Valerie Tutson
Join us as Valerie Tutson presents a storytelling performance of “A Celebration of Black Culture, Story, and Song” on February 20, 2012 in Ten Hoor 125 from 7:00-9:00pm.
Join us as Valerie Tutson presents a storytelling performance of “A Celebration of Black Culture, Story, and Song” on February 20, 2012 in Ten Hoor 125 from 7:00-9:00pm.
SPRING 2012 GRS ANNUAL RESEARCH PAPER COMPETITION ELIZABETH MEESE MEMORIAL AWARD IN FEMINIST RESEARCH STEPHEN KARATHEODORIS MEMORIAL AWARD and RHODA E. JOHNSON AWARD Print competition flyer The Gender and Race Studies Department solicits entries for the thirtieth annual Women’s Studies research paper competitions and the second annual African American Studies paper competition. The department will offer three awards. The Elizabeth Meese Memorial Award in Feminist Research and the Stephen Karatheodoris Memorial Award will be awarded to undergraduate or graduate student […]
October 20, 2011 from 8:00am – 6:00pm in the Heritage Room at the Ferguson Center 3rd Annual Recovering Black Women’s Voices and Lives Symposium: Transnational Feminisms and Women in the African Diaspora
Join us on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at noon for the second Brown Bag Lecture Series of the Fall semester featuring Dr. Merinda Simmons, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, as she presents “The Faux Pas of Feminist Phenomenology: Or, How I Learned to Think About the Personal and the Political in a Whole New Way.” “The personal is political” has become a phrase used by feminists and identity theorists as a rallying cry for bringing personal narratives […]
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The Bama Grad Expo will bring up to 50 top prospective graduate students from across the country to the University of Alabama campus on January 12-14, 2012. This annual event, hosted by the UA College of Arts and Sciences and the UA Graduate School, gives prospective graduate students the chance to tour the campus, learn about degrees offered, and visit with current graduate students and faculty in their department of interest. Admission to the Bama Grad Expo is competitive and […]
October 21-23, 2011 Please see the press release for the 2nd Annual Mississippi International Film Festival, at which civil rights, history, and race relations will be a top focus during the evening of Fri, Oct. 21st: 1. Actor and civil rights activist Danny Glover will be at the Festival. Mr. Glover will speak about—among other things—his new movie Freedom Song (playing at the Festival). 2. Two of the Mississippi Freedom Riders will be here to speak about racial equality. […]
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Meet the Author B.J. Hollars Friday, October 7, 2011 4:00-6:00pm Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Gift Store
Cheryl Fish presents… Towards a Poetics of Race, Space & Place: The Harlem Skyrise Project Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 7:00pm in Gorgas Library room 205
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Some of Gender and Race Studies graduate students and staff participated in the Big Pink Volleyball Tournament sponsored by University Recreation and the Women’s Resource Center to help raise funds for the DCH Breast Cancer Fund.
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