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Pictures of the 2008 Vagina
Monologues!
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Pictures of 2008 KU Women's Center
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Groups
Mondays
Tuesdays
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The
Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance
FMLA’s mission
is to create an awareness of issues important to women and men
students while promoting the welfare of society as a whole. This
group sponsors the Vagina Monologues and the campus-wide "Take
Back the Night Rally and March" each spring and assists in many
Women's Center activities, including residence hall programs,
Women's History Month and Take Our Daughters To Work Day. FMLA meets every Tuesday at 11 a.m.
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Until they Come
Home
Supporting each other as we support our troops. We want
YOU! Join us as we support not only the troops, but the ones
that are left behind, waiting for them to come back home.
This group is open to anyone that has a significant other
serving in the Armed Forces. We are planning to send care
packages, letters and fun things to the soldiers. This is
also an opportunity to support and relate to others that are
going through a similar experience missing a service member. 4
p.m.
Wednesdays
Thursdays
Fridays
The Oasis is closed except for special events.
For information regarding any of these groups, contact
Grace Hill in the Women's Center at
(610) 683-4655 or email her at
hill@kutztown.edu.
All groups meet in the new
Women’s
Center Oasis in Old Main 3
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Women’s Center & Women’s Studies Calendar of Activities & Events 2009-2010 |
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SEPTEMBER |
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Wednesday,
September 16
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Women and Leadership Series: Women and
the Environment
Dyana Furmansky, 4:30 p.m. in McFarland Student
Union 183, Alumni Auditorium
Dyana Z
Furmansky, writer in residence for Hawk Mountain Sanctuary’s
75th anniversary, is author of Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy:
The Activist Who Saved nature From the Conservationists,
which received a 2009 Wormsloe Foundation Nature Award.
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Wednesday,
September 30 |
Women and Leadership Series: Women and
Family Relationships
Rachel Simon, 4:30 p.m. in McFarland Student Union
183, Alumni Auditorium
Rachel Simon is the author of five books, among them the memoirs
Riding the Bus with My Sister (2002) and Building a
Home with My Husband: A Journey Through the Renovation of Love
(2009). Focusing on the relationship between Rachel and her
sister Beth, who has an intellectual disability, her first
memoir was adapted for a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie.This
September 30 lecture sets the tone for KU’s October observance
of national Disability Employee Awareness Month.
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OCTOBER |
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The month of October |
Domestic Violence Awareness Month |
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Tuesday,
October 20 |
Love Your Body Day,
McFarland Student Union Building Multipurpose Room SUB
218 from 10a.m. to 4p.m!
This campaign is sponsored by
the National Organization for Women to speak out against
advertisements and images of women that are harmful,
disrespectful, and demanding and encourage media images of women
and girls that are diverse and realistic, promoting health and
self-esteem.
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Wednesday,
October 28 |
Women and Leadership Series: Women and
Law
Linda Ludgate, 4:30 p.m. in McFarland
Student Union 183, Alumni Auditorium
The Honorable Judge Linda Ludgate is a
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas Judge in Berks County. A
member of the International Association of Women Judges since
1991, she shares her experiences and guidance.
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NOVEMBER |
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Wednesday,
November 11 |
Women and
Leadership Series: Women and Art
Panel Discussion, 4:30 p.m. in McFarland Student Union
183, Alumni Auditorium
Present and aspiring faculty discuss the
influence of feminist artist Judy Chicago, whose monumental
"Dinner Party" has its own room in the Brooklyn Museum.
Comprising the panel are Drs. Marilyn Stewart, Peg Speirs and
Carrie Nordlund joined by graduate students Hannah Hoch and
Dolores Eaton. Judy Chicago will keynote the 2009 annual Art
Education Fall Conference, “Teaching Art with Gender in Mind,"
November 20 at KU.
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DECEMBER |
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JANUARY |
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FEBRUARY |
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Wednesday,
February 3 |
National Girls & Women in Sports
Day
Stay Strong: Play On . Honor and celebrate the
girls and women in sports in your life. |
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Thursday, February
18 and Friday, February 19 |
Eve Ensler's “The Vagina Monologues”
7 p.m. in Schaeffer Auditorium.
