Thursday, September 7, 3:30pm (co-sponsored with Sociology and Women Studies)
Sociology Commons (Social Sciences 1061)
Betsy Erbaugh, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology
"Queer (De)Constructions of Collective Identity: Negotiating Fluid Movement Boundaries”

Monday, September 11, 4 p.m. (co-sponsored with International Studies Institute)
Woodward Hall 147
Susan Tiano, Sociology, “Globalization and Gender"

Wednesday, September 13, 12 noon
SUB Cherry-Silver Room
Carmen Nocentelli, Assistant Professor, English and Foreign Languages and Literatures
"Of Polygamy and Penis Bells: Eros and Ethnos in Early Modern Europe."

Wednesday Sept. 20-Friday, Sept. 22 (co-sponsored event)
Modernism—Fascism—Postmodernism
Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of New Mexico

Thursday, Oct. 5, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
FRI Reception at the Faculty Club

Friday, October 20, 3:30 p.m. (co-sponsored with Philosophy)
Humanities 519
Kathryn Wichelns, Comparative Literature, Emory University
"Staging Sexual Difference: Marguerite Duras's Adaptation of Henry James's 'The Beast in the Jungle.'"

Monday, October 23, 12 noon
SUB Cherry-Silver Room
Miguel López, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
“The Other Indigenist Novel: Women, Ethnography and the State in Mexico, 1930-1960”

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 12 noon
SUB Scholars Room
A Presentation by recipients of the 2006 FRI Graduate Student Paper Prize:
Andrea López, Anthropology, "Beyond the Maquilas: Gender Discourse and Gendered Violence in Ciudad Juárez."
Justin Parks, English, "'Our Eyes Look Out': The View from the Window and the Noise from the Street in Two Poems by Mina Loy."

Wednesday, November 1, 12 noon
(SUB Location TBA)
Liz Russell, Visiting Scholar from University of Tarragona, Spain 
“From Here to Nowhere: Women Writing Utopian and Dystopian Fiction”

Monday, November 6, 5 p.m.
Applications Due for Spring 2007 Small Events Grants

Wednesday, November 8, 2 p.m. (co-sponsored with FLL)
Ortega 335
"Literary Interventions in the Debate on Homosexuality in Africa"
Frieda Ekotto, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan

Wednesday, November 8, 3:30 pm.
Dissertation Writing Workshop
Kimberle Lopez, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
"Overcoming Obstacles to Dissertation Writing"

Thursday, November 9, 7 p.m. (co-sponsored with English)
Dane Smith Hall 125
Irish Lecture Series on Samuel Beckett
Lois Gordon, Professor of English, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Monday, November 13, 2 p.m. (co-sponsored with American Studies and Native American Studies)
Ortega 335
"Recovering Indigenous Women's Histories: The Case Of Hawai'i"
Noenoe Silva, Associate Professor of Political Science & Hawaiian Language
University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Wednesday, November 15, 12 noon
SUB Cherry-Silver Room
Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, Assistant Professor, History
"Homes for a World of Strangers: Gender, Labor, Hospitality, and the Birth of a New Urban Household."