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Summer 2005
Saturday, July 23, 2005 Asha Toledo presents Ragalahari 2005, an enthralling evening of Indian Semi-Classical music.Venue: Center for Performing Arts, Recital Hall, The University of Toledo, Time: 5:30 p.m. Featuring: Jugalbandhi by Joseph and Carol Lucide, Ramesh Mangrulkar, Kishore Khankari, and Navnit Patel. Singing and dance performances by Shree Belsare, Aparajita Maitra, and Sethu Karthikeyan. Tickets are available at Krishna Groceries, Reddy Stores, Pallavi (419) 283-3025, and Raj (419) 320-2719. Asha for Education: an active group for basic education to India. Sponsored by the Department of Engineering, Department of Theater, Department of Music, and The Department of Women's & Gender Studies. All the proceeds from the event go to the various projects for the education of underprivileged children in India. For more information, please visit www.ashanet.org/toledo WGST Event Planning Committee Academic Year 2005-2006 Code:
DEPARTMENT EVENTS,
SPEAKERS,
BROWN BAGS,
ECW EVENTS w/ WGST FACULTY
and FILMS Fall 2005 Friday,
September 9, 2005, WGST Department Meeting, 11 a.m.-Noon,
U-Hall 4180 Friday, September 9, 2005, WGST Department Open House/ Meet & Greet, Noon-2 p.m., U-Hall 4200 (WGST Student Lounge) Wednesday,
September 14, 2005, WGST
Brown Bag—Tobi Sadd, Title TBA (Topic related
to her efforts with Planned Parenthood), Noon-1:30, U-Hall
4180 Thursday,
September 15, 2005, The Search for Solid Ground for Women in The Workplace
or Why Project Succeed Needs to Continue at the Eberly Center for
Women with Dr. Patricia Murphy,
12:30 p.m., The Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women Conference
Room. Friday,
September 16, 2005, WGST Retreat, Day-long, Toledo
Botanical Gardens Tuesday,
September 20, 2005, WGST Film
Screening Casa De Los Babys, 7:30 p.m., University
Hall 4180. The film: Six
very different women are spending a fraught, prolonged waiting
period in an undetermined Latin American country, all sharing the
same complicated dream: to come home with a Latin American baby to
raise as their own. The topic is certainly compelling and the
performances convincing, but as a drama, Casa de Los Babys never
quite comes to life. Marcia Gay Harden, in particular, is remarkable
as the terrifically unlikable Nan, an opinionated Texan who rankles
her fellow hopefuls, complains without cease, bribes officials, and
steals soaps from the hotel-cleaning cart. She is an excellent
character, real enough to get under anybody's skin. Friday, October 7, 2005, WGST Department Meeting, 11 a.m.-Noon, U-Hall Saturday, October 8, 2005, Homecoming Wednesday,
October 12, 2005, WGST Brown Bag—Dr. Pat Groves,
Title TBA (Topic
will relate to Women & Mountain Climbing), Noon-1:30 p.m.,
U-Hall 4180 Thursday, October 13, 2005, Been There, Done That. You Will Make It: Mentoring African American Women with Ms. Darla Turner, WGST Instructor, Dorothy Spurlock, Director of research & Sponsored Programs; and Dr. Angela M. Siner, Sociology/Anthropology, 12:30 p.m., The Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women Conference Room. Monday & Tuesday, October 17-18 2005, Fall Break Thursday,
October 20, 2005, Oppression of People with Mental Disabilities
at the Toledo
State Mental Hospital, 1967-1972 with
Dr. Patricia Groves, Professor, Women’s & Gender
Studies. 12:30 p.m., The Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women
Conference Room. Tuesday, October 25, 2005, WGST Film Screening of Thunderbird Woman (70 min. Director: Bertram) 7:30 p.m., University Hall, Rm. 4180 The film: features Winona LaDuke named by Time Magazines as one of America’s 50 most promising leaders as she advocates for human rights and educates others on indigenous issues. Thursday,
October 27, 2005, Islam and Domestic Violence: A Cultural
Competency Workshop
with
Dr. Asma Abdel Halim, Assistant Professor, Women’s &
Gender Studies. 12:30 p.m., The Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women
Conference Room. Friday,
November 4, 2005, WGST Department Meeting, 11 a.m.-Noon,
U-Hall Tuesday,
November 8, 2005, WGST Brown Bag—Dr. Barbara Mann, Title TBA (Title
will have to do with her scholarship) Noon-1:30 p.m., U-Hall Wednesday,
November 9, 2005, Feminism & Global Movements Leadership: An Evening
with Winona LaDuke, 7 p.m.,
Ingman Room, Student Union Winona
LaDuke is a longtime environmentalist and Indigenous rights activist
from the Ojibwe Nation. She is Founding Director of the White Earth
Land Recovery Project, a reservation-based land acquisition,
environmental advocacy and cultural organization. She is Program
Director of Honor the Earth, a national Native foundation, a former
board member of Greenpeace USA and co-chair of the Indigenous
Women’s Network. She is the author of the novel Last Standing
Woman and All Our Relations, a non-fiction work on Native
environmentalism. LaDuke
will give public and campus readings, lectures, and classroom
presentations and seminars for WGST courses and affiliated courses.
