Winter 2009 Events

Where the Water Meets the Sky. Tuesday, March 3, 2009, from 7:00 - 9:00pm. Free and open to all. This film documentary by Camfed is being shown as part of International Women's Week 2009 at Stanford. The documentary tells the inspiring story of a group of women in rural Zambia who learn how to make a film as a way to speak out about their lives and to challenge local traditions which have kept them silent about the plight of young women orphaned by AIDS. A panel discussion will follow with Brooke Hutchinson, Director of Camfed USA; Caitlin Stanton, Senior Development Officer at the Global Fund for Women; Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Outcomes Research) at Stanford; and Anne Firth Murray, Consulting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford and author of From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice. Location: Main Quad, Building 260, Room 113.
Paola Govoni, "The Making of Italo Calvino: Eva Mameli-Calvino, and Her Laboratory Garden". Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 12:00 - 1:00pm. Lane History Corner, Room 307. Open to Stanford faculty and graduate students who are affiliated with the Clayman Institute. A light lunch will be provided for those who RSVP to Ann Enthoven at ann.enthoven at stanford.edu. Professor Paola Govoni of the International Centre for the History of Universities and Science (CIS), Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna, works on the intertwining between science, education, and development in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, viewed in a comparative perspective. Her paper will concentrate on the figure of Eva Mameli-Calvino in the context of the relationships between women and science in Italy from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the Fascism regime until the Cold War. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and Italian Studies.
Elizabeth M. Williams, "Perception and Reality". Artist's Reception on Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00pm. Free and open to all. As part of the Art at the Institute Program, this exhibit will be available for viewing from January 16 until April 15 2009.
More about this exhibit.
Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober, Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All (Bantam 2009). Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12:00 - 1:30 pm. Free and open to all. Sharon Meers was a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. until April 2005. She serves on the advisory council of the Clayman Institute. Sharon and her husband, Steve, founded the Partnership for Parity at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School and the Dual-Career Initiative at Harvard. Together with co-author Joanna Strober, currently Managing Director of a fund investing in private equity partnerships at Sterling Stamos Capital Management and daughter-in-law of the Institute's founding director Professor Emerita Myra Strober, this new book provides tools and presents an action plan for couples on how to implement a 50/50 solution for tackling the conflicting priorities of child care, job demands, and home life responsibilities. This event is co-sponsored by the Women's Community Center and the Women's Faculty forum. Location: Women's Community Center, First Floor, Old Fire Truck House, 433 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA. Books will be available for sale at the event. www.gettingto5050.com
Marilyn and Irvin Yalom will be featured in the Aurora Forum Creative Couples Series on Thursday, January 29, 2009, 7:30 - 9:00pm. Free and open to all. Mark Gonnerman, director of the Aurora Forum, will moderate the conversation with the Yaloms'. Marilyn Yalom is a Senior Scholar at the Clayman Institute, and an internationally acclaimed feminist scholar and cultural historian. Irvin Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford. In a marriage of over fifty years, with each making significant strides in their respective fields through contributions in teaching and research leading to the publication of academic papers and popular books, the conversation will explore this successful partnering and aspects of the Yaloms' time together as a dual-career academic couple. Location: Kresge Auditorium, 555 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA.
Artists' Salon with Amy Freed, Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 4:30pm - 6:00pm. Light refreshments will be provided. Free and open to all. Amy Freed is an Artist-in-Residence in the Stanford Drama department where she teaches acting and playwriting. Her plays include The Psychic Life of Savages, Freedomland, The Beard of Avon, Safe in Hell, and Restoration Comedy. She has been the recipient of several major theater awards, including the Charles MacArthur Award, New York Arts Club's Kesselring Award, and the LA Critic's Circle award. She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Freedomland. Often in her work, Freed has taken old or classical material to use as a springboard for work which is modern, comic and satiric in bent. Where she references history, it is both minutely researched and freely anachronistic, and relates directly to modern and post-modern anxieties and issues. Freed will present some examples of her writing, and discuss what she believes are the challenges of adaptation, incorporation, and transformation of the past for today's theater audiences. Location: Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford.
