Women's History Month

Women's History Month at Emory - March 2006
A Celebration of Women in the Arts

In March every year, the Center for Women sponsors a wide-ranging celebration of Women's History Month, attracting nationally recognized keynote speakers such as the Boston Women's Health Collective, Michael Kimmel, Naomi Wolf, Rebecca Walker, Faye Wattleton, Lani Guinier, Wilma Mankiller, Natalie Angier, Carol Moseley Braun, Rachel Simmons, Helen Thomas, and Julianne Malveaux.

Women's History Month events at Emory open a window onto women's cultural, intellectual and social lives. The full month's calendar follows below.

Keynote Speaker: Margaret Edson, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, delivered the keynote address, “Random, Senseless Acts,” for this year’s Women’s History Month celebration. Margaret Edson was born in Washington, DC in 1961. Between earning degrees
in history and literature, she worked in the oncology and AIDS inpatient unit of a major research hospital. Wit, her first and only play, was written in 1991. It was universally and soundly rejected, then produced by the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA, in 1995. It opened in New York-in a 90-seat theater in 1998 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999. Wit has received hundreds of productions in dozens of languages. The 2001 HBO production won the Emmy Award for best film. This is Ms. Edson's fourteenth year teaching; she currently teaches kindergarten at John Hope Elementary School. She and her partner Linda Merrill are the proud parents of two boys, Timmy, five, and Pete, three.

On Wednesday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m., we joined Margaret Edson at Emory’s Cannon Chapel. A book signing and reception followed in Brooks Commons.

Click here to read Emory Report's article on the keynote address

Women's History Month Events

February 27– March 3
Body Acceptance Week

March 1
Women's Studies Colloquium presentation by Loretta Ross- 4:00 p.m., White
Hall 205. Sponsored by Department of Women’s Studies

Opening Reception for “Looking at Women,” an exhibit of photographs by Emory photographers Ann Borden, Kay Hinton, and Jon Rou- 5:30 p.m., The Art Gallery at Dobbs University Center. Sponsored by Center for Women, Student Activities Office, and Emory Creative Group

March 2
Lecture-Recital: Cuatro canciones andinas (Four Andean Songs) by Gabriela Lena Frank (texts by José María Arguedas). Bonnie Pomfret, soprano and Laura Gordy, piano will perform the poetry and songs by Frank on their CD, De Toda La Eternidad, Songs of American Women-- Noon, Tharp Rehearsal Hall, Schwartz Performing Arts Center. Sponsored by Center for Women, Department of Women’s Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Music, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

14th Annual Pride Banquet, 6:30-8:00PM, Miller-Ward Alumni House. Sponsored by the Office of LGBT Life, President's Commission on LGBT Concerns, and Emory Gay and Lesbian Alumni (GALA)

March 3
International Coffee Hour celebrating International Women's Day 2006, 11:30 p.m. – 12:30 p.m., Winship Ballroom, Dobbs University Center. Refreshments served. Sponsored by Office of International Affairs, International Student and Scholar Programs, and Center for Women

A Cross Cultural Dance Performance by Taal Soul, 5:30 p.m., Coke Commons, Dobbs University Center. Sponsored by Office of Multicultural Programs and Services and Center for Women

March 5
University Worship, Women’s History Month Sunday Celebration, "Word, Wisdom, and Witness," with Mary Elizabeth Moore, Candler School of Theology- 11:00 a.m., Cannon Chapel. Sponsored by Emory Office of the Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life and Center for Women

March 6
Feminist Founders reading and book signing by novelist and journalist Geraldine Brooks- 8:15 p.m., Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library. Book signing and reception to follow. Named in honor of those who have improved the status and lives of women at Emory, in this inaugural year the reading recognizes Dr. Emilia Navarro, Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese.Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, Center for Women, and Department of Women's Studies

March 7
Colloquium with novelist and journalist Geraldine Brooks- 2:30 p.m., N311 Callaway Center. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, Center for Women, and Department of Women's Studies

Opening Reception for "Capturing Life: A Woman's Safari," works on paper by artist Judy Winograd, 5:00-7:00 p.m., Emeritus College Orange Gallery, Briarcliff Campus, Building A, Room S-211. Sponsored by Emeritus College and Center for Women

