• 4 Drop/Add ends
• 7 Labor Day - classes in session
• 14 Graduate Scholars Colloquium with Tina M. Campt, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Family Touches: Photography, Archive and The Sight and Sense of Race. Dinner is provided for students and faculty. East Duke Parlors, 6 - 8 pm. RSVP required to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu.
• 16 Profiles in Sexuality Research with Laurence R. Helfer, Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for International & Comparative Law. Professor Helfer will speak about his work on international LGBT rights. Profiles in Sexuality Research is an on-going series to present the many ways that Duke faculty study LGBT issues and sexuality. Sponsored by the Program in the Study of Sexuality Studies and the Center for LGBT Life. Lunch is provided, RSVP is not required but is recommended to christopher.purcell.duke.edu. LGBT Center (02 West Union Bldg.), 12 - 1:30 pm.
• 17 Nicholas Kristof Lecture. Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times since 2001, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who writes op-ed columns that appear twice a week. Free and open to the public, followed by book signing. Sponsored by the Baldwin Scholars Program, co-sponsored by Women's Studies. For more information contact Colleen Scott (colleen.scott@duke.edu). Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, 7:00 pm.
• 17 Cultures of the Muslim World Lecture: Gender and the Interpretation of Islamic Texts: Bint al-Shati's Hermeneutics, Mervat Hatem (Political Science, Howard University) on "Biographies of Women from the Prophet's Family" & Ellen McLarney (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University) on "Freedom, Equality, and the Gender Politics of Qur'an Interpretation." Respondent: Laura Bier (History, Georgia Institute of Technology). Cosponsored by Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, International Comparative Studies, Political Science, Women's Studies, and The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences, 4:30 PM, East Duke Parlors
• 18 Women's Studies Faculty Dinner
• 21 Anne Anlin Cheng lecture: Race, Visuality, Suspension. Anne Cheng is Professor of English and of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. Part of the Gender, Race and Visual Culture lecture series. 4:30 pm, 108 East Duke.
• 27 The New Eco-Feminism Film Series: The Politics of Food - Food, Inc. Food, Inc. reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here. Panelists will include Ranjana Khanna (Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies), Charlie Thompson (Education and Curriculum Director, Center for Documentary Studies), Kathy Rudy (Associate Professor of Women's Studies). Followed by discussion in the East Duke Parlors. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program. Richard White Auditorium, 7 pm. Listen to the Podcast!
• 30 Wednesdays@The Center, Food: Sustainability and Resistance with Kathy Rudy (Women's Studies) and Charlie Thompson (Center for Documentary Studies). Presented with the Center for Documentary Studies, the Women's Studies Program and Sustainable Duke. Room 240, the Franklin Center, 12:00 PM.

October 2009

• 1 Lynnee Breedlove and Silas Howard in Mighty Real, an evening of dueling solo shows with special guests Humble Tripe and Miss Mary Wanna, sponsored by the program in the study of sexualities and Women's Studies. Lynnee is an improv comic. Silas makes 50-Cent videos. Always disarming, alarming, and keeping you on your rocker boot toes, both use multimedia performance to trace the queer history that made them the men they are today. Suggested donation $7-15. Bull City Headquarters, 723 N. Mangum Street, Durham. Doors open at 8 pm.
• 2 Fall Break begins
• 7 Classes Resume
• 9 Last day for reporting mid-semester grades
• 9 Coming Out Day @ Duke, The Bryan Center, 11 am - 2 pm
• 15 Jin-Kyung Lee lecture, Military Labor and Military Prostitution Across South Korea, Vietnam and the United States, 1960s-1970s. Lee is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California in San Diego. Sponsored by Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Breedlove (204 Perkins Library), 3:00 PM.
• 25 The New Eco-Feminism Film Series: The Politics of Food - Flow: For Love of Water. Flow concentrates on the big business of privatization of water infrastructure which prioritizes profits over the availability of clean water for people and the environment. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program. Richard White Auditorium, 7 pm.
• 26 Graduate Scholars Colloquium with Elaine Yee (English), A Chinese-American Girl Learns How to Be/Come Asian American: Lessons from her Token Black Friends. Dinner is provided for students and faculty. East Duke Parlors, 6 - 8 pm. RSVP required to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu.
• 27 Profiles in Sexuality Research with Sean Metzger, Assistant Professor of English and Theater Studies. Profiles in Sexuality Research is an on-going series to present the many ways that Duke faculty study LGBT issues and sexuality. Sponsored by the Program in the Study of Sexuality Studies and the Center for LGBT Life. Lunch is provided, RSVP is not required but is recommended to christopher.purcell@duke.edu. LGBT Center (02, West Union Bldg), 12 - 1:30 pm.
• 30-31 What Does It Mean To Be An Educated Woman? The 4th Biennial Symposium of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture: conversations on activism, scholarship, and pedagogy in women's education and a salute to the career of Dr. Jean O'Barr.

