Friday, March 8, 11am (Union Auditorium)
Shireen Ghorbani will deliver our No Limits conference keynote address -- “We Are the Leaders"
Ghorbani is a former candidate for the US House of Representatives. She was featured on the cover of Time magazine, which showcased the grassroots movement of women newly inspired to run for office. An alum of UNL, Ghorbani received her MA in Communication Studies with a graduate specialization in Women’s & Gender Studies. A former Peace Core Volunteer, she is currently Associate Director of Communication and Organizational Development for Facilities Management at the University of Utah. In her talk, Ghorbani will share lessons learned from a pathway to politics that followed lines of academia and activism. At the intersection of authenticity, rage, and deep desire to do better, Ghorbani offers a call to action and an invitation to, in the words of Grace Lee Boggs, reckon with the notion that “we are the leaders we've been waiting for.” More information can be found here --https://www.unl.edu/wgs/no-limits-2019
Co-sponsored by the EVC Office, College of Arts & Sciences, and Honors Program
Tuesday, April 9, 3:30pm (Sheldon Auditorium) -- HMED Linda & Charles Wilson Lecture
Professor Lara Freidenfelds, "Perfect Pregnancies and Mourned Miscarriages: A History of Modern Childbearing"
Freidenfelds offers a far-reaching look at the rise of our current childbearing culture from its earliest glimmers in the Revolutionary era to today. She concludes with suggestions for how we might set realistic and humane expectations for childbearing, and accept the inevitable imperfections of this most human of endeavors. Lara Freidenfelds is a historian of sex, reproduction, and women’s health in America, and the author of The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America. She blogs with the historian’s perspective on childbearing, parenting, sex, and health. She holds a PhD in the history of science from Harvard. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
Co-sponsored by WGS and Communication Studies.