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UTSA presents Women's History Month events

(Feb. 25, 2004)--The UTSA Women's Studies Institute hosts Women's History Month events March 1-31 at the 1604 and Downtown campuses. Events presented throughout the month with the theme "Testimonios: Celebrating our Stories" will include presentations, workshops, poetry and book readings, films and a talk by Chief Justice Alma Lopez, the first Latina to be elected chief justice of an appellate court in the United States.

Presentation and workshop topics include La Llorona in literature and pop culture; women in business, literature, science and sports; the history of African-American women's art; feminism; the civil rights movement; teaching and gender; Chicana activism, reproductive rights and dance therapy.

Events include performances of the UTSA Women's Choir and the UTSA Jazz Choir, and showings of the films "Daughters of the Dust," "Adio Kerida: Goodbye Dear Love" and "Up to a Certain Point."

Pictured is Monica Alaniz's drawing of the legendary character of Mexico and the Southwest, La Llorona, or "the weeping woman." The drawing, which is featured on this year's Women's History Month poster, is accompanied by definitions reflecting the varying stories involving the character. Some say the legend originated in Spain, while others trace it to the Aztecs. The story of the young mother who drowns her children out of madness and then dies mysteriously is told in sympathetic and unsympathetic versions -- reflecting the many stories people tell. Read more about La Llorona.

See the schedule of Women's History Month events below.

For more information, contact the Women's Studies Institute at 210-458-6277.

--Tim Brownlee

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UTSA Women’s Studies Institute
Women's History Month 2004, March 1-31
"Testimonios: Celebrating our Stories"
Schedule of Event

Week 1 -- March 1-5

Monday, March 1

11 a.m. -- University Center Anaqua Room (2.03.08), 1604 Campus
Dejanos Presentar Una Mujer Muy Importante: Locating La Llorona in Literature, Pop Culture and Cultural Studies -- Carol Brochin-Cevallos, Lori Beth Rodriguez, Lisa Cortez-Walden, and Patricia Trujillo

7:30 p.m. -- Arts Building Recital Hall, 1604 Campus
Celebrating Women's History Month -- UTSA Faculty Chamber Ensemble
Music by female composers

Tuesday, March 2

9: 30 a.m. -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.01.24, 1604 Campus
Women in Sports -- Lynn Hickey, UTSA director of intercollegiate athletics

11 a.m. -- University Center Room 2.01.24, 1604 Campus
Bilingual Education is a Passport to the World -- Monserrat Fontes

6 p.m. -- Buena Vista Street Building Room 1.338, Downtown Campus
Film Presentation: "Real Women Have Curves," Sharon Navarro - host

Wednesday, March 3

4 p.m. -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.02.20, 1604 Campus
How to Get Paid to Go to the Beach and Do Research – Debra Winegarten
Find out first-hand from a successful author who parlayed a master's degree in sociology from Ohio State University into a full-time career doing only what she loves.

6:30 p.m. -- Business Building Room 2.06.04, 1604 Campus
If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It! -- Ginger Purdy, Women's History Month keynote speaker with special welcome address by UTSA Vice Provost Sandra Welch
Purdy is founder and president emerita of the San Antonio Women's Chamber of Commerce and founder of Network Power. She will discuss women and leadership in San Antonio. Reception to follow.

Thursday, March 4

9:30 a.m. -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.01.24, 1604 Campus
Science for Girls? Home Economics Can Do It for You -- Gwen Kaye
Kaye, historian of science and technology, studies home economics since the 1870s and will discuss the "science" of it versus its "softer feminine side."

3 p.m. -- Business Building Room 2.06.04, 1604 Campus
Poetry Reading -- Bonnie Lyons and Wendy Barker
UTSA professors of English will read from their works of poetry.

5:30 p.m. -- Frio Street Building Room 1.402, Downtown Campus
Dance Therapy: Dance Your Depression Away -- Jorge Alonso Perez
While learning and sharing the cultural richness of dance and music, enjoy the healing effects and energizing physical well being of dance while building community.

6 p.m. -- John Peace Library Building Room 4.03.08, 1604 Campus
Film Presentation: "Daughters of the Dust," hosts: Gaye Okoh and Carol Adams-Means
Co-sponsored by the UTSA student chapter of the NAACP.

