Women’s History Month

“Well-behaved women rarely make history”

2010 Schedule of Events:

Monday, March 1: 7-8:15 p.m.

Opening Reception: Center of Southwest Studies, Room 138

Lecture: Center of Southwest Studies, Room 120

Alison Jaggar: “The Philosophical Challenges of Global Gender Justice”

Sponsored by Fort Lewis College’s Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department of Philosophy

Fort Lewis College Women’s History Month’s Keynote Speaker, noted Philosophy Professor Alison Jaggar, will present a lecture on gender and global justice. Alison M. Jaggar (PhD, Buffalo, 1970) joined the faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1990 and holds a joint appointment with the Women and Gender Studies Program.  She was recently named College Professor of Distinction. Her areas of interest include contemporary social, moral and political philosophy, often from a feminist perspective. She is also interested in moral epistemology, especially in how to justify social criticism in contexts of inequality and cultural difference. More recently, she has been working on some gendered aspects of global justice.

Monday, March 3: All Day

Location: College Union Ballroom

International Women’s Day

Sponsored by the Fort Lewis College Department of History and Gender and Women’s Studies

Department of History and Gender and Women’s Studies Professor John Baranski and his Women’s History class will host a day’s worth of activities.

Thursday, March 4: 7 p.m.

Location: Durango Arts Center

Marx in Soho

Sponsored by the Fort Lewis College Department of Sociology

Marx in Soho is a brilliant theater introduction to Karl Marx's life, his analysis of society, and his passion for radical change.

Monday, March 15: 7-8:15 p.m.

Location: Roshong Recital Hall

I Want to Be Bad: The Flapper and Her Song

Sponsored by the New Mexico Humanities Chautauqua Association and the Gender and Women’s Studies at Fort Lewis College

Jane Voss, singer, and Hoyle Osborne, pianist, present a vivid, historically authentic readings of songs of the “New Women” of the 1920s – popularly known as “Flappers.” These fascinating and witty songs are remarkable artifacts of a profound shift in American culture, when women took on new roles, challenging conventions of costume, mores, and expression. Contemporary readings complement the songs.

Wednesday, March 17: 5 to 6:15 p.m.

Location: 135 Noble Hall

Contemporary Textiles: Margin as Strategy with Ilze Aviks

Sponsored by the Art Department and AHSS

Textiles have long provided clothing and shelter and served religious rituals the world over. Traditional Western art histories, however, denied the status of women as artists, in part by designating textiles as “women’s work,” then excluding these from serious consideration. Much art produced in non-European cultures was similarly demeaned. Textiles represent a distinct history and practice and have become a powerful medium and strategy to voice “otherness.” This slide presentation focuses on how cloth has been and is used as a political tool. Ilze Aviks has maintained a studio in Durango for 29 years and has taught workshops across the United States, Australia, and Canada. Aviks’ tapestries and stitched cloth are included in numerous public and private collections including Kaiser Permanente and AT&T, and her work has been published in Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal, Southwest Art, and Fiberarts Design Books III and V.   She exhibits widely, including Fiberart International, Chautauqua International, Vahki, and Materials Hard and Soft.  Recent exhibitions include the University of Northern Colorado, Sydney, Australia, and Muskegon Museum in Michigan.  

Thursday, March 18: 7 to 8:15 p.m.

Location: Chemistry 130

“A Girl’s Life”

Sponsored by the Fort Lewis College Department of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies

Screening and panel discussion of the PBS special A Girl’s Life with panelists Keri Brandt and Jennifer Stollman

Friday, March 19: 7 to 8:15 p.m.

Location: 130 Noble Hall

Women Changing History: Ricki Ott

Sponsored by the Fort Lewis College Department of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies

Riki Ott, PhD, is a community activist and former commercial salmon "fisherm'am." She experienced first hand the devastating effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill -- and chose to do something about it.  She is now a leader in environmental justice and the movement to reclaim democracy. She will discuss Constitutional Amendment 28 to "legalize democracy" and rescind corporate personhood from 14th amendment. 

Monday, March 22: 6:30 to 8:15 p.m.

Location: Chemistry 130

Women are Doctors

Sponsored by NBS and Gender and Women’s Studies

Dr. Nasha Winters lives and breathes the belief that “Women are Doctors.”  She is a living miracle of the possibility that health can be regained by listening to the natural healing needs of one’s own body.  She trusts the innate potential of a woman to know what is best for her unborn child and thus shares her commitment to a woman’s right to choose as evidenced by her experience of supporting the work of Dr. George Tiller.  Finally, Dr. Winters is dedicated to the health care of women and will uncover the truth that women are by nature, doctors.

Tuesday, March 23: 7 to 8:15 p.m.

Location: Center of Southwest Studies, Room 120

Songs, Sentences and Aftermaths of the Drapchi 14

Sponsored by the Fort Lewis College Gender and Women’s Studies

Ngawang Sangdrol, one of the famous 14 singing nuns of Drapchi Prison in Tibet and now a human rights activist, will discuss the activist responses to political repression in Tibet. Dr. Schultheis teaches in the Department of English and in the Honor’s Program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is an Associate Professor whose work focuses on human rights in literature and film as well as on postcolonial literatures, film, and theory.  Additional teaching interests include courses in contemporary British and American literature and cross-listed offerings with International and Global Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and African American Studies. Her current research is on "Transnational Tibet: Readings in Human Rights and the Humanities." She is also co-editing two collections on theorizing and teaching human rights and literature.

Wednesday, March 24: 7 to 9 p.m.

Location: Fort Lewis College Theater Department Gallery Space

"Women and Words"

Sponsored by the Fort Lewis College Department of Theater and Gender and Women’s Studies

Faculty and students will perform selected scenes and monologues from women, feminist, and gender-focused scripts. 

Thursday, March 25: 5 to 7 p.m.

Location: TBD

Poetry discussion & workshop

Sponsored by the Writing Program and Reed Library

A night of pizza and poetry. Fort Lewis faculty members, Chris Hartman and Esther Belin, will each lead a brief discussion about selected female poets from other countries, as well as those who challenged the status quo from within our borders (non-Americans and un-Americans). Then each facilitator will lead a poetry writing workshop.

Monday, March 29: 6 to 9 p.m.

Location: College Union Building Ballroom

Media Artist/Producer/ Director/Writer/Educator Jill Evans Petzall – When the Bough Breaks

Sponsored by Women’s Resource Center and Gender and Women’s Studies Emmy-Award winning documentary filmmaker Jill Evans Petzall will screen her most recent documentary, When the Bough Breaks, a study of what happens to women’s families when women are incarcerated. She is dedicated to portraying the “authentic, the remarkable, and the profound in her subjects.” Her videos are shown in museums, conferences and on Public Television and cable stations throughout the United States. Presentation begins at 6 p.m. followed by a reception with the artist in the San Juan Room. Free to FLC students, faculty, staff, and WRC members, $10 all others.