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women at emory: past , present , and future MARCH 2 University Worship, Women’s History Month Sunday Celebration with special guest Brenda Bynum, 11:00 a.m., Cannon Chapel MARCH 3 Feminist Founders Reading Series and Book-Signing by author Dorothy Allison, 8:15 p.m., Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library. Book-signing and reception will follow. MARCH 4 “Redefining Women: Analyzing Gender in the Twenty-First Century,” a graduate student panel discussion, 4:00 p.m., White Hall, Room 103. MARCH 5 Sixteenth Annual Pride Banquet with keynote speaker Sara Look 92C, co-owner of Charis Books, 6:30 p.m., Miller-Ward Alumni House. MARCH 6 “Global and Contemporary Perspectives on International Women,” a student panel discussion, 6:00-7:30 p.m., Turman Residence Hall lobby. A multimedia presentation and panel discussion on women’s issues and gender roles in different countries, presented by undergraduates who have studied abroad. This program is in celebration of International Women’s Day. MARCH 7 International Coffee Hour Celebrating International Women’s Day 2008, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Winship Ballroom, Dobbs University Center (DUC). Refreshments served. MARCH 8 International Women’s Day MARCH 10 “Learning through Leadership,” a development luncheon for staff with guest speaker Jane DiFolco Parker and a special viewing of the Women’s Oral History Project video, Noon, Faculty Library, Law School. Sponsored by Office of Diversity and Community Initiatives at the Law School MARCH 10–14 Spring Break MARCH 20 Telling Our Stories, a special edition of untold stories of Emory women, featuring Natasha Trethewey, Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Creative Writing and 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, and Isabel Wilkerson, James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism and 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times. For information and reservations, call 404.727.2001 or email sasha.smith@emory.edu, 5:30 p.m., Miller-Ward Alumni House. Sponsored by Center for Women MARCH 21 A Cross-Cultural Dance Performance by Taal Soul, 5:00 p.m., Coke Commons, DUC. Sponsored by Center for Women, DUC, and Office of Multicultural Programs and Services MARCH 25 “Reflect and Evolve,” a presentation of new dance works by Emory students and collaborations with Emory alumni, noon, Carlos Museum Reception Hall. Sponsored by Emory Dance Program, Michael C. Carlos Museum, and Center for Women “Soprano as Fetish: On the Rise of Professional Singers,” a lecture with the nationally acclaimed Susan McClary , professor of musicology at University of California, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Room 207, White Hall. Sponsored by Department of Music Alice Walker, a public reading in celebration of her papers being placed in Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), 6:00 p.m., Glenn Memorial Auditorium, Emory University. Sponsored by MARBL MARCH 28-30
Sponsored by National Black Herstory Task Force and School of Medicine MARCH 29 “Our Voices, Our Songs,” a faculty recital with women characters, composers, and perspectives; featuring Teresa Hopkin , soprano, and Deborah Thoreson , pianist, 8:00 p.m., Emerson Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Sponsored by Department of Music MARCH 31
Sponsored by Center for Women, Department of Women’s Jessica Glasser Memorial Lecture, Hightower Lecture Fund, Graduate School, President’s Commission on the Status of Women at Emory, and Alumni and Women of Emory MONTHLONG “Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Danowski Poetry Collection” will feature highlights from the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. Through May 19 in the Main Corridor Galleries, Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library. Sponsored by MARBL and Emory University Libraries “A Chronicle of Significant Events in the Lives of Women at Emory,” featuring vintage photos from the Emory University Archives. Permanently displayed at the Center for Women. Sponsored by Center for Women and MARBL “Women at Emory: Past, Present, and Future,” an exhibition produced by the Emory University Archives and highlighting significant anniversaries of three Emory women’s organizations, with photographs and other items documenting women’s history at Emory from its 1836 founding until coeducation in 1953. On display at the DUC Art Gallery. Sponsored by Center for Women, DUC, and MARBL “Women at Emory: Past, Present, and Future,” an exhibition produced by the Emory University Archives and highlighting significant anniversaries of three Emory women’s organizations, with photographs and other items documenting women’s history at Emory from its 1836 founding until coeducation in 1953. On display February 25-April 4 at Hoke O’Kelley Memorial Library, Oxford College of Emory University. Sponsored by Center for Women, Hoke O’Kelley Memorial Library, and MARBL The History of the Oral History Project, Location and time TBA. The Oral History Project of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women at Emory has assembled thirty marvelous interviews with fascinating Emory women. Mary Loftus of Emory Magazine will emcee as several teams of interviewers and women discuss the many intended and several unintended benefits of the project, including the creation of a shared living history between those telling the stories and those recording them. Sponsored by Center for Women
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The Eleventh Annual National Black Herstory Conference and Awards Banquet: “Gathering of Voices on Health Care: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, and Holistic,” Whitehead Biomedical Research Building Auditorium, Emory University. For more information, visit 
Helen Thomas, “First Lady of the Press,” will present the keynote address for Women’s History Month at Emory, 7:00 p.m., Tull Auditorium, Emory University Law School. Book-signing and reception to follow.