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2007-2008 PROGRAMS & EVENTS LISTING
Network of Minnesota Women’s Centers
Friday, May 16
Location TBA
9:00 a.m.
Women’s centers and programs throughout the state of Minnesota come together to share ideas and strategies for institutional change. For more information: 612-625-9837.
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Leading From Where You Are Celebration
Thursday, May 15
Mississippi Room, Coffman
3:00 p.m.
This year-end event recognizes the accomplishments of Civil Service and Bargaining Unit women who have completed the 2007-08 Leading From Where You Are program. RSVP required.
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Celebrating University Women
Thursday, April 24
McNamara Alumni Center, Memorial Hall
2:30 p.m.
RSVP: women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837
This awards program celebrates the academic, professional and civic achievements of UM women staff, faculty and students. Awards to be presented include The Distinguished Women Scholar Award, The Mullen, Spector, Truax Women's Leadership Award, Civil Service and Bargaining Unit Staff Award, and The Sharon L. Doherty Award. RSVP required.
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Understanding Family and Medical Leave
Wednesday, April 23
Civil Engineering 212
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
RSVP: women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837
What should you know about the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? This session provides an overview of the policy, including information about what types of leave are covered. Presented by April Narcisse, Office of Human Resources.
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La Operación - REEL Dames Film Series
Thursday, April 10
Walter Library 402
6:00 p.m.
RSVP: women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837
Puerto Rico has the highest incidence of female sterilization in the world. Over one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age have been sterilized. So common is the operation that it is simply known as ‘la operacion.’ Using newsreels, excerpts from government propaganda films, and interviews, this film explores the controversial use of female sterilization as a means of population control.
Post-film discussion facilitated by Sara Hollie, Minnesota Department of Health.
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Noni Benegas and Jill Robbins in Conversation
Tuesday, April 8
Nolte Center Library
4:00 p.m.
RSVP: women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837
Prize-winning Argentine-Spanish lesbian poet Noni Benegas talks with Jill Robbins, a specialist in sexuality studies and contemporary Spanish women’s poetry, and a leading critic of Benegas’ work. Presented by the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; co-sponsored by OUW.
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Women of Color Leading for Change
Thursday, April 3
Nolte Center 140
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
RSVP: women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837
What opportunities exist for leadership development for women of color students on campus? What do women of color students want and need to succeed? This session will explore current initiatives as well as introduce a 08-09 course offered by OUW. Refreshments served.
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Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture
Monday, March 31
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center
4:00 p.m.
RSVP: women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837
“Robots: A New Type of Companion”
Professor Maria L. Gini, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Reception follows in the Hubert H. Humphrey Center Atrium. Please announce to class and colleagues.
Presented by The Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost · The Office for University Women · The Graduate School · University of Minnesota Libraries
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Bringing Feminism Home with Daisy Hernández
Thursday, March 27
Willey Hall 125
7:00 p.m.
RSVP: women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837 (Please announce to classes and colleagues!)
Reception and book signing following lecture.
There's a lot of stereotypes about feminists: they hate men, they're lesbians, they run for president of the United States. But what is feminism really about? Can it have anything to do with your own life? Come listen to a discussion and reading by writer and editor Daisy Hernández on her own experiences with feminism, on how gender and race have shaped her identity as a feminist and what it means to connect feminism to the communities we call home.
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Fierce, fresh and smart, Daisy Hernández focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and other issues affecting young women of color. A queer Cubana-Colombiana Americana, she is a personal essayist and co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (Seal Press). She is the managing editor of ColorLines, the national newsmagazine on race and politics, and has written for a range of publications including the National Catholic Reporter and Bitch magazine. She’s reported for the metro desk at the New York Times and written on feminism and Latina life for Ms. magazine.
Her personal essays focus on familia, feminism, sexuality, alcoholism, cultural identity and why we fall in love. Daisy began writing essays and winning awards in elementary school and continued from there into book publishing and then into journalism. She believes passionately in the transformative nature of stories. Whether it’s a personal tale about surviving ESL or a political commentary on war refugees, she thinks stories deepen our understanding of ourselves and in that way connects us across divides with other people.