Dinner & Movie: "Dyke Drama," 6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Office of LGBT Life, DUC Room 244E. Sponsored by Office of LGBT Life and LGBT Programming Council

March 8
International Women’s Day

Reading and book signing by poet Lucille Clifton- 6p.m., Joseph W. Jones Room. Part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 404-727-7620 or email libdeb@emory.edu. Sponsored by Emory Libraries and Center for Women

Female Director Film Series presents Frida- 6 p.m., Center for Women, Cox Hall, third floor. Sponsored by Center for Women Student Advocacy Committee, Department of Women’s Studies, and Office of LGBT Life

March 21
Wit by Margaret Edson, a staged reading of the play featuring Marilynne McKay, actress and retired Emory physician/professor- 5:30 p.m., Harland Cinema, Dobbs University Center. Reception to follow. Sponsored by Center for Women, School of Medicine, Theater Studies

March 22
"Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps," an original performance by Scott Turner Schofield- 7p.m., Harris Parlor, Harris Hall. Sponsored by Center for Women, President’s Commission on LGBT Concerns, Office of LGBT Life, LGBT Programming Council, Department of Women’s Studies, Department of Theater Studies

Women’s Studies Faculty-in-Residence Book Club with Michelle Hite, Emory Institute of Liberal Arts; Text: Toni Morrison’s Love, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m., Tower Penthouse, Clairmont Campus. Sponsored by Department of Women’s Studies, Clairmont Campus Community Office, Center for Humanistic Inquiry Interdisciplinary Research Seminars, and Center for Women

March 23
“Mary Hutchinson Observed: From Bloomsbury to Beckett,” lecture with expression by Brenda Bynum, Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Research Fellow- 6 p.m., Jones Room, Woodruff Library. Reception to follow. Sponsored by Center for Women and Friends of the Emory University Libraries

March 23 - 25
The Ninth Annual National Black Herstory Conference and Awards Banquet: "Women in Economic and Social Entrepreneurships: Our Birthright!" - 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m, Goizueta Business School, Emory University. For more information visit www.blackherstory.org.

March 27 - 31
Candler School of Theology Women’s Week

STIPE Society Arts Week

March 29
“Random, Senseless Acts,” keynote address by Margaret Edson- 7:30 p.m., Cannon Chapel. Book signing and reception to follow in Brooks Commons. Sponsored by Center for Women, Department of Women’s Studies Jessica Glasser Memorial Lecture, Hightower Lecture Fund, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Office of LGBT Life, President’s Commission on the Status, Friends of the Emory University Libraries, Theater Studies, and Creative Writing Program

March 30
“Women in Dance: The Act of Transforming”- Noon, Carlos Museum Reception Hall. Sponsored by the Emory Dance Program, Michael C. Carlos Museum, and Center for Women

Monthlong
Art Exhibit: “Looking at Women,” an exhibit of photographs by Emory photographers Ann Borden, Kay Hinton, and Jon Rou. The Art Gallery at Dobbs University Center. Sponsored by Center for Women, Student Activities Office, and Emory Creative Group

Center for Women Exhibit: “A Chronicle of Significant Events in the Lives of Women at Emory University,” featuring vintage photos from Emory Archives. Permanently displayed at the Center for Women. Sponsored by Center for Women and Emory Archives

Emeritus College Exhibit: "Capturing Life, a Woman's Safari," works on paper by artist Judy Winograd. Orange Gallery, Briarcliff Campus, Building A, Room S-211. Opens March 7. Sponsored by Emeritus College and Center for Women

Campus-Wide Art Exhibition: “The Art of a Woman,” featuring over thirty artists from the Emory community. Sponsored by STIPE Society for Creative Scholars and Center for Women Student Advocacy Committee

Emory Libraries Exhibition: “Imposing Reason for Life on Life: African American Women as Creators and Preservers of the Arts,” runs through March 25. Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Level 10, Woodruff Library. Sponsored by Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Department of African American Studies, Art History Department, Center for Women, Friends of the Emory Libraries, MLK Holiday Observance Committee, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship

DUC = Dobbs University Center
For more information, call Emory Women's Center at 404.727.2000.

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