Women’s Week is an annual event at Ball State University planned by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program to celebrate the achievements and experiences of women.
Women’s Week is held during the last week of March, which is National Women’s History Month. The Women's and Gender Studies Program at Ball State University is an interdisciplinary program embracing a wide variety of academic approaches relevant to the study of women, gender, and feminisms in contemporary and historical societies.
The program stresses that issues affecting women and gender are situated in and intertwined with sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, nationality, geography, (dis)ability, and religion (among other factors). We challenge our students to critically investigate and evaluate these intersections through learning grounded in feminist research and theory.
We acknowledge and work in the spirit of the remarkable progress made toward gender equity, but we also recognize and analyze how numerous social and political forces continue to work against this advancement. In our programs, we insist upon both rigorous scholarship and an environment of respect and tolerance.
Women’s Week 2012
March 26 - March 31
Women’s Week is an annual event at Ball State University planned by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program to celebrate the achievements and experiences of women. Women’s Week is held during the last week of March, which is National Women’s History Month.
All Women’s Week 2012 events are fee and open to the public.
If you need an accommodation related to a disability in order to enjoy any of these events, please contact the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at (765) 285-5451.
Monday, March 26
12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Student Center, Room 303
“HPV - What All Young
Women Need to Know”
Presented by Kristen Forbes
EVE Foundation and American Cancer Society
3:00 pm-4:30 pm, Student Center, Room 303
“Espousing Feminist and Queer Studies: Partnerships,
Problems, and Possibilities"
Panel includes: Kelsi
Morrison-Atkins, Brandi Terry, Cheri Ellefson Terhune, Rob Hunt, Dr. Rai
Peterson, and Dr. Joseph A. Marchal
7:30 pm-8:30pm, Sursa Hall
3rd Annual Women of Song
Concert featuring Ball State Women’s Chorus and
student soloists
Tuesday, March 27
11:00 am-12:00 pm, Student Center, Room 301
“Women in Administration: Passions, Pressures, and
Possibilities”
Presented by Associate Dean
of the College of Sciences and Humanities, Dr. Susan Johnson
1:00 pm-2:00pm, Bracken Library, Room 215
“Female Pioneers in Peace”
Poster presentation by
students of Introduction to Peace Studies
6:00 pm-7:30pm, Art and Journalism Building, Room 175
Miss Representation
Feature documentary on media,
women, and power
Wednesday, March 28
1:00 pm-2:00pm, Student Center, Forum Room
The Empowerment of Women: Indiana Women of
Achievement
Sponsored by the College of
Sciences and Humanities’ Task Force on the Status of Women
7:00 pm-9:00 pm, Pruis Hall
Defining Beauty
Film screening and
discussion with the film’s director and Miss Wheelchair Michigan 2009. Event sponsored by Disabled Student
Development and the Multicultural Center.
Thursday, March 29
11:00 am-12:00 pm, Student Center, Room 301
“Graphic Representation of Women: Gender Through
Comics”
Christina Blanch will
present how comics can be used to teach a class about women, gender, and
education through interviews with students, comic writers and artists, and
education professionals.
3:30 pm-4:45 pm, Student Center, Rooms 310A and B
Presentations by Women’s and Gender Studies Capstone
Students
Students will present over
various topics from Courtney Jarrett’s WGS 499 course.
Friday, March 30
6:30 pm-7:30 pm, Fine Arts Building, Room 217
Life Marked
Reception for the second
issue of Life Marked, a zine created
by Women’s and Gender Studies student, Angie Vanderluit.
8:00 pm-10:00 pm, Fine Arts Building, Room 217
Vagina Monologues
Play written by Eve Ensler
and presented by Feminists for Action
*Tickets sold for $5 beginning March 19 in the office of Disabled Student Development (SC 116) or at the door the night of the performance.
Saturday, March 31
Pruis Hall
Belly Dance Workshop and Hafla
10:00 am-12:00 pm: “Raqs and
Roll” Beledi Workshop with Ruby Jazayre
1:30 pm-3:30 pm: “Body
Electric Meltdown” Drum Solo Workshop with Ruby Jazayre
7:30 pm (doors open at 7
pm): Evening Hafla with various belly dance performers
9:00 am-2:00 pm, Student Center, Registration on
Second Floor
Women’s Conference: Sisterhood Redifined
Sponsored by Today’s Black
Women and the Multicultural Center