The 10th Annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) has opened its Call for Participation. The annual conference, presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, is the world’s largest gathering of women in computing. The Grace Hopper Celebration will take place from September 28 - October 2, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s theme "Collaborating Across Boundaries" recognizes the significant role women play in using technology to work...
A special meeting of the "Philosophy and Literature" gateway course; open to the public. Featuring Louis Menand (English, Harvard) and Alison Simmons (Philosophy, Harvard).
With Rachelle Gould, E-IPER, Stanford University. This workshop extends the Project's ongoing look at the cultural and political stakes of new ways to value environmental and ecological systems.
In twenty essays by leading scholars around the world, Karen offers a coherent, comprehensive, comparative, and much-needed collective history of women's activism throughout the world that aim to rewrite history by showing how earlier generations of feminists world-wide struggled to "restore a balance of power between the sexes, a balance lacking in male-dominated societies" against a backdrop of huge cultural, social and political transitions across the world.
Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), the City of Palo Alto Human Relations Commission, the International Museum of Women and Tonic.com will host a free screening of the award-winning documentary, Where the Water Meets the Sky, written by Jordan Roberts (March of the Penguins) and narrated by Morgan Freeman. An inspiring story of women in Northern Zambia who learn how to make a film to speak out about their lives, raising awareness of the plight of young women orphaned by AIDS.
The Op-Ed Project raises the voice, profile and leadership potential of women experts in all fields. Its mission is to enrich public debate, and influence policy. During this seminar, OpEd Project founder, Catherine Orenstein, will lead participants through a proven curriculum; by the end of the seminar, participants could have a finished op-ed essay. The second day includes hands-on work with Catherine and a mentor editor. A hour-long follow-up session with a mentor editor is scheduled two...
Film critic and historian Jean-Michel Frodon, editor of Cinema and the Shoah, explains how, from The Great Dictator to Schindler’s List, the extermination of the Jews of Europe has driven the cinema, more than any other form of artistic expression, to question its methods, techniques, and ethics. It is with reference to the Shoah that a decisive part of the thought behind modern cinema has been constructed, and, consciously or not, many of the greatest films of the past sixty years bear the...
The ABC Research Meeting is coming up on march 25, 2010. Enroll in STARS for this meeting (ORA-1200-032510). Please check the ABC Research website for details on enrolling, agenda and location of future meetings.
Lecture by Martha Crenshaw (Senior Fellow, FSI, CISAC). Since their beginnings in the early 1980s, suicide attacks have spread around the world and become alarmingly frequent in conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The talk will address three questions: why sponsoring organizations would see suicide attacks as legitimate and effective, why publics would support the practice, and why individuals would engage in them. It will examine the role of religion in these three dimensions.
Hagit Halperin is Professor of Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University. In Hebrew, "אברהם שלונסקי - סער ופרץ, המרד נגד ביאליק" Hebrew@Stanford.
