Spring 2008 Events
Student Voices for Reproductive Rights Events
Please contact Kristen Young (kyoung5@aug.edu) for more information
Friday, February 1st (2pm in the JSAC) - Planning meeting for National Condom Week
Monday, February 4th (1:30pm in the JSAC) - Informational table concerning pro-choice
legislation
and the Roe anniversary.
Wednesday, February 13th (11am) - National Condom Week table
Film Screening - Breasts: A Documentary
Thusday, February 21st at 8pm
University Hall room 224
Directed by Meema Spadola, this hour-long documentary consists of interviews with twenty-two women - ages 6 to 84 - discussing how breasts play a crucial role in the experiences of puberty, motherhood, sex, health, and aging. Interspersed throughout the documentary are segments of breast-related archival footage including a racy 1920s animated cartoon, a 1950s beauty pageant, and a 1970s bra commercial.
This event is hosted by the Women's Studies Student Association and everyone is welcome. If you have any Breast-related poetry, you are invited to read it as well.
For more information, please contact the WSSA president Ula Gaha at ugaha@aug.edu or the WSSA sponser Dr. Launius at claunius@aug.edu.
Film Series: Offside
Monday, March 10th at 7pm
Girls just want to have fun — and cheer their team at a World Cup soccer event. But that's not easy in Iran, where women are banned from public sporting events. Those caught sneaking in are detained by bewildered boy soldiers in “Offside,” Jafar Panahi's wonderfully funny, outspoken film. Carrie Rickey of “The Philadelphia Inquirer” called the film “exhilarating, exuberant and drolly funny.” This film is being screened both in honor of Women's Awareness Week and the Sociology program.
For more information, please contact Leza Witherington in the Department of Communications & Professional Writing at
706-729-2416.
Film Screening - Fly Girls
Wednesday, March 19th at 7:30
Butler Meeting Room (JSAC, second floor)
Fly Girls is the largely unknown story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). The film features a remarkable group of former WASPs who recall the planes they flew, the challenges they met, and the pride they felt in playing a role in the American war effort. As women's place in the US military continues to evolve, the story of these female pioneers is more relevant than ever.
For more information please contact WSSA president Ula Gaha at ugaha@aug.edu or WSSA sponsor Dr. Launius at claunius@aug.edu.
Women's History Trivia Night
Thursday, March 27th at 7:30
Hardy Meeting Room (JSAC)
The WSSA will be having a women's history trivia night!
Prizes will be awarded for first through third place winners!
Student Research Presentations
Tuesday, April 1st at 2:30pm
Hardy Meeting Room, JSAC
Join us for a dress rehearsal of these students' presentations at the Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference (SEWSA). Refreshments will be served.
Presentations include:
Students and Mothers - Maggie Needham, Molly Sheffler, and Tracee Davis
Is Health Care in America Failing the Female Population? - Julie Decker and Regina Tudor
For more information, please contact Dr. Christie Launius at x4430.
SEWSA Conference
April 3rd-5th (Thursday-Saturday)
SEWSA 2008 will be held at UNC Charlotte with keynote speakers bell hooks, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Cynthia Enloe, and Rosie Tong. For more information please visit the offical website: http://womensstudies.uncc.edu/SEWSA/index.html
National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Tuesday, April 15th at 7pm
Showing "The Accused" in the University Village Clubhouse.
Wednesday, April 16th at noon
Megan Crawford of MCG will be giving a presentation on PTSD and Sexual Assault in the Butler Meeting room in the JSAC.
Friday, April 18th from 11am-1pm
Making t-shirts for the Clothesline Project.
Tuesday, April 22nd at 7pm in JSAC Coffeehouse
Film screening of "Date Rape: A Violation of Trust". This film eliminates the confusion between date rape and sexual assault, and the attitudes and biases that typically accompany them. Discussion will follow the film. Contact Dr. Christie Launius for more information (x4430).
Take Back the Night 2008
Thursday, April 24th at 6:30pm
The Clothesline Project will be displayed from April 21st - 25th
