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UW-Eau Claire Hosts Events
For Women's History Month 

MAILED: Feb. 26, 2002

         EAU CLAIRE — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will host a number of events in March in honor of Women's History Month. The UW-Eau Claire Commission on the Status of Women has adopted the National Women's History Month theme, "Women Sustaining the American Spirit," and has incorporated this theme in the month's events. All events are free and open to the public.

• Video Display - Friday, March 1, West Lobby of Davies Center and Towers Hall Front Lobby.

• "There Is No Such Thing As Women's Work" - 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 2, TV-10. Film repeated at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 9 and March 16.

• "Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice" - 1 p.m. Saturday, March 2, TV-10. Film repeated at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 9 and March 16.

• "Mary Silliman's War" - 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, Hibbard Hall 103. This historical film shows the struggles of women during the American Revolutionary War.

• Presentation by Judy Gorman - 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, Davies Theatre. Featured guest artist Judy Gorman will present a workshop, "Multicultural History of Women in Music."

• Judy Gorman concert - 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, Davies Theatre. The Women's History Month opening reception will follow the concert in the Skylight Lounge, Davies Center.

• "Women in American Life 1917-1942: Cultural Image and Economic Reality" - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, Davies Theatre. This film focuses on the changes and opportunities that were created for women as a result of World War I, and the ways the great depression affected women personally and economically.

• Sara Hendrix concert - 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 7-9, The Cabin, Davies Center, sponsored by University Activities Commission and Student Senate.

• "Gender, Islam and Globalization" - 2 p.m. Friday, March 8, Davies Theatre. Jennifer Olmsted, assistant professor of economics at Occidental College, Los Angeles, will present this lecture.

• The International Women's Day reception - following the Jennifer Olmsted lecture, Friday, March 8, in the Skylight Lounge. International Women's Day began in 1908, when the Socialist party appointed a committee to campaign for women's right to vote. It is now an official holiday.

• "Girls Next Door: Poetry and Prose from Women of the Third Wave" - 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 11, The Cabin. Carrie Becker, Jayne Blodgett, Ashlee Kuhry, Emily Olson and Patti See will present poetry and personal essays focusing on Third Wave Feminism as it pertains to them from the mid 1980s to present.

• "Mary Lou Williams: Music on My Mind" - 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, Hibbard Hall 103. This film compiles interviews with Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillepsie and Buddy Tate to tell the musical and personal elements of the exciting life of Williams, often called jazz's greatest female musician.

• "Reviving the Dead Ladies" - 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, Phillips Recital Hall of Haas Fine Arts Center. The American Association of University Women will perform this skit about the pioneers of the women's suffrage movement.

• UW-Eau Claire Women's Conference - Wednesday, March 13-Thursday, March 14, will include a variety of lectures, activities and presentations.

• Student production of "The Vagina Monologues" - presented at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, Schofield Auditorium, as part of the two-day Women's Conference.

• "Adelante Mujeres: History of Mexican American Women" - 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 18, Hibbard Hall 103. This film introduces the culture and history of Mexican American women, spanning five centuries.

• "Chicken Head Envy: What is a Black Feminist?" - 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, Hibbard Penthouse. This discussion, led by Dr. Selika Ducksworth-Lawson, associate professor of history, and David Jones, assistant professor of English, will focus on hip hop feminism, and include the questions, "Can you be feminist and listen to rap?" "Can you be feminist and sell your body?" "Is selling sexuality a form of power, or giving in to exploitation?"

• Women's studies awards celebration - 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, Davies Theatre.

• Women's studies awards reception - 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, Skylight Lounge.

• "A League of Their Own" - 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, Towers Hall TV Lounge. Film sponsored by the Towers Hall Council.

• "Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee" - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, Davies Theatre. In this film, Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes aware of the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their continued struggle for rights that began in 1890 at the Battle of Wounded Knee.

         Women's History Month events are sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women; women's studies program; Housing & Residence Life; UW-Eau Claire departments of history, English, and economics; Office of Research and Sponsored Programs; University Recreation; Student Health Service; Student Senate; University Activities Commission; Activities and Programs; Towers Hall Council; Peer Diversity Educators; National Residence Hall Honorary; Making Our School an Intercultural Community (MOSAIC); Party Smart; Violence Against Women Task Force; Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment (PAVE); American Association of University Women; and Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership (WWHEL).
         For more information, contact Jodi Thesing-Ritter at 836-3630 or send e-mail to thesinjm@uwec.edu.
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Updated: Feb. 26, 2002