Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D.: The Arab Spring: Challenges and Opportunities for Women
April 20, 2012
52:46 min.

The Arab Spring was a powerful reminder of the global community we live in today and the importance of transnational idea sharing. In this presentation, Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D., director of International Human Rights Policy and the Susan McGee Baily Research Scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women and director of the Women in Public Service Summer Institute at Wellesley College, will discuss the coming together of transnational actors at the Rabat Roundtable that convened in May 2011. She will also discuss how the work that follows, including a future meeting of women leaders from the Arab and Muslim world, offers a critical space at a critical time to reflect on the role of women in political transformation and to identify challenges and impediments to women’s role in the vanguard of political reform in the Arab and Muslim World.

Judy Jordan, Ph.D., Joyce Fletcher, Ph.D., Anne Litwin, Ph.D.: Women Working with Women
April 12, 2012
36:16 min.

Women's work relationships are a complex and often contradictory subject. Popular culture portrays women's workplace relationships as largely negative, with women often described as catty, mean, or intrinsically untrustworthy. In this presentation, Anne Litwin, Ph.D., Judith V. Jordan, Ph.D., and Joyce Fletcher, Ph.D., will discuss their research on women's work relationships, which provides a more accurate and positive understanding of the origins of some patterns of relationships stereotypically seen as negative.

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Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D.: Preventing Depression in Teens: The CATCH-IT Intervention Program 11/10/11
April 5, 2012
57:52 min.

Project CATCH-IT is a combined primary care/internet-based preventive intervention that aims to reduce the risk of depression in adolescents with depressive symptoms.  It is designed to teach teens strategies to prevent depression.  In this presentation, Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D., Director of the Stone Primary Prevention Initiatives at the Wellesley Centers for Women, describes the CATCH-IT intervention and presents pilot data suggesting that teens who participate in this intervention exhibit reductions in depressive symptoms and fewer episodes of depressive disorders over time.  She also describes the efficacy trial of this intervention that is currently underway at WCW.

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Kate Price, M.A.: Longing to Belong: Relational Risks and Resilience in U.S. Prostituted Children
March 15, 2012
50:52 min.

Prostituted children are vulnerable to exploitation through the lack of secure relationships and histories of betrayal. Furthermore, the very assumption that children will be protected is fundamental to our proprietary, private family-based (white, heterosexual) culture. And yet, prostituted children, like all people, require nurturing relationships and belonging. Providing relationship-building and conflict resolution skills, within the framework of prostituted children's relational challenges such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and betrayal histories, provides hope and agency in a culture that is ready to disregard and incriminate children who do not fit in the innocence mold. Kate Price, M.A., is Program Associate at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute.

Amy Hoffman, MFA: "Spinning," a reading from a chapter of my family memoir, "Lies about My Family"
March 8, 2012
34:11 min

Amy Hoffman, MFA, editor-in-chief of Women's Review of Books, read excerpts from her forthcoming memoir, Lies About My Family. The book deals with issues of continuity and discontinuity between generations, immigration, and family bonds. Amy is also the author of Hospital Time, about taking care of friends with AIDS, was published by Duke University Press in 1997, and An Army of Ex-Lovers, about Boston's Gay Community News and the lesbian and gay movement of the late 1970s, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press.