Fall 2004-Spring 2005

Women's Center Events

Overview of Women’s Center Events for the 2004-05 Academic Year

In addition to weekly Friday noon discussions, The Women’s Center sponsors and co-sponsors a variety of events and activities on campus. We are very interested in cooperating with other groups and organizations in these undertakings, as the lists below indicate:

Fall Term 2004

• Eleven Friday noon discussions (three co-sponsored with other groups)
• Hosted panel discussion with Teresa Heinz-Kerry and representatives from the Lancaster community
• Lecture and discussion by special guest Alex Sanger, grandson of birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger and longtime leader in the reproductive rights movement
• Red Zone (co-sponsored with SAVE and Residential Programs)
• Week Without Violence (co-sponsored with SAVE)
• Film night with “Killing Us Softly II” followed by a discussion
• Talk on “Women and the Vote: Using Our Power” by Crystal Lander, campus coordinator from the Feminist Majority Foundation in Washington, D.C.
• Lucy Stoners Band performance in the Atrium (also connected with the election)
• Lecture by Patrice Gaines, Washington Post reporter who served time in prison, on race, class and gender in America’s prison system (co-sponsored with CLAS, Writers House, Office of Multicultural Affairs, College Entertainment Committee, and Student Activities Funding Committee)
• Talk by Rae Alexander-Minter, prominent educator and grandniece of 19th century artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (co-sponsored with CLAS and the Art and Art History Department)

Spring Term 2005

• Thirteen Friday noon discussions (four co-sponsored with other groups)
• American Heart Association “Go Red” Day lecture by a local cardiologist (co-sponsored with Personnel Services and Appel Health Services)
• V-Day and The Vagina Monologues production (co-sponsored with Writers House, Women & Gender Studies, CLAS, the Provost’s Office, and a variety of other departments and offices on campus)
• Film night featuring “Until the Violence Stops” (connected with V-Day)
• Take Back the Night (co-sponsored with Save and the KNOW HOW Coalition)
• International Women’s Day, which included a lecture by Farooka Gauhari on Afghan women, a poetry reading at Writers House, a photo exhibit on international women, and sales of flower bouquets as a fund raiser for Milagro House and Madre International (co-sponsored with International Studies, Women & Gender Studies, CLAS, and International Programs)
• Presentation by Isabel Perez, director of the Women and Future Foundation in Colombia, and Jene Neme, from the U.S. Office on Colombia, on “Colombia’s Conflict: The Effect of War on Women, Children and Churches and the Role of U.S. Policy” (co-sponsored with CLAS and International Studies)
• Lecture by Mark Schwartz ’72 on “Reversing Your Destructive Relationship With Food” (co-sponsored with Appel Health Services, Office of Health and Wellness)