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SUSAN B ANTHONY INSTITUTE For Your Information Annual Newsletter University of Rochester Volume 17, Issue 1 Message from the Special Events 25th Anniversary Research Grants Activity and Updates Outside SBAI Director 35th Annual Kafka Retrospective Faculty, graduate, and News, research, and Conference, fellowship, News, updates, and Prize, Rainbow Lecture, Leadership, programs, undergraduate awards courses of interest and scholarship outside information from and more and other memories of the institute Director Honey Meconi Pages 3 - 5 Pages 5 - 6 Pages 6 - 8 Pages 8 - 11 Page 11 Page 2 INSTITUTE ACTIVITIES October 22 - 12:30pm - Meliora January 25 - 12:00pm - Lattimore 540 SBAI 25th Anniversary Alumnae Luncheon Failure is Impossible Mentoring Series Grant September 8 - 4:00pm - Welles-Brown Writing Luncheon for Junior Faculty with Anniversary Year Inaugural Talk and November 1 - 12:00pm - Lattimore 540 Debra Haring Reception “University of Rochester: The Story Failure Is Impossible Mentoring Series of Women at the University and Susan B. Graduate Publishing Luncheon January 27 - 12:00pm - Lattimore 540 Anthony’s Legacy” by Paul Burgett, Vice Focus on the Future SBAI Research Seminar President, with centennial performance by November 3 - 5:00pm - Welles-Brown with Mary Greitzer, Assistant Professor of Women’s Glee Club Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction Award Music Theory, “Shrieking the Body Electric: Ceremony and Reading by winner Linda the Traumatized Voices of Diamanda Galas September 14 - 5:30pm - Lattimore 540 LeGarde Grover and Babbitt’s Philomel” Undergraduate Welcome Back Dinner November 16 - 12:00pm - Lattimore 540 February 8 September 15 - 12:00pm - Lattimore 540 Focus on the Future SBAI Research Seminar Spring Research Grant Application Deadline Graduate Student Welcome Back Lunch with Jennifer Creech, Assistant Professor of German, “Maternal Desire and Socialist February 9 - Time and Location TBA October 4 - 12:00pm - Lattimore 540 Subjectivity: Evelyn Schmidt’s The Bicycle” Susan B. Anthony Legacy Dinner, sponsored Failure is Impossible Mentoring Series Work/ by the Anthony Center for Women’s Life Balance: luncheon for STEM women with November 17 Leadership Joanna Olmstead and Wendi Heinzelman Graduate Certificate Plan of Study Application Due February 15 - Details TBA October 12 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Tea Fall Research Grant Application Deadline December 1 Teaching Fellowship Applications Due February 29 - Time and Location TBA October 21 - 12:00pm - Interfaith Chapel Fourth Annual Two Icons Lecture by Michelle 2011 Stanton/Anthony Conversation December 12 Gordon, University of Southern California, Luncheon, sponsored by the Anthony Center (en)Gendered Art Entries Due “Race, Gender, and Freedom in A Raisin in for Women’s Leadership “In Labor: Women in the Sun: Then and Now” America’s Unions” December 14 - 10:00am - Lattimore 540 Associates and Affiliates Morning Meeting March - Dates and Locations TBA October 21 - 7:00pm Herstory: the SBAI Women’s History Month “Rochester Sings” concert, including January 20 - 5:00pm - SAGE Art Center Film Series Women’s Glee Club Centennial Celebration (en)Gendered Exhibit Opening Reception For Your Information! 1 SUSAN B ANTHONY. INSTITUTE March 8 - Destination TBA just a few of our public events Women’s History Month Field Trip, co- MESSAGE FROM THE planned for 2011-2012. sponsored by the American Studies Program DIRECTOR We’ve also created the SBAI “Failure As we open this year marking our March 22 is Impossible” Mentoring Series for Graduate Certificate Applications Due 25th anniversary, we face a great graduate students, untenured faculty, loss: Nora Bredes, director of the and women in STEM fields. Last year March 22 - 12:00pm - Lattimore 540 Anthony Professors Elissa Newport (Brain and Focus on the Future SBAI Research Seminar Center for Cognitive Science), Janet Berlo (Art with Stephanie Li, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Art History and former Susan B. English,"Raping Mother in Zora Neale Leadership, Anthony Professor), and Celia Hurston's Seraph on the Suwannee." passed away Applegate (History) generously on August shared their time and experience with March 22 - 24 18. Almost International Graduate Student Research younger scholars. Four luncheons are everyone scheduled this year to discuss grant- Conference: “‘Failure is Impossible’: The Past, connected Present, and Future of Feminism” writing, publishing, and work/life with SBAI balance issues. Also up ahead: a March 23 knew Nora, an unflagging champion beautiful new website by professional Susan B. Anthony Keynote Lecture by Nancy of all women and a peerless role graphic designer Michel Godts. Be Cott, Director of the Schlesinger Library on model. Our lives