Amina Mama, "Militarism and Feminism in Africa". Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 4:30-6:00pm, Levinthal Hall, Humanities Center. Free and open to all. Amina Mama is currently at Mills College for three years as the first Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership. Prior to this appointment she spent almost a decade as the first Chair in Gender Studies at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently developing new work on the gender politics of militarism, conflict and peace-building and transnational feminism. This Center for African Studies Distinguished Lecture is co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the African and African American Studies Program, Research, and the Stanford Humanities Center.
Olivia Cohen-Cutler, "Women and Ethnicity in the Media: Jewish Women on Network Television". Thursday, January 15, 2009, 4:00pm. Building 460, Terrace Room (4th Floor). Ê Free and open to all. Olivia Cohen-Cutler is Senior VP for Broadcast Standards and Practices for ABC News Network and Chair of the MorningStar Commision, which promotes a positive and diverse portrayal of Jewish women in TV stories. Ms. Cohen-Cutler is in charge of network standards and practices, and oversees the network's policy on offensive material. Co-sponsored by The Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Hillel at Stanford, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), Feminist Studies, and Marian and Abraham Sofaer. For more information, contact Sharon Haitovsky (haitovsky @ stanford.edu).
Sheila Rowbotham, "Socialism & the New Life: Edward Carpenter: Liberty & Love". Monday, January 12, 2009, 12:00 - 1:15pm. Lane History Corner, Room 307. Free and open to all. Pioneer feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham will base her talk on her new biography of the British women's emancipation and homosexual rights activist, Edward Carpenter. Dr. Rowbotham is a Professor of Sociology at Manchester University who's socialist feminist scholarship has included Marxist-feminist analysis of contemporary social conditions including the lives of lower-middle and working class women, and grassroots activist movements in Britain. Co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the History Department, Feminist Studies, LBGT, and the Stanford Humanities Center. A light lunch will be provided for those who RSVP to Shari Galliano.

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Home People News Events Calendar Fellowships Programs and Research Grants and Prizes Publications and Podcasts Art at the Institute Links Support our Work	Winter 2009 Events Where the Water Meets the Sky. Tuesday, March 3, 2009, from 7:00 - 9:00pm. Free and open to all. This film documentary by Camfed is being shown as part of International Women's Week 2009 at Stanford. The documentary tells the inspiring story of a group of women in rural Zambia who learn how to make a film as a way to speak out about their lives and to challenge local traditions which have kept them silent about the plight of young women orphaned by AIDS. A panel discussion will follow with Brooke Hutchinson, Director of Camfed USA; Caitlin Stanton, Senior Development Officer at the Global Fund for Women; Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Outcomes Research) at Stanford; and Anne Firth Murray, Consulting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford and author of From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice. Location: Main Quad, Building 260, Room 113. Paola Govoni, "The Making of Italo Calvino: Eva Mameli-Calvino, and Her Laboratory Garden". Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 12:00 - 1:00pm. Lane History Corner, Room 307. Open to Stanford faculty and graduate students who are affiliated with the Clayman Institute. A light lunch will be provided for those who RSVP to Ann Enthoven at ann.enthoven at stanford.edu. Professor Paola Govoni of the International Centre for the History of Universities and Science (CIS), Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna, works on the intertwining between science, education, and development in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, viewed in a comparative perspective. Her paper will concentrate on the figure of Eva Mameli-Calvino in the context of the relationships between women and science in Italy from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the Fascism regime until the Cold War. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and Italian Studies. Elizabeth M. Williams, "Perception and Reality". Artist's Reception on Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00pm. Free and open to all. As part of the Art at the Institute Program, this exhibit will be available for viewing from January 16 until April 15 2009. More about this exhibit. Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober, Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All (Bantam 2009). Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12:00 - 1:30 pm. Free and open to all. Sharon Meers was a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. until April 2005. She serves on the advisory council of the Clayman Institute. Sharon and her husband, Steve, founded the Partnership for Parity at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School and the Dual-Career Initiative at Harvard. Together with co-author Joanna Strober, currently Managing Director of a fund investing in private equity partnerships at Sterling Stamos Capital Management and daughter-in-law of the Institute's founding director Professor Emerita Myra Strober, this new book provides tools and presents an action plan for couples on how to implement a 50/50 solution for tackling the conflicting priorities of child care, job demands, and home life responsibilities. This event is co-sponsored by the Women's Community Center and the Women's Faculty forum. Location: Women's Community Center, First Floor, Old Fire Truck House, 433 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA. Books will be available for sale at the event. www.gettingto5050.com Marilyn and Irvin Yalom will be featured in the Aurora Forum Creative Couples Series on Thursday, January 29, 2009, 7:30 - 9:00pm. Free and open to all. Mark Gonnerman, director of the Aurora Forum, will moderate the conversation with the Yaloms'. Marilyn Yalom is a Senior Scholar at the Clayman Institute, and an internationally acclaimed feminist scholar and cultural historian. Irvin Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford. In a marriage of over fifty years, with each making significant strides in their respective fields through contributions in teaching and research leading to the publication of academic papers and popular books, the conversation will explore this successful partnering and aspects of the Yaloms' time together as a dual-career academic couple. Location: Kresge Auditorium, 555 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA. Artists' Salon with Amy Freed, Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 4:30pm - 6:00pm. Light refreshments will be provided. Free and open to all. Amy Freed is an Artist-in-Residence in the Stanford Drama department where she teaches acting and playwriting. Her plays include The Psychic Life of Savages, Freedomland, The Beard of Avon, Safe in Hell, and Restoration Comedy. She has been the recipient of several major theater awards, including the Charles MacArthur Award, New York Arts Club's Kesselring Award, and the LA Critic's Circle award. She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Freedomland. Often in her work, Freed has taken old or classical material to use as a springboard for work which is modern, comic and satiric in bent. Where she references history, it is both minutely researched and freely anachronistic, and relates directly to modern and post-modern anxieties and issues. Freed will present some examples of her writing, and discuss what she believes are the challenges of adaptation, incorporation, and transformation of the past for today's theater audiences. Location: Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford. Amina Mama, "Militarism and Feminism in Africa". Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 4:30-6:00pm, Levinthal Hall, Humanities Center. Free and open to all. Amina Mama is currently at Mills College for three years as the first Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership. Prior to this appointment she spent almost a decade as the first Chair in Gender Studies at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently developing new work on the gender politics of militarism, conflict and peace-building and transnational feminism. This Center for African Studies Distinguished Lecture is co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the African and African American Studies Program, Research, and the Stanford Humanities Center. Olivia Cohen-Cutler, "Women and Ethnicity in the Media: Jewish Women on Network Television". Thursday, January 15, 2009, 4:00pm. Building 460, Terrace Room (4th Floor). Ê Free and open to all. Olivia Cohen-Cutler is Senior VP for Broadcast Standards and Practices for ABC News Network and Chair of the MorningStar Commision, which promotes a positive and diverse portrayal of Jewish women in TV stories. Ms. Cohen-Cutler is in charge of network standards and practices, and oversees the network's policy on offensive material. Co-sponsored by The Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Hillel at Stanford, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), Feminist Studies, and Marian and Abraham Sofaer. For more information, contact Sharon Haitovsky (haitovsky @ stanford.edu). Sheila Rowbotham, "Socialism & the New Life: Edward Carpenter: Liberty & Love". Monday, January 12, 2009, 12:00 - 1:15pm. Lane History Corner, Room 307. Free and open to all. Pioneer feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham will base her talk on her new biography of the British women's emancipation and homosexual rights activist, Edward Carpenter. Dr. Rowbotham is a Professor of Sociology at Manchester University who's socialist feminist scholarship has included Marxist-feminist analysis of contemporary social conditions including the lives of lower-middle and working class women, and grassroots activist movements in Britain. Co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the History Department, Feminist Studies, LBGT, and the Stanford Humanities Center. A light lunch will be provided for those who RSVP to Shari Galliano.
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