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Home Menu2023 HUMANITIES/SOCIAL SCIENCES LECTURE SERIES
SPRING 2023
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Tea with Alice and Me
The intersecting lives of two feminist Elders
Miss Alice Paul and Zoe Nicholson
Tuesday, March 2
2:30-4 pm
GCC Auditorium
FLEX AVAILABLE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
SPONSORED BY ASGCC in honor of Women's History Month
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Squash and Stretch: Understanding the Importance of Body Positivity & Inclusivity in Media
Tuesday, March 28
12:30-1:30pm
Kreider Hall (SR 138)
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SPEAKER
Michelle Stonis
GCC Instructor of History + Oregon State University
Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Student
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
SPONSORED BY THE GCC PULITZER CENTER CAMPUS CONSORTIUM, THE DEPARTMENTS OF ANIMATION, HISTORY, AND JOURNALISM
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Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall
Join scholar Dr. Marie Cartier, Instructor of Film Studies at UCI and Gender Studies at CSUN, to discuss the research from her book Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall. Leave with an understanding of how queer folks, especially butch-femme women, created sacred social spaces and resisted oppression during a time when homosexuality was criminalized in the United States.
Wednesday, April 5
12:20–1:45pm
CR 137
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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties
Join award-winning historian Dr. Lisa Levenstein, Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Professor of History at UNC Greensboro, for an insightful talk on her book They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties. Levenstein tracks this time of intense and international coalition building, one that centered on the growing influence of lesbians, women of color, and activists from the global South. Leave with an understanding of how women on the margins built a movement at the dawn of the Digital Age.
Thursday, April 27
12:00-1:30pm PST
Live Only on Zoom
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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
FALL 2023
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Harsh Sentencing: Children Behind Bars?
LECTURE WITH ROBUST Q&A DISCUSSION
Lisa Armstrong, Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, is an award-winning journalist with credits in The Intercept, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, USA TODAY, and other outlets. She has reported from several countries, including Sierra Leone, Kenya, and the Philippines, and reported from Haiti from 2010 to 2014. She is currently reporting on incarceration, including COVID-19 in New York State prisons and Miami jails. Armstrong also produced a documentary for CBS News about the role that for-profit-provided mental health care has played in the increase of suicides in state prisons.
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
12:30-1:30pm
Kreider Hall (SR 138)
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IN PERSON ONLY
FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Red Sapphire: The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist
with Author and Historian Julia Bricklin
Join historian and author Julia Bricklin as she shares her research from her latest book. Intricately researched using declassified FBI and CIA files, interviews, and the personal papers of blacklisted writers, Red Sapphire is the true story of how one woman fought to shape popular culture during the Cold War, a battle she eventually won.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
5-6 p.m. PST
Zoom: bit.ly/beattheblacklist
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Art and Beauty in the Good Life:
Plato, John Ruskin, and Walter Benjamin in Conversation
Kevin Mack, Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy at GCC, shares his recent research conducted during his CSULA Master’s program in Philosophy.
Thursday, November 9, 2023
12:30-1:30pm
Kreider Hall (SR 138)
FLEX AVAILABLE
Pulitzer Center
IN PERSON ONLY
FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC