March is Women’s History Month, and a wide variety of events have been planned by UGA units to mark the theme of “Radical Departures.”
The opening event is a presentation called “Radical Departures: Women Who Answer the Challenge,” by students in the American Language Program, at 12:20 p.m. March 2 in 407 Memorial Hall. Ulrika Andersson (Sweden), Ana Lucia De Souza (Brazil), Ana Cecilia Granero (Spain) and In-Sook Rim (Korea) will discuss women who made a mark in their cultures.
 The keynote lecture is scheduled for March 5 at 12:20 p.m. in 407 Memorial Hall. “Passion, Politics, and Free Expression: The Written Legacy of Emma Goldman” will be presented by Candace Falk, editor and director of the Emma Goldman Papers.
Falk received a Guggenheim Fellowship this year for her work on Goldman, the radical activist who championed such causes as free speech, union organization, the eight-hour workday, sexual freedom, birth control and equality and independence for women. Falk has directed the Goldman Papers project for the University of California, Berkeley, and the National Archives, since 1980. The project has collected and published a 20,000-document microfilm collection of writings by and about Goldman. Falk has also published a biography of Goldman: Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman. An exhibition dealing with Goldman and other radical women will be on display in the lobby of the main library throughout the month.
The media department in the UGA Libraries will screen several films and videos dealing with topics in women’s history during the course of the month. Each presentation includes comments by appropriate faculty and staff members. Titles, dates, times and locations are listed individually in the calendar.
WUGA-FM 91.7 will broadcast a series of “radio portraits” of women at 4:30 p.m. Mondays, beginning March 8.
Composer, conductor and pianist Joan Tower, Asher Edelman Professor of Music at Bard College, will be Center for Humanities and Arts visiting artist in the School of Music the week of March 22. In addition to working with students, she will lecture on “Choreographing Sound” at 1:15 p.m. March 24 in Edge Hall in the music building, and on “Approaching Senior Status as a Woman and as a Woman Composer” at 12:20 p.m. March 26 in the Dancz Center for New Music in the music building.
UGA’s Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, under the direction of Lewis Nielson, will perform works by Tower on March 25 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall. On March 22 at 8 p.m. in Ramsey Hall, they will perform works by another American woman composer, Ruth Crawford Seeger, in conjunction with last month’s lecture on Seeger by Judith Tick.
Anonymous Four, the renowned female a cappella group, will perform their critically acclaimed Lammas Lady Mass on March 26 in Hodgson Hall. Tickets ($16--$20) are available from the Performing Arts Center box office (542-4400).
Other events and discussions planned for the month focus on Simone de Beauvoir, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of her masterwork The Second Sex; women in Cameroon; African-American teenagers; painters Anne Estelle Rice and Elaine de Kooning; poet and essayist Toi Derricotte; and several others. Events are listed individually in the Columns calendar.
For additional information, call the Women’s Studies Program at 542-2846.
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