Women's History Month

Women Inspiring Hope and Possibility

Wednesday, March 1, 2006
7:00 PM @ Student Center, Ballroom A
U-card event
“Defining the Boundary of Women’s Work: A Conversation with Historians”
WHM Opening Ceremony featuring Dr. Holly Hurlburt and Dr. James Allen
This official kick-off of the 2006 Women’s History Month at SIUC is hosted and co-sponsored by the Department of History and Student Development – MPS. Refreshments provided. All are welcome.

Wednesday, March 1, 2006
8:30 PM @ Student Center, Ohio Room
Public Speaking Workshop
Dr. Linda McCabe Smith
Associate Professor
Rehabilitation Institute
This event is hosted and cosponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and Racial/Ethnic Minority Student Program. Free food provided. All are welcome.

Thursday, March 2, 2006
8:00 PM @ Communications Building, Kleinau Theater
Cost: $3 students, $5 public
On the Line: Exploring Resistance & Possibility
Directed by Janet Donoghue & Alison Fisher
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141 or visit the SIUC Public Events calendar at http://calendar.siu.edu/

Friday, March 3, 2006
6:00 PM @ Student Center, Art Alley
Art Alley Reception featuring Christine Sturgeon & Holly Behrends
Christine Sturgeon and Holly Behrends are senior art students at SIUC.
For additional information contact Student Programming Council at 536-3393.

Friday, March 3, 2006
7:30 PM @ Pulliam Hall, Furr Auditorium
Cost: $5 students, $10 adults
Vagina Monologues
All proceeds go to the Women’s Center.
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141.

Friday, March 3, 2006
8:00 PM @ Communications Building, Kleinau Theater
Cost: $3 students, $5 public
On the Line: Exploring Resistance & Possibility
Directed by Janet Donoghue & Alison Fisher
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141 or visit the SIUC Public Events calendar at http://calendar.siu.edu/

Saturday, March 4, 2006
2:00 PM @ Student Center, Old Main Room
Bridging the Gap Luncheon
Hosted by Black Women’s Task Force
This event is hosted and cosponsored by Racial/Ethnic Minority Student Program and the Black Women’s Task Force.
For additional information contact the Racial/Ethnic Minority Student Program at 453-6964

Saturday, March 4, 2006
7:30 PM @ Pulliam Hall, Furr Auditorium
Cost: $5 students, $10 adults
Vagina Monologues
All proceeds go to the Women’s Center.
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141.

Saturday, March 4, 2006
8:00 PM @ Communications Building, Kleinau Theater
Cost: $3 students, $5 public
On the Line: Exploring Resistance & Possibility
Directed by Janet Donoghue & Alison Fisher
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141 or visit the SIUC Public Events calendar at http://calendar.siu.edu/

Sunday, March 5, 2006
2:00 PM @ Pulliam Hall, Furr Auditorium
Cost: $5 students, $10 adults
Vagina Monologues
All proceeds go to the Women’s Center.
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141.

Monday, March 6, 2006
12:00 Noon @ Student Center, Illinois Room
U-card event
“A Question of Color”
A Question of Color is the first documentary to confront “color consciousness” in the Black community. It explores the devastating effect of a caste system based on how closely skin color, hair texture and facial features conform to a European ideal. It provides a unique window for examining cross-cultural issues of identity and self-image for anyone who has experienced prejudice. Director Kathe Sandler asked scores of African Americans of all shades about their experience with the “color question” – from New York City to Alabama, from teenagers to a 96 year-old great, great grandmother. We experience the psychological and emotional turmoil which the issue engenders in a college president, a mayor, a TV anchorwoman, young rappers and others – including the filmmaker herself. The film is particularly sensitive to the special burden color consciousness imposes on women. Darker skinned women recall how they have felt devalued and desexualized because of the bias in favor of European standards of beauty. Lighter skinned women reveal the pain of exclusion and ridicule because of their presumed sense of superiority. This unusually sensitive film can help viewers examine the complex interplay between racial identity, culture and self-image in society and within themselves. Discussion follows.

