Women's Studies

January 17, 2012

Happy New Year and Welcome Back!

We’ve had an ultra-long winter break this year, but we are finally launching into Spring semester and it is envigorating to see students and faculty back and rejuvenated for another semester. Our Women’s Studies program continues to grow in majors and we have an exciting semester ahead of us.  This semester, we will offer our Women’s Studies undergraduate capstone seminar for the first time ever and we will celebrate the research of our capstone students in an event on April 26, 3:30-6:00p.m. Watch for further details!

On January 24, at 6:00 p.m., Angela Davis will deliver the annual Martin Luther King commemorative lecture in Farthing Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, see http://multicultural.appstate.edu/calendar/243

Also of interest to students and faculty in our program are the following upcoming Diversity Series lectures:

Heather’s Mommies Get Married: Homophobia, Censorship and Family Values; Tuesday, Feb 21, 2012, 7:00pm

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in the SNCC; Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 7:00pm

We are finalizing plans for a number of events during March, to celebrate Women’s History Month, so watch for details on this site and on the University calendar.

In April, Belk Library and Information Commons will feature an exhibit highlighting the girls’ and adolescent literature collection donated by Dr. Elaine O’Quinn, professor of English and Women’s Studies here at ASU. The winter issue of our newsletter will include a feature on the collection and exhibit.

With all these activities, we will be busy, but not too busy to continue the business of the Program.  Faculty members can check the calendar for meeting dates and times, and the program ASULearn site for agendas.

Finally, as part of our continuing effort to update our Women’s Studies website, we will be focusing this semester on our Resources page. When we’re done, we hope to have available a resource guide for each of our WS-prefix classes, as well as guides that list resources on many topics of interest and concern to the community inside and outside ASU.

As always, we want to hear from our former students, so keep in touch, alums!

Donna L. Lillian

Director of Women’s Studies