Sunday, February 17, 2019
Dark Girls Viewing and Discussion | Multicultural Affairs
In collaboration with the Center for Gender Equity, we will take a community trip to the Allentown Art Museum for a film viewing and discussion of Dark Girls, Participants can also enjoy a guided tour of Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement. Discover the exhibits in the museum and join in on a variety of activities throughout the afternoon. Please email Clara Buie at clb305@lehigh.edu, or stop by the University Center C208 to sign up if you're interested in attending.
Friday, February 15, 2019
A Symposium in Advance of the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women | Center for Gender Equity
Lehigh University is hosting its second annual one-day symposium in advance of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). This year’s priority theme is “Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls”. Expanding on this theme, we seek to explore how the work of regional community organizations, educational institutions, and individual faculty, staff, and students (undergraduate and graduate) engage with the theme of “Gender and Empowerment, Access, and Infrastructure” in their work, research, advocacy, and lives.
Schedule: 10:10-11:40 am Roundtable I
1:10 - 2:40pm Roundtable II
2:50-4:00 Be Your Own Artivism Creation Space (Center for Gender Equity)
4:10 pm Keynote Speaker: Tristina Fitzpatrick, Director of Patient Services, Allentown Women’s Center
Possible topics may include but are not limited to: education, economics, race, healthcare, violence, finance, indigienous peoples’ rights, migration, climate change, disability studies, aging, art, technology, and tourism.
Possible research and discussion questions may include but are not limited to:
Research. How does your research engage with questions of gender and access, gender and sustainability, or social protection systems and gender?
Activism. Do you work with an organization, or are you currently working on a project that engages with issues related to gender and access, gender and social protection systems, or gender and infrastructure?
If so, what are you doing, what challenges do you face? What successes are you having? What initiatives do you imagine designing?
Experience. Have you personally experienced issues related to gender and access, gender and social protection systems, or gender and public services in the region? If so, we invite you to share your stories.
This event is co-organized by The Center for Gender Equity and the Lehigh University- United Nations Partnership.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Be Your Own Creation Space With LAD! | Center for Gender Equity
2019 Theme:
The 2019 Be Your Own theme asks participants to visualize through art-making their spiritual, emotional, or physical relationship with roots, origins, and migrations. People move away from or back to their roots. People reimagine or finally find their origins. People voluntarily and involuntarily migrate in and across borders, elements of their identities, and communities. Join us in making art to make change!
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Be Your Own Creation Space With LAD! | Center for Gender Equity
2019 Theme:
The 2019 Be Your Own theme asks participants to visualize through art-making their spiritual, emotional, or physical relationship with roots, origins, and migrations. People move away from or back to their roots. People reimagine or finally find their origins. People voluntarily and involuntarily migrate in and across borders, elements of their identities, and communities. Join us in making art to make change!
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Be Your Own Creation Space! | Center for Gender Equity
2019 Theme:
The 2019 Be Your Own theme asks participants to visualize through art-making their spiritual, emotional, or physical relationship with roots, origins, and migrations. People move away from or back to their roots. People reimagine or finally find their origins. People voluntarily and involuntarily migrate in and across borders, elements of their identities, and communities. Join us in making art to make change!
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Be Your Own Creation Space! | Center for Gender Equity
2019 Theme:
The 2019 Be Your Own theme asks participants to visualize through art-making their spiritual, emotional, or physical relationship with roots, origins, and migrations. People move away from or back to their roots. People reimagine or finally find their origins. People voluntarily and involuntarily migrate in and across borders, elements of their identities, and communities. Join us in making art to make change!
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Gender in a Global Context: Education | Center for Gender Equity
Join the Center for Gender Equity in an open dialogue exploring Iceland's Hjalli education system and what it can tell us about how we educate our youth globally!
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Lehigh Women's Network | Center for Gender Equity
A Women's Network at Lehigh for support and discussion of topics such as Equity, Career Advancement, and Work-Life Balance.
Friday, February 8, 2019
Post Anita Hill: Survivor Supportive Debrief | Gender Violence Education and Support
The office of Gender Violence Education and Support, the Gender Violence Support Advocates, Break the Silence Peer Educators, and the Center for Gender Equity will host a safe space for survivors of gender based harassment and violence to process and debrief Anita Hill's MLK talk on February 7th. Anita Hill's expereinces of sexual harassment continue to be relevent and impactful in helping to prevent gender based violence and support survivors.
Friday, February 8, 2019
Me Too, Anita Hill & Beyond | Council for Equity and Community
Join us for a Tackling Tough Topics Together dialogue about #MeToo, exploring intersecting roles of gender, race, class and sexual orientation in events such as Anita Hill’s testimony at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas (Hill will speak at Lehigh on Feb. 7). More recent accusations of sexual assault are present in the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh; the “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary; and firing of “Bohemian Rhapsody” director Bryan Singer, among others.
Are there commonalities or distinctions? What are the impacts?
The dialogue will take place in the Linderman Library Bayer Galleria, Room 342. Lunch is provided. All are welcome.
If you are an individual with a disability and need accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact Maria Zullo at maz317@lehigh.edu or (610) 758-4152.
Advocates with Lehigh’s Office of Gender Violence Education and Support will be in attendance to provide support. GVES, the Advocates, Break the Silence peer educators, and the Center for Gender Equity will host a debrief session and safe space for survivors of sexual assault or harassment from 2 to 3 p.m. at UC 306 following the Tackling Tough Topics Together session.
We look forward to seeing you!
Brought to you by the Council for Equity and Community (CEC) Education and Dialogue Working Group, Office of Gender Violence Education and Support (GVES), and the Center for Gender Equity (CGE).