Events 2017-2018

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Lunch and Learns, Breakfast Events, & the Evening at the Trustees Lounge: Free to Members and $10 for Non-Members

Monday, September 11

Lunch & Learn: Bill Littlefield, Host of WBUR’s “Only a Game”

Speaker: Bill Littlefield, Host of WBUR’s “Only a Game”
Title: Only A Game, Except When It Isn’t
Location: 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor, Trustees Ballroom
Time: 12PM-1:30PM

Sponsored by the Evergreen Program, Metropolitan College. Join Evergreen for a lunch featuring Only A Game’s award-winning host, Bill Littlefield. Since 1993, NPR’s flagship sports show has gone beyond the box scores to tell stories about athletes that come in every shape, size, and ability, giving listeners a weekly hour of the human side of sports and competition. Littlefield will be on hand to discuss the show, as well as his most recent book, Take Me Out, a collection of sports and games-related verse. The event is free.

Wednesday, September 13

Meetup @ the BPL: Monstrous Births, Powerful Midwives: The Battle Over Women’s Bodies in 17th-Century Boston

Speaker: Eve LaPlante
Title: Monstrous Births, Powerful Midwives: The Battle Over Women’s Bodies in 17th-Century Boston
Location: Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Rabb Lecture Hall
Time: 6:00PM-7:30PM. NOTE:  Meet at the BPL, Rabb Lecture Hall.  The BUWG will send someone to reserve seats for our group in the hall.  This is a public event.

In public, women in seventeenth-century Boston could not vote, own property, hold office, or sign legal documents. In private, they had a great deal of power: they healed the sick, cared for the wounded, and served as midwives, overseeing the dramatic, life-or-death moment of childbirth. However, this power was regarded as threatening to the social order—midwives were frequently blamed when “monsters” were born with birth defects or babies or mothers died. Eve LaPlante discusses how Puritans viewed women’s power and women’s bodies, in this life and in the afterlife.

LaPlante is the author of many articles and essays and five nonfiction books, including American Jezebel, a portrait of the colonial heretic and founding mother Anne Hutchinson. LaPlante won the 2008 Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction for Salem Witch Judge.

Every fall, the Partnership of Historic Bostons hosts a multitude of free programs exploring an intriguing aspect of Puritan life. This year’s Boston Charter Day theme is Death and Disease in 17th-Century Massachusetts.

Tuesday, September 26

Lunch & Learn: Kelly Nee, BU Executive Director of Public Safety

Speaker: Kelly Nee, BU Executive Director of Public Safety
Title: Stories from the Street: My Life in Policing
Location: Photonics Colloquium Room, 8 St. Mary’s Street
Time: 12PM-1:30PM
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Friday, October 13

Lunch at the President’s House: Dr. Deborah Frank, Director, BMC Grow Clinic for Children

Speaker: Dr. Deborah Frank, Director, Grow Clinic for Children Boston Medical Center; Founder and Principal Investigator, Children’s HealthWatch; Professor of Child Health and Well-Being, Boston University School of Medicine
Title: The BU Grow Clinic: Public Policy and Food Insecurity Among Children
Location: Sloane House, 135 Ivy Street, Brookline, MA
Time: 11:30AM-1:30PM  (Doors open at 11:30, Presentation begins at 12:15.)
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Wednesday, October 25

Meetup @ Agganis, USA Women’s Hockey vs Canada

Join the BUWG to watch the US Women’s National Hockey Team take on Canada! The 2017-18 US Women’s National Team opens their “Time is Now Tour” at Agganis Arena, leading up to the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.  Currently ranked No. 1 in the world by the International Ice Hockey Federation, Team USA has won seven of the last eight IIHF Women’s World Championships, including the last four.

Date: Wednesday, October 25th
Time:  7:30PM Game Time
Location:  Agganis Arena, 925 Commonwealth Avenue
Tickets:  $23 (includes facility fee; $5 per ticket will benefit the BUWG Scholarship Fund).  Additional gifts to the annual scholarship fund are welcome.

Friday, October 27

Lunch & Learn (MED Campus): Dr. Deborah Anderson

Speaker: Dr. Deborah Anderson, Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Microbiology
Title: Multipurpose Technology Strategies for Contraception and Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Location: 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Cross Town Center, Room 305 (BU ID REQUIRED to enter building)
Time: 12:00PM-1:30PM
Sponsored by the Development Office, School of Medicine
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November

BMC Grow Clinic Toy Drive & Advocacy Opportunities

Members and friends may be interested in following up on Dr. Deborah Frank’s October 13 talk, on Public Policy and Food Insecurity Among Children.  Click here for Advocacy Opportunities.

The BUWG will host a Toy Drive to benefit the BMC Grow Clinic. For those who wish, please bring a new, unwrapped toy to one of the Drop Off Locations. Grow Clinic – Toy Suggestion List

Drop Off Locations: November 13 Lunch & Learn; MET CPE, 755 Commonwealth Avenue, B18; 15 Saint Mary’s Street, Room 118; Or contact buwg@bu.edu to make alternate arrangements or Volunteer to deliver the toys to the Grow Clinic.

