Women's History Month, March 2010

*Writing Women Back into History*
	IVCC's Women's History Month Celebration is made possible through the combined dedication of the Diversity Team, the Arts & Letters series, the Office of International/ Multicultural Education, POWER, SAGE, Sigma Kappa Delta, the World Language Organization, the International Student Club, the Student Government Association, the Human Services program, and generous individual donors.

Women's History Month was introduced by the National Women's History Project with the goal of ensuring that information about the myriad ways women have changed America would be part of our children's education.

The National Women's History Month Project explains that 2010 is "the

30th anniversary of the National Women’s History Project. When we began mobilizing the lobbying effort that resulted in President Carter issuing a Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8, 1980 as the first National Women’s History Week, we had no idea what the future would bring. And then, in 1987, another of our successful lobbying efforts resulted in Congress expanding the week into a month, and March is now National Women’s History Month."

This year's theme is Writing Women Back into History.

For more information on Women's History Month, refer to the National Women's History Project at http://www.nwhp.org.

All events are free and open to the public.

IVCC's Women's History Month Calendar 2010

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Building C, Room 316
1:15-2:00 PM

Brown Bag Lunch: Writing Women Back into History means putting women in their rightful place in our textbooks, classrooms, and collective memories. Women were not absent from history; their stories just were often left untold. A study of the Civil War reveals women as wives, mothers, sisters and daughters, as nurses and charity workers but also shows that women played an active role in the struggle, both in combat and in intelligence. Professor Amanda Bigelow will bring the lives of some of these women and their heroic efforts for their cause to light in her presentation "Female Confederate Spies".

Monday, March 15, 2010
Building A, Room 300
2:00-3:30 PM

Brown Bag Lunch: Writing Women Back into History also means celebrating women who have had major, historic accomplishments especially when they occur in traditionally patriarchal societies. Professor Anna Marie Pietrolonardo will discuss Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice--and only the third female justice appointed to the highest court of the United States.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Building C, Room 316
12:00-1:00 PM

Brown Bag Lunch: Writing Women Back into History also means recovering and publicly recognizing women who have contributed significantly to history. Professor Sue Caley-Opsal will discuss Rosalie Edge, a noted conservationist, who has altered our history, even though most Americans have never heard--or learned--of her.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Cultural Center
12:30-1:45 PM

Lecture: Writing Women Back into History also means becoming aware of issues that women have faced and continue to face in society because of their subordinate status. Micheline Slattery will discuss human trafficking from global, national, and personal perspectives. Slattery was orphaned at the age of five in her homeland of Haiti and forced to work for her relatives as their servant, or restavec, for nine years. At age fourteen, she was trafficked to Connecticut to serve as her cousin's slave in America. It took several more years--and courage she never knew she had--before she finally escaped to freedom.


Images from the National Women's History Project at www.nwhp.org (Permission requested)

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