Monday, March 6, 2006
6:00 PM @ Lawson Hall, Room 141
Connecting: Creating a Life of Activism
Panel of students and faculty in Psychology featuring Rachel Pickett, Samantha Outcalt, Donna LaBarge, Amanda Jantzer, Jamie Huber, Kenna Bolton Holz, Ann Fischer, and Holly Cormier. For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141

Monday, March 6, 2006
7:00 PM @ Parkinson Laboratory, Browne Auditorium
U-card event
Joyce Scott
Artist
Joyce J. Scott, one of the most significant artists living and working in Baltimore today, was born in Baltimore and still lives in the Baltimore neighborhood where she was raised. Sculptor, jeweler, printmaker, installation artist, performance artist, and educator, Joyce J. Scott draws from influences as wide-ranging as her media: from African and Native American experiences to comic books, television, popular American culture sources and the contemporary culture as it exists on the streets of her urban Baltimore neighborhood. For more than three decades, this multi-talented artist and provocateur has created objects of exceptional skill and beauty while offering her own distinctive commentary on social issues such as stereotyping, violence, and other forms of social injustice. This event is sponsored by the School of Art and Design, Student Development - MPS, the Black History Month Committee, and the Fine Arts Activity Fee. For additional information contact Renea Kennedy at 453-4315

Tuesday, March 7, 2006
12:00 Noon @ Student Center, Mackinaw Room
“Researching Women: Undergraduate Experience”
Roundtable Discussion
This event is sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Anthropology.
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141

Tuesday, March 7, 2006
2:00 PM @ Student Center, Saline Room
All About Women’s Studies
Panel of Women’s Studies instructors discuss Minor, Graduate Certificate Program and courses in Women’s Studies.
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141

Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Reception: 7:00 PM – 7:30 pm Program: 7:30 pm
Faculty Club, 1000 South Elizabeth
11 th Annual Writing Contest: The Reading of Winning Essays
This event is sponsored by the Carbondale Branch American Association of University Women. The public is invited.
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141

Wednesday, March 8, 2006
7:00 PM @ Student Center, Kaskaskia Room
U-card event
Ladies Only Workshop
Melissa Haithcox
Melissa Haithcox, SIUC doctoral student, will facilitate this event that is sponsored by the Wellness Center and Student Development – MPS.
For additional information contact the Wellness Center at 536-4441

Thursday, March 9, 2006
7:00 PM @ Student Center, Ballroom A
U-card event
Lost in Translation: Women in the Bible
Barbara Zeitz
This program unveils gender in the rhetoric and perspective of the original Hebraic text of the Bible. It decodes the power of translation which allows for judgments and interpretations by translators who introduced misogynist language not found in the original text. It examines verbs and nouns of the gendered Hebrew language that provide clues to a gender identity when referencing man or woman. For example, the word 'adam' can be gender-specific for man, as well as gender-generic for human. It critiques assumed allegories and words undetected in the Genesis story. This program is not meant to challenge any specific belief or religion rather it is an enterprising literary review of the narrative.

Monday, March 20, 2006
12:00 Noon @ Student Center, Mackinaw Room
U-card event
Brown Bag Discussion: “Promoting a Positive Self Image”
LaSheila Williams
LaSheila Williams, SIUC doctoral student, will facilitate this event that is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Student Development – MPS.
For additional information contact LaSheila Williams at lasheila@siu.edu

Monday, March 20, 2006
6:00 PM @ Student Center, Craft Shop
U-card event
Happy Factory
Make toys for Kids. We are in need of volunteers to make wooden toys that will be donated to the Carbondale Women’s Center. Light wood working and finishing is required. Small groups or individuals are encouraged. Must be 18 or older to run power tools. For more volunteer hours call the Student Center Craft Shop at (618)453-3636. Free

