Calendar

Fall Semester 2003
	Sept 22 7:00 p.m. UC-107	Third Annual Lecture on Women and Genocide Co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust/Genocide Studies and Women's Studies. Nechama Tec "Resistance and courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust"
	Sept 29 4:00 p.m. UC-107	Artist Siona Benjamin Art and Life Talk Co-sponsored by the Humanities Program, Asian Studies, Women's Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies. See her work at: http://www.artsiona.com
	Sept 21 8:00 p.m. Haselton 4th	CLA Women's Concerns Club meeting
	Oct 9 7:00 p.m. Hall of Sciences 4	Girls On Film: A Women's Studies Film Series "Rabbit Proof Fence" (2002) Directed by Philip Noyce (94 minutes). Set in 1931, the film is based on the true story of Molly Craig, an Australian aboriginal girl, who escapes with her younger sister and cousin from the Government school to which they have been forcibly removed to train as domestic servants. The film follows their 1500 mile trek home across the Australian outback.
	Oct. 13 7:00 p.m. Arts Building 106	Girls On Film: A Women's Studies Film Series "Eve's Bayou" (1997) Directed by Kasi Lemmon (109 minutes). "Memory is a selection of images, some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain. The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old." With this opening line, the film introduces us to its protagonist and narrator, Eve Baptiste (Jurnee Smollett), the youngest daughter in an affluent African-American Louisiana bayou family. Through her observations and memories we try to understand what happened among the members of her family - her handsome philandering father (Samuel Jackson), her beautiful mother (Lynn Whitfield), her teenage sister (Meagan Good), her crazy aunt (Debbi Morgan) - during one particular summer of the early 1960s.
	Nov. 5 7:00 p.m. Arts Building 106	Girls On Film: A Women's Studies Film Series "Houskeeping" (1987) Directed by Bill Forsyth (116 minutes). The lives of two young sisters growing up in the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s are changed radically when their mother commits suicide and their Aunt Sylvie (Christina Lahti) comes to care for them. Their Aunt Sylvie is simply not an ordinary person. Roger Ebert calls this "one of the strangest and best films of the year."
	Nov. 12 7:00 p.m. Arts Building 106	Girls On Film: A Women's Studies Film Series "Welcom to the Dollhouse" (1995) Directed by Todd Solondz (88 minutes). The tribulations of unattractive 7th grader Dawn Weiner (Heather Matarazzo), trapped in her family between her smart older brother and her cute little sister and tormented by her school mates who call her "Dog-face."
	Nov. 19 7:00 p.m. LC 28	"In English, Spanglish and Espanol: The Politics of Inclustion for Latinas and Latinos in Contemporary America" Dr. Christine Marie Sierra, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico Politicians stumbling to speak Spanish, a presidential debate targeting Hispanics, pundits predicting how Latinos will vote in key elections . . .How is the burgeoning Latino population changing the style and substance of American politics? Do diverse Latino communities come together in politics? Sierra will discuss key aspects of Latino/a politics an what inclusion means for Hispanic women and men and the future of the nation.
	Nov. 24 5:00 p.m. Arts Building 106	Girls On Film: A Women's Studies Film Series "Bend It Like Beckham" (2002) Directed by Gurinder Chadha (112 minutes). Set in west London, the film follows two 18-year-old girls, one from a Sikh family, one from a lower middle class English family, who want nothing more than to play professional soccer. Their families, particularly their mothers, have other ideas about their daughters' futures.
	Nov. 24 7:00 p.m. Wendel Rm, Mead Hall	A Fiction Reading by Monique Truon, Author of the acclaimed Book of Salt Co-sponsored by the English Department, the Asian Studies Department, the Women's Studies Department, Asia Tree House, and Asia Kirkus Reviews calls her debut novel "Dazzling. . .a tour de force. Truong should take literate America by storm." Publishers Weekly writes: "a mesmerizing narrative voice, an insider's view of a fabled literary household, and the slow revelation of heartbreaking secrets contribute to the visceral impact of this first novel."
	Nov. 24 8:30 p.m. The Space UC	Women's Cabaret Sponsored by the Women's Concerns House
Spring Semester 2004
	Feb. 3 6:30 p.m. BC 101	The Works in Process Lecture Series: "Sex, Power, & Pan-En-Theism: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Process Theology But Were Afraid to Ask" Dr. Catherine Keller
	Mar. 1 7 p.m. BC 117	"The Revolution and the Other: Blacks, Women and Gays within the Cuban Revolution" Ted Henken
	Mar. 1 8 p.m. UC 107	Women's Concerns Coffee House Music, Food, Poetry
	Mar. 23 4 p.m. Wendel Rm, Mead Hall	Women's Studies Student Colloquium Students present work from Women's Studies classes
	Mar. 23 7 p.m. BC 117	Lecture: Sylvia Marcos, "Comparative Feminisms: The Indigenous Women's Movements in Mexico" Presented by Latin American Studies
	Mar. 29 7:30 p.m. Wendel Rm, Mead Hall	Lecture: “Womanhood to Buy, Whiteness for Sale: Consumer Culture in the Early Twentieth Century United States” Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin College
	Apr. 22 6-9:30 p.m. LC 28	Film screening and Q&A with Director, Nilita Vachani A documentary about Josephine, an illegal migrant worker from Sri Lanka who lives and works in Greece as a nanny. The film follows her visit with her own children after an absence of 8 years.