via Email | Cynthia Lowenthal | August 20, 2007
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The School of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 4pm, September 11, in Alumni Hall.
For more information contact:
Cynthia Lowenthal
Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
via Email | Alison Piepmeier | August 20, 2007
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Women’s and Gender Studies Program has a new office, Maybank 119. This is our interim space, and we will likely be here for most or all of this academic year. Our phone number remains the same.
Alison Piepmeier, Ph.D.
Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
The College of Charleston
Charleston, SC 29424
PiepmeierA@cofc.edu
www.cofc.edu/wgs
843-953-2280
via Email | Alison Piepmeier | August 2007
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April 10, 2007 | 7 p.m. | R.S. Smalls Building Auditorium | Free and open to the public
Kate Bornstein is an author, playwright, and performance artist, with well-known (and widely taught) books, including Gender Outlaw and Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws. She’s also a male-to-female transsexual and a lesbian who talks about the ways in which her own identity challenges our society’s traditional gender system. She’s interested in providing support for students who feel that they don’t fit in (LGBT teens are much more likely to commit suicide that their straight peers) and in educating anyone who is confused about what “LGBT” means and what it means to be a transgender person.
A New York Times reviewer said of her, “In an age of often hostilely expressed gender politics, Ms. Bornstein gently leads audiences through her own psychic labyrinth without antagonism. She is sweet, sincere, lucid and sometimes as corny as Kansas in August. She really should have her own television show.”
Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Department of Physical Education and Health, the Communication Department, the English Department, the Psychology Department, the Gay/Straight Alliance, the Cougar Activities Board, and CofC NOW.
Alison Piepmeier, Ph.D.
Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
The College of Charleston
Charleston, SC 29424
PiepmeierA@cofc.edu
www.cofc.edu/wgs <http://www.cofc.edu/wgs>
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The Psychology Department invites you to attend the talk:
“CONTEMPORARY BEHAVIORAL ACTIVATION TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION”
Our speaker is Carl W. Lejuez, Ph.D. from the Center for Addictions, Personality and Emotion Research at the University of Maryland
Abstract: In the past decade, there has been renewed interest in the feasibility and efficacy of behavioral treatments for clinical depression. Emphasizing the contextual factors underlying depression, behavioral activation approaches aim to improve depressed mood through increasing valued activity and access to reinforcement. The current presentation will review the history of behavioral activation including the theoretical roots underlying the development of this treatment approach. In addition to providing data supporting its use as a stand-alone treatment for depression, extensions of this work will be discussed with a specific focus on its application to depression among specialized samples including inner-city substance users and women diagnosed with breast cancer.
Date: Tuesday, April 3rd.
Time: 3: 10 pm.
Location: Science Center, Rm. 121.
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The College of Charleston has named Dr. Cynthia Lowenthal as new dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr. Lowenthal was previously dean of the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College at Tulane University. In addition to assuming the deanship on July 1, 2006, Lowenthal will continue to be an active teacher and scholar at the College of Charleston.
The largest of the academic schools at the College of Charleston, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences offers core programs and departments in Communication, Political Science, English, Psychology, History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy and Urban Studies. The faculty members are esteemed “teacher-scholars” who frequently win awards for distinguished teaching and research.
See also: The School of Humanities & Social Sciences Website