Monday, November 13

Lunch & Learn: Lou Gaglini, CDO Executive Director

Speaker: Lou Gaglini, CDO Executive Director
Title: Career Development for the Millennial Generation and Gen-Z
Location: 100 Bay State Road, Rm 613 A&B
Time: 12:00PM-1:30PM
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Friday, November 17

Meetup @ BU Cinematheque Film Series

Join us for a screening of Amy Geller’s (2016 BUWG Awardee) film “The Guys Next Door.”  Q&A with Amy and co-director Allie Humenuk. This free event is part of the BU Cinematheque film series and is open to the BU community and public.

Date:  Friday, November 17, 2017
Time:  7:00PM
Location:  640 Commonwealth Avenue, COM 101

Monday, December 4

Evening at the Metcalf Trustee Center with Sheila Cordner

Sponsored by the College of General Studies
Speaker: Dr. Sheila Cordner, CGS
Title: Why Today’s Victorian Mania?
Location: Trustees Lounge, 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor
Time: 5:00PM-7:00PM

Sheila Cordner will discuss her recent book and all things Victorian.  She will explore our society’s obsession with Victorian literature and culture in a lively discussion.  Sheila Cordner is the author of Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation; you can read more about her work at www.sheilacordner.com. Sponsored by Dr. Natalie McKnight, Dean of the College of General Studies. Event Flyer

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

HGARC Creating Your Family Archive Workshop

Speaker:  The Staff of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
Title: Creating Your Family Archive
Location: Gotlieb Gallery, Mugar Library
Time: 12:00PM-1:30PM
In this workshop, learn how to create your family archive.  Participants will receive a complimentary “starter” kit.

Tuesday, February 6

Social Media Workshop with Emily Truax and Margaret Waterman

Speaker: Emily Truax, Assistant Director of Social Media, & Margaret Waterman, Digital Communications Associate
Title: How You Can Get Involved with Social Media at BU
Description: Learn how the social media team collaborates with BU editorial, video and photography, and how you can leverage these resources. Guests will gain a greater understanding of the social media landscape, how the University engages its social media audiences and opportunities to feature your compelling content, events, stories and people.
Location:  8 Saint Mary’s Street, Rm 906
Time: 12:00PM-1:30PM
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Wednesday, February 21

Meetup @ the Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre

Join BUWG members for a meetup at the opening night of Rhinoceros, the first production in the new theatre!

Play:  Rhinoceros
Date:  Wednesday, February 21
Time:  7:30PM
Location:  Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre, 820 Commonwealth Avenue

Friday, March 2

Making an Impact: BUWG Awardee Panel and Breakfast, Sponsored by Dean Ann E. Cudd, College of Arts & Sciences

Check-in and breakfast begins at 8:00am; programming takes place between 8:30-10:00am.  If you need to leave before 10, that’s ok!  Continental breakfast and oatmeal bar will be provided. Join us and bring a friend! Registration Required; $10 for non-members. Sponsored by Dean Ann E. Cudd, College of Arts & Sciences

Speakers: Andrea DiGiorgio, PhD Candidate, GRS, Anthropology (2015 BUWG Awardee); Fulya Ekiz Kanik, PhD Candidate, ENG, Electrical & Computer Engineering (2017 Katharine Connor McLaughlin Awardee); Kristin Johnson, DrPH Candidate, SPH (2017 Dr. Beverly Brown Awardee).
Moderator:  Dr. Beverly Brown, Director of Development, Industry (SPH)
Location: 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor, Kenmore Conference Room
Time: 8:30AM-10:00AM
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Thursday, April 5

Christina Michaud, May I Give You a Hug?

Title:  May I Give You a Hug?
Speaker:  Christina Michaud, Senior Lecturer, CAS Writing Program
Date:  April 5, 2018
Location: 110 Cummington Street, Room 245
Time: 12:00PM-1:30PM
Lunch, including a selection of sandwiches (vegan options provided), will be served.
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Tuesday, April 24

BUWG Endowment Gala, Advancing Women in Leadership and Scholarship

Join us for cocktails, dinner, and entertainment to benefit the BUWG Endowment fund and to honor Angela Faletra Menino, H. Eugene Stanley, and Joan Benjamin-Wallace.  Performance by pianist Claude Hobson.  David Brown, Master of Ceremonies and Auctioneer.  The live auction and raffle will benefit the BUWG annual awards.

Location: 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Ballroom, Second Floor
Time: 6:00PM to 9:00PM

Wednesday, May 9

BUWG Annual Business Meeting

Location: 1 Silber Way, Room 916, Kenmore Conference Room
Time: 12:00PM-1:30PM

Thursday, May 24

Annual Lunch and Awards Presentation with Crystal Williams, Associate Provost for Diversity & Inclusion

Speaker: Crystal Williams, Associate Provost for Diversity & Inclusion
Title: The World We Build: Advocacy and Power
Location: 1 Silber Way, Metcalf Trustee Center
Time: 12:00PM-2:00PM
Tickets: $30

Sponsored by Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer. For those of us who desire to live in a more just and equitable world but who don’t think of ourselves as activists or even particularly progressive, what is our place and role in the #MeToo, #MarchForOurLives, #BlackLivesMatter era? What is the meaning of advocacy and power in the face of such monumental movements? In her keynote, Williams will explore the perceived tensions between our conception of meaningful impact and what it means to become an advocate and trigger your own personal power on behalf of the collective good.