GWS Student Spotlight: Victoria Rose Vicente

Name: Victoria Rose Vicente

Year in school: Senior

Majors and minors: Nursing, GWS (minor)

Hometown: Upper Darby, PA

Favorite place you’ve ever traveled to: Ghana, Africa

Favorite GWS class: Race, Class, and Gender with Professor Carol Anthony. This class was a wonderful combination of such important issues. It provided me with a didactic understanding of the intersectionality of these topics.

Why do you study GWS/why is it important to you? : GWS plays such a huge role in my practice as a nurse. Understanding that patients are people that experience life through a multitude of different lenses makes me a more compassionate nurse. GWS has opened up my mind and heart to the possibility that differences make us great. We are all unique, but share the common bond of humanity.​

Second Annual Villanova Poetry Slam

The 27th Annual Gender and Women’s Studies Student Research Conference: April 7!

The 27^th Annual Gender and Women’s Studies Student Research Conference is coming up soon! The conference will be held on Thursday, April 7 in the Connelly Center. The general schedule for the conference is as follows:

1:00 PM – Welcome

1:10 PM – Session One: Panels – Connelly Meeting Rooms

2:20 PM – Session Two: Performance Showcase - Connelly Cinema

3:20 PM – Session Three: Panels - Connelly Meeting Rooms

4:30 PM – Keynote Address: Lauren Berlant – Connelly Cinema

The panels and keynote address are free and open to the public. Lauren Berlant’s keynote address is titled “On Being in Life without Wanting the World:  Rankine, Isherwood, and Dissociative Life.” This talk is located in a shattered, formally inconsistent, yet intelligible zone defined by "being in life without wanting the world." Reading with Claudia Rankine (Don’t Let Me Be Lonely), the novel and film of A Single Man (Christopher Isherwood, 1964; Tom Ford, 2009), and Harryette  Mullen (Sleeping with the Dictionary), it describes an aesthetics and a subjectivity shaped on one side by suicide and on the other by a life drive that is also, paradoxically, negative, in that it turns toward life by turning away from the world of injury, negation, and contingency that    endures as a defining presence for biopolitically-defined subjects. It suggests attending to and developing a dissociative poetics. 

Next GWS Event: Elise Gould

GWS Film Screening: A Single Man

Check out the Fall 2016 GWS Courses!

COURSE NUMBER	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
AAH 3005-001	Gender, Sexuality and Visual Culture	Timothy McCall	TR 2:30-3:45
CLA 3040-001	Women in the Classical World	tba	MW 1:30-2:45
COM 3351-001	Gender and Film	Susan Mackey-Kallis	TR 2:30-3:45
COM 3402-001	Family Communication	Derek Arnold	MWF 10:30-11:20
ENG 2300-001	Women in Literature	Ellen Bonds	TR 1:00-2:15
ENG 3690-001	Virginia Woolf	Megan Quigley	TR 4:00-5:15
ENG 5000-002	American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Hurston	Jean Lutes	TR 10:00-11:15
GWS 2050-001	Gender and the World	Elizabeth Kolsky	TR 1:00-2:15
HIS 1150-001	Topics in the Atlantic World	Catherine Kerrison	MWF 12:30-1:20
HIS 3360-001	Women in the Pre-Modern West	Rebecca Winer	TR 11:30-12:45
HON 4900-001	Social Inequality	Rick Eckstein	TR 10:00-11:15
PHI 2420-001	Philosophy of Women	Chris Ma	MW 3:00-4:15
PHI 4900-001	Feminist Theories	Chaone Mallory	MW 3:00-4:15
PJ 2800-001	Race, Class, and Gender	Brighid Dwyer	W 6:10-8:50
PJ 5000-001	Homeless Chic?: U.S. Poverty and Privilege	Jennifer Joyce	TR 10:00-11:15
SOC 2300-001	Sociology of the Family	Melissa Hodges	TR 11:30-12:45
SOC 3500-001	Sociology of Gender	Melissa Hodges	TR 1:00-2:15
THE-3006-001	Shakespeare on Stage	Chelsea Phillips	MW 1:30-2:45
THL 5000-001	Religion, Media and Gender	Stefanie Knauss	TR 4:00-5:15
THL 5000-101	Religion, Media and Gender	Stefanie Knauss	R 6:10-8:50

International Women's Day!

Every year on March 8, we celebrate International Women's Day. The theme for this year is "Pledge for Parity." Parity means being in a state of equality, in status and pay. IWD reports that "the World Economic Forum predicted in 2014 that it would take until 2095 to achieve global gender parity. Then one year later in 2015, they estimated that a slowdown in the already glacial pace of progress meant the gender gap wouldn't close entirely until 2133."

To help support the "Pledge for Parity, visit International Women's Day here to take your own #pledgeforparity.