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Two events with award-winning political essayist Barbara Ehrenreich and a regional conference on women’s studies highlight a full schedule of lectures, exhibits, discussions, and other events in Lafayette’s celebration of Women’s History Month.
Ehrenreich will participate in a roundtable discussion and talk about her life as a journalist and social commentator 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, in the Wilson Room of Pfenning Alumni Center (see related story). She also will give the 2002-03 Jones Visiting Lecture, based on the theme of her recent book about the struggles of Americans forced off welfare, at 8 p.m. in the Williams Center for the Arts.
Lafayette will host the ninth annual Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges Women’s Studies Conference 9 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29. Lafayette students and their peers from local colleges will present papers, videos, artwork, original literature, and performances.
Acclaimed author Ruth Setton, fiction editor of the literary journal Arts and Letters, will read from her latest novel noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at Interfaith Chapel, Hogg Hall. If I Forget You tells the story of an immigrant family living in America during the late 1950s and ’60s and is filled with music, food, and humor.
Three campus galleries are hosting exhibits this month. Artist James Drake’s “A Thousand Tongues Burn and Sing” reveals the original sign language created by a group of women to communicate with their partners in El Paso County Jail. Mounted in the Williams Center for the Arts, the installation will remain on display until March 9.
Sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard, Lafayette’s Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Artist-in-Residence, will be on display March 4-April 19 in the Grossman Gallery of the Williams Visual Arts Building, as well as in the Williams Center gallery shortly after the Drake exhibition concludes. She will give a lecture 4 p.m. Thursday, March 13, in Williams Center room 108. Rydingsvard uses circular saws and chisels to create large-scale cedar sculptures that are abstract versions of the human figure.
“Women Artists of the Experimental Printmaking Institute” will be displayed at the David A. Portlock Black Cultural Center. The exhibit, which will feature the work of Lafayette students, will open March 10 and run through April 18.
The full schedule of Women’s History Month events:
Monday, March 3, noon – brown bag lecture, “Britney Spears as Cultural Icon,” choreographers Andrew Simonet and David Brick discuss Britney’s Inferno, a Headlong Dance Theater production, Williams Center for the Arts, room 108. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Counseling Center and Williams Center for the Arts.
Tuesday, March 4 – opening of art exhibition, “Sculptures,” Ursula von Ryingsvard, renowned sculptor and Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Artist-in-Residence. Williams Visual Arts Building. Exhibit of large-scale cedar sculptures made with circular saws and chisels runs through April 19.
Tuesday, March 4, 4:10 p.m. – informal conversation hour, Kathryn Kolbert, attorney and expert in legal, legislative, and policy issues concerning abortion rights and women’s reproductive health, Interfaith Chapel, Hogg Hall.
Tuesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. – keynote lecture, “Reproductive Rights and the Law,” Kathryn Kolbert, Kirby Hall of Civil Rights auditorium.
Wednesday, March 5, noon – fiction reading, “If I Forget You,” novelist and short story writer Ruth Setton, Interfaith Chapel, Hogg Hall. Sponsored by the religion department’s Lyman Coleman Fund, English department, Jewish Studies program, and Hillel Society.
Wednesday, March 5, 4 p.m. – The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time, documentary on popular folk group nearly destroyed by McCarthyism followed by faculty-led discussion, Limburg Theater, Farinon College Center.
Wednesday-Saturday, March 5-8, 8 p.m. – College Theater production, Mother Courage and Her Children, story of a struggling army canteen vendor who learns “the business of war is always business,” Williams Center for the Arts. For tickets, call 610-559-5009.
Friday, March 7, noon – brown bag lecture, “Privacy and National Security after September 11,” Jane Turk, professor of math and computer science at LaSalle University. Turk will discuss the impact of the Patriot Act and the war against terrorism on the constitutional right to privacy, Interfaith Chapel, Hogg Hall.
Monday, March 10 – opening of art exhibition, “Women Artists of the Experimental Printmaking Institute,” David A. Portlock Black Cultural Center. Exhibition runs through April 18.
Monday, March 10, 8 p.m. – “The Dream Killer: AIDS and Today’s Youth,” HIV educator and former Playboy Playmate Rebekka Armstrong talks about her experience living with the AIDS virus, Colton Chapel.
Wednesday, March 12, 4:10 p.m. – roundtable discussion with political activist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, who will talk about her work as a journalist and social commentator, Wilson Room, Pfenning Alumni Center.
Wednesday, March 12, 8 p.m. – Jones Visiting Lecture and reception, “Nickel and Dimed in America,” political activist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, Williams Center for the Arts.
Thursday, March 13, 4 p.m. – lecture, Ursula von Rydingsvard, about her private and public commissions, Williams Center for the Arts, room 108.
Thursday, March 13, 5 p.m. – panel discussion and reception, “Women Artists of the Experimental Printmaking Institute,” Portlock Black Cultural Center.
Thursday, March 27, 8 p.m. – lecture, folksinger and activist Ronnie Gilbert, Williams Center for the Arts.
Saturday, March 29, 9 a.m. – Undergraduate Women’s Studies Conference, students from local colleges present papers, videos, artwork, original literature, and performances, Marlo Room, Farinon College Center.