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    Women's History Month Archives

    2005
    Women's Words - Host: Cathy Day; Reading: Susan Albertine, Anita Anantharam, Robyn Art, and Catie Rosemurgy
    Adrian Piper -  Lecture/Slideshow: Talking Pictures
    Gul Ozyegin - Lecture: Educated Islam: Feminism, Pluralism & Sexual Citizenship Among Young Turkish Women
    Women in Politics - Coming through the Pipeline in New Jersey? Panel: Kelly Baden, Dr. Sarah Brewer, Susan Markham
    Trinh T. Minh-haLecture: The Transcultural Passage; Screening: Night Passage
    Yanar MohammedLecture: Women's Struggle for Equality and Freedom in Iraq
    Spike PetersonLecture: Rethinking Globalization: Uneven Effects, Underlying Issues, and Urgent Concerns

    2004
    Janet Goldwater -
    Screening/Discussion: Maggie Growls
    Women’s Words - Reading: Shelia Callaghan, Cathy Day, Janet Gray, and Jean Hollander.
    Miche Braden - Cabaret: Doin’ the Girls
    Fawzia Afzal Khan
    - Talk/Performance: Where are the Muslim Feminist Voices?
    Alice Harrison & Judy Lyons Schneider - Gallery Talk/Exhibit Opening: The Bag Ladies
    Sharon Olds - Poet: Reading from her work
    Dred
    - Performance: Venus Boyz
    Carole Boyce Davies
    - Lecture: Half the World: Transnational Feminist Politics

    2003
    Zuzana Justman
    - Screening/Discussion: A Trial in Prague (2000)
    Alicia Partnoy
    - Lecture: Latin American Women and the Disappeared
    Women's Words
    - Host: Cathy Day; Reading: Lahna Diskin, Lois Harrod, Melissa Hofmann, Kim Pearson and Catie Rosemurgy
    Gender, Nation, & Democracy - Symposium Chairs Ellen G. Friedman and Cynthia Paces; Keynote Speaker: Elena Gapova
    Lesbian Archives
    - Multimedia Presentation: Unearthing the Closet - Lesbian Herstory Archive
    Guerilla Girls - Performance: Guerilla Girls
    Woman is the Words - Talk and Video by Michele Lise Tarter: Memoir Writing in a Women's Prison
    Jane Roland Martin - Lecture:
    Women's Entrance Into Higher Education

    2002
    Women's Words
    - Reading: Cathy Day, Lahna Diskin, Janet Gray, Rebekah Grossman, Lois Harrod, Jean Hollander, and Lisa Ortiz

    Kerry Kennedy Cuomo
    - TCNJ Multicultural Lecture

    Leslie Kretzu & Jim Keady
    - Presentation: Starving for the Swoosh
    Music by Men, Words by Women
    - World Premier: Jeptha’s Daughter: A Cantata
    Allan Johnson
    - Lecture: Unraveling the Gender Knot: Communities, Nature, and the Human Future
    Margaret Atwood - Poetry Reading

    2001
    Women's Words
    - Reading: Jo Ellen Carney, Cathy Day, Lahna Diskin, Janet Gray, Lois Harrod, and Jean Hollander
    Panel Discussion - Gendered Poverty at the Grassroots. Panelists: Stephani Register, Leslie M. Watson, Jackie Pope
    Carmen Whalen - Lecture: From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Women, Work, and Migration
    Elmira Nazombe - Lecture: Race, Class, Gender and Globalization
    Nawal El Saadawi
    - Lecture: Creativity and Dissidence

    Frances Fox Piven
    - Lecture: Caring and Wage Labor: Class Divides in the Women's Movement
    Bettye Collier - Thomas - Lecture: Nappy and Unhappy? The Economics of African American Beauty Culture

    2000
    Layli Miller Basir
    - Lecture: Gender and Migration: One Woman's Story
    Elena Gapova - Lecture:  Freedom After the Iron Curtain? Post Soviet Women and Migration Abroad
    Deborah Gray White
    - Lecture: Feminism Under Siege: Reconciling Black Atlantic Nationalism
    Nanikha - Concert: a capella group
    presenting music of Africa and the African diaspora
    Women's Words - Reading: Jo Ellen Carney, Lahna Diskin, Janet Gray, Lois Harrod, Jean Hollander and Kim Pearson
    Nalo Hopkinson - Lecture: Womanist Scholarship for the New Millennium
    Kasturi Dasgupta
    - Lecture: Raising Bicultural Daughters and Sons: The South Asian Experience

    1999
    W
    omen in Science Conference:
    Panel: Great Discoveries: Women and the Nobel Prize - Panel: Marcia O'Connell, Snezana Dalafave, Lynn Bradley

    Panel: Women Scientists: Finding our Place - Panelists: Penny Anderson, Janet Morrison, Lynn Waterhouse, Diane Kobrynowicz
    Workshop: The Death of Superwoman - Susan Boughn
    Women's Words:  H
    ost: Jo Ellen Carney; Reading: Lahna Diskin, Lois Harrod, Jean Hollander, Kim Pearson.
    Sandra Harding
    -
    Lecture: Women and Science: Objectivity Issues
    Shirley Tilghman -
    Lecture: Women in Science
    Helen Berman
    - Lecture: 35 years as a Crystallographer
    Jean Taylor
    - Lecture: Women in Mathematics: 1969 versus Now
    Margaret Geller
    - Lecture: So Many Galaxies... So Little Time

