EMORY REPORT • FEBRUARY 25, 2008 • CENTER FOR WOMEN Women’s History Month Women at Emory: Past, Present, and Future

MARCH 2 MARCH 7 University Worship, Women’s History Month International Coffee Hour Celebrating Sunday Celebration with Special Guest International Women’s Day 2008 Brenda Bynum 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Winship Ballroom, 11:00 a.m., Cannon Chapel. Sponsored by Office Dobbs University Center (DUC). Refreshments of the Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life and served. Sponsored by International Student and Fiction writer MarchCenter for Women Scholar Programs2008 and Graduate School Dorothy Allison (March 3) MARCH 3 MARCH 8 Feminist Founders Reading Series and Book- International Women’s Day Signing by Fiction Writer Dorothy Allison and Honoring the Late Eleanor C. Main MARCH 10 8:15 p.m., Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library. “Learning through Leadership,” a development Book-signing and reception will follow. luncheon for staff with guest speaker Jane DiFolco Sponsored by Creative Writing Program, Parker and a special viewing of the Women’s Center for Women, and Department of Oral History Project video. Women’s Studies Noon. Faculty Library, Law School. Sponsored by Office of Diversity and Community Initiatives MARCH 4 at the Law School “Redefining Women: Analyzing Gender in the Twenty-First Century,” a Graduate MARCH 10–14

Graduate student panel, Student Panel Discussion Spring Break “Redefining Women” 4:00 p.m., White Hall, Room 103. (March 4) Sponsored by Student Advocacy MARCH 20 Committee of the Center for Women Telling Our Stories, a special edition of untold Advisory Board and WS GRADS stories of Emory women, featuring Natasha Trethewey—Phillis Wheatley Distinguished MARCH 5 Chair in Creative Writing and 2007 Pulitzer Sixteenth-Annual Pride Banquet with Prize winner in poetry—and Isabel Wilkerson— Keynote Speaker Sara Look 92C, Co-owner James M. Cox Jr. Professor of and of Charis Books 1994 –winning reporter for the 6:30 p.m., Miller-Ward Alumni House. New York Times. For information and reserva- Sponsored by Emory Gay and Lesbian Alumni tions, call 404.727.2001 (GALA), Office of LGBT Life, and the President’s or email sasha.smith@ Commission on LGBT Concerns emory.edu. 5:30 p.m., Miller- MARCH 6 Ward Alumni House. “Global and Contemporary Perspectives Sponsored by Center for on International Women,” a student panel Women discussion 6:00–7:30 p.m., Turman Residence Hall lobby. A multimedia presentation and panel discussion on women’s issues and gender roles in different countries, presented by undergraduates who have studied abroad. This program is in celebration of International Women’s Day. Sponsored Natasha Trethewey by Center for International (above) and Isabel Wilkerson Programs, Center for Women, (March 20) Office of Multicultural Programs and Services, Student Advocacy Committee of the Center for Women Advisory Board, and Residence Life Diversity Committee

Study abroad perspectives (March 6)

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MARCH 21 MARCH 29 A Cross-Cultural Dance Performance by “Our Voices, Our Songs,” a faculty recital with Taal Soul women characters, composers, and perspectives; 5:00 p.m., Coke Commons, DUC. Sponsored featuring Teresa Hopkin, soprano, and Deborah by Center for Women, DUC, and Office of Thoreson, pianist. Multicultural Programs and Services 8:00 p.m., Emerson Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Sponsored by Department of MARCH 25 MarchMusic 2008 “Reflect and Evolve,” a presentation of new dance works by Emory students and collabora- MARCH 31 tions with Emory alumni. Helen Thomas, “First Lady of the Press,” will Noon, Carlos Museum Reception Hall. Sponsored present the keynote address for Women’s History by Emory Dance Program, Michael C. Carlos Month at Emory. Museum, and Center for Women 7:00 p.m., Tull Auditorium, Law School. Book-signing and reception to fol- “Soprano as Fetish: On the Rise of low. Sponsored by Center for Women, Department Professional Singers,” a lecture with the nation- of Women’s Studies Jessica Glasser Memorial ally acclaimed Susan McClary, professor of musi- Lecture, Hightower Lecture Fund, Graduate cology at University of California. School, Emory Law School, President’s 4:00–5:00 p.m., Room 207, White Hall. Sponsored Commission on the Status of Women at Emory, by Department of Music Emory Alumnae and Women of Emory

a public reading in celebration of Helen Thomas Alice Walker, MONTHLONG Keynote speaker (March 31) her papers being placed in Emory’s Manuscript, “Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Danowski Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). Poetry Collection” will feature highlights from 6:00 p.m., Glenn Memorial Auditorium, Emory the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. Through University. Sponsored by MARBL May 19 in the Main Corridor Galleries, Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library. Sponsored by MARBL MARCH 26 and Emory University Libraries The History of the Oral History Project “A Chronicle of Significant Events in the Lives Noon–1:00 p.m., Governors of Women at Emory,” featuring vintage photos Hall, Miller-Ward Alumni from the Emory University Archives. Permanently House. The Oral History Project displayed at the Center for Women. Sponsored by of the President’s Commission Center for Women and MARBL on the Status of Women at Emory has assembled thirty marvelous inter- “Women at Emory: Past, Present, and Future,” views with fascinating Emory women. an exhibition produced by the Emory University Mary Loftus of Emory Magazine will Archives and highlighting significant anniversa- Taal Soul emcee as several teams of interviewers ries of three Emory women’s organiza- (March 21) and women discuss the creation of a tions, with photographs and other items shared living history between those documenting women’s history at Emory telling the stories and those recording from its 1836 founding until coeduca- them. Sponsored by Center for Women tion in 1953. On display at the DUC and President’s Commission on the Status Art Gallery. Sponsored by Center for of Women at Emory Women, DUC, and MARBL

MARCH 28–30 “Women at Emory: Past, Present, The Eleventh-Annual National Black Herstory and Future,” an exhibition produced Conference and Awards Banquet: “Gathering by the Emory University Archives and of Voices on Health Care: Physical, Mental, highlighting significant anniversaries Spiritual, and Holistic” of three Emory women’s organizations, Whitehead Biomedical Research Building with photographs and other items doc- Auditorium, Emory University. For more informa- umenting women’s history at Emory tion, visit www.blackherstory.org. Sponsored by from its 1836 founding until coedu- National Black Herstory Task Force and School of cation in 1953. On display February Medicine 25–April 4 at Hoke O’Kelley Memorial Library, Oxford College of Emory University. Sponsored by Center for Women, Hoke O’Kelley Memorial Library, and MARBL

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