"Women's Equality Day"
Towards Equality Together!

Carol Moseley Braun
Ambassador

Convened under the auspices of the Florida "W" Project.

Meet the New FIU Staff and Faculty

Students Welcome.

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP: 305 34 2408.

Cosponsored by:
The Women's Center

Sep. 10, 2003
Wednesday
4-5:30pm

"The 5th Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture"
Slavery and the Prison Industrial Complex

Angela Davis, Ph.D.
Professor, History of Consciousness &
Chair, Women's Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz

Co-sponsored by:
African New World Studies
The Eric Williams Memorial Collection
University of the West Indies
British Petroleum Trinidad & Tobago LLC

Sep. 19, 2003
Friday
6:30pm Reception
7:20pm Lecture

Refreshments will be served prior to and following the lecture.

Books by Dr. Eric Williams and Dr. Angela Davis will be available for purchase and signing. Please call 305 919 5521 or 305 271 7246 for more information.

Wertheim Performing Arts Center Auditorium, University Park Campus

This event is free and open to the public. However you do need a ticket to get in.
Tickets will only be issued on Friday, Sept 19, 6:30pm at the reception. Please RSVP to Rosa: 305 919 5521.

Cultural Transmission and Environmental Knowledge in Southern Belize

Men and women's roles are changing in the Maya communities, affecting what they know and practice in their daily lives and how they interact with the environment.

Rebecca Zarger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
Environmental Studies

The Many Faces of Survival

An Art Exhibition Depicting Domestic & Sexual Violence

MeloD
Master Artist

Co-sponsored by:
FIU-Vicitm Advocacy Center
Florida Dept. of Health

Tuesday
Sep.30, 2003
4pm Reception

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
Black List

Sara Paretsky
Award-Winning Mystery Writer

Women's Experiences in the Holocaust

Dr. Janet Liebman Jacobs
Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
University of Colorado, Boulder

Co-sponsored by:
Judaic Studies
Religious Studies

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
Gendered Patriotism: Mobilizing Men and Women to Support Wars

Karen Garner, Ph.D.
Director, Women's Center, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
The Wolfsonian-FIU

Cricketina
A New Children's Opera

Music by:
Kristine H. Burns
Director, Electronic Music Studios, School of Music, FIU

Libretto by:
Lynne Barrett
Award-Winning Author
Creative Writing, FIU

VH 100 (Viertes Haus 100), University Park Campus

For ticket purchase, call 305 348 1998.

Abortion Rights Under Attack:
How the Pro-Choice Majority is Fighting Back

Katherine Spillar
National Coordinator
Feminist Majority Foundation

Nov. 18, 2003
Tuesday
3:30pm Talk

Teach-In:
The United States in Post-War Iraq

Panelists:

Harvey Averch
Professor, Public Administration
FIU

Lt. Col. Christopher Cotts
National Defense Fellow, FIU

Karen Garner
Director, Women's Center, FIU

Anthony P. Maingot
Professor, Sociology/Anthropology, FIU

Judith Stiehm
Professor, Political Science, FIU

Moderator:

John F. Stack, Jr.
Director, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies, FIU
Professor, Political Science and Law, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies
Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies

UP Faculty: GL 139; BBC Faculty: LIB 155

via picturetel

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
A Rose Blooms Again: A Survivor's Story (Holocaust)

Rose Rothschild

Home of Suzanna Rose. Contact srose@fiu.edu for directions.

Precious Fire: Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution

Karen Garner, Ph.D.
Director, Women's Center, FIU

Brown Bag Lunch
"'Non-traditional' Science Careers"

You are always welcome to drop by with your lunch and chat!

Dr. Caroline Simpson
Department of Physics, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
The Women's Center

Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research Program and You

Susan Dailey
Postdoctoral Fellow, FIU
Wetland and Coastal Ecologist
FCE LTER Coordinator
Education and Outreach Programs, Southeast Environmental Research Center

Co-sponsored by:
Dept. of Environmental Studies

Sexual Assault
Informational/Interactive presentation

Help put a stop to this crime, become familiar with Victim Advocacy Center services, the definition of sexual assault, the prevelant date rape drugs and more! Many free goodies to go around!

