Celebrations at Sabancı University will begin with a lecture by leading feminist thinker and Brown University professor Anne Fausto Sterling on March 6, 2013 at the Sabancı University campus. Hosted by the Gender and Women's Studies Forum, the lecture will be titled "How Newborns Become Boys or Girls: A Focus on Development."
This will be followed by a students-only quiz show event on March 7, also hosted by the Gender and Women’s Studies Forum. The “Feminist Movement and Leaders in Turkey and the World” quiz show will be held in the cafeteria. Sabancı University Book Club will hold a workshop titled “Playing with Fire: Feminist Thinking and Movement in India Told through Seven Lives." The workshop will be moderated by President Nihat Berker with a keynote by author Richa Nagar. Nagar will be joined by KAMER Foundation Chair Nebahat Akkoç and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Member Ayşe Gül Altınay.
On March 8, International Women’s Day, the first session of the Istanbul Stock Exchange will begin with the women on the Independent Female Directors database, compiled by the Sabancı University Corporate Governance Forum, hitting the gong. Later in the day, Brown University professor Anne Fausto Sterling will give a lecture titled "Nature vs. Nurture: How Feminists Think about Gender Differences" at the Karaköy Minerva Palas, also hosted by the Gender and Women's Studies Forum
Program:
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Sabancı University Tuzla Campus, FMAN 2137 - 2.00 pm
Anne Fausto- Sterling (Brown University)
"How Newborns Become Boys or Girls: A Focus on Development"
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Sabancı University, Cafeteria - 12.30 pm
“Feminist Movement and Leaders in Turkey and the World” Quiz Show *
Sabancı University Cinema Hall - 4.45 pm
SU Book Club Event: “Playing with Fire: Feminist Thinking and Movement in India Told through Seven Lives" Workshop with Author Richa Nagar
Moderator:
Nihat Berker - Sabancı University President
Speakers:
Richa Nagar - Author
Nebahat Akkoç - KAMER
Ayşe Gül Altınay – Faculty Member, FASS
Friday, March 8, 2013
Istanbul Stock Exchange – 9.30 am
Independent Female Directors hit the gong for the first session
Minerva Palas - 5.00 pm
Anne Fausto- Sterling (Brown University)
"Nature vs. Nurture: How Feminists Think about Gender Differences"
* This event is open to students only.
