiser Ortiz, BGSU Ethnic Studies
Date:  Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 6 pm
Where:  Wood County District Public Library, 251 North Main Street, Bowling Green, Ohio  
Open AAUW Meeting

Saving Muslim Women or Sustaining a Liberal Order
Presenter: Dr. Tabassum Ruby, Women’s Studies/American Culture Studies
Date:  Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at noon
Where:  The Women’s Center, 107 Hanna Hall

In March 2004, a small group of Muslims made the announcement that, under the Ontario Arbitration Act, S.O. 1991, Canadian Muslims could resolve their family disputes through faith-based arbitration. This announcement quickly received international attention and many women’s rights organizations launched a global campaign to ban this kind of faith-based arbitration. A major focus of the campaign was the idea that Islamic laws do not embody gender equality; hence, Muslims must draw on liberal-secular laws when resolving family disputes to assure women’s rights. In this presentation I examine the manner in which the faith-based arbitration debates constitute Muslim women as “vulnerable,” needing to be protected under “civilized” laws. I argue that the normalization and the universalization of liberal-secular normative values feed into the racialization of Islam and Muslim communities, and the idea of gender equality becomes a mechanism through which colonial and imperial rules are installed. I also discuss contestations and tensions that are embedded in the debates about Ontario shari‘ah tribunals in consolidating a liberal order that the feminist critics themselves support through rendering Muslim women as “victims” of patriarchal religion and culture.

Gender, Power, and Journalism:  New Research on Women in 
News Rooms Around the World
Presenter: Dr. Carolyn Byerly, Howard University
Date:  Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Where:  Bowen Thompson Student Union Theatre, Room 206

Being Out on the Campaign Trail
Presenter: Representative Nickie Antonio, State Representative for the Ohio House District 13
Date:  Friday, March 16, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Where:  Bowen Thompson Student Union Theatre, Room 206

New Forms of Student Activism, a Brown Bag Series
Panel Facilitator:  Tobias Spears, Multicultural Affairs
Date:  March 21, 2012 at noon
Where:  The Women’s Center, 107 Hanna Hall

The audience will be introduced to several self-identifying student activists who are organizing around traditional and non-traditional modes of feminist activism. From leading student clubs that empower LGBT people of color, to using the blogosphere to promote women’s equality, come participate in a conversation with BGSU student leaders. The panel members will explore their motivations to create change while also engaging in dialogue about what they see as shifts in activist mediums.  

…And His Lovely Wife
Presenter: Connie Shultz, Pulitzer Prize Winner & Journalist
Date:  Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Where:  The Women’s Center, 107 Hanna Hall

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz as she reads from and discusses her recent book, …and His Lovely Wife.  An eye-opening account of life on the campaign trail, Schultz skillfully sets the joy and poignancy of finding love at midlife against the story of her new husband’s run for U.S. Senate…which is exactly how it happened.  How she survived the relentless pace, repeated attempts to reduce her to “political appendage” and just plain craziness with her humor--and feminism—intact is remarkable, inspiring and really funny.

Fat Shame
Presenter:  Dr. Amy Farrell, Dickinson College
Date:  Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Where:  Bowen Thompson Student Union Theatre, Room 206
!Women Art Revolution, part of the GWC Feminist Film Series
Date:  Monday, March 26, 2012 at 7 pm
Where:  Gish Film Theatre

14th Annual Bring Your Favorite Professor/Mentor to Lunch, a Brown Bag Series
Date:  Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at noon
Where:  The Women’s Center, 107 Hanna Hall

Reservations required.  Invite your favorite professor or mentor to lunch--our treat!  Your identity will remain a secret until the event.  We will let you know if your professor/mentor will be able to come as soon as we hear from him or her.

Women’s Studies Research Symposium
Date:  Friday, March 30, 2012 starting at 9 am
Where:  Bowen Thompson Student Union, Rooms 308, 314, 315, & 316  

Student Research Presentations

Taking it to the Streets:  Transforming Scholarship in an Age of Necessity
Symposium Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Maria Cotera, University of Michigan
Date:  March 21, 2012 at noon
Where:  Bowen Thompson Student Union, Room 308

3rd Annual Benefit Concert
To Benefit Graduate Women’s Caucus & the Cocoon Shelter
Date:  March 30, 2012 at 9 pm
Where:  Grumpy Dave’s Pub, 104 South Main St, Bowling Green, Ohio

Open Mic Poetry Night

Details Coming Soon!