Community partner: People Called Women Bookstore. Wednesday-Friday, November 23-25, 2005, Thanksgiving Break Tuesday, November 29, 2005, WGST Film Screening of Scout’s Honor (Director: Tom Shepard), 7:30 p.m., University Hall, Rm. 4180 The Film: Seen through the eyes of a 13-year-old boy and a 70-year-old man—both heterosexual, both dedicated to the Scouts, and both determined to change the course of Scouting history. Scout’s honor also includes the legal stories of ousted gay Eagle Scouts James Dale and Time Curran. The film chronicles a modern interpretation of the Scouting ideals of courage and honor. Friday,
December 9, 2005, WGST Department Meeting, 11 a.m.-Noon, U-Hall 4180 Friday, December 9, 2005, WGST Holiday Party/Silent Auction (Charity TBA, In the past proceeds have gone to an orphanage in Zimbabwe and last year to refugee women in the Sudan), Noon-2 p.m., U-Hall 4200 (WGST Student Lounge) & 4220 Friday, December 9, 2005, Classes End Friday, December 16, 2005, Exam Week Ends Spring 2006 Monday, January 9, 2006 Classes Begin Monday, January 16, 2006, Martin Luther King Jr. Day Friday,
Januray 27, 2006, WGST Department Meeting, 11 a.m.-Noon, U-Hall 4180 January
30-February 4, 2006, Ms. Annie Ruth, Time, Date, Presentation TBA
Annie Ruth is an actor, director and tutor. She has worked in film,
theatre, radio and television and has taught in NZ the UK and USA.
Screen credits include core character in Shark in the Park, various episodes of Crime Watch & Country Calendar and the short films, Christmas Shopping and The Bee King. In theatre Annie has
performed in Shakespeare (including Prospero in The Tempest, Downstage), Williams, Albee, Daio Fo,
and contemporary US and NZ work including Strip by Lorae Parry and Girls on Girls which she also co-produced. In
2001 Annie was selected for the International Directing Symposium at
LaMaMa, Spoleto, Italy where she worked with Anne Bogart, Theodora
Skipitares, Ong Keng Sen, Jean-Guy Lecat among others. In 2000 she
directed Lorae Parry's new play, Vagabonds at Downstage Theatre, as part of the
Shebang festival. She has also taught master classes in
Improvisation in the US. In 2003 she attended the SITI Company
Intensive at Saratoga Springs, building on the earlier work with
Anne Bogart. Currently
Annie is Director of Toi Whakaari; NZ Drama School where she teaches
improvisation, acting, history of theatre and directs productions
along with managing the school. Wednesday,
February 15 2006, WGST Brown Bag WGST Student will present
scholarship. Title
& Presenter TBA
Noon-1:30 p.m., U-Hall 4180 Tuesday,
February 21, 2006, WGST Film Screening Heart of the Sea (Directors:
Lisa
Denker & Charlotte Lagrade) 7:30 p.m., University Hall, Rm. 4180
The Film:
Heart
of the Sea is an hour-long documentary about Hawaiian legend Rell
“Kapolioka'ehukai” Sunn who died in January 1998 of breast
cancer at the age of 47. Known worldwide as a pioneer of women’s
professional surfing, in the Islands Rell Sunn achieved the stature
of an icon — not only for her physical power, grace and luminous
beauty, but for her leadership in a community that loved her as much
as she loved it. Named one of Hawaii’s most influential women of
the 20th century by ABC television, Sunn - whose Hawaiian name means
Heart of the Sea- was eulogized in the New York Times for having
“captured the heart of Hawaii’s during a 14-year battle with
cancer.” Friday,
February 24, 2006, WGST
Department Meeting, 11 a.m.-Noon, U-Hall 4180 Monday-Friday,
March 6-10, Spring Break Wednesday,
March 22, 2006, WGST Brown Bag WGST Student will present scholarship.
