Being the First: But Making Sure You are Not the Last The nation recently welcomed Kamala Harris, our first woman and first woman of color, into the role of Vice President of the United States. The Center for Women & Gender Equity within the Division of Diversity and Belonging invites you to view “Being the First: But Making Sure You are Not the Last” – a brief roundtable discussion with Dr. Lisa Dubose, Dr. Kathleen Kollman, and Dr. Melissa Miller about the meaning and impact of having our first woman as Vice President. We’ll also discuss how to get women more involved in leadership at a local level and the importance of representation. You can view the recording here. On January 27th at 12:30pm, you can join Director of the Center for Women and Gender Equity, Dr. Kacee Ferrell Snyder, for a live discussion follow-up of the panel on Instagram @bgsu.cwge. WATCH NOW Our panelists include: Dr. Melissa Miller is an expert on American politics with a specific focus on elections and voting behavior, women in American politics, public opinion, and the media. She teaches courses in American Government, Political Parties, Voter Behavior, Women in American Politics, and Research Methods. In 2016 Dr. Miller was named Master Teacher -- the highest teaching award on campus. Dr. Kathleen Kollman completed her PhD in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University in 2020. She is currently serving as a Lecturer of English at the Ohio State University. Her research focuses on representations of gender in film, television, literature, and other popular culture texts. Dr. Kollman is working on turning her dissertation, “If She Were President: Fictional Representations of Female U.S. Presidents in Film, Television, and Literature,” into a monograph.  Dr. Lisa E. Dubose is a dually certified Human Resources Administrator (SHRM-SCP; SPHR), with nearly three decades of experience in public and private sector industries. She is currently employed as Director, Human Resources for Employee Relations and Professional Development at Bowling Green State University where she also earned her Ed.D in Leadership Studies. She has instructed as an adjunct at two universities, which include teaching for the past two summers, an accelerated master’s level Strategic Human Resources course for the Mendoza College of Business at The University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana.        

FORGE MENSTRUAL DRIVE | March 1 - 31 , 2021 Drop your donations off outside the Center for Women & Gender Equity office located at 280 Hayes Hall Don't FORGET to leave your name and email address with the items you drop off – FORGE will be giving away Diva Cups through a raffle for those who donate!

It's OK not to be OK. You are invited to join a mental health virtual discussion with the BGSU Counseling Center staff, Employee Assistance Program, Human Resources, and featured guests from across campus. Individuals who attend will have the opportunity to learn about mental health services, talk with each other about mental health concerns, discuss strategies for caring for their mental health and ask mental health-related questions. Faculty/Staff Schedule  Representatives will be available from the Counseling Center, Human Resources, and Impact Solutions (the university’s Employee Assistance Program). February 11, 2021 at 12pm (Thursday) JOIN ZOOM March 19, 2021 at 12pm ( Friday) JOIN ZOOM April 7, 2021 at 12pm ( Wednesday) JOIN ZOOM Students Schedule Wednesday February 10, 2021 at 12pm (undergraduate students) JOIN ZOOM Friday February 19, 2021 at 11am (graduate students) JOIN ZOOM Tuesday March 16,2021 at 3pm (undergraduate students) JOIN ZOOM Friday March 26, 2021 at 2pm (graduate students) JOIN ZOOM Tuesday April 13, 2021 at 3pm ( undergraduate students) JOIN ZOOM Wednesday April 14, 2021 at 12pm ( graduate students ) JOIN ZOOM For more information visit bgsu.edu/counselingcenter  

“Tour” the BG Recycling Center, courtesy of Wood County Solid Waste Management District. Learn how the city sorts and prepares recycling for the market. Find out how you can recycle correctly and often, and do your part to reduce waste! WATCH HERE! ---------- Join us in April for events and activities, both virtual and in-person that will involve and motivate the university community on the environment and sustainability, as well as celebrate our common home.  Because when it comes to our sustainable future, Earth is truly our nest!

The 2021 Ray Browne Conference for Popular Culture Studies, Considering Conclusions: What Do We Learn When We Unpack the Popular?, aspires to display the diversity of popular culture studies today. To register for this event and recieve the Zoom link :) visit: https://bgsu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqduygqD0vG9xwsOc2BilW8f54feeeXjB2  For conference schedule visit: bgsu.edu/raybrowne            