November 2009

• 2 Kimberly Lamm lecture, The Telegraphic Recoding of Race and Gender in the Work of Lorna Simpson. Lamm is a Post Doctoral Associate in the Women's Studies Program for 2009-10, she is an Assistant Professor of English at Pratt
  Institute, where she also teaches in the Program in Critical and Visual Studies. Lamm researches late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and visual culture, critical race studies, and feminist theory. 4:30 pm, East Duke Parlors.
• 3 Barbara Johnson Roundtable and Memorial Discussion, a commemoration of Barbara Johnson's work and legacies. Participants are invited to bring a brief passage from Barbara Johnson's work and to note its animation for them of a critical issue. Roundtable participants: David Bell, Professor of French and Associate Dean of the Graduate School; Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and Professor of English; Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor of English and Literature; Deborah Jenson, Professor of French. Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and Romance Studies. Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, 4-6:30 PM.
• 4 Registration begins for Spring 2010
• 11 Duke Reads with Professor Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies discussing The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga with WUNC's Frank Stasio, 7:00 pm. Listen to it on Duke University Life USTREAM page via Facebook.
• 13 Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision presentation; highlighting the nonviolent efforts of Palestinians, Israelis, and citizens of other nations to end the occupation of Palestinian territories moderated by Professor Shai Ginsberg. Part of Partners for Peace which provides a public platform for the voices of Israeli and Palestinian women working for a peaceful and just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Duke University Middle Eastern Studies Center and Women's Studies. 139 Social Sciences, 4 - 5:30 pm.
• 15 The New Eco-Feminism Film Series: The Politics of Food - Our Daily Bread. Our Daily Bread depicts how modern food production companies employ technology to maximize efficiency, consumer safety and profit. It consists mainly of actual working situations without voice-over narration or interviews as the director tries to let viewers form their own opinion on the subject. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program. Richard White Auditorium, 7 pm.
• 16 Ann Cvetkovich lecture, Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice. Cvetkovich is Professor of Asian American Studies, English, Intercultural Studies in Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Part of the Gender, Race and Visual Culture lecture series. Cosponsored by the Program in the Study of Sexualities. 4:30 pm, 108 East Duke.
• 18 Registration ends for Spring 2010
• 19 Beverly Guy-Sheftall lecture in honor of Pauli Murray, a Durham champion of civil and human rights. Sheftall is the founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spellman College and an adjunct professor at Emory University's Institute for Women's Studies where she teaches graduate courses. Sponsored by the Pauli Murray Project (Duke Human Rights Center), Jeff and Lea Levin and cosponsored by Women's Studies and the Franklin Humanities Institute. Time and place TBA.
• 19 Drop/Add begins
• 20-21 Cultures of Recession graduate conference with keynote speaker, Stanley Aronowitz (Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education, CUNY). Franklin Humanities Center room 240. For more information contact gerry.canavan@duke.edu.
• 23 Jacqueline Goldsby lecture - CANCELLED
• 24 Graduate classes end
• 24 Thanksgiving recess begins
• 30 Classes resume
• 30 Graduate Scholars Colloquium with Ignacio Adriasola (Art History), A Philosophy of Impotence. Dinner is provided for students and faculty. East Duke Parlors, 6 - 8 pm. RSVP required to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu.