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
4:00 PM @ Wheeler Hall (Check-in)
U-card event
Campus Walk for Wellness and Women’s Scholarships
Participants receive a complimentary ticket to the Celebrate Women Reception with a minimum $10 in sponsorships.
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
7:00 PM @ Student Center, Ballroom B
U-card event
Women Inspiring Hope and Possibility
Anna Jackson, Lecturer in English, Tequia Hicks, Student Trustee, and Ella Lacey, SIUC Emerita, are the featured presenters for this special Women’s History month event. This program is sponsored by the Department of English and Student Development – MPS. For additional information contact Ms. Jackson at 453-6834

Wednesday, March 22, 2006
7:00 PM @ Faner Hall, University Museum
10 th Annual Celebrate Women Benefit for Women’s Scholarships
Auction Sneak Preview: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Silent Auction: 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
“George Eliot's Gifts to a Modern Feminist”

Dean Shirley Clay Scott
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Program: Comedy by Janet Donoghue
Film, “God Sleeps in Rwanda”
Commentary by Professor Cade Bursell
Scholarship Presentation: 5:30 – 5:45PM
Live Auction: 5:45 – 6:15PM
(Admission charge after 4:00 pm) Cost: $5 Students, $10 Public
Refreshments served $:00 pm – 6:15 pm
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141

Thursday, March 23, 2006
4:00 PM @ Faner Hall 1326, Harry T. Moore Auditorium
A Poetry Reading presented by Judy Jordan
SIUC Assistant Professor Judy Jordan will read from her poetry as part of the spring 2006 Creative writing Reading Series sponsored by SIUC’s Department of English. All events are free and open to the public.

Friday, March 24, 2006
7:00 PM @ Longbranch Coffeehouse (backroom), 100 East Jackson St.
The Bombs Away Collective Presents: Tributaries of Women’s
Herstories and Futures
Performances by Nicole Defenbaugh, Janet Donoghue, Alison Aurelia Fisher, Diana Tigerlily, Melinda Yeomans and Amber Zimmerman. Donations encouraged. All proceeds go to the Women’s Center and Peace Coalition of Carbondale.
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141

Friday, March 24, 2006
7:00 PM @ Student Center, Renaissance Room
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. (Mu Eta Zeta Chapter)
Finer Womanhood Banquet
A special evening is in store for the SIUC community at this annual celebration of sophisticated and distinguished women.
For additional information on the event contact Lolita Mack (618) 559-3669. Tickets are $30 for individuals and $50 for couples. This event is sponsored Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. (Mu Eta Zeta Chapter)

Monday, March 27, 2006
12:00 Noon @ Student Center, Kaskaskia Room
U-card event
Brown Bag Discussion: “Women in Bangladesh”
Dr. Kathy Ward, Professor in the Department of Sociology, will facilitate this event that is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Student Development – Multicultural Programs & Services. For additional information contact Dr. Ward at 453-7626.

Monday, March 27, 2006
6:00 PM @ Student Center, Craft Shop
U-card event
Happy Factory
Make toys for Kids. We are in need of volunteers to make wooden toys that will be donated to the Carbondale Women’s Center. Light wood working and finishing is required. Small groups or individuals are encouraged. Must be 18 or older to run power tools. For more volunteer hours call the Student Center Craft Shop at (618)453-3636. Free

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
12:00 Noon @ Student Center, Mississippi Room
U-card event
Women, Body, and Resistance
Interdisciplinary panel of feminist scholars discuss their research around the intersections of women, the body, and resistance.
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141

Thursday, March 30, 2006
12:00 Noon @ Lesar Law, Room 102
How the New Bankruptcy Laws are Affecting Women
Dean Peter Alexander, SIUC Law School, is the featured speaker at this special Women’s History Month program.
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141.

Thursday, March 30, 2006
4:00 PM @ Faner Hall 1326, Harry T. Moore Auditorium
Women’s History Month Award Ceremony, Poetry Reading, & Reception
Featuring the six winners of the Roxana Memorial Poetry Contest and the contest’s judge, poet Ruth Ellen Kocher. The winners and the judge will read from their poetry in celebration of Women’s History Month. Free and open to the public. For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141.