    1998
    Women's Words
    - Reading: Renee Ashley, Jo Ellen Carney, Lahna Diskin, Lois Harrod, and Jean Hollander
    Art Exhibit - Crossing the Threshold with Thelma and Louise
    Bernice Steinbaum - Lecture: Have You Come A Long Way Baby?
    Miriam Schapiro -
    Lecture: A Life In Art
    Murial Castanis
    - Lecture: Making Art Out of Whole Cloth
    Carrie Mae Weems
    - Lecture: Daring To Resist: The Art of Carrie Mae Weems

    Annie Shaver-Crandell - Lecture: What's Doing in New York City: Women in Art

    1997
    Selma Thompson
     - Lecture: Confessions of a Feminist Screenwriter
    Women's Words
    - Reading: Lois Harrod, Alicia Ostriker, Jo Ellen Carney, Lahna Diskin
    Demetria Royals
    - Lecture: Inveting Herself: Voices of African American Female Artists
    Film Panel/New Women Directors:
    Panel Discussion and Film Screenings
    Julie Dash - Lecture: Women Making Movies in the 90's
    Renae Bredin
    - Lecture: Rose Petals, Chocolate, and the Romance of the Kitchen: Like Water for Chocolate
    Coco Fusco - Lecture and Film Screening: The Couple in the Cage and Pochonovela

    1996
    Women's Words
    - Reading: Jo Ellen Carney, Lahna Diskin, Jean Hollander, Marilyn McEntyre
    Joan Scott - Lecture: Rereading the History of Feminism
    Nora Naranjo-Morse
    -  Poetry Reading and Video Presentation: When a Pueblo Woman Cleans Her Closet
    Nell Painter - Lecture: Sojourner Truth: The Life of a Symbol
    Jane Gallop
    - Lecture: Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment
    Photo Exhibit - African Diaspora Women at the Beijing NGO Forum

    1995
    Adrien Wing
    - Lecture: Gangs: The Solutions
    Bell Hooks
    - Lecture: Feminist Revolution: Where is the Love?
    Lila Abu-Lughod
    - Lecture: The Woman Question in Egypt: East/West Cultural Politics
    Rebecca Walker - Lecture: Third Wave of Feminism
    Olde Morris Players - Lecture: Letter's Home; Reading: Kay Schwinn Potucek, Kathryn McGinn, Peter Vernon
    Molly Peacock  - Poetry Reading

    1994
    Alexandra Jeanne Juhasz
    - Lecture & Video: AIDS TV

    Adrienne Munich - Lecture: Queen Victoria's Secrets
    Naomi Wolf
    - Lecture: Myth - How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

    Marcia Ann Gillespie
    - Lecture: Male/Female Relationships
    Beverly Greene - Lecture: Psychotherapy With African-American Women
    Becky Birtha
    - Reading her work

    Tama Janowitz
    - Lecture and Reading

    1993
    Ellen Vargyas
    - Lecture: The Future of Women's Rights After the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Hearings

    Natalie Davis - Lecture: Storytelling and Spirituality: The Autobiography of a 17th Century Jewish Merchantwoman
    Faith Ringgold - Slide Presentation: 30 Years Making Art
    Leslie Kanes Wiesman - Lecture: The Spatial Dimensions of Feminism: Gender, Race, Class, and the Built Environment
    Christine Brooke-Rose
    - Reading from her work

    Jamaica Kincaid
    - Reading from her work

    1992
    Women's Chorus
    - Singing: The New Jersey Women's Chorus

    Lillian Robinson - Lecture: Thelma and Louise and Spike and Annabelle
    Paula Rothenberg
    - Lecture: Freedom of Speech and Speaking Freely: A Feminist Looks at the PC Debate

    Phyllis Mack
     - Lecture: Women's Prophecy and Women's Politics in 17th Century England

    Joan Scott
    - The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake
    Erica Jong - An Evening with Erica Jong
    Pat Schroeder
    - Lecture: Women and Leadership

    1991
    Poetry Contest - Poems on the subject on women; open to all students
    Elaine Showalter
    - Talk: Common Threads: Quilts, Women's Culture and American Identity
    Riffat Hassan
    - Talk: Women in the Islamic Tradition: A Muslim Feminist Perspective

    Born in Flames
    - Film Screening

    Miriam Shapiro
    - Slide Show: Bits and Pieces Tell a Story: A Woman's Paintings

    Nancy Cott
    - Talk: Slavery, Race, and the History of Women's Rights in the United States

    Bernice Steinbaum - Slide Lecture: Into the Mainstream: Breaking Down Barriers
    Ntozake Shange - Talk: An Afternoon with Visiting Playwrite, Ntozake Shange

    1990
    Ten African-American Women Artists
    - Art Exhibit

    Women's Journeys: Getting From There to Here
    - Collage making

    Working Girls
    - Film Screening

    Judy Chicago - Lecture: The Holocaust
    Eugenia Shanklin - Lecture: Anthropological Fieldwork in the Post-Modern Era, or, what Margaret Mead Didn't Tell Us
    Stacey Schlaue
    - Lecture: 17th Century Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Words

    Mary Crawford
    - Lecture: What's So Funnay About That? - On gender & Humor

    Eva Kittay
    - Lecture: Equality and the Inclusion of Women

    Catherine R. Stimpson
    - Lecture: Athena's Redemption: An Overview of the Study of Women & Gender

     

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