Thursday, March 1 |
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WHM Film Festival
Mohawk Girls
Filmmaker Tracey Deer intimately captures the lives of three exuberant and insightful Mohawk teenagers as they face their future. Deer takes us inside the lives of these three teenagers as they tackle the same issues of identity, culture and family she faced a decade earlier.
7:00pm in 248 Student Learning Center
Dr. Mariana Souto-Manning will lead discussion following the film.
Sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies and the UGA Libraries' Media Department |
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Lecture on Medieval Art
Deborah Kahn, Associate Professor of Art History at Boston University
5:30pm at the Georgia Museum of Art
Sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences
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Friday, March 2 |
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IWS Friday Speaker Series
Shabana Mir
"You Can't Really Look Normal and Dress Modestly: American Muslim Women Constructing a Third Space on Campus"
12:20-1:10pm in 148 Student Learning Center
Sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies |
Sunday, March 4 |
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Art Lecture
"Creighton: An Island Sanctuary"
Jeannine Cook, Kita Macon, and Marjett Schille
1:30-3:30pm at the State Botanical Garden Visitor Center and Conservatory
Sponsored by the State Botanical Garden
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Monday, March 5 |
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New Voices in American Literature: A Multicultural Symposium
The symposium will consist of panel discussions and readings featuring four nationally renowned creative writers--Natasha Tretheway, Major Jackson, Lorraine Lopez, and Cathy Park Hong. The day will end with a reception and book signing, followed by musical entertainment by percussionists Susie Ibarra and Roberto J. Rodriguez of the duo Electric Kulintang
11:00am-8:30pm
University Chapel
All are Welcome
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Tuesday, March 6 |
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WHM Keynote Address
Chief Wilma Mankiller
"Women's Leadership in the 21st Century"
7:30pm in 101 Student Learning Center
Sponsored by: Institute for Women's Studies, University Union: Ideas & Issues, Institute for Native American Studies, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, Intercultural Affairs, the Office of the Vice President for Public Service & Outreach, Department of Sociology, Women's Studies Student Organization, the Graduate School, the College of Education, the Department of History, the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, the Department of Anthropology |
Wednesday, March 7 |
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Mayoral Press Conference
"Jeannette Rankin Foundation Milestone: $1 Million in Scholarships for Women"
Speaker: Mayor Heidi Davison
3:00pm at Athens City Hall
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Gallery Talk
"Adventures in Stitches: The Life and Career of a Modern Artist"
Ashley Callahan, curator of the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, will lead a tour of Modern Threads: Fashion and Art by Mariska Karasz.
5:30pm at the Georgia Museum of Art
Sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art |
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Women's Voices Lecture Series
"Alice & Zora: An Evening with Valerie Boyd and Evelyn C. White"
6:00pm in 148 Student Learning Center
Sponsored by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication Diversity Committee
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Thursday, March 8 |
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Artist Lecture
"atta"
Carol LaFayette will discuss her installation "atta" which will be part of the ATHICA Exhibit "Ruburbs & Other Spaces In Between: Land Use and Environmentalism"
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Location: Benson Library
Sponsors: Institute for Women's Studies, Lamar Dodd School of Art, ATHICA
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WHM Film Festival
Strangers in Good Company
This drama from director Cynthia Scott centers on eight elderly women strangers who find themselves depending on each other when they're suddenly stranded in the rural countryside. Finding refuge in an empty farmhouse, the women begin talking and eventually share many of their life experiences and memories with each other.
7:00pm in 248 Student Learning Center
Dr. Mary Erlanger will lead discussion following the film.
Sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies and the UGA Libraries' Media Department
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Friday, March 9 |
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IWS Friday Speaker Series
Roundtable Discussion on Feminist Activism in Athens & Beyond
Featuring:
Mary Babington, Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition
Michelle Cohen, University Health Center Judi O’Kelley, Lambda Legal Defense Fund Desiree Smith, Students for Latin@ Empowerment
12:20-1:10pm in 148 Student Learning Center
Sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies
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March 12-16: UGA Spring Break |
Tuesday, March 20 |
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WHM Film Festival
Pickles, Inc.
