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2011-12
Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship
For more information, please see: http://www.yale.edu/wff/PublicVoices.html
Yale's First Women PhDs (1894) Portrait Project and Research
For information about the project, please see "Pioneering Women," GSAS Newsletter, Feb. 2012.
WFF Mentorship Program for Junior Faculty
On January 11, 2012, the Yale Women Faculty Forum (WFF) launched an informal mentoring program for women faculty at Yale. WFF introduced the program by hosting a breakfast at the Provost’s house in the morning and an afternoon session about mentoring best practices facilitated by Lindsey Stoddard Cameron, a mentoring expert from UW-Madison. The new WFF program matches junior faculty members with senior faculty mentors in related fields, and provides a framework for mentor-mentee engagement. The program is designed to supplement departmental mentoring programs and provide junior women faculty with an additional resource as they progress toward tenure or other career advancement. Over 75 women faculty members are participating in this pilot program. The program is closed for the 2012 cycle; for additional information about the program and to learn about participating in the future, please contact the Women Faculty Forum at wff@yale.edu
WFF Faculty Lunch Series
Spring 2012: Tues. Jan. 17, Wed. Feb. 15, Thurs. March 22, and Wed. April 18, 2012 | Fall 2011: Wed. Oct. 5, Wed. Nov. 2, and Wed. Dec. 7, 2011
Saybrook College Dining Hall Fellows Room, 12:00-1:30pm.
WFF announces the launch of a monthly WFF Faculty Lunch Series for all women faculty. All women faculty of all ranks from across the University are invited. We hope that this regular WFF event will allow for informal networking and community building for all women faculty at Yale. Come enjoy lunch in the beautiful Saybrook Fellows Room. Lunch is provided for all faculty who teach (with faculty ID) or available for purchase at the standard rate ($10.25) for non-teaching research faculty. You may choose to bring a brown bag lunch. Cosponsored by Saybrook College
Women and the Politics of Representation
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, 5:30-7:30pm at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.
Reception: 5:30-6:00pm, Law School Alumni Reading Room.
Panel Discussion: 6:00-7:30pm, Law School, Room 121
Event poster PDF
Carol Armstrong Professor, History of Art. “The Politics of Flowers: On the Sexual Politics of Women Artists and their Art-Subjects “
Judith Resnik Arthur Liman Professor, Yale Law School. “Justice, Identity, and Rights: Women and the Politics of Representation," drawing on Judith Resnik and Dennis E. Curtis, Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms (Yale University Press, 2011)
Liena Vayzman Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Women Faculty Forum. “Yale’s First Women PhDs, 1894: Photographic Traces and Recovered Histories of Pioneering Scholars and Scientists”
Discussants: Linda Greenhouse Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer, Yale Law School; Laura Wexler Professor of American Studies and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Introduction: Priyamvada Natarajan Professor of Astronomy and Physics; Chair, Yale Women Faculty Forum
A related exhibition, The Remarkable Run of a Political Icon: Justice as Sign of the Law, is on view at the Yale Law School Library and online http://library.law.yale.edu/exhibits/justice-sign-law
Co-Sponsored by Yale Women Faculty Forum, Astronomy Department, English Department, History Department, History of Art Department, Spanish and Portuguese Department and Yale Law Women
2010-11
Yale's First Women PhDs: Pioneering Scholars and Scientists in a Time of Change, Lecture by Ruth Vaughan and Liena Vayzman, April 15, 2011
12:00-1:30 pm, Hall of Graduate Studies, Rm. 211 Lunch provided
Did you know that the Graduate School at Yale was coeducational from its official inception in 1892? Women earned one-third of doctorates in the first class of PhDs in 1894, and went on to highly accomplished careers in academia and civic life, influencing later generations of students. WFF Associates Ruth Vaughan and Liena Vayzman will present a talk on their research, which brings to light the scholarship and biographies of these women. Cosponsored by the Yale Women Faculty Forum, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. RSVP to wff@yale.edu
Models of Mentorship: Perspectives from Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Graduate Students at Yale, April 6, 2011
Cosponsored by the Yale Women Faculty Forum and the Office for Diversity at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Trans/Gender Awareness Week at Yale, Nov. 2-16, 2010
http://lgbtq.yale.edu/trans-gender-awareness-week
https://sites.google.com/site/transweek/current
Intimate Partner Violence Awareness Week at Yale, October 25-31, 2010
Cosponsonsored by Yale Women Faculty Forum
A Conversation About Women in Politics
Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University
Jonathan Edwards Sunday Series event, co-Sponsored by Women Faculty Forum, in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the passage of the 19th ammendment
Sunday, November 7, 2010, 5:00pm
Featuring Patricia Russo, Women's Campaign School at Yale University and Gayle Weinstein, Selectwoman, Weston, Connecticut. Buffet dinner and discussion to follow at 6:30 pm in the JE Senior Common Room. RSVP requested only if attending dinner to jesundayseries@gmail.com
Northern California Celebration of 40 Years of Coeducation at Yale
Organized by the Yale Club of San Francisco and the Yale Club of Silicon Valley
Thursday, June 24, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Keynote speaker: Donna Dubinsky, Fellow of the Yale Corporation
For more information, please visit the Yale Club of San Francisco website.
WFF Policy Regarding Cosponsorships
The Women Faculty Forum (WFF) is delighted to participate in active and collaborative cosponsorship of events and initiatives with other departments and programs throughout the University. Cosponsorship can take many forms: helping with publicity, participation in content and logistical planning, and under exceptional circumstances, providing small amounts of funding for the event or initiative. Our goals in cosponsorship are to heighten awareness and increase interdisciplinary conversations, and to make events concerning women more accessible to the University community.
The WFF will consider cosponsorship requests for events and initiatives that relate to the organization’s stated purposes and current agendas, and that forward those agendas. Priority will be given to cosponsorship opportunities that allow the WFF to work collaboratively in the planning stages.
Requests for cosponsorship should be made as early as possible in the planning of an event. These requests should directed to wff [at] yale [dot] edu.
When possible, decisions on cosponsorship will be made at the monthly meetings of the WFF Council. In between Council meetings, decisions will be made by the Chair, Steering Committee, and staff of the WFF.
