Campus and Local Events

Sunday, September 16th, Official Center Dedication Day (10 AM Mass, 11:30 Dedication in Center for Women and 12 Brunch in Alum Hall).

The Center will be renamed in honor of S. Nancy Hynes, an ardent supporter of women's education and development; at CSB/SJU, she has been in the forefront of introducing courses that focus on the lives and contributions of women and has also extended that focus to the "gendered" lives of men. S. Nancy has also been politically and socially active in support of women's rights.

September 17-21, Center for Women Dedication Week.

Monday, September 17th, All Day Open House for Students, Staff, and Faculty located in the Center for Women, Haehn Campus Center (HCC).

September 17th, 4:30p.m., a talk with Sister Linda Kulzer about Catholicism and Feminism located in the Center for Women.

September 17th, 8:00 p.m., keynote presentation at the Peace Studies and Fine Arts Conference (CSB/SJU) by Nancy Giles, a journalist, actor (film, stage, television, radio), and comedian. BAC Petters Auditorium, CSB -- presentation will focus on how the Arts serve as a force for social change with a specific emphasis on gender & diversity.
(See http://www.csbsju.edu/peacestudies/conferences/Fall%202007% 20Peae%20Studies%20Conference.htm for full conference schedule.)

Tuesday, September 18th, 4:30 p.m., Hot Chocolate Hot Topics (HCHT) with CSB/SJU Professor Camilla Krone on FEMINISM! Located in the Center for Women, HCC.

Thursday, September 27th, 6:30 p.m. Take Back the Night Rally and March, the keynote speaker will be Karen Wussow, an SCSU alumni, who will speak about her journey of surviving abuse to becoming a social worker. There will be music provided by Teresa Ritzer and Third Shift Entertainment. Located at Barden Park in St. Cloud, rain site is Atwood Memorial Center on the SCSU campus.

Tuesday, October 16th, Movies and Munchies: Running in High Heels documentary followed by a discussion with CSB/SJU Political Science Professor Matt Lindstrom. Tentative time 7:00 p.m. in the Alumni Hall, HCC.

Tuesday, October 23rd, HCHT with Theology Professor Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman on Family and Church, at 5:00 p.m. in the Center for Women, HCC.

Thursday, October 25, 2007, 7:00 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge, SJUMen’s Lives Series Event – “Gendering the Caribbean Picturesque” Film and presentation by Patricia Mohammed, Gender Studies Professor/Lecturer from University of the West Indies, St. Augustine’s Campus, Trinidad & Tobago
"Gendering the Caribbean Picturesque" deals with gender, race, class the questions of identity formation, or alternative, based on her new film, entitled, “The Sign of the Loa." Ms. Mohammed will do an introduction to the film via the project of writing and research which interfaces with the book Imaging the Caribbean. This deals with the question of art and religious symbolism but is equally tied in with the issues of identity and race rather than gender is the point of entry and of course the meaning of aesthetics.

Tuesday, November 6th, 7:00 p.m., Women's Lives Keynote Speaker: Barbara Martinez Jitner on "Femicide at Our U.S. Border: To Be a Woman in Juarez is a Death Sentence"
The border town of Juarez, Mexico has been nicknamed "The Capital of Murdered Women" because more than 400 women have been found raped, mutilated, and murdered. Almost all of these women worked in American owned factories, all created by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Barbara Martinez Jitner's lecutre gives a moving and personal look at the crippling poverty and gender discrimination that has made NAFTA's "expendable workforce"-expendable human beings. Working with Amnesty International and superstar Jennifer Lopez, Barbara will outline steps that will empower listeners so that they may stop the femmicide that is occurring only 50 yards away from the United States. Location is in Gorecki 204.

Tuesday, November 13th, HCHT on United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Global Leaders with CSB/SJU Professors Kay Wolsborn (Political Science), Lisa Ohm (German), Jean Lavigne (Environmental Studies), and Kristi Kremers (Global Education Coordinator) to raise interest for a March trip to the UAE located in the Center for Women, HCC.