News & Events

Upcoming Events

Join us for a screening of Sonia Báez-Hernández’s documentary "Territories of the Breast"
The viewing will be followed by a discussion with Báez-Hernández.
2 screenings: November 16, 2009 from 1-2:30 or 2:30-4
222-Farish Hall
Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages

Join us for an interview with Harris County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia.
Interviewer: Dr. Monica Perales, UH History Professor
December 2, 2009 from 11-12:30
Elizabeth Rockwell Pavilion in M.D. Anderson Library on UH Main Campus
Convenient parking is available in the Welcome Center garage or the Hilton Hotel garage. More on visitor parking here
Directions and map here
$5 for the general public, free for members of the Friends of Women’s Studies, seniors and students
Call for reservations, space is limited: (713) 743-3214

Living Archives: An Interview with Houston Firsta Lady Andrea White (October, 2009)
National Coming Out Day Celebration (October 12, 2009)
East End Live Art: Artists/Mothers (May 10, 2009)
Screenings of Who Does She Think She Is? (May 9-10, 2009)
Graduate Certificate Commencement and Luncheon (May 1, 2009)
Donna DeCesare presentation at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (co-sponsored with UH Visual Studies, et. al.) (April 28, 2009)
Living Archives: Women and Mental Health: Effect on the Family (April 2009)
“Their Idol, Their Vision: Womanism, Feminism, and the Rise of Barbara Jordan in Houston”-- guest lecture by Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin, Visiting Professor of African-American History, George Washington University, Co-sponsored by History department and Center for Public History's Tenneco Lecture Series (March 30, 2009)
Women's History Month Film Series: Iron Jawed Angels, The Magdalene Sisters, Real Women Have Curves, Sisters of '77 with special guests Janice Blue and Peggy Hall (Feb.-March 2009)
12th Annual Table Talk (March 2009)
Blue Lias, or the Fish Lizard's Whore, a solo play about fossilist Mary Anning (February 26, 2009)
"Can I Be a Feminist and...Date Men, Eat Meat, Be Religious?"-- an interactive talk with nationally celebrated writers Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (February 25, 2009)
Living Archives: Houston's Shia Ismaili Women: Education and Ethics (February 2009)

GLBT Studies Minor featured on gayagenda.com (December 2008)
"Gender, Creativity and the New Longevity" Conference with keynote speaker Katha Pollitt (November 2008). Read Dr. Elizabeth Gregory's thoughts on gener and the new longevity here.
Opening, Thrive!, exhibit in conjunction with "Gender, Creativity and the New Longevity" Conference (November 2008)
GLBT Studies Minor announced and featured in Houston Chronicle (October 20, 2008)
Opening, "Olive Brides" by Bissan Rafe (October 2008)
Living Archives: 18 Million Cracks--Women in Politics 2008 (October 2008)
Deirdre Moloney, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC: “Differential Regulation: Female Immigrants and Immigration Policy in the Early 20th-Century United States” (March 2008)
Not For Sale Awareness Week, Anti-Human Trafficking group (March 2008)
Living Archives: Pakistan Today (March 2008)
A conversation about Feminine Beauty and the Work of Miwa Yanagi, featuring Elizabeth Gregory (February 2008)
11th Annual Table Talk (February 2008)

Drive FAMILY Friendly: Family Friendly Policy in Texas (November 2007) The Houston Chronicle story
Living Archives: Women in the Military (September 2007)
Graduate Certificate Commencement and Luncheon (April 27, 2007)
Special Film Screening "The Shape of Water" (March 2007)
10th Annual Table Talk: "A Tapestry of Women" (March 7, 2007)
Dr. Jeanne Scheper co-hosts KPFT¹s Go Vegan Texas, "Sistah Vegan: Decolonizing Our Bodies" (February 26, 2007)
Free Film Screening of Ma Vie en Rose (February 21, 2007)
"Queering Childhood," lecture and discussion with KARL BRYANT, Sociology and Women's Studies. Bryant will be joining the faculty at SUNY New Paltz in Fall 07. (February 20, 2007)
Living Archives: "Women Who Run" (February 2, 2007)
Feminist/GLBT Pedagogy Seminar (January 2007)

Living Archives presents "Katrina Survivors: Mothers and Daughters"
Jeanne Scheper, James Surls and J. Pittman McGehee on “A Provocative Conversation about the Forces that Divide Our Society Along Gender Lines and the Creative Quest for Balance,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Hats Off to HER-story!
Women's Month Transnational Film Festival
“Girls! Girls! Girls! Consuming Identities in Girls Night Out,” a gallery talk by Jeanne Scheper in conjunction with the exhibition Girls Night Out, Blaffer Gallery Art Museum

Please contact us with your ideas for future events!