Events 2019-2020
June 20, 2019
Theater Meet-Up
Cirque du Soleil “Corteo” at Agganis Arena
July 22, 2019
Theater Meet-Up
Film Screening of “This Changes Everything.” Program in Support of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Program at Boston University; Regal Cinemas Fenway
September 24
Lunch and Learn
Moms in Chief: Gender Stereotypes, Politics, and Presidential Nominees’ Spouses with Tammy Vigil, Associate Professor of Communication Studies; 12-1:30pm; 110 Cummington Mall, Room 245. This event is free for members, $10 for non-members.
October 1, 2019
Lunch and Learn, sponsored by BU Evergreen
Monumental Decisions with Raul Fernandez, Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Wheelock College; George Sherman Union, Small Ballroom, 2nd Floor. Description: It’s time to reevaluate the old monuments, the artwork, the named streets and structures that surround us in the built environment – those relics of a past where those in power decided whose stories were worth honoring and whose should be disregarded. So, how, in a more diverse and inclusive society, do we decide what stays and what goes? And, in doing so, how do we avoid making the same mistakes as our predecessors?
October 11, 2019
Newcomers Lunch at the President’s House
The Black Women’s Health Study: 25 Years of Research, with Yvette C Cozier, D.Sc., MPH, Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, and Associate Professor of Epidemiology (SPH); Sloan House, 135 Ivy Street, Brookline, MA. This event is free to members, $10 for Non-members.
October 22, 2019
Theater Meet-Up
Martha Graham Dance Company: Lecture and Demonstration; 915 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA 02215.
About this Event: Janet Eilber, Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Company, will speak about Graham’s vision of heroines from Greek tragedy including Medea, Clytemnestra, and Jocasta, as well as explore Graham’s retelling of the Ariadne/Minotaur story as imagined in her dance Errand into the Maze, with two-dancers from the company performing this 13 minute piece. The lecture will also include videos, movement excerpts from Graham’s depiction of Greek heroines, and teaching the audience several moves from one or two of the characters. The presentation will conclude with a Q & A. This is a co-curricular event in collaboration with Classical Studies’ course on Greek Drama (CL 224), Yo-El Cassell’s movement courses and the dance program (Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance). It is sponsored by the following BU organizations: BU’s Center for the Humanities, BU’s Arts Initiative, Kilachand Honors College, Department of Classical Studies, BU’s Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Program, Core Curriculum’s NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, Women and Gender Studies, and outside of BU by the Society for Classical Studies Classics Everywhere “Initiative.”
November 14, 2019
Lunch and Learn
Taking Action on Climate Change: BU & You, with Erica Mattison, MPA, JD, Assistant Director of Communications for University Sustainability; Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering. This event is free to members, $10 for Non-members.
December 11
Holiday Party
Refreshments plus entertainment by the BU Academy Swamp Cats; 5-7pm; 43 Hawes Street Living Room. This event is free to members, $10 for non-members.
January 7, 2020
Lunch and Learn Program presented by WOCC
Building Community Through Allyship, with Judy Burgess, Director of Labor Relations at BU & co-chair, BU LGBTQIA+ Task Force, Photonics Center Colloquium Room
January 9, 2020
Lunch and Learn
Obsession with Perfection: Beauty, Dysmorphia and Malleability with Dr. Neelam Vashi, Associate Professor of Dermatology, Director, Boston University Center for Ethnic Skin; BU School of Medicine Admissions Conference Room
January 30, 2020
Lunch and Learn
A New Approach to Closing the Gender Wage Gap, with Katharine Lusk, Co-Director and founding Executive Director of the Initiative on Cities; Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering
February 25, 2020
Lunch and Learn
Reintroducing Boston University Libraries, with Dr. K. Matthew Dames, University Librarian; Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted our ability to gather in-person for remainder of the Spring 2020 semester.
June 18, 2020
Annual Business Meeting
Year-end reports from Awards, Communications, Membership, Finance, Development, Program and Fisk House committees; Nominating Committee presentation of slate and election of officers; online program
Service Projects
- November/December: Toy Drive for BMC Grow Clinic
- March: Toiletries Drive for Rosie’s Place