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Mia Alvar received 2016 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

Mia Alvar was named the 2016 recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction presented by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and the Department of English. The award is being given for her debut work … Continue reading

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Activist and Scholar Angela Davis will be in Rochester this November

Angela Davis will be in Rochester on Wednesday November 9, 2016 for the MJS production’s event ” An evening of Empowerment” event. Angela Davis is an African-American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent political activist in the … Continue reading

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Jennifer L. Creech publishes “Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women’s Film”

Congratulations to professor Jennifer L. Creech, Associate Professor of German and Chair of the SBAI Curriculum Committee, for the recent publication of her first book Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women’s Film (University of Indiana Press, 2016). In addition to Chairing SBAI’s … Continue reading

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Susan E. Gustafson: Goethe’s Families of the Heart

We have another exciting publication to announce! Congratulations to Susan E. Gustafson, Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies, for the recent publication of her book Goethe’s Families of the Heart (Bloomsbury, 2016). The book highlights Goethe’s “acceptance and promotion of all relationships … Continue reading

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Douglas Crimp: Before Pictures

We would like to congratulate professor Douglas Crimp from the Art and Art History Department for the recent publication of his memoir Before Pictures (Dancing Foxes Press, 2016). “Before Pictures tells the story of Crimp’s life as a young gay man and art critic … Continue reading

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Celebrating the Bisexual Awareness Week

The Bisexual Awareness Week (#BiWeek) will run from September 16 – 26, with September 23 marked as the “International Celebrate Bisexuality Day.” Co-founded by GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) and BiNet USA, Bisexual Awareness Week seeks to accelerate acceptance … Continue reading

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Spring 2016 Newsletter

Check out our FYI Spring 2016 newsletter to learn about SBAI’s name change, new lecturer, new courses, and some big events on the horizon!

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Women’s History Month Film Series!

We’re so pleased to be entering our 5th year of partnership with The Little Theatre and WXXI for the Women’s History Month Film Series! Click the image below to look inside the booklet and check out our upcoming screenings!

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Seneca Falls Dialogues – An Unusual Kind of Conference

We invite you – students, faculty, staff, and community members – to submit a proposal for a dialogue to be held at the 5th biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues organized and hosted by the Greater Rochester Consortium of Gender and Women’s … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, SBA!

On February 15th, 2016, SBAI held a celebration of Susan B. Anthony’s 196th birthday. Thank you to all of those who attended! During the celebration we recognized two student-selected guests of honor and enjoyed a talk about Susan B. Anthony … Continue reading

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