Women’s History Celebration 2007
Inernational Spaces of Struggle and Resistance
Tuesday, March 20
Supporting Gender Equality: Policies That Work
Anita Nyberg, Professor of the National Institute for Working Life in Stockholm, Sweden, will talk about the policies on childcare and parental leave in Sweden, which are very different from the ones in the U.S.
12:15 PM, Bangor Room, Memorial Union
Wednesday, March 21
Panel of International Women
A panel of students will talk about the issues women are confronting in their countries. Participants will include Hind Derar from Saudi Arabia and the Sudan, Margaret Brugman from the Netherlands, Christine Angerer from Germany, and Nadiya Dragan from Ukraine.
12:15 PM, Bumps Room, Memorial Union
There Ought To Be A Law (film/discussion)
This documentary is about Cathy Crowley’s response to gun laws in Maine after her son’s suicide in 2004. The film provides viewers with an inside look at how the Maine Legislature operates and how the public can get involved in the law-making process. (For more information, resources, and a film trailer visit
www.thereought2bealaw.com.)
7:00 PM, 140 Little Hall
Thursday, March 22
Hudson Museum Reception for “The Innocent”
An exhibit of portraits of Iraqi children by Rebecca McCall,
4:00 - 6:00 PM, Hudson Museum.
The exhibit will be on display until May 28, 2007.
Monday, March 26
Women and the Military in Latin America
Wiebke Ipsen, Assistant Professor of History, will focus on women’s interactions with the military at different points in Latin American history. The time period of the talk begins with the European conquest of Latin America and ends with the military dictatorships in the second half of the twentieth century.
3:30 PM, 365 Stevens Hall
Tuesday, March 27
From Chiapas to Orono:
Women’s Rights as Human Rights
Ashley Miller, third-year History major, will speak about her involvement with Sisters Supporting Sisters (SSS). Sarah Bigney, co-founder of the Progressive Student Alliance and a senior in International Affairs, will speak about her experiences in Mexico and women’s roles in the current social movements in Oaxaca and Chiapas. Tiffany Warzecha, senior in Anthropology, will reflect on the process, theory, and praxis of women working together.
12:15 PM, Bangor Room, Memorial Union
Status/Survival: Violence, Global Spaces
and the Politics of Gender
Professor Radha Hegde, Associate Professor of Culture and Communication and Director of the Communication Studies Program at New York University is a scholar, teacher, and domestic violence activist. She will reflect on the ways in which the racial and gendered realities of local issues can only be understood within transnational flows of migration, information technologies, and media images. 7:30 PM, 100 Neville Hall
Co-sponsored by the Libra Foundation and the Department of Communication and Journalism.
Wednesday, March 28
Tillie Olsen Tribute
A presentation will be made by faculty members Peg Cruikshank, Tina Passman, and Kathleen Ellis to remember and reflect on the life and work of Tillie Olsen. She is internationally honored for her writing, human rights and anti-war activism, and dedication to women’s lives.
12:15 PM, Bumps Room, Memorial Union
Thursday, March 29
Germany, Pale Mother (film/discussion)
This is the poignant story of Sanders-Brahms’ mother, fictionalized as Eva Mattes, who marries a Nazi soldier and remains loyal to him through the fall of Germany and the grim postwar era. The couple has a daughter, for whom the aggressively independent Mattes tries to provide, even as those around her starve to death.
7:00 PM, 140 Little Hall
Part of the MPAC Film Series
Friday, March 30
“If a Man Can Do It, We Can Do It Better”:
Women in Maine’s Paper Industry, 1885-2004
Pauleena MacDougall, Associate Director of the Maine Folklife Center, and Amy Stevens, graduate student in History, will present results of their research on the history of women in Maine’s paper industry. The focus of the talk will be on Eastern Fine Paper in Brewer and will include a panel of women who were interviewed for the project.
12:15 PM, 113 D. P. Corbett
Saturday, March 31
Annual Spruce Run Chocolate Buffet and Silent Auction
This benefit event will also feature the Spontaneous Jazz Ensemble. Tickets are $15 per person. For more information please call Spruce Run at 945-5102.
7:00 PM, Wellman Commons, Bangor Theological Seminary
(Hammond & Union Street Campus)
Wednesday, April 4
Hip Hop: Money, Honies, Thugs and
the Struggle for Healthy Gender Identity
(film/discussion)
According to the PBS website, this “is a heartfelt documentary that goes beyond the bling to explore gender roles in hip-hop and rap music through the lens of filmmaker Byron Hurt, a former college quarterback-turned-activist.” A response and discussion will be led by Marwin Spiller, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
and two University of Maine football players.
7:00 PM, 115 D. P. Corbett
