The theme for this year’s Women’s History Month events at UGA is “Gal Pals and Bosom Buddies: Celebrating Women’s Friendships.” Women’s History Month will kick off on March 1 with a day devoted to women in the arts, followed by a celebration of international women on March 2. Events will resume on March 9 following spring break and will include such varied activities as film screenings, lectures, panel discussions and concerts.
The celebration will begin on March 1 at 4 p.m. in the Georgia Museum of Art with a lecture by GMOA Director William U. Eiland. The lecture will focus on Ann Weaver Norton, a sculptor, feminist and ascetic who produced many towering sculptures in granite and wood.
At 6 p.m. that day, there will be an opening reception at the Ramsey Student Center for Herstory v.2: A Creative Exploration of the History of Women Artists. This exhibit, mounted by students in Lizzie Zucker Saltz’s “women in the arts” seminar, consists of a text and media display and features a timeline representing 1,000 years of women’s artistic activities. The reception is co-sponsored by the department of recreational sports and the Women’s Studies Program. Other Women’s History Month exhibits are planned for the main library and the Benson Building, where the Women’s Studies Program is now located.
The woman-headed folk-rock group Where’s Anita? is slated to perform at 7:30 p.m. that evening.
On March 20 at 4 p.m. in 221 LeConte Hall, Constance Curry, co-author of Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement, will speak on “Deep in Our Hearts: White Women and Friendship in the Civil Rights Movement.” The keynote address—“Two American Women: Friends Searching for Truth in the Counterculture and the University”—will be given by Lois Banner and Hajjah Noura Durkee on March 30 at 12:20 p.m. in 137 Tate Student Center.
National Women’s History Month began when the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women initiated a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. In 1987, the National Women’s History Project petitioned Congress to expand the national celebration to the entire month of March and it was approved with bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.
More information on Women’s History Month is available from the Women’s Studies Program at 542-2846. A full schedule of Women’s History Month events is on the Web at www.uga.edu/wsp/whm2001.html.
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