7:30 p.m. -- Arts Building Recital Hall, 1604 Campus
UTSA Women's Choir and UTSA Jazz Choir Concert

Friday, March 5

Noon -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.01.32, 1604 Campus
White Woman, Black Power: Anne Braden and the Racial Movement in the American South– Cate Fosl
Fosl, a historian, examines white women who participated in the Civil Rights Movement, focusing on Anne Braden, the subject of her book, Subversive Southerner.

4 p.m. -- University Center Oak Room (2.01.20), 1604 Campus
What is Feminism? -- LIPS
UTSA students explore what feminism means and how they define it in their own lives.

Week 2 – March 8-12

Monday, March 8

Noon -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.01.44, 1604 Campus
"Le Coq d'or": Art and Politics in Natalia Goncharova's Designs for the Ballets Russes -- Jody Blake
Blake, curator at the McNay Museum of Art, explores Russian artist Natalia Goncharove. Talk coincides with McNay exhibition.

6 p.m. -- Durango Building Room 1.124, Downtown Campus
Chicana Activism in San Antonio -- panel discussion with Maria Berriozabal, Rosie Castro, Janie Barrera and moderated by Josie Mendez-Negrete and Norma Cardenas

Tuesday, March 9

9:30 a.m. -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.01.24, 1604 Campus
Reproductive Rights: Past, Present and Future -- Jeffrey Hons, executive director of Planned Parenthood of San Antonio

4 p.m. -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.02.10, 1604 Campus
Teaching and Gender Workshop. Join UTSA faculty members Mary McNaughton-Cassill, Carmen Reyes Johnson, Marian Aitches, Christine Caver and Kirsten Gardner as they discuss issues of gender in the classroom.

Wednesday, March 10

4 p.m. -- Frio Street Building Room 1.402, Downtown Campus
Historia Tejana: Empowering Women in the Temple of Knowledge, a Conversation with Teresa Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten, co-authors of "Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History"

5 p.m. -- Frio Street Building Room 1.406, Downtown Campus
History of African-American Art from the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection" -- Harriet Kelley

Thursday, March 11

9:30 a.m -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.01.24, 1604 Campus
Mestiza Discourse in the Cyber Borderlands -- Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
Ramirez-Dhoore explores various ways Chicanas are utilizing the discourse space of cyberspace and the rhetoric that is applied to the discussion.
Co-sponsored by American Studies Spring Lecture Series.

5:30 p.m. - San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 West Jones Avenue
Can We Talk 20th Anniversary Event. Can We Talk-About Goddesses? -- Lydia Ruyle and Betty Sue Flowers
Cocktail reception and program, for more information call 210-822-3425.

7:30 p.m. -- Salon de Gala Room, Radisson Hotel Downtown, 502 West Durango Boulevard
Indigena as Scribe: The (W)rite to Remember -- Cherrie Moraga
Brackenridge Distinguished Professor, Brackenridge Lecture Series, co-sponsored with the Department of English, Classics and Philosophy, Trinity University and MELUS. An extended meditation on the promise of a truly transgressive U.S. Literature of Color.

7:30 p.m. -- University Center Anaqua Room (2.03.08), 1604 Campus
Film Presentation: "Salt of the Earth," -- Host: Phi Alpha Theta, UTSA history honor society
The only American film to be blacklisted, it depicts a labor strike in the mines of Silver City, N.M., where women walked the picket lines because their husbands could not. Set in the 1950s, the movie explores issues of racism against Mexicans, sexism and labor issues.

Friday, March 12

9 a.m. -- San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 West Jones Avenue
Can We Talk?: Workshop on Goddesses -- Lydia Ruyle

2 p.m. -- Business Building Room 2.06.04, 1604 Campus
An Irrevocable Promise: Re-imagining the Story Xicana -- Cherrie Moraga
A reflection on the body as site of memory, revolt and transformation, as rendered on the Xicana stage and page.

Week 3 -- March 15-19 -- Spring Break (no events)

Week 4 -- March 22-26

Monday, March 22

4 p.m. -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.02.04, 1604 Campus
The Modern Girl In Africa -- Lynn Thomas
Historian Lynn Thomas offers a multi-media presentation about the emergence of consumer images and identity of a "modern girl" in advertising and consumer culture across a number of African countries.

