• 4 Drop/Add ends
• 7 Labor Day - classes in session
• 14 Graduate Scholars Colloquium. Dinner is provided for students and faculty. East Duke Parlors, 6 - 8 pm. RSVP required to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu.
• 17 Nicholas Kristof Lecture. Kristof, a 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.
• 18 Women's Studies Faculty Dinner
• 21 Anne A. Cheng lecture: Race, Visuality, and their Suspension. Anne Cheng is Professor and Associate Chair of the English Department at Princeton University. 4:30 pm, place TBA.
• 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. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program. Richard White Auditorium, 7 pm.

October 2009

• 2 Fall Break begins
• 7 Classes Resume
• 9 Last day for reporting mid-semester grades
• 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. Dinner is provided for students and faculty. East Duke Parlors, 6 - 8 pm. RSVP required to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu.
• 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. 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.
• 4 Registration begins for Spring 2010
• 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. 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. 4:30 pm, place TBA.
• 18 Registration ends for Spring 2010
• 19 Drop/Add begins
• 24 Graduate classes end
• 24 Thanksgiving recess begins
• 30 Classes resume
• 30 Graduate Scholars Colloquium. 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
• 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

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.
• 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

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.
• 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
• 16-18 Duke Alumnae Reunions Weekend, Money, Sex and Power.
• 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