Please save the data for our 40th anniversary symposium, which will take place on March 13th & 14th, 2015.

Thursday, November 6

6-8PM, Sarah Doyle Gallery, 26 Benevolent St

Please join us for our Gallery's third exhibition of the year: "The Eyes Go Blind," a dual show by artists Jan Johnson and C.B. Forsythe. Together, their work converses with ideas of the traditions of domesticity and of tedious labor. While Johnson's work embraces and rejects certain traditions of the domestic, Forsythe looks to discard the stuff of childhood while simultaneously collecting things that seem to have no intrinsic value.

Saturday, November 8

10AM-5PM, Sarah Doyle Women's Center, 26 Benevolent St

Tired of freezing in the library? Going broke studying in cafes? Drop in to the Sarah Doyle Women's Center, find your favorite comfy spot, and finish your midterms while you enjoy free tea, coffee, and snacks.

Thursday, November 13

12PM, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Lounge, 26 Benevolent St

Regardless of whether or not you’ve decided to put a trigger warning on your syllabus, we can never be sure how our students will react to certain course materials. Sometimes students’ reactions can turn the classroom into a deeply personal and emotional space. Sometimes you may find yourself reacting intensely to certain topics or comments in the middle of teaching. What are some strategies for addressing these reactions in the moment? How can we be kind to our students and ourselves without losing the larger focus of the learning goals behind the discussion or lecture? Join us for a discussion with Allyson Brathwaite Gardner and Jacqueline Twitchell from Counseling and Psychological Services.

Please RSVP here.

Sunday, November 16

2-4PM, Sarah Doyle Women's Center Lounge, 26 Benevolent St

Please join CASARA to decorate t-shirts to be displayed the following Monday as part of The Clothesline Project!

The Clothesline Project exhibits shirts with the stories of allies and survivors of relationship abuse and sexual assault written on them. Come by to create your own message you would like to add to the installation, or, if you would prefer to submit anonymously, please send it to Box 6265, or e-mail the CASARA coordinators at brown.casara@gmail.com.

Monday, November 17

12PM, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Lounge, 26 Benevolent St

As graduate students at Brown, we are not officially employees, but much of what we do as students--teaching, research, mentoring--is part of our professional career. This ambiguous status combined with informal work relationships can make it especially difficult to address behavior that in most workplaces would be considered sexual harassment. This event will focus on various ways one might address instances of harassment and other unwanted attention or behavior that occur in both professional and social settings, and discuss how these experiences are uniquely challenging for graduate students. Keeping in mind that there is no single "right" way to respond in these instances, we will discuss strategies that might be utilized at the interpersonal and institutional levels. You are greatly encouraged  to consider bringing your own experiences as this is also meant to be an opportunity to learn from one another. This event will be led by Bita Shooshani, Coordinator of Sexual Assault Prevention and Advocacy.

Monday, November 17

5:30PM, J. Walter Wilson Room 202

Marcia Chatelain, an assistant professor in the department of history at Georgetown University, started the popular #FergusonSyllabus to encourage teacher-facilitated discussions of the events in Ferguson. The hashtag asks how can we, as educators, lead classroom discussions on such difficult and emotional topics as racism and police militarization? How do these types of conversations change based on students’ age or socio-economic background? Join us for a discussion that takes #FergusonSyllabus as a call to action to think about meaningful ways to teach emotion-laden current events.

We welcome graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members from all fields to share their questions, suggestions, and strategies.

Tuesday, November 18

10AM-12PM, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Lounge, 26 Benevolent St

Filmmaker Zeinabu Irene Davis will screen her film, a 2010 documentary about the experiences and accomplishments of a cohort of black students at the University of California, San Diego.

Breakfast snacks will be provided!

November 17 or 18, Exact Date and Location TBA

Beehive Collective is a feminist, anti-imperialist art collective.

How are ecological diversity, colonialism, globalization, and free trade linked? How are people resisting ecological and cultural destruction across the Americas? Come explore these questions with the Beehive Collective as they present the Mesoamérica Resiste graphics campaign. Through the lens of Mesoamerica, the graphic tells the big picture story of what’s at stake across the globe with the neoliberal model of “development,” and what we’ve already lost. They will also share stories of collective action. This picture lecture will be interactive and is open to anyone! Food will be provided.

Sponsored by the Rhode Island Student Climate Coalition (RISCC) and the Sarah Doyle Women's Center

Monday, November 24

6:30-8PM, Location TBA

The second event in our Feminist Leadership Series, this structured workshop will concentrate specifically on student experience in on-campus groups. We will reflect together and share skills and strategies, not only to transform our own leadership and modes of participation, but also to ensure that group dynamics are conducive to every member's growth. We will explicitly speak about misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and racism, as well as about resources to address sexual harassment and destructive behavior within a group.