are richer for having on the lookout for the changing photo the History of Women in America, Harvard known her; she truly made a gallery that will anchor our home University difference, and she has left her own page! legacy that we will work to uphold. March 26 - 30 Women in Music Festival Finally, we’ve had changes in the I know that Nora was excited about office. Renée Heininger has moved to our plans for this coming year, and April - Dates and Locations TBA the English department; they are LGBTQI Awareness Month Film Series they are rich indeed, as you will see lucky to have her, and we wish her all in this newsletter. Many of you have success as her career moves April 5 already seen the exhibit marking our forward. But we continue our Summer Research Grant Applications Due history in Rush Rhees Library, and on unbroken streak of attracting September 8 we will formally kick off superlative individuals to join us. April 10 - 12:00 p.m. - Lattimore 540 our year of celebration with a Kaitlin Legg has taken over as SBAI Focus on the Future SBAI Research Seminar fascinating lecture by University Vice Program Assistant, bringing both with Ed Brockenbrough, Assistant Professor President Paul Burgett on “The Story of Education, on educational experiences of academic training in Gender Studies of Women at the University and and professional experience in the LGBT youth of color at an HIV/AIDS Susan B. Anthony’s Legacy.” prevention agency non-profit world. As I begin my second term as Director, I would like April 11 Meliora Weekend will include a to thank her, Angela, and the many Dissertation Award Applications Due luncheon for our alumnae (whether students, faculty, and staff across the majors, minors, or clusterers - all are University who work together to keep April 12 - 5:00pm - Welles-Brown Room welcome!), and we urge you to come SBAI active and vital. First Annual Rainbow Lecture by William join us and share your memories and Eskridge, Jr., Yale University hopes for the future. Our Faculty Best wishes to all for an exciting Research Seminars this year, in fact, commemorative year! April 20 are called “Focus on the Future,” as Undergraduate Research Conference they will feature the scholarship of Honey Meconi, Director, SBAI our gifted junior faculty. Again looking May 3 - 12:00pm - Interfaith Chapel forward, we’re starting a new annual [email protected] Spring Associates & Affiliates Retreat lecture that will explore LGBTQI (585) 275-8318 May 9 - 12:00pm - Lattimore 540 issues; this “Rainbow Lecture” will first take place next April as part of Fall Office Hours: Mondays 12:00pm Failure is Impossible Mentoring Series to 1:45 pm and by appointment at Publishing Luncheon for Junior Faculty the University’s “LGBTQI Awareness Month” that Program Manager Lattimore 538 May 20 Commencement Angela Clark-Taylor initiated last year. And our graduate conference has now grown to encompass international participation; this year’s theme, in honor of our anniversary, is “The Mother of Us All: Feminism’s Past, Present, and Future.” These are For Your Information" 2 SUSAN B ANTHONY INSTITUTE it includes the 111-year-old story of women’s acceptance into SPECIAL EVENTS AND the University, as well as SBAI’s 25-year history. ANNOUNCEMENTS Meliora Weekend 25th Anniversary Alumnae The event will take place in the Welles-Brown Room on September 8th starting at 4:30pm. The exhibit, located on the Luncheon Library’s 2nd floor in the Great Hall, will run through December Make sure to reserve your spot at our Alumnae Luncheon 31. during Meliora Weekend. The luncheon will take place on Saturday, October 22 at 12:30pm. It will feature a panel and open discussion with faculty, staff, and students. Come share 35th Annual Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize your experiences and contribute to SBAI’s herstory! The Each year the Susan B. Anthony Institute awards the Janet Alumnae luncheon will be a wonderful opportunity to reconnect Heidinger Kafka Prize to the best work of fiction by an with faculty, staff, and past students while forging new American woman published in the preceding year. This year friendships with current students. Come learn about our past marks the 35th Anniversary of the prize. The award calls and help form our future. attention to the work of a promising but less established woman writer. Submissions come from publishing houses Besides our luncheon, make sure to check out the Stanton/ across the country, and past winners have included Anne Tyler, Anthony Conversations and Luncheon on Friday, October 21, Ann Patchett, Ursula Le Guin, and Toni Morrison, each before sponsored by the Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership. achieving fame. This year’s Kafka Award Committee consisted This year’s conversation,“In Labor: Women in American’s of chair Kathy McGowan (Rush Rhees