Living and Wrting Feminism: A Conversation with Political Columnist Katha Pollitt. Katha Pollitt, award winning essayist, poet and feminist. Her weekly column in "The Nation," titled "Subject to Debate," was called by The Washington Post as "the best place to go for original thinking on the left." In 1992 and 2003, Pollitt won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. She is also a recipient of the Whiting Foundation Writing Award and the Maggie Award.
Students' Building, Second Floor
Rehearsal
Taylor Hall, 102
Students who studied aboad last semester are invited to reminisce about their experience with the Office of International Programs and their classmates.Refreshments will be served.
College Center, Faculty Commons
Daniel Mendelsohn, award-winning author and the Chares Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College is the Doctor Maurice Sitomer 2008 lecturer . Mendelsohn, the author of "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million" will speak about his book and the writing of "Lost," as well as "The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity" (Knopf, 1999; Vintage 2000); "Gender and the City in Euripides' PoliticalPlays " (Oxford University Press, 2002), and is currently working on a new translation of the complete works of the modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. Summer 2008 his collection of essays "How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken" will be published by HarperCollins. Mendelsohn is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1984 Mrs. Arlene Sitomer honored her husband by endowing the Dr. Maurice Sitomer Lecture Fund. The income of the endowment is used to invite to Vassar College, speakers who enlighten, inspire, and encourage understanding of Jewish culture and concerns.
Sanders Hall, 212
This lecture, titled "Help for Single Women! Journalists, Feminists, Colonialists? The Story of La Fronde in 19th Century France" by Lise Schreier, professor of French at Fordham University, will be presented on April 15th at 6pm in Taylor Hall, 203.
Taylor Hall, 203
Goal Setting. Tuesday, April 15, 6:00-7:00pm, CC 237. Scott Radimer (Emerging Leaders - Mandatory; Student Organization, Social Consciousness - Elective).The first step to being a productive leader is having good goal setting skills. This workshop will teach you how to create SMART goals that will help give you more direction in all tasks that you do. All are welcome!
College Center, 237
Rockefeller Hall, 300