To register for this event and recieve the Zoom link visit: https://bgsu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqduygqD0vG9xwsOc2BilW8f54feeeXjB2   The Ray Browne Conference for Popular Culture Studies Considering Conclusions: What Do We Learn When We Unpack the Popular? Conference Keynote  The Failures of Popular Culture Studies  By Dr. Jeremy Wallach   Popular culture studies has spent so much time either defensively justifying its existence or celebrating itself that fundamental contradictions in the field remain unaddressed more than half a century into its existence.  My presentation outlines my own 25-year intellectual journey navigating a course between the Scylla of critical arrogance and the Charybdis of uncritical fannish enthusiasm.  I conclude by asserting that I have found the only way forward to be to acknowledge fully the political context in which we work, in which most forms of popular culture are openly and mercilessly derided, and our own subject positions as both scholars and active participants in popular culture broadly defined.   Jeremy Wallach is Professor of Popular Culture in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University. A cultural anthropologist specializing in popular music and globalization, he has written or co-written more than thirty research articles; co-edited, with Esther Clinton, a special issue of Asian Music (2013); and authored the monograph Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997-2001 (Univ. of Wisconsin, 2008; Indonesian Ed., Komunitas Bambu, 2017). In 2011, he co-edited, with Harris M. Berger and Paul D. Greene, the collection Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World (Duke). In 2013 he chaired the organizing committee for the landmark BGSU Heavy Metal and Popular Culture International Conference. A co-founder and former chair of the Society for Ethnomusicology Popular Music Section, Dr. Wallach has given research presentations in Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and throughout North America. His writings have appeared in Ars Lyrica, Asian Music, Ethnomusicology, Indonesia, the Journal for Cultural Research, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of World Popular Music Studies, Popular Music History, Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse, and numerous edited volumes and reference works, including the recently-published Bloomsbury Handbook for Rock Music Research.  The Ray Browne Conference for Popular Culture Studies is an annual graduate student organized conference that invites participants to consider the study of popular culture as an approach, proposal, and practice. Conference organizers seek contributions from undergraduates, graduates, established scholars, and professionals/enthusiasts. The Ray Browne Conference for Popular Culture Studies is presented by the Bowling Green State University graduate student organization the Popular Culture Scholars Association. The Popular Culture Scholars Association (PCSA) encourages the study of popular culture among the greater BGSU community; supports the professional development of BGSU POPC MA students; and links undergraduates, graduates, educators, and outside scholars in conversation.          

BGSU Softball vs Valparaiso https://bgsufalcons.com/calendar.aspx?id=11079

BGSU Volleyball at Central Michigan Streaming Video: https://www.espn.com/watch/player?id=421fa38a-d48f-40d0-b183-26908eeb5580 https://bgsufalcons.com/calendar.aspx?id=10986

Multicultural Initiatives for Graduate Student Success (MIGSS) is hosting a Thesis and Dissertation Workshop on March 5, 2021 from noon until 1 p.m. Panelists will include Dr. Jonathan Chambers and Tammy Oelkrug with Dr. Jennifer Sayre moderating.   If you would like to attend, please fill out this short registration from: https://gradapply.bgsu.edu/register/thesis and feel free to mention questions or topics that you'd like the panelists to discuss. 

BGSU Women's Tennis vs Cleveland State https://bgsufalcons.com/calendar.aspx?id=10856

Stop by the Career Center to get a free professional headshot! The Career Center holds professional headshot drop-in hours from 1-3 p.m. on Fridays on a first come first served basis during the academic year. Stop by the Career Center in BTSU 225 for a professional headshot drop-in session.

BGSU Softball at Marshall TV: C-USA TV Streaming Video: https://conferenceusa.com/watch/default.aspx?Live=14427&path=marshall https://bgsufalcons.com/calendar.aspx?id=11078

BGSU Baseball at James Madison https://bgsufalcons.com/calendar.aspx?id=11134

NCFDD Webinar Screening and Discussion Grab your strategic plan and learn the secret to making it work day-to-day and week-to-week! How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities is a step-by-step guide to holding a weekly planning meeting (aka The Sunday Meeting). In this webinar you'll learn: What works…and what DOESN'T work when it comes to weekly planning Why weekly planning is the bridge between your strategic plan and getting control of your workday The 30-minute technique that will help you make sure that the most important things get done each day And much more... In this session, we will stream the NCFDD webinar Making the Most of Your Week: How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities (Skill #2) over Zoom. Afterward, the CFE will facilitate a discussion session among BGSU members who watched the webinar screening. Register for the Friday, March 5th from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. NCFDD Webinar Screening and Discussion: Making the Most of Your Week: How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities.

UAO is partnering with Falcons After Dark to announce something...BIG! Join UAO in the BTSU at 6:00 PM for BIG PRIZE BINGO!!!!! And TRIVIA!!   VIRTUAL LINK COMING SOON

Falcons After Dark, this Friday! Take a break from Midterms Week with our Self Care Themed Falcons After Dark! This week features: Make your own Herbarium, Free mini succulents, free de-stress coloring books, free organization whiteboards, stress relief yoga, stress relief painting and big prize bingo!

Join to make German chocolate mug cakes and discuss feminism on campus! CWGE and BGSU Dining are pairing up to provide participants with kits so you can join the Zoom conversation.   REGISTER HERE 

BGSU Men's Basketball vs Ohio - Bill Frack Challenge TV: ESPN3/+ Radio: WFRO Eagle 99 Streaming Video: https://www.espn.com/watch/schedule/_/type/upcoming/startDate/20210302 Streaming Audio: https://bgsufalcons.com/sports/2012/8/14/GEN_0814125910.aspx https://bgsufalcons.com/calendar.aspx?id=11153

he Department of Theatre and Film is proud to present "Tragedy: a Tragedy" by Will Eno, directed by Lesa Lockford. The show follows news coverage of an anchorman who tries to hold himself and his program together as the world outside falls apart.  "Tragedy" will be live streamed on Friday, March 5 and Saturday, March 6, both at 8pm in Donnell Theater.   Don't miss your chance to see the show!  Both performances are being live-streamed only, they are not being recorded.  So purchase your tickets today, it's a must see show! Tickets are $5 through ShowTix4U. Purchase tickets