EVENTS CALENDAR

September 19, 2007
PCSW Meetings
The commission’s meetings are held from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month (September–April) in the Woodruff Library, Jones Room. The next meeting is September 19. Meetings are open to the Emory community unless the president requests a closed session. Please check this page monthly for the latest meeting details. We look forward to seeing you.

Meeting dates 2007–2008
September 19
October 17
November 16
December 19
January 16
February 20
March 19
April 16

A note on parking: The Parking Office has agreed to raise the gates at the Fishburne Parking Deck earlier than usual in order to accommodate commission members wishing to park there. The gates will go up at around 3:15. If you arrive before the gates are up, simply use the speaker system to make the attendant aware that you are there for the meeting in order to gain access without taking a ticket.

October 4 and 5, 2007
Women's Symposium
In conjunction with the Department of Women’s Studies and the Center for Women at Emory, the PCSW will sponsor a first-ever women’s symposium on October 4 and 5 titled “Women at Emory: Past, Present, and Future.” Underscoring the value of work done by Emory scholars about gender issues and women, the symposium will be organized around three tracks—Women and Health, Women in Culture and Society, and Women in the Professions. The keynote address will be by Nancy Cantor, the chancellor and president of Syracuse University. Long a proponent of a diverse workforce and of academe’s necessary role in helping create same, Cantor has focused on what she calls “our untapped talent pool”: women, along with racial and ethnic minorities. Her powerful voice will precede many others: the scholars themselves; Emory’s Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, Natasha Tretheway, doing a reading; and two plays that are reworkings of the Trojan Women and Iphegenia stories by feminist translator/writer Ellen McLaughlin. Click here for a more detailed program.