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 During the month of March, the university will sponsor daily events as part of Women’s History Month, a national celebration that honors the history of women’s past and present achievements. The activities planned for the celebration cover a wide variety of topics and formats, from musical performances to lectures by renowned women scholars. The 2000 Women’s History Month theme is “Woman-kin/Womankind/Women Can!”
The opening event for Women’s History Month is Ellen Ritchey’s lecture-recital “Musical Sisters, Mothers and Daughters: Songs of Lili and Nadia Boulanger and Libby Larsen” and William Eiland’s gallery talk on “The Kinship of Women.” These events take place March 1, at 4 and 5:30 p.m., in the School of Music’s Edge Recital Hall and the Georgia Museum of Art, respectively.
Marjorie Agosín will give the keynote presentation on “Daughter of the Diaspora: The Poet and Her Parents” on March 3 at 12:20 p.m. in 137 Tate Student Center. Agosín was born of Chilean parents in Bethesda, Md., and raised in Chile. The author of nearly 20 books and winner of numerous prizes, she is one of the leading voices of Latin American feminism in the United States; she is now a member of the Spanish faculty at Wellesley College. Her talk will be followed by a book signing and reception honoring her parents, Moises and Frida Agosín.
Lesléa Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies, will give a lecture called “Heather’s Mommy Speaks Out: Homophobia, Censorship and Family Values” at 12:20 p.m. on March 24 in the Law School auditorium. Her talk will be followed by a book signing and reception in the lobby.
The University Libraries media department will present films dealing with women’s achievements on Thursday evenings. Bonnie Dow, of UGA’s speech communication department, will speak about her research on woman-suffrage cartoons during the regular Women’s Studies Program noon lecture on March 17 and will sign copies of her new book on the topic at the Athens Barnes and Noble store on March 23.
The African Studies Program is presenting a conference on “African Women in Global Society: Issues and Perspectives” on March 20-22. Speakers include Filomina Chroma Steady of Wellesley College presenting the annual Darl Snyder Lecture on “Global Perspectives on the Black Woman: Race and Gender in the Age of Globalization” on March 20 and Teboho Moja, special assistant to the South African minister of education, speaking about “Women in Education and Politics in a Transformed Society” on March 21. Other conference participants will be coming from Africa and North America to discuss a variety of issues.
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