In the Arab Israeli village of Tamra, widows lead a restricted life, and often live below the poverty line, struggling to raise their children on a social security allowance from the state. But in 2003, eight widows decided to challenge convention by starting up a business venture, the Azka Pickle Cooperative, seeking financial independence.
7:00pm in the Athens-Clark County Public Library Auditorium
Dr. Adam Sabra will lead discussion after film
Sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies, the UGA Libraries' Media Department and the Athens-Clarke County Library |
March 21 |
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Apero Africana Brown Bag Series
Dr. Velma McBride Murry
"Linking Psychological and Cultural Processes to Rural African American Women's Health"
12:15-1:10pm in the African American Cultural Center, Memorial Hall, 4th Floor
Sponsored by the African American Cultural Center |
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Edith House Lecture
A lecture to honor one of the first women to graduate from UGA's Law School
"Disability Rights: A Liberation Movement for all People"
Speaker: Harriet McBryde Johnson
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Larry Walker Room, Rusk Hall
Sponsor: Women Law Students' Association |
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Play: Trojan Women
University Theatre
Cost: $8, $6 students or seniors
8:00pm March 21-24, 2:30pm March 25 in the University Chapel
Sponsored by the University Theatre and the Department of Theatre and Film Studies |
Thursday, March 22 |
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Lecture
Gisela Brinker-Gabler, SUNY Binghamton
"Ingeborg Bachman: Poet in Dark Times"
12:30-2pm
153 Student Learning Center
Sponsored by Germanic & Slavic Languages |
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Guided Tour
Overview of Modern Threads: Fashion and Art by Mariska Karasz
2:00pm at the Georgia Museum of Art
Sponsored by GMOA |
Friday, March 23 |
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IWS Friday Speaker Series
Maria Bermudez
"Latinas in the United States: Context & Identity"
12:20-1:10pm in 148 Student Learning Center
Sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies |
Monday, March 26 |
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Film
"Hips, Lips, Thighs, Eyes and the Mirror that Lies: Women of Color and Plastic Surgery"
7:00pm
ECV Fireside Lounge
Sponsors: Multicultural Services and Programs and the University Health Center |
Tuesday, March 27 |
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Women in Leadership Panel
3:30-5:00pm in the Tate Center Reception Hall
Sponsored by the UGA Center for Leadership and Service & the UGA Career Center |
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WHM Film Festival
Stranger Inside
A young African American woman named Treasure Lee who has been in and out of jail for as long as she can remember. Now, turning twenty-one, she is being transferred for the first time to the main State Facility for Women with one thing on her mind, finding her mother who is serving a life-sentence.
7:00pm in 248 Student Learning Center
Dr. Chris Cuomo will lead discussion following film
Sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies and the UGA Libraries' Media Department |
Wednesday, March 28 |
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Film: Screaming Queens
Screaming Queens introduces viewers to a diverse cast of former prostitutes, drag entertainers, police officers, ministers and neighborhood activists, all of whom played a part in the events leading up to the Compton's Cafeteria riot.
7:00pm in 150 Student Learning Center
Sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center |
Friday, March 30 |
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Musical Performance: Flute
Doris Seres from Hungary
8:00pm in Ramsey Concert Hall, $18
Sponsored by the UGA Performing Arts Center |
Saturday, March 31-Saturday, May 27 |
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ATHICA Art Exhibition
"Ruburbs & Other Spaces in Between: Land Use and Environmentalism"
The works brought together for this project illustrate the productive interweaving of human and nonhuman, culture and nature, development and conservation, and suggest how we inevitably shape landscapes by identifying desirable visions of "nature" and making decisions in their pursuit.
Opens Saturday, March 31
ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc.
160 Tracy Street, Unit 4
www.athica.org |