Co-sponsored by:
Victim Advocacy Center

Feb. 6, 2004
Friday
12-1pm

Documentary & Discussion
Einstein's Wife

Co-sponsored by:
WICS@FIU (Women in Computer Science)

Brown Bag Lunch
"Lessons Learned from the Leadership Hallmark Program"

You are always welcome to drop by with your lunch and chat!

Barbara Bader
Director, Academic Programs
Academic Affairs

Co-sponsored by:
The Women's Center

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Judith Stiehm, Ph.D.
Professor, Political Science, FIU

Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables

The parking lot on Aragon across from Books and Books is under construction.
You might use valet parking at restaurants on that block (cost ~$3) or see the parking options below.

Parking Map
Parking Directions

Brown Bag Lunch
AI's campaign to call attention to the Ciudad Juarez Murders/Disappearances of Young Women

You are always welcome to drop by with your lunch and chat!

Ofelia Adan-Fernandez
President, Miami Chapter of Amnesty International

Co-sponsored by:
The Women's Center

An Evening With Katherine Dunham

Featuring performances by: IFE-ILE Afro-Cuban Dance Ensemble and the Louines Louinis Haitian Dance Theatre

Co-sponsored by:
FIU-Intercultural Dance & Music Institute, Dept. of Theatre & Dance, African-New World Studies Program, Honors College, Latin American and Caribbean Center, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council, and the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners.

Honors Student Research and Artistic Initiative Conference
Pursuing Excellence in Student Research

Program:
- Welcome by Research Director
- Address by Provost
- Outline of the Initiative by Dean
- Student-faculty panel on research challenges and opportunities
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sarah Boysen, Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University and leading specialist on chimpanzee cognition
- Reception

Co-sponsored by:
The Honors College, SGA, Arts & Sciences, Psychology, Undergraduate Studies, and Graduate Studies

Women in Science Series
Landsat classification of the Greater and Lesser Antilles

Dr. Jennifer Gebelein
Assistant Professor
International Relations, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Environmental Studies

Faculty Lunchtime Symposium
Champions for Peace:
Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Judith H. Stiehm
Professor, Political Science, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
The Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies

Lecture/Book Signing
"Dreaming Me: An African-American Woman's Spiritual Journal"

Dr. Janice D. Willis
World Wisdom Scholar-in-Residence
Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University

Co-sponsored by:
Fund for the Comparative Study of Spirituality, Dept. of Religious Studies, and African New World Studies

Mentoring Partnerships Program
Straight Career Talk for Women

Ms. Olga Magnusen
Director, FIU Career Services

Co-sponsored by:
The Women's Center

Graham Center 285

Please RSVP to
Karen Garner, Director, The Women's Center at FIU, 305-348-3692

Women's Studies Student Conference
Submission of Proposals
Proposal Guidelines (Word)
Proposal Guidelines (pdf)

Spring 2004 Quilt Project
Women's Rights are Human Rights

Create a collaborative album quilt for display in the Women's Center. The Women's Center will supply the fabric foundation for your quilt square.

Co-sponsored by:
The Women's Center

Women's Center, GC 318, UP; WUC 256, BBC.

Please call 305-348-3692 or 305-919-5359 to pick up your quilt squares.

"Haitian Women: Honoring the Past, Embracing the Future" Conference

Co-sponsored by:
African-New World Studies, Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami, Inc., and Undergraduate Studies

Kovens Center, BBC

For more information, please call 305-919-5521.

Women in Science Series
Marine Protected Areas in the Mexican Caribbean: Case study of Puerto Morales

Dr Ligia Collado
Biology Department, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Environmental Studies

Documentary Video Film Screening
"Rape is..."