A graduate of William Paterson University and New York University, Daisy grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Fairview, New Jersey. She has published essays in several publications including Without a Net (Seal Press) and Border-line Personalities (HarperCollins Rayo).
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How to Open the Door Without Your Knees Knocking
Wednesay, March 26
Peik Hall 375
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
RSVP: women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837
This workshop offers tactics for strengthening interpersonal communication skills and assertiveness in leadership contexts. Limited seating. Presented by Peg Lonnquist, Ph.D., Office for University Women.
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International Women’s Day Celebration
Saturday, March 15
Coffman Memorial Union
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Keynote speaker Robin Morgan (author of Sisterhood is Global, plenary panel on indigenous rights, workshops on women’s human rights, film, performance by Maria Isa, visual arts and over 65 co-sponsoring organizations with resources for further activism. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For more information: http://www.mnadvocates.org/International_Women_s_Day.html. Presented by The Advocates for Human Rights and UM Human Rights Program; co-sponsored by OUW, others.
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RESCHEDULED! Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
Saturday, March 15
Coffman Memorial Union, Room 323
10:30 a.m.
(shown as part of the International Women's Day Celebration)
For more information on or to register for the International Women’s Day Celebration: http://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/International_Women_s_Day.html.
In this insightful documentary, filmmaker Sonali Gulati explores complex issues of globalization, capitalism and identity through a witty and personal account of her journey into India’s call centers. Gulati, herself an Indian immigrant living in the US, explores the fascinating ramifications of outsourcing telephone service jobs to India—including how native telemarketers take on Western names and accents to take calls from the US, UK and Australia.
Screened as part of OUW's REEL Dames Documentary Film Series.
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Toni McNaron Lecture in Arts & Culture
Thursday, March 6
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center
7:00 p.m.
Featuring Alison Bechdel, author of the critically acclaimed Fun Home and of the syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. Presented by the GLBTA Programs Office; co-sponsored by OUW. For more information: http://glbta.umn.edu/schochet/mcnaron/.
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Women’s O.N.E. (Women’s Organizations Networking for Equity)
Tuesday, February 26
Nolte Center 140
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Women’s student organizations come together for collaboration and leadership development.
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I Was a Teenage Feminist
Wednesday, February 20
Walter Library 402
7:00 p.m.
RSVP: women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837
Why is it that some young, independent, progressive women in today's society feel uncomfortable identifying with the F-word? Join filmmaker Therese Shechter as she takes a funny, moving and very personal journey into the heart of feminism. Armed with a video camera and an irreverent sense of humor, Shechter talks with feminist superstars, rowdy frat boys, liberated Cosmo girls and Radical Cheerleaders, all in her quest to find out whether feminism can still be a source of personal and political power.
Screened as part of OUW's REEL Dames Documentary Film Series. Film followed by a facilitated discussion.
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The Vagina Monologues 2008
From February 13-17, Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG) presents Eve Ensler’s celebrated play about breaking the silence surrounding women's relationships with their bodies and ending sexual violence against women.
Showtimes:
Wednesday, February 13 @ Augsburg College, Sateren Auditorium, 7:30 pm
Thursday, February 14 @ University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (St. Paul Campus), St. Paul Student Center Theater, 8:00 pm
Friday, February 15 @ Hamline University, Location & Time TBA
Saturday, February 16 @ Macalester College, Location & Time TBA
Sunday, February 17 @ University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (East Bank), Coffman Union Theater, 4:00 pm
Co-sponsored by OUW, others. For more information: http://mpirg.org/womensrights/vday/index.htm.
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Sex Education Through the Ages
Thursday, February 14
Boynton Health Service W120
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
How does what we learned about sex 20-30 years ago and what we are still learning affect how we have it? Presented as part of Safer Sex Week (Feb. 11-15) by SHADE (Sexual Health Awareness and Disease Education). Safer Sex Week is sponsored by Office for University Women, GLBTA Programs Office, Annex Teen Clinic, SHADE, and Boynton Health Service. Light refreshments served. Download the Safer Sex Week 2008 poster.
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CSBU Women's Mid-Winter Stress Reliever
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
University Recreation Center
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
- Learn about wellness opportunities including Pilates, yoga, core training, and strength training classes for women
- Learn easy stress reduction techniques - that can be done at work!
