PAST EVENTS

Spring Speaker: Jane Smiley

Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres, as well as The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Moo, Horse Heaven, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, her first major work of non-fiction . She is also a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Vogue, and Harper's.

Fall Speaker: Donna Brazile

Former campaign manager for Gore-Lieberman in 2000, the first African American to lead a major presidential campaing, senior political strategist, founder and Managing Director of Brazile and Associates, LLC, Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute and and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University.

Spring Speaker: Gloria Feldt

Past National President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. "The Courts & Women Today: Special Interests or Fundamental Human Rights?"

Spring Colloquium: Voting and Women

A panel discussion about ways in which gender might affect voting, issues that are of voting interest to women, and ways in which political figures try to appeal to women voters.

Women's Studies Program Fall Colloquium, "It's Nobody's Fault & Everybody's Fault: The Social Implications of Hurricane Katrina"
With guest speakers Amy Wilson, MSW a New Orleans Social Worker and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Southeastern Louisiana University.

"An Evening with the Guerilla Girls: Your Social Conscience."

The Guerilla Girls present feminist art criticism as a fun and educational experience. Their popular posters highlight issues of sexual discrimination in the art world and has made feminisim "fashionable" again.

Women's Studies Program Fall Lecture, "Gender Talk: A Lecture on the Struggle for Equality in African American Communities," by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
She is a founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman College.

"Stuck Between the China Cabinet and the Cabinet Briefing: The Role of the Modern First Lady,"

by Stacy Cordery.

She is the bibliographer for the National First Ladies' Library in Canton, Ohio, and author of Theodore Roosevelt: In the Vanguard of the Modern. She is an associate professor and chair of the Department of History of Monmouth College.

Trafficking of Women and Children: Modern Day Slavery

Michelle Clarke, co-director of the Protection Project

Women and War: A Panel Discussion

with Dr. Alison Bailey, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Illinois State University, Dr. Julie Webber, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Illinois State University, and Dr. Jackie Hogan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Bradley University.

A-ha Moments! How I Became a Feminist: A Women's Studies Colloquium

Guest Speakers: Patricia Benassi, Attorney at Law, Jerelyn Maher, Illinois 10th Dirstrict Judge, Dr. Emily Gill, Professor of Political Science, Dr. Brad Brown, Assistant Professor of History, and Ben Cudia, Women's Studies Minor

"More Than a Few Good Men: A Lecture on Manhood and Violence against Women," by Jackson Katz

Mr. Katz is a nationally acclaimed activist who has worked with the US Marine Corps and NCAA Division I athletic teams in gender violence prevention programs.

Gloria Steinem- Women's History Month Speaker

"Feminism 101," by one of the most important voices in the modern feminist movement. After working as a journalist Gloria Steinem went on to found the groundbreaking Ms. Magazine.

Women's Studies Fall Colloquium
"The 'F' Word: Constructing Feminism in the 21st Century" with Julie Mierwa, Dr. Demetrice Worley, Dr. Emily Gill and Dr. Bob Fuller.

Molly Ivins- Featured Women's History Month Speaker
"Molly Ivins Can't Say That Can She?"

Women and Islam
Robin Wright is the senior diplomatic correspondent of the Los Angeles Times, specializing in the Middle East. She is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran and Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam.

Dorothy Allison- Women's History Month Lecture
Dorothy Allison, author of the National Book Award Finalist: Bastard Out of Carolina, and other novels and stories focusing on women and survival in life.

What Women Want
A lecture by Patricia Ireland, President of the National Organization for Women.

The Shoulders We Stand On
An illustrated talk about Women's History presented by Louise Bernikow, author of five books including The American Woman's Almanac: An Inspiring and Irreverent Women's History, and pioneer of Women's Studies.

Women of Turkey
Dr. Senel Aksu, Vice President of the International Council of Women, received and award from the International Health Awareness Network for her distinguished and lifelong contribution to women's health education.

Sara Paretsky: Women and Mystery Writing
Best-selling author of the V.I. Washawski murder series. Recepient of the Silver Dagger Award from the British Crime Writers Association for her 1988 book Blood Shot.

The F Word: A Fresh and Funny Look at Feminism
This vaudevillian-style comedy revue looks at the history of feminism through humourous skits.

Stacey Kabat--Domestic Violence
Kabat won the 1993 Best Documentary Academy Award for her shocking depiction of domestic violence in Defending Our Lives.