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Ruthe Boyea Women’s Center - Fall 2008 Programming For more information about these events: 860-832-1655 Telling HerStory: Dr. Laura Tordenti Date: September 10, 2008 Time: 12:00 noon 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.
Historically Black and Latino Sororities and Fraternities Date: September 10, 2008 Time: 7:00pm Location: Semesters, Student Center This event will introduce CCSU’s minority women and men to sororities and fraternities that address their concerns. It will focus on the effect of these organizations on the lives of minority women and men.
Health Talk for College Women Topic: STDs, Birth Control & Contraceptives: All You Need To Know Date: September 11, 2008 Time: 12:30pm Location: Women’s Center Lounge This informal monthly lunch hour discussion serves to educate college women on making choices to benefit their health. Topics will vary to cover relevant topics pertaining to women’s health. This is a collaboration with the Hartford GYN. Girls Night Out! The Musical Date: October 2, 2008 Time: 7pm Location: Bushnell Theatre Show You Care, Be Aware: Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention Event Hosted by Aleesha Chaney, WFSB Channel Reporter Date: October 8, 2008 Time: 6pm-7pm Location: Memorial Hall, Constitution Rm
Guest
Speakers, Dr. Lori Wilson, MD, UCONN Assistant Professor of
Surgery, Surgical Oncologist and Barbara Smith, Outreach Educator for
Reflections on Chishawasha An
Orphanage and School in Zambia
Expanding the Boundaries of Sport Media Research Date: October 14, 2008 Time: 4pm Location: Vance 105 Dr. Mary Jo Kane, Director, Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, University of Minnesota discusses, "Expanding the Boundaries of Sport Media Research: An Exploration of Consumer Responses to Representations of Women’s Sports." Kane Bio here; Example of Representations of Women's Sports here. For more information please contact Heather Prescott, 860-832-2809, prescott@ccsu.edu. Sponsor: Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Telling HerStory: Dr. Cora Marshall, Chair, Department of Fine Arts Date: October 15, 2008 Time: 12:00 noon 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. 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.
Dating Violence: When Love Turns to Abuse Date: October 15, 2008 Time: 2:00pm Location: Women’s Center Lounge Speaker: Donna West of Prudence Crandall will discuss the signs associated with dating violence and the signs of abuse in college relationships.
Health Talk for College Women Topic: TBA Date: October 16, 2008 Time: 12:30PM Location: Women’s Center Lounge This informal monthly lunch hour discussion serves to educate college women on making choices to benefit their health. Topics will vary to cover relevant topics pertaining to women’s health. Doris Honig-Guenter Women and Film Festival Date: Date: October 21-22 -- Time/Location: Please visit the following website. www.communication.ccsu.edu/WomenFilmFestival/default.html Feminist Critique of the Porn Industry Date: November 5, 2008 Time: 2pm Location: Philbrick Camp Room Speaker: Estella Lopez of Stop Porn Culture, will discuss how the pornography industry grew to the astronomical figure of eight to ten billion dollars a year. This is more than Hollywood’s domestic box office receipts and more than twice as much as major league baseball. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, reported in Hancock, Sharon. "Women Fight Back Against Abuse,") Pornography is the third largest revenue for organized crime in the United States just behind drugs and gambling. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, reported in "Talking Points: Important Facts About Pornography, Take Action Manual, National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families) Co-sponsor: Intro to WGSS. Telling HerStory: Myrna Garcia-Bowen Date: November 12, 2008 Time: 12:00 noon 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.
Health Talk for College Women Topic: TBA Date: November (TBA) , 2008 Time: 12:30PM Location: Women’s Center Lounge This informal monthly lunch hour discussion serves to educate college women on making choices to benefit their health. Topics will vary to cover relevant topics pertaining to women’s health. This is a collaboration with the Hartford GYN.
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