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64 DAYS OF NONVIOLENCE

January 30 ( Mahatma Ghandi's assassination) - April 4 (Martin Luther King's assassination)

FEBRUARY

1. Feb. 9 (W): Chinese/Islamic New Year Celebration, 12-2 , Faculty Dining Room in the Student Center (with the MultiCultural Affairs and Asian Academic Society);
Chinese New Year 2005
Islamic New Year 2005

2. Feb. 17 (Th): Opportunities for Women Leaders (or OWL) with young women from Common Ground and Wilbur Cross High School and their guidance counselors (a follow-up on our mini leadership conference last November), from 8:30-2:30 p.m., Special Dining Room in the Connecticut Hall;

3. Feb. 23 (W): Dexter Jeffries (CUNY/Borough of Manhattan Community College) talks (co-sponsored with the MultiCultural Center and Black Student Union), from 1-7:30 p.m. (1-2, with Black Student Union; 2-3:15 p.m. with WMS 100-02, in EN A 115; 3:30-4:30 book-signing in the MultiCultural Affairs; 5-7:30 p.m. with WMS/ANT 430 & 530, in EN B 221B);  Dexter Jeffries

MARCH

4. March 1-31: Women in the Arts with Ronnie Farley's photography on women of the native struggle and cowgirls (in the Lyman Center);  Ronnie Farley

5. March 3 (Th): Opening of Ronnie Farley's Photography Exhibit, 4-6 p.m., in the lobby of the Lyman Center;

6. March 10 (Th): "African American Women in Civil Rights Movement," with panelists such as Vanessa Burns, Toni Harp, and Billie Jean Young (co-sponsored with the Southern NAACP chapter), form 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the University Student Center;

7. March 11 (F): "An SCSU Forum: Performing and Professing Diversity," with a talk by John Walter on Mohammed Ali, Billie Jean Young performing Fannie Lou Hamer, and a panel discussion with SCSU President Cheryl Norton, Judith Buzzell (Education, SCSU), Pat Terry (Director, Equity and Diversity Program), and John Walter (co-sponsored with Diversity and Equity Program, Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee, and MultiCultural Affairs), 11:30-4:30 p.m. in EN A 120;
John Walter
Billie Jean Young

8. March 15 (T): Barbara Gurr,Missing Mothers: Violence and Safety in the Context 


of Maternal Experience," 12:30-2:00 p.m. in Student Center 206; 


 

9. March 16 (W): Sintia Molina (St. Francis College) on Caribbean women's literary and cultural production (2-3:15 p.m. in WMS 100-02, in EN A 115; 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the WMS Office, EN B 229; 5-7 p.m. in WMS/ANT 430 & 530, in EN B 221B); Sintia Molina

APRIL

10. April 4 (M): Honoring Dr. King’s Memory: Screening of “Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks” in Health Promotion Priorities (PCH 430) (10:10 - 11:00 a.m. in TE 2);
 "Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks"

11. April 6 (W): Katsi Cook (Mohawk, midwife, elder, writer) on American Indian women's work in preserving cultures & traditions, "There Is a Spirit Whose Name Is
Flying Eagle Woman"  (3-4:30 p.m. in WMS office, EN B 229; 5-7:30 p.m. in WMS/ANT 430 & 530, in Faculty Dining Room, in the University Student Center);  Katsi Cook

12. April 8 (F): Third Annual Women's Studies Graduate Conference, "Who Owns My Body?: Representations of Women's Sexuality, Identity and Autonomy";

13. April 13 (W): Sanae Kawaguchi Moorehead (artist & writer; A Time of Innocence, forthcoming), on Asian American women in the age of globalization (3:30-4:30 p.m. in the WMS Office, EN B 229; 5-7:30 p.m. in WMS/ANT 430 & 530, in EN B 221B);

14. April 16 (S): Veteran Feminists of America-Connecticut Conference: honoring generations of feminists' work in the state (co-sponsored with VFA, NOW, Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, etc.), 1-9 p.m. in the Cromwell Radisson Hotel and Conference Center.