December 2009

• 4 Undergraduate classes end
• 13 Final Examinations end

January 2010

• 10-12 Undergraduate Winter Forum
• 13 Spring semester begins: the Monday class meeting schedule is in effect this day. Regular class meeting schedule begins on Thursday, January 14; classes meeting in a Wednesday/Friday meeting pattern begin January 15. Drop/Add continues.
• 18 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday; classes are rescheduled on Wednesday, January 13
• 20 In Print: A Celebration of Recent Publications by Duke Professors. Reception and books available for purchase by the Gothic Bookshop. East Duke Parlors, 5:30 pm.
• 25 Graduate Scholars Colloquium. Dinner is provided for students and faculty. East Duke Parlors, 6 - 8 pm. RSVP required to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu.
• 27 Drop/Add ends at 5 pm
• 31 The New Eco-Feminism Film Series: The Oceans - The Cove. The Cove is a 2009 documentary of the annual killing of about 2,300 dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama in Japan. The migrating dolphins are herded into a hidden cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats. The film highlights that this is about three times the amount of whales killed in the Antarctic, and 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program. Richard White Auditorium, 7 pm.

February 2010

• 1 Lindsey Green-Simms lecture. Green-Simms is a Post Doctoral Associate in the Women's Studies Program for 2009-10. Her areas of research include: African cinema, globalization, postcolonial theory, gender and sexuality. 4:30 pm, East Duke Parlors.
• 21 The New Eco-Feminism Film Series: The Oceans - The End of the Line. Based on the book by Charles Clover, The End of the Line explores the devastating effect that overfishing is having on fish stocks and the health of our oceans. Scientists predict that if we continue fishing at the current rate, the planet will run out of seafood by 2048 with catastrophic consequences. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program. Richard White Auditorium, 7 pm.
• 22 Registration begins for Summer 2010
• 22 Graduate Scholars Colloquium. Dinner is provided for students and faculty. East Duke Parlors, 6 - 8 pm. RSVP required to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu.
• 26 Last day for reporting midsemester grades
• 26/27 Alumnae Weekend - Duke in Depth: Money, Sex and Power. The 2010 Duke in Depth weekend is on the topic "Money, Sex and Power." Named for the popular course in the Women's Studies Program, the weekend is designed to give returning alumnae the opportunity to explore questions and assumptions about women and how those relate to "Power" in the world. For more information contact Beth Ray Schroeder (beth@daa.duke.edu), 8:30 am - 4:00 pm.

March 2010 - Women’s History Month

• 5 Spring recess begins at 7:00 pm (Sophomores required to declare Major)
• 15 Classes resume at 8:30 am
• 19/20 Feminist Theory Workshop, Sanford Institute for Public Policy, registration begins at 1 pm. Please contact Lillian Spiller (llps@duke.edu) for more information.
• 28 The New Eco-Feminism Film Series: The Oceans - Sharkwater. Filmmaker Rob Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas. Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program. Richard White Auditorium, 7 pm.
• 29 Graduate Scholars Colloquium. Dinner is provided for students and faculty. East Duke Parlors, 6 - 8 pm. RSVP required to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu.

April 2010

• 7 Registration begins for Fall Semester 2010; Summer 2010 registration continues
• 16 Registration ends for Fall Semester 2010; Summer 2010 registration continues
• 17 Drop/Add begins
• 21 Graduate classes end
• 28 Undergraduate classes end

May 2010

• 8 Final Exams end
• 14 Women's Studies Commencement Celebration - By Invitation Only - this event is NOT open to the public, Nelson Music Room, 7 pm
• 16 Duke University Commencement

June 2010