Thursday, March 30, 2006
4:15 PM @ Faner Hall, University Museum Auditorium
A Radical Feminist Perspective on Violence and its Control
Professor Harold Pepinsky
Professor Harold Pepinsky, Criminal Justice Department, Indiana University, is the featured speaker at this free Women’s History Month program. Reception follows. For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141

Friday, March 31, 2006
3:00 PM @ Morris Mountain (Open area between Morris Library and Wham)
Women’s History Month Closing Ceremony – Deb Morrow Tree Dedication
For additional information contact Women’s Studies at 453-5141

Women’s History Month Exhibitions

March 1 - 20, 2006
@ Student Center 2 nd Floor, Art Alley
Art Alley Exhibit featuring Christine Sturgeon and Holly Behrends
For additional information contact the Student Programming Council at 536-3393.

February 1 – April 14, 2006
@ Faner Hall, University Museum
A Celebration of Women Artists in Fiber and Clay

Fiber:
Anita Hayden ( Nashville, Indiana formerly of Makanda) Hand woven rugs - 6 works
Karen Linduska ( Carbondale) Art quilt series – 10 quilt squares
Amy Naas ( Carbondale) Wearable art – 6-8 works

Clay:
Karen Fiorino (Makanda) – 6-8 pieces
Judy Groskind (Carterville) – 2 wall pieces/6 small works
Darby Ortolano (Murphysboro) - 6-8 pieces
For additional information contact the University Museum at 453-5388

WSIU Television for Women's History Month Check out the WSIU Public Television schedule on-line at http://wsiu.org

For additional information contact:
Trina K. Thomas
Programming Coordinator WSIU-TV

PH: 618-453-6169
FX: 618-453-6186
Email: trina.thomas@wsiu.org

ANNOUNCING THE ROXANA RIVERA MEMORIAL POETRY CONTEST

Join SIUC’s Creative Writing and Women’s Studies Programs as we honor the memory of a wonderful poet and celebrate Women’s History Month.

The Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest honors the memory of Roxana Rivera (1977-2003), who was a first-year creative writing graduate student from Lynwood, California. Roxana, a graduate of California State University Long Beach, earned her Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies and English. While at SIUC, Roxana was a PROMPT Scholar and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of English.

To remember this special woman and poet, a campus-wide poetry contest will be held, with divisions for both undergraduate and graduate students. Gift certificates will be awarded as prizes in both divisions:

$70 for first place $50 for second place $30 for third place

This contest is open to all students currently enrolled at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

This Year’s Theme: “Strong Women, Getting Stronger”
DEADLINE: Friday, March 24, 2006
To Enter: Submit an entry packet that includes the following:

--A cover letter with your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and poem titles. Mention in your cover letter whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student.

--Poem(s) on individual sheets (one poem only per page). No identifying information on the poems themselves, please. There is no entry fee, but there is a limit of three poems per entrant.

--The contest theme is provided to spark your creativity, and entries that reflect upon the theme in the lives of women are particularly welcome.

Entry packets should be submitted to Prof. Allison Joseph, Department of English, Mail Code # 4503. Entries may be sent via campus mail or dropped off at the English Department office (Faner Hall 2380) during regular campus office hours. Winners will be honored at a special awards ceremony to be held on March 30, 2006.

Women’s History Month Sponsors

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (Delta Beta Chapter), Bombs Away, Carbondale Branch American Association of University Women, Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency, and Corrections, College of Business Administration, College of Liberal Arts, Creative Writing Program and Department of English, Department of Anthropology, Department of Cinema & Photography, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Department of Theater, Racial /Ethnic Minority Student Programs, School of Law, Student Development - Multicultural Programs and Services, University Museum, University Women’s Professional Advancement, Women’s Caucus, Women’s Services, Women’s Studies, and the Wellness Center