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Reserve February 26 for IWL Events
Tuesday, February 26
A Director's Dialogue with Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh
Iranian Journalist and Women's Rights Activist and IWL Scholar Rescue Fund Fellow
With Savi Bisnath, Associate Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership
4:00 Reception
4:30 Program
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building Conference Room
RSVP to gareilly@rci.rutgers.edu
FOLLOWED BY
Premier Screening of
"MAKERS: Women Who Make America"
Documentary film featuring the story of the women's movement through the firsthand accounts of the leaders, opponents, and trailblazers who created a new America in the last half-century.
Charlotte Bunch is featured in the film and will join us for the one-hour preview.
7:00 p.m.
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building Conference Room
RSVP to Gail Reilly at gareilly@rci.rutgers.edu
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Coming
Tuesday, March 5
"For Her Own Good Revisited"
A Conversation with
Barbara Ehrenreich
Political Activist & Author, Nickel and Dimed
Tuesday, March 5
7:00 p.m.
Kirkpatrick Chapel
81 Somerset Street,
New Brunswick, NJ
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Monday, March 4
Film Screening of
"GRANITO How to Nail a Dictator"
Reception with Filmmaker Pamela Yates
Rutgers Student Center-Multi-purpose Room, College Ave
For more information, contact Karimat@rci.rutgers.edu
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Your Support
Makes a Difference!
You can make a real difference for girls and young women! Please consider a gift to the Institute to Women's Leadership this holiday season. Your investment in IWL programs will directly benefit students and support excellent learning opportunities. Thank you.
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IWL Consortium Launches New Initiative on Women and Health
The Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL) Consortium is launching a new Initiative on Women and Health. This unprecedented endeavor recognizes that women's health around the world is shaped as much by social, cultural, economic, political and environmental forces as by biology. By bringing together various disciplines including the humanities and social sciences, along with the biological sciences and medical fields, IWL hopes to develop a research, teaching and service agenda which tackles topics in women and health from a holistic and interdisciplinary perspective
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New RFP for Rutgers Faculty Supports Women and Health Collaborations
As part of the new Initiative on Women & Health, the IWL Consortium issued a Request for Proposals to provide modest financial support for teams of Rutgers faculty. Grants will be made to develop new, interdisciplinary courses, as well as new collaborative research activities, public programs, cultural events, innovative workshops and special conferences. Proposals are due to IWL April 1, 2013, and will be considered based on clarity of focus on interdisciplinary approaches to women and health. This RFP and vital aspects of the Women & Health Initiative are made possible by support from the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Click here for the RFP full description and application forms. |
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Public Events Mark the Launch of IWL Initiative on Women & Health:
Featuring Barbara Ehrenreich March 5
On Tuesday, March 5, at 7:00 p.m., Barbara Ehrenreich, best-selling author and activist, will join Executive Vice President Richard L. Edwards in a public forum about women's health. The event, "For Her Own Good Revisited: A Conversation with Barbara Ehrenreich," will be held at the Kirkpatrick Chapel, 81 Somerset Street, New Brunswick. Ehrenreich, who studied cell biology and earned a PhD in physics, was one of the pioneers of the women's health movement in the 1970's. Her book, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women, was published in 1978 and revised in 2005. For event information and other details about IWL Consortium Initiative on Women & Health, click here.
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Featuring Dr. Francis Barchi February 28 at Camden
 On Thursday, February 28, Dr. Francis Barchi, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, and IWL Senior Fellow for Women and Health, will speak at Rutgers-Camden about "Women's Health and Well-Being: A Global Perspective." Dr. Barchi's research focuses on the social and behavioral factors that influence women's health in southern Africa. In 2009, she completed the first major quantitative study on women's autonomy and gender-based violence in northern Botswana, the findings from which identified strong associations between alcohol, violence, and poor health outcomes. This February 28 event is sponsored by the Camden Women Studies Program and an RUFair Grant from the Office of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics. The lecture is at 4:00 p.m. at the Camden Campus Center Multi Purpose Room. |
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Gender and Health Faculty Research Workshops Highlight Rutgers Expertise
The IWL Consortium Initiative on Women & Health features the Rutgers Gender and Health Faculty Research Workshops Series to involve Rutgers faculty who share their current research relevant to women's health access, disparities, history and current status. Organized by Dr. Johanna Schoen, associate professor of history and affiliate of the Rutgers Institute for Health, the Faculty Research Workshops provide an important opportunity for faculty and students to learn about the many ways scholars are examining women's health from interdisciplinary perspectives.
The next Gender and Health Faculty Workshop will be held on Wednesday, February 27. The topics include: "My bifurcated life: academic history and public history" presented by Janet Golden, Professor of History, Rutgers Camden, and "The Medical Portrait in 19th century Anglo-American Photography" presented by Susan Sidlauskas, Professor of Art History, Rutgers-New Brunswick. Click here for information about the Women & Health Faculty Workshops. |
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Study Abroad Opportunity in South Africa!
As part of the IWL Consortium Initiative on Women & Health, the IWL, in partnership with Rutgers Study Abroad, is offering a two-week intensive two-credit-hour course at the University of Cape Town. Developed by the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women at Barnard College, the course is being offered for the first time to a specially selected pilot group of 6-8 Rutgers undergraduates under the co-sponsorship of the Institute for Women's Leadership. The program will explore questions of gender, health, and sexuality in a contemporary South African context. For more information, click here. |
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Join the dialogue. Let us know what you think and we will share your comments in the next e-newsletter. Send your comments to iwl@rci.rutgers.edu
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