Tickets, $10, $5 for students, can be purchased by cash
or check at the KU McFarland Student Union information desk. For
credit card purchases, please call 610-683-4092.
Eve Ensler’s Obie-Award winning play, "The
Vagina Monologues," is presented by FMLA and the Women’s Center
. This KU student production is performed in conjunction with
worldwide V-Day campaigns to raise awareness and funds for local
anti-violence initiatives. Proceeds from the KU event will be
donated to Berks Women in Crisis, Planned Parenthood of
Northeastern Pennsylvania, and a new V-Day campaign in the 2010
Spotlight: The Women of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Come and enjoy a night of celebrating women.
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MARCH |
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The month of
March |
Women's History Month |
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Wednesday,
March 1
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Dr. Christine Saidi,
"The Myth of the Alpha Male and Other
Things I Learned From Africa," 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.,
MSU Alumni Auditorium.
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Friday,
March 5 at close of classes
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March 14
at 8 a.m. |
Spring Break, no classes |
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Tuesday,
March 16 |
Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the South by a Black Woman
of the South,
11a.m., Rohrbach Library
Presented by Dr. Clair Van Ens, Speech
Communication & Theatre, Director, Women’s Center & Women’s
Studies. |
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Thursday,
March 18 |
Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman
7 p.m. Old Main Georgian Room
A lecture/ performance presented by
Dr. Lynn C. Miller, professor emerita, University of Texas -
Austin, Department of Theatre & Dance. Victoria C. Woodhull
(1838-1927) was the first woman to run for President of the
United States (in 1872), the first woman to publicly address the
U.S. Congress, and the first woman broker on Wall Street.
Woodhull was a charismatic and polarizing figure. In The First
Woman, Miller discusses Woodhull’s contribution to first wave
feminism, traces her political rise and fall, and performs
excerpts from several of Woodhull’s key speeches on marriage,
women’s equality, and women’s right to vote. |
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Friday,
March 19 |
Workshop TBA |
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Tuesday,
March 23 |
Women and the Middle East
9:30 – 11 a.m., Alumni Auditorium.
International Studies Conference panel
discussion features:
Amy Smith, University of
South Carolina, geographer, deals with gender and urban space in
Istanbul, Turkey;
Fida Adely, Georgetown University, Anthropologist, studies
girls' education and women's rights in Jordon
Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas at Austin, Islamic
studies, material culture and veiling in Iran. |
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Monday,
March 29 |
Dr. Susan Henking
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Alumni Auditorium
Dr. Henking’s work is in the general area of religion, gender and sexuality. She has written on the place of the
public intellectual in U.S. debate regarding religion, the
history of American sociology, representations of religion in
AIDS related memoirs, the intersection of religious studies and
lesbian/gay/queer studies, and the theoretical status of
religion and psychological studies.
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APRIL |
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The month of
April |
Sexual Assault Awareness Month |
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Thursday,
April 8 |
Take Back the Night
7 p.m. MSU Bear’s Den
An all
campus speak-out and march against sexual assault and violence
against women and children. |
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Thursday,
April 15 |
Gloria Steinem
7 p.m. Schaeffer Auditorium
DiversityFest, FMLA, Housing & Residential Services, the KU Women’s Center and
the Allentown
Women’s Center collaborate to bring the feminist, activist and
author
to KU! |
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Thursday,
April 22 |
Take Your
Daughters and Sons to Work Day
"1 Youth, 1 Dream, 2Morrow’s Leader" |
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MAY |
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Monday,
May
2 –
Friday,
May
6
(final exam week) |
“Don’t Throw
That Out! Donate It!”
End of semester collection
Bring used clothing, toys, household
items, craft & art supplies to the Women’s Center Oasis, Old
Main 3 for distribution to local agencies including Friend,
Inc., Berks Women in Crisis and others. |
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