Upcoming Events

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• 2013-14 Scholarship deadline May 3 - Click here

Past Events

Start Smart Salary Negotiation Workshop

$tart $mart is an interactive AAUW workshop designed to give college women the confidence and skills they need to earn fair compensation

• When: Friday, April 5th, 9:00am-12:00pm
• Where: Agnes Arnold Hall, Room 210
• Cost: FREE to Female UH Students

Leaping Into the Future: The History of Contemporary Dance in Houston

• When: Wednesday, April 3, 2013
• Where: Rockwell Pavilion, MD Anderson Library, UH
• 11:30-1:30 pm
• Panelists: Chris Lidvall, Founder, Chrysalis Dance Company Sandra Organ, Founder & Artistic Director, Earthen Vessels Karen Stokes, UH School of Theater & Dance Moderator: Nancy Wozny

Living Archives: Women's History Walking Tour of Downtown Houston, With Houston historian Betty Chapman

• When: Monday, March 4, 2013, 11:30a.m. -1 p.m.
• Meeting Place: In front of the Julia Ideson Library Building, McKinney & Smith
• RSVP to WGSS@uh.edu or meet us there.
• Tour ends at 1pm at Christ Church Cathedral, dutch treat lunch at Treebeard's to follow
• Free to students, veterans, faculty and members of the FWS.
• $10 for the general public
• To join the Friends online: https://giving.uh.edu/wos/

Table Talk 2013

• Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 12-1:30pm
• Place: Hilton Americas
• Co-chairs: Cheryl Creuzot and Leisa Holland-Nelson

Living Archives: Interview with Anne Tucker, Photography Curator, MFAH

• When: Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 12-1:30 p.m.
• Where: UH Rockwell Pavilion at MD Anderson Library
• Boxed lunch with RSVP to WGSS@uh.edu
• Free to students, veterans, faculty and members of the FWS.
• $10 at the door for the general public

Body Politics: Science & Access in Women's Health

• Panelists: CAROL ALVARADO, Texas State Representative, Public Health Committee
  ABENAA BREWSTER, MD (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
  ELIZABETH CHIAO, MD (Baylor College of Medicine)
  Moderator: MIMI SWARTZ, Executive Editor, Texas Monthly
• When: Monday, December 3, 2012, 12-1:30 p.m.
• Where: UH Rockwell Pavilion at MD Anderson Library
• Boxed lunch with RSVP to WGSS@uh.edu
• Free to students, veterans, faculty and members of the FWS.
• $10 at the door for the general public

My Family Isn't So Different From Yours: My Two Moms, a talk by Zach Walhs

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• When: Thursday, November 13, 2012, 7:00 pm
• Where: UH, UC Houston Room
• Free to public

Fast Friends Networking Event

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• When: Thursday, November 8, 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm
• Where: 9 Briarwood Court, Houston, Texas, 77019
• Meet members of Friends of Women's Studies and network with professional women
• RSVP to amoore@uh.edu

The Resilient Soul: An Insight into the Refugee Experience

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• Place: Rockwell Pavilion, MD Anderson Library, UH | Map
• When: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 | 11:30-1:30pm
• Moderator: Claudia Kolker, Author of "The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness, and Hope"
• Listen to experts Sophia Banu, MD (Clinic for International Trauma Survivors, Harris County District, Menninger Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine), Caitriona Lyons (State Refugee Program Coordinator, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Office of Immigration and Refugee Affairs), and Claudia Kolker (author of "The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness, and Hope") speak about refugee resilience and converse with resettled Houstonians
• Have conversations over lunch with resettled Houstonians. 
• RSVP to WGSS@uh.edu, 713-743-3214

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2012 WGSS Graduate Luncheon

• When: Friday, May 4, 2012
• This year's luncheon honoring our graduating WGSS minors and those who have completed their Women's Studies graduate certificates gathered students, faculty, and supporters. History professor Landon Storrs' rousing remarks sent the group forward with a clear sense of the challenges facing women and society today and the importance of their efforts for positive change.
• Congratulations to our graduating minors: Julia Aiguier, Laura Hernandez, Ashley Lozano, Sarah Muska, Savannah Ober-Mawed, Sophia Paz, Ana Serrano, Crystal Villegas, Christopher Alanis, and Brittany Tate
• Congratulations to our 2012 Women's Studies graduate certificate recipients: Tracy Butler, Carlos Cantu, Maria Corsi, Annette Escamilla, Laura Garza, Jennifer Lowe, Grace Loudd, and Fabian Van Onzen

Living Archives: Tribute to Barbara Karkabi

• When: Friday, March 30, 2012, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
• Where: UH Rockwell Pavilion at MD Anderson Library
• Honor the memory of Friends of Women's Studies member Barbara Karkabi
• Boxed lunch with RSVP to WGSS@uh.edu
• Free to students, veterans, faculty and members of the FWS.
• $10 at the door for the general public

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  • When: Wednesday March 28, 2012, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  • Where: 624 Agnes Arnold Hall
  • Enjoy refreshments, network, and learn about upcoming scholarship deadlines
  • Free and open to students, and affiliated faculty
  • When: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
  • Where: Jewish Community Center (5601 S. Braeswood, 77096)
  • Join Elizabeth Gregory, author of Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood and UH professor, as she moderates a panel of midlife mothers, including Andrea Georgsson and Adriana Wechsler, and fertility specialist Cecelia Valdes, MD.
  • When: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm
  • Where: 1810 Bissonnett, Houston, Texas
  • Meet members of Friends of Women's Studies and network with professional women
  • Religion and the LGBT Person, with Rev. Janice Ladd, Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church; Rev. Dr. Ginny Brown Daniel, Plymouth United Church; James Evans, former ordained minister and reform camp survivor; Tierra Ortiz-Rodriguez, Dignity Houston Community Organizer; Rabbi Kenny Weiss
    • When: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 5:30 - 7 pm
    • Where: UH University Center, Lone Star Room 280
  • Queer Theory, with Dr. Jennifer Terry, UC Irvine
    • When: Thursday, February 23, 2012, 4 - 5:30 pm
    • Where: Rice University, Rayzor Hall Room 123
  • Same Sex Unions in Argentina & Brazil, with Dr. Shawn Schulenberg, Marshall University
    • When: Friday, March 2, 2012, 12 - 1:30 pm
    • Where: UH, 444 Agnes Arnold Hall
  • LGBT Career Panel, with Houston LGBT Professionals from various careers
    • When: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 5:30 - 7 pm
    • Where: UH University Center, Lone Star Room 280
  • Transnational Queer Practices: Why Should U.S. Queers Care about Pinkwashing?, panel led by Dr. Sima Shakhsari, University of Houston
    • When: Monday, March 26, 2012, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
    • Where: UH TBA
  • Queer Theory, with Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
    • When: Friday, April 27, 2012, 1 - 2:30 pm
    • Where: UH, 105 Science and Engineering Complex
    • See the flier for Lisa Duggan here
  • See the flier here
  • Thanks to all our conversationalists, underwriters, and attendees for your
    support of the Friends of Women's Studies and the WGSS Program.
    Thanks to the staff and volunteers for making things run so smoothly!
  • Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
  • Place: Hilton Americas
  • Co-chairs: Sharon Michael Owens and Beverly Robinson
  • 2012 Conversationalists  

WGSS Spring Open House

Reimagining Motherhood Later: A Conversation

Fast Friends Networking Event

LGBT Lecture Series Spring 2012

Table Talk 2012 recap

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