Diane Rosenfeld
Professor, Women's Studies
Harvard University

Co-sponsored by:
Victim Advocacy Center

Graham Center 140, University Park Campus

Call Maureen M. Muhlena, 305-348-1215, for more information.

Music of one of America's Pioneer Women Composers

Mana-Zucca Concert

FREE ADMISSION

Co-sponsored by:
School of Music

Wertheim Performing Arts Center, University Park Campus

For more information, contact Mary Alice Manella, 305 348 1998

The Threshold of Possibility:
Feminism in the Classroom

Dana Van Tilborg
Dept. of Educational Thought & Socio-Cultural Studies
University of New Mexico

Women's Studies Center, DM 212

Malcolm X/Ella Baker Civil Rights Lecture Series: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

M'zuri
Multi-Media Artist

Co-sponsored by:
African-New World Studies

WUC 155, BBC

For more information, please call 305-919-5521.

Co-sponsored by:
The Women's Center

March 12, 2004
Friday
7pm

Graham Center Ballroom, University Park Campus

Admission is free. Open to the public.

Women in Post War Reconstruction Conference: Strategies for Implementing Democracy Building Policies

Conference Itinerary (Word)
Conference Itinerary (pdf)

Friday, March 12
Reception
Welcome
Keynote Address:
#1 Maha Muna (Iraq), "After the War: Where are the Women?"
#2 Charlotte Ponticelli, "The Worldwide Advancement of Women's Issues and the U.S. National Interest in Post Conflict Zones"
Discussion

Saturday, March 13
Panel Sessions:
#1 "United Nations Goal for 'Gender Mainstreaming' in Post War Peace and Democracy Building - - The Theory Behind UN Security Resolution 1325 and its Implementation in Afghanistan and Iraq"
#2 "The Role of Women in Creating an Engaged Civil Society in Post Conflict Zones"
#3 "Incorporating Men Into the Process of Empowering Women and Establishing a Sustainable Peace: "Demilitarizing" and "Demasculinizing" Post Conflict Societies"

To register, go to:
http://hon.fiu.edu/~conference/registration.html

March 12 - 13, 2004

Friday
6:30pm

Saturday
9am-6pm

Admission to the conference and keynote is free and open to the public.

Pre-registration for conference luncheon on March 13 is required and must be submitted by March 8.

To register.

Margaret Sanger, seeing endless numbers of poverty-stricken women subjected to interminable pregnancies, was driven to defy the brutal Comstock laws that prohibited birth control information from being distributed to the public. Her defiance cost her home and family, but her vision
became the basis of Planned Parenthood, the international organization that has counseled four generations of women on health and Birth Control.

For more information about Miriam Reed: http://miriamreed.com

Eleanor of Aquitaine, Lord and Lady (1122-1204)
by Prof. Felice Lifshitz

Marie Antoinette (1755-1793)
by Prof. Lara Kriegel

Martha Washington (1731-1802)
by Prof. Kirsten Wood

Catherine the Great (l762-1796)
by Prof. Rebecca Friedman

Queen Elizabeth II (1834-1868)
by Prof. Aurora Morcillo

Co-sponsored by:
Department of History

Women in Science Series
Invisible Landscapes: Local Culture in the Florida Everglades

Dr. Laura Ogden
Assistant Professor
Sociology/Anthropology, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Environmental Studies

Women in Science Series
Building a Sustainable Future:
Our Roles as Chemists
(The speaker will also address careers of women in science)

Dr. Stephanie Burns
BS in Chemistry, FIU Class of 1977
President & CEO, Dow Corning

Copsonsored by:
Department of Chemistry

April 5, 2004
Monday
11:30am

Cross-Cultural Couple's Therapy

Margaret Waller
Associate Professor
School of Social Work
Arizona State University

Co-sponsored by:
Sociology/Anthropology, Psychology,
Social Work, and the Health and Wellness Center/OEA

Dr. Katrina Liskova
Department of Sociology
Masaryk University
Czech Republic