- Enjoy a delicious lunch!
- Win fabulous prizes!
- Re-energize for Spring semester!
For more information about this program, visit http://www1.umn.edu/women/csbu_news.htm. SPACE LIMITED TO first 300. RSVP by e-mailing us at: women@umn.edu.
Questions? Contact the Office for University Women at 612-625-9837.
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Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture Series
November 13, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center
RSVP: 612.625.9837 or women@umn.edu
Beyond the F Word: Fashion, Dress & Cultural Meaning
Featuring Regents Professor Joanne B. Eicher. Joanne Bubolz Eicher is Regents Professor Emerita of the Department of Design, Housing and Apparel in the University of Minnesota College of Design. Eicher is a nationally and internationally renowned faculty member and researcher on the cultural aspects of dress and fashion with special interest and expertise in Africa and Asia. She is the author of numerous books including Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood; The Visible Self: Global Perspectives on Dress, Culture, and Society, and editor-in-chief of an upcoming ten-volume encyclopedia of dress and fashion.
Reception follows in the Hubert H. Humphrey Center Atrium. Please announce to class and colleagues.
Presented by The Office fo the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost · The Office for University Women · The Graduate School · University of Minnesota Libraries
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Gender and Pay Equity Panel
Can you believe that in 2007, women earn less money than men in the same position? Just one year out of college, women working full-time earn 80% of what their male colleagues make, even in the same field (AAUW, 2007)! Ten years after college graduation, women earn 69 percent of what men earn. The salaries for “traditional” women’s jobs are lower than “traditional” men’s jobs even when more skills and responsibility are required. What is up with this still happening in 2007?! What can we do?
Join us for a panel presentation and discussion on gender and pay equity, with Bonnie Watkins, Executive Director, MN Women’s Consortium and Patty Tanji, President, Pay Equity Coalition. Co-sponsored by the Civil Service and Bargaining Unit Women’s Program Planning Committee. FREE and open to the public.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 12 Noon – 1 pm
Rapson Hall 31
Questions/RSVP: women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837
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La Ciudad (The City)
In conjunction with the U of M Chicano Studies course, "Chicano/a Politics" (CHIC 3852 with Instructor Michael Duenes) OUW will screen "La Ciudad," an urban drama featuring four separate stories of Hispanic immigrants adrift in New York City.
The post-film discussion will be facilitated by Claudia Fuentes, Policy Aide on Youth and Learning for Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and former adjunct faculty in Chicano Studies. The film screening will be open to the public. RSVP to women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837.
Friday, October 19, 2007
10:00 - 11:00am
Fraser Hall 101
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Sex, Safety & Self-Esteem
How can you be physically and emotionally safe in your sexuality and sexual choices? Why is sex so difficult to talk about? What is a pleasure map? This FREE, candid two-part workshop will pose these and other questions, and address not only how to identify your own boundaries regarding sexual risk and pleasure, but also how to communicate your desires and limits to a partner.
Limited seating and door prizes. We welcome students of all cultural backgrounds, identities and orientations. RSVP to women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837.
Part 1: Risky Business
Thursday, October 18, 2007
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Walter Library 101
Part 1 deals specifically with defining and assessing sexual risk and being able to understand for yourself what levels of and types of risk YOU are comfortable with.
Part 2: The Pleasure Principle
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Walter Library 101
Part 2 continues the discussion began in Part 1 by focusing on how to communicate your thoughts, feelings and preferences about risk AND pleasure to a partner. We'll cover non-verbal and verbal methods of communication, and how to find common sexual ground between yourself and your partner.
Co-sponsors: Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education · Deborah E. Powell Center for Women's Health · GLBTA Programs Office · Sexual Health Awareness & Disease Education (SHADE) · Women’s Student Activist Collective
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CS/BU: Leading From Where You Are 07-08 Registration
The second annual Leading From Where You Are program for CS/BU women is now accepting registration. The 2007-2008 Leading From Where You Are program is designed to help Civil Service and Bargaining Unit women develop leadership skills, increase their ability to make a difference in their department and engage in networking opportunities with other CS/BU women at the University. Space is limited and filled up quickly last
year, please register soon.
For further details on the program and to download the registration form: Leading From Where You Are.