Ruthe Boyea Women’s Center - Spring 2008 Programming

For more information about these events: 860-832-1655

Women’s History Month:

Women’s Social and Networking Event
Date: Wednesday, April 30,  2008                 Time: 4:00-6:30pm             Location: Davidson Hall, Founders Hall and Davidson Courtyard
Co-sponsor: Alumni Affairs
The Women’s Social provides an opportunity for the women at CCSU to meet monthly in a social setting to network with each other and build camaraderie amongst the female faculty, staff, administrators and clerical workers.

Telling Her Story:
Date: TBA                                      Time: 12:00pm   Location: Women’s Center Lounge
Telling Her Story provides an opportunity for CCSU female students, staff, faculty and administrators to meet once a month to share their personal and professional successes.
Each month, a female member of the campus community is selected to speak about her work, her life and her challenges in an informal setting among fellow female students, faculty, staff and administrators. The goal of the series is to develop a supportive community for females on campus as well as develop mentoring relationships for new female students, staff, faculty and administrators.

For more information about these events: 832-1655

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These Women's History Month Events have already taken place

Latina Awareness Month Recognition

Yo Soy Latina    
Date: April 21, 2008                      Performance: 7:00pm       Location: Torp Theatre, Davidson Hall
Co-Sponsor: Latin American Student Organization, Spanish Club, Ruthe Boyea Women's Center, Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies and the Office of Diversity and Equity.
Yo Soy Latina, the hit stage play is funny, honest, and evocative. It leaves audiences with a strong sense of self-acceptance. It also offers something for every latina and all women who have felt that they could never measure up to the finely-airbrushed images that the media offers them. Their stories are diverse as their racial makeup.

Take Back The Night March  Click Here for Printable Flyer
Date: April 16, 2008               Time: 6:30PM            Location: Student Center Circle, Alumni Hall

History of the Take Back the Night March:
The first Take Back the Night March event began in England in 1877 as a women only protest against the violence and fear women encountered walking the streets at night. The first Take Back the Night March in the USA was held in San Francisco in 1978 to protest violence against women. Central Connecticut State University began sponsoring the March in 1987 in response to an assault on campus. Since then, Take Back the Night events have spread across the nation broadening on perspective and taking on many forms.

Speakers:
Ms. Donna Palomba, Founder  of Jane Doe No More Inc.
(Due to Ms. Donna Palomba commitment and motivation, Tuesday, August 21, 2007 marked a historic day for sexual assault victims in the state of Connecticut. This was the day the statute of limitations for sexual assault crimes involving DNA evidence was removed.
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Ms. Laura Cordes
Director of Training and Advocacy for Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services.
Laura Cordes has been an organizer, advocate and fundraiser for numerous public interest and women’s health issues and campaigns.  Since 1999 Laura has worked with the Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services (CONNSACS), a statewide coalition of nine community based rape crisis centers.  She currently serves as the director of policy and advocacy. Laura has presented to several hundred police officers, health care professionals and community members on issues related to sexual assault and represents CONNSACS on numerous task forces, workgroups and committees as an expert voice on the prevention of and response to sexual violence.  Laura successfully led her coalition’s two year campaign to pass what is now known as the Compassionate Care bill. The new law, which went into effect last fall, requires all of Connecticut’s hospitals to offer on site, the full dose of emergency contraception to women who have been raped.   Prior to joining the staff of CONNSACS, Laura served as the Organizing Director of the Connecticut Public Interest Group. She is the past President of NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut.

Join us as victims, survivors and secondary survivors speak out against sexual assault. An evening that reminds us that sexual assault on any college campus or community should not be tolerated.
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Day of Healing  
Date: April 17, 2008            Time: 5:30pm          Location: Sprague Room
This is an opportunity for victims and survivors to come together share music, poetry and begin the road to healing.

Equal Pay Day    
Date: April 22, 2008               Time: TBA                Location: TBA
Co-sponsor with American Association of University Women
Each year, the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) organizes the national observance of Equal Pay Day to raise awareness about unfair pay in America.  In other words, because women on average earn less, they must work longer for the same pay.

Take Your Daughters & Sons To Work Day                   Theme: Making Choices For A Better World
Date: April 24, 2008           Time: 8:30- 1pm                Location: Student Center, Bellin Room
Co-sponsor with the Committee on the Concern of Women                  *Must register to attend.
By bringing girls and boys together, we will continue to create a more equitable world—at home, at school, and in the workplace. This year we are celebrating the opportunities that girls and boys will discover and the opportunities for parents, mentors, and the community to continue involvement in this unique educational experience.

Angela Davis at Central Connecticut State University                                                                  Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008                2 Lectures:   2pm   and    5:30pm                                         Sponsors: Ruthe Boyea Women’s Center, Institute for the Study of Crime & Justice, and  the Office of Diversity & Equity 

Angela Davis- Are Prisons Obsolete?       Time: 2:00pm    Click Here for Printable Flyer   
Location: Torp Theatre, Davidson Hall

As presented by Ms. Davis and discussed by following current and former CT policy makers and practitioners: Rep. William Dyson, New Haven - former Appropriations Committee Chair and longtime prisoner re-entry advocate;  Atty. Gerard Smyth - former CT Chief Public Defender and current CCSU adjunct professor and staff member of the Gov. William A. O'Neill Endowed Chair; Maureen Price, Executive Director of Community Partners in Action (formerly the CT Prison Association); and James Tillman (recently exonerated after serving 16 years in CT prisons on a rape and kidnapping conviction).

Angela Davis - “Race, Class and Gender Issues in American Society”

Time: 5:30pm           Location: Torp Theatre, Davidson Hall

Angela Davis is an American socialist organizer who associated with the Black Panther Party and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of Judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, and was the subject of an intense manhunt. She was eventually captured, arrested, tried, and then acquitted in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. History. She is currently a Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California.

For more information, please contact Andrew Clark at 860-832-1871 or Jacqueline Cobbina-Boivin and Monique Daley at 860-832-1655. You are encouraged to get a free ticket for the 5:30pm lecture by contacting Centix at 832-1989, located at the Information Desk in the Student Center.

Women’s Music Festival        
Date: April 30, 2008                Cancelled
The festival will highlight women’s contribution to the music. A performance of various genres is scheduled and it will give students the opportunity to perform their work.

June Baker Higgins Gender Studies Conference “Sexing the Vote: Gender, Sexuality and Politics.” Date:  Friday, April 4, 2008            Schedule 

Telling Her Story:                
Date: April 9, 2008                     Time: 12:00pm                Location: Women’s Center Lounge
Telling Her Story provides an opportunity for CCSU female students, staff, faculty and administrators to meet once a month to share their personal and professional successes.
Each month, a female member of the campus community is selected to speak about her work, her life and her challenges in an informal setting among fellow female students, faculty, staff and administrators. The goal of the series is to develop a supportive community for females on campus as well as develop mentoring relationships for new female students, staff, faculty and administrators.

The Guerilla Girls                       
Date: March 4, 2008           Performance: 7pm           Location: Torp Theatre, Davidson Hall
Co-sponsor with the Committee on the Concerns of Women
In 1985, a bunch of female artists, incensed by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that included 165 artists but only 17 women, founded the Guerrilla Girls. Dubbing ourselves “The Conscience of the Artworld,” we started making posters that bluntly stated the facts of discrimination and used humor to convey information, provoke discussion and to show that feminists can be funny. We assumed the names of dead women artists, and began wearing gorilla masks when we appeared in public, concealing our identities and focusing on the issues rather than on our personalities.
 

Women’s History Month Luncheon             Topic: Women’s In The Art 
Date: March 5, 2008                Time: 12:00pm              Location: Student Center,  Bellin A/B
Co-sponsor with the Committee on the Concerns of Women
A lecture will be given by the Guerilla Girls. Luncheon tickets are $20.00. Tickets can be purchased by contacting  Centix at 860-832-1989. For more information, contact Heather Prescott at 832-2809
 

International Women’s Day Film Festival                           Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2008             

God Sleeps In Rwanda     Time: 10:30am          Location: Women’s Center Lounge
Uncovering amazing stories of hope in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, Academy Award-Nominee GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA captures the spirit of five courageous women as they rebuild their lives, redefine women’s roles in Rwandan society and bring hope to a wounded nation. The 1994 Rwandan Genocide left the country nearly 70 percent female, handing Rwanda’s women an extraordinary burden and an unprecedented opportunity.
 

