Please join the Vassar Club of New York virtually via Zoom for our next Book Club when author Matt Ortile ’14 reads from his book The Groom Will Keep His Name. A discussion of the novel will follow the reading.

Debora Spar' P’19's current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between technological change and broader social structures. Spar tackles some of these issues in her recent book Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of sexual characteristics to another, or to remain happily perched in between? What will happen to love and sex and romance as our relationships migrate from the real world to the Internet? Can people fall in love with robots? Will they? In short, what will happen to our most basic notions of humanity as we entangle our lives and emotions with the machines we have created?

Please join the Vassar Club of New York virtually via Zoom for our next Book Club on Wednesday, January 27th from 7:00-8:00pm EST, when author Indira Ganesan ’82 reads from her book 'As Sweet As Honey.'

A discussion of the novel will follow the reading.

Join VCNY for our Salon Series with Kelly Shannon ’03, Associate Professor of History, the Chastain-Johnston Middle Eastern Studies Distinguished Professor in Peace Studies, and the Executive Director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Initiative at Florida Atlantic University.

Our conversation will explore how protecting and promoting women's human rights in Islamic countries became an important U.S. foreign policy issue between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Obama Administration. We'll consider the roles played by the news media, feminist activists, Muslim women, and key U.S. policymakers, as well as the legacy of this history for current policymaking.

Join the Vassar Club of New York for an in-depth discussion about inhabiting the different worlds of Vassar College and the U.S. military and the civilian-military divide.