Title & Presenter TBA
Noon-1:30 p.m., U-Hall 4180 Friday, March 24, 2006, WGST Department Meeting, 11 a.m.-Noon, U-Hall 4180 Tuesday, March 28, 2006, WGST Film Screening Maria Full of Grace Director Joshua Marston. 7:30 p.m., University Hall, Rm. 4180 Marston has reported that Maria Full of Grace was inspired by his acquaintance with a neighbor who came to Brooklyn as a drug "mule," the horribly but unavoidably cruel colloquialism for women, usually young girls, who are recruited to smuggle drugs into the U.S. (and, no doubt, elsewhere) by transporting them inside their bodies. These women swallow pellets hard-packed with cocaine and then travel with the drugs in their stomachs and intestines, praying mightily against the wise and watchful eyes of Customs officers or the fatal accident of a ruptured pellet. Marston's neighbor, who hailed from Colombia, intensively described her experience and introduced him to other women who had endured similar trials. Wednesday, April 5, 2006, WGST Brown Bag Film in Progress, Deb Angel, Noon- 1:30 p.m., U-Hall 4180 Friday, April 14, 2006, WGST Luncheon w/ keynote speaker Chandra Mohanty Dr. Mohanty is a Professor of Women’s Studies and a Dean’s Professor of the Humanities in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. She is the author of numerous publications on feminism including “Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity” (Duke University Press, 2003) and co-editor of “Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures” (Routledge, 1997) and “Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism” (Indiana University Press, 1991). She is also series editor of "Comparative Feminist Studies" published by Palgrave Macmillan. Seating is limited; to rsvp, please call (419)530-2233. Tuesday,
April 18, 2006, WGST Film Screening, Lipstick & Dynamite,
Piss & Vinegar:
The First Ladies of Wrestling (75
min., Director Ruth Leitman)TBA 7:30 p.m., University Hall, Rm. 4180
The Film: Before
Hulk Hogan, The Rock, and the stars of Vince McMahon’s WWE took
pro wrestling to new heights in American culture, pro wrestling was
a small, relatively disorganized network of small time promoters,
con-men, and over-the-top characters who brought their unique brand
of showmanship to audiences around the nation. A cornerstone of the
success of these promotions was the rise of women’s professional
wrestling in the 1940’s and 50’s. Lipstick and Dynamite is a
look into the lives of the women who made their living on the
professional wrestling circuit. Friday, April 28, 2006, WGST Department Meeting, 11 a.m.-Noon, U-Hall 4180 Friday, April 28, 2006, Friday, April 28, 2006, Classes End Friday, May 5, 2006, Spring Fling WGST Picnic—Noon-2 p.m., Location TBA Friday, May 5, 2006, Exam Week Ends Saturday, May 6, 2006, Spring Commencement
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Full of outstanding
archival footage of wrestlers like The Fabulous Moolah and Johnnie
Mae Young, Lipstick and Dynamite is primarily concerned with the
lives of hardship and hard work these superstars of the ring created
for themselves. It could have been the sex, money, injuries, and
intrigue that dominated their lives on the road, but the competitive
passion of these women have for their sport shines through in
director Ruth Leitman’s touching portrait of women who lived hard,
and fought even harder.