Our Memory is on the Future (Con la Memoria en el Futuro)
Time: 12:30pm                                   Location: Student Center Philbrick Camp
A documentary produced by the Federation of Cuban Women examines the progress women in Cuba have made since the workers and farmers  of that country took power in 1959 and through advances in that country’s socialist revolution.

The Shape of Water               Time 2:30       Location Student Center, Philbrick Camp
The Shape of Water is a Social justice documentary featuring five women in developing nations who stand up for their rights.
Sponsors with the Center for International Education. Department of Geography and the Greater Hartford Coalition on Cuba

STD Testing  
Date: March 11, 2008         Time: 10:00am                     Location: Student Center, Carlton Room
Free STD Testing provided by the Department of Public Health.

Telling HerStory: Dr. Evelyn Phillips                 Date: March 12, 2008            Time: 12:15pm     Location: Women’s Center Lounge
Telling Her Story provides an opportunity for CCSU female students, staff, faculty and administrators to meet once a month to share their personal and professional successes.
Each month, a female member of the campus community is selected to speak about her work, her life and her challenges in an informal setting among fellow female students, faculty, staff and administrators. The goal of the series is to develop a supportive community for females on campus as well as develop mentoring relationships for new female students, staff, faculty and administrators.

Wage Project                                    Date: March 12, 2008            Time: 5:30pm            
Location: Student Center, Bellin A & B
Co-sponsor with the American Association of University Women
$tart $mart Campus Initiative covers the following topics in a one three hour presentation. The personal consequences of the gender wage gap: what a $1.2 million loss over one's working lifetime means. Resources for benchmarking reasonable salaries and benefits: learn about job titles, their functions and salary ranges, the impact of market realities on salaries; compare skills and accomplishments to job requirements and market to target a realistic salary range.

Women’s Art Display Opening Reception  
Date: March 13, 2008            Time: TBA                    Location: Chen Art Gallery, Maloney Hall
Female Forms and Facets: Artwork by Women From 1975 to the Present featuring Judy Chicago with Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Penny Arcade, Janine Antoni, Lisa Yuskavage, Judy Fox, Candice Raquel Lee, and Sara Risk. Exhibition and Presentations March 13-April 18, 2008.  Free Admissions. Click here

Loretta Ross                                                 Topic: Reproductive Rights of Women
Date: March 25, 2008                Time: 5pm                   Location: Student Center Bellin A and B
Co-sponsor with the Committee on the Concerns of Women
Loretta J. Ross is the Founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Human Rights Education, the USA Partner of the Peoples' Decade of Human Rights Education. CHRE is a training and resource center for grassroots activists and is located in Atlanta, Georgia.
 

Women’s Social and Networking Event       
Date: March 27, 2008          Time: 4:00pm          Location: Connecticut Room, Memorial Hall
Co-sponsor: Center For International Studies
The Women’s Social provides an opportunity for the women at CCSU to meet monthly in a social setting to network with each other and build camaraderie amongst the female faculty, staff, administrators and clerical workers.

Women’s Leadership Retreat:   March 28-29^th   Location: Camp Woodstock
Click here for application in PDF format
CCSU Women’s Leadership Retreat: “Shape Our Minds, We’ll Change the World”  An  overnight all expense paid retreat for female first year students, sophomores and juniors will take place on March 28, 2008 and March 29, 2008, at Camp Woodstock in Woodstock Valley, CT.

Participants will have the opportunity to meet other outstanding women from CCSU during our first ever retreat. In addition, participants will engage in meaningful workshops that will empower and challenge their views on what it means to be a female in the United States and at CCSU. These workshops led by CCSU faculty and staff are designed to address women’s leadership, activism and international women’s issues. For an application, please contact the Women's Center at 860-832-1655.