Women's Studies Program Calendar of Events, Winter 2001

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Wednesday, February 21, 2001
"Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future"
authors Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner
2:00-3:00 pm Michigan Union Ballroom

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Thursday, March 8, 2001
"Careers In Women's Health" panel
Pamela Davies
, Obstetrician and Gynecologist
Ellen Rabinowitz, Health Planner, Washtenaw County Department of Public Health
Juliet Rogers, Director, Women's Health Program, University of Michigan Hospitals
Rhonda Williams, Senior Educator, Planned Parenthood of Mid Michigan
3:30-5:00pm, Michigan Union Pond Room

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Friday, March 9, 2001
"Engendering Shakespeare"
Phyllis Rackin,
Penn State University; Jean Howard, Columbia University; Peggy McCracken, UM Romance Languages, RSC Education Director.  Chaired by Valerie Traub, English and Women's Studies, UM
12noon-2:00pm Rackham Assembly Hall

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University Musical Society, Residential College, the Women’s Studies Program

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Monday, March 12, 2001
"The Best View Is from the Top: Autobiographical Snapshots, Engendered Communist Monuments, and (Post)Totalitarian Feminisms"
Magdelena Zaborowska,
American Culture, UM
Part of the series "Gendered Worlds:  Women's Lives in Transnational Perspective"
12 noon-1:30pm, Lane Hall Room 2239

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Friday, March 23, 2001
"Feminist Tales from the Arms Control Front"
Susan Wright,
Institute for Research on Women and Gender and Residential College, UM
Part of the series "Gendered Worlds:  Women's Lives in Transnational Perspective"
12 noon-1:30pm, Lane Hall Room 2239

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Tuesday, April 10, 2001
Dorothy McGuigan Lecture and Awards
"Human Rights and Wrongs in Michigan Womens Prisons"
Deborah LaBelle, Esq.
4:00pm, Lane Hall Room 2239