Women's Studies  A Week Celebrating Women March 2002

Westfield State College hosted its annual Week Celebrating Women from March 20th to the 27th in cunjunction with National
Women's History Month.  Faculty in related courses invited speakers in, showed films, and scheduled other activities related to women while opening their classes to the entire campus.  The Clothesline Project, a Poster Display, a Campus March and Candlelight Vigil as well as a Health Fair, Coffeehouse, and Recognition Banquet were also scheduled.
 

Wednesday, March 20

• 10:00-2:00   HEALTH FAIR: "A Healthier You in 2002!"  (Campus Center) (Pat Berube)
• 3:00 - 4:10   Open Class:  Civil Rights Movements
Video: "Lakota Woman" (Bates 218) (Mara Dodge)
• 4:00-5:30    KEYNOTE: Cynthia Enloe
"From Caves to Aircraft Carriers: Feminist Clues about Daily Lives in Wartime"
(Scanlon Banquet A and B) (Marsha Marotta)
• 7:00-9:00    Panel: "Women's Studies: Who, Why, and How" (Scanlon A and B) (Kathleen McIntosh)

Thursday, March 21
•   9:45-11:00  Open Class:  Intro to Women's Studies: Women and Work. (Bates 111)
(Ruth Ohayon)
• 11:15-12:30   Open Class:  Women and Revolution:  Palestinian Women. (Bates 212)
(Elise Young)
• 2:15-5:30      Open Class:  Documentary Film  "One Woman, One Vote."
Media Screening Room, Basement Parenzo (Maddy Cahill)
• 4:30-5:30       Poster Display Reception   Ely Main Lounge (Vanessa Diana)
• 5:30 - 6:30     Women in Music Workshop: June Millington  Ely Lower Lounge (Jane Mildred)
• 6:30 pm          Take Back the Night March and Vigil  Ely Steps (Jill McNiff)
• 8:00 pm          Performance:  June Millington  Ely Main Lounge  (Jane Mildred)

 
Friday, March 22
• 6:00 - 8:30 pm      Banquet Honoring Women - Scanlon Banquet Hall  (Jackie Sheehan, Susan Lamontagne)
(by pre-registration only)
Saturday, March 23
• 11 a.m. –           Ropes Course - outside Campus Center, south side  (Andy Johnson)
(by pre-registration only)
• 8 p.m.- midnight   “Saturday Night Live” with female DJs – Ely Main Lounge  (Jill McNiff)

 
Sunday, March 24
• Morning             Religious Services with Week Celebrating Women theme.


Monday, March 25

• 8:00 - 9:30 pm    Coffee House Open Stage: Poetry Readings and Music.   Ely Main Lounge (signups 7-8 pm)
(John Catalini)
Tuesday, March 26
• 10:00 - 4:00   Clothes Line Project  Campus Green   (Jill McNiff)
• 12:00 noon -  Alumni Career Panel "From College to career:  Alumnae Talk About Getting Ahead"
Dining Commons, Private Dining Room  (Maureen McCartney, Jeanne Julian)
• 12:45-2:00     Open Class: Women West African Writers,  Bates 123 (Ruth Ohayon)
• 2:15-5:30       Open Class:  Documentary Film:  "A Midwife's Tale"
Media Screening Room, Basement Parenzo (Maddy Cahill)
• 2:15 - 3:30     Open Class: U.S.-Latin American Relations, Video: “Women, Torture, and Human Rights Activism,”
Bates 218 (Mara Dodge)
• 4:00 - 5:30     Walking Las Vegas (First Day)
(by pre-registration only)  (Diana Schwartz)
Call 572-5298 or 572-5368 to sign up.
• 8:00 pm         Film: "The Vagina Monologues,"  Dever Auditorium (Ruth Ohayon)


Wednesday, March 27

• 10:00 - 4:00    Clothes Line Project  Campus Green
• 1:40 - 2:55      Open Class: Utopia/ Dystopia: Creating Your Utopian Vision, Wilson 231 (Marsha Marotta)

The Office of Academic Affairs
The Week Celebrating Women Committee
All the Faculty & Staff Who Helped

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