6 p.m. -- Buena Vista Street Building Room 1.318, Downtown Campus
Film Presentation: "Adio Kerida: Goodbye Dear Love," Host: Patricia Dunn
The protagonist, distinguished anthropologist Ruth Behar, returns to her native Cuba in search of the country's remaining Sephardic Jews and her family's ties to them. Filled with painful goodbyes and a passionate belief in the possibility of return and renewal, Behar's journey presents a bittersweet, lyrical and often humorous portrait of modern-day Cuba that few know exists.

Tuesday, March 23

9:30 a.m. -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.01.24, 1604 Campus
This Box is Too Small: Sex, Gender, Performance, Roles -- Allison Rhea Stelly
One woman's personal journey from feminine straight girl to drag king lesbian to gender-queer bisexual, only to end up back in high heels as a femme queer grrrl.

2 p.m. -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.02.04, 1604 Campus
Real Women in the American West: Violence, Inheritance and Limited Life Scripts -- Elizabeth Estherchild
To challenge the myth of the frontier West as a land of golden opportunity with freedom for women, the presentation describes the conditions which even today restrict women's choices, stressing women's many contributions to the success of families, ranches, businesses and communities.

5:30 p.m. -- Buena Vista Street Building Room 1.338, Downtown Campus
A Reading – Deborah Paredes will read from her work.

Wednesday, March 24

6 p.m. -- Frio Street Building Room 1.406, Downtown Campus
Becoming the First Latina Appellate Judge -- Chief Justice Alma Lopez
Lopez describes how she became the first Latina in the United States to be elected chief justice of an appellate court.
Co-sponsored by Women's Studies Institute, Institute for Law and Public Affairs and Graduate Political Science Society.

Thursday, March 25

9:30 a.m. -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.01.24, 1604 Campus
Counseling and Education: Issues of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity -- Marcheta Evans, director of the UTSA Women's Resource Center

12:30 p.m. -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.01.44, 1604 Campus
Gilding the Lily: Women's Styles in Ancient Greek and Rome -- Shelby Wells
Wells will present a lecture on the exhibition she is organizing for SAMA in Spring 2004.

3:30 p.m. -- Frio Street Building Riklin Auditorium (1.406), Downtown Campus
Homegirls in the Public Sphere -- Maria Keta Miranda
Reading from her recently published book, "Homegirls in the Public Sphere," Miranda examines how Chicanas in girl gangs are viewed and represented in the media and popular culture.

5:30 p.m. -- Frio Street Building Room 1.402, Downtown Campus
Dance Therapy: Dance Your Depression Away -- Jorge Alonso Perez
While learning and sharing the cultural richness of dance and music, enjoy the healing effects and energizing physical well-being of dance, while sharing hope and building community.

Friday, March 26

Noon -- Business Building Room 2.06.04, 1604 Campus
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing and Havana -- Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Reading from her book, "Around the Bloc"

6 p.m. -- Frio Street Building Room 1.402, Downtown Campus
Women Fighting for Justice: Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS)/Metro, made up of moms, grandmothers, church leaders and nuns will tell stories of what motivated them to get involved in their communities to fight for social justice.

Week 5 – March 29-31

Monday, March 29

2 p.m. -- Business Building Room 3.03.20, 1604 Campus
A Dire Plea for Freedom from Those Denied Justice: Palestinian Feminism in Diaspora -- Bushra Fouz Mohammed
Activist and creative writer, who recently published the anthology, "Poets Against War," discusses her work.

7 p.m. -- Frio Street Building Riklin Auditorium (1.406), Downtown Campus
"Panza Monologues," performed by Virginia Grise, directed and designed by Irma Mayorga
The panza for Chicanas and Latinas is a symbolic part of the female body that reveals many of the truths about our thoughts, our lives, our loves, our abuses and our overall conditions – this performance examines those connections.
Co-sponsored by the Campus Activities Board

Tuesday, March 30

9:30 a.m -- Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 2.01.24, 1604 Campus
Oriental Feminism: Historical Roots and Current Ramifications -- Bernadette Andrea

2 p.m. -- Durango Building Room 3.208, Downtown Campus
Global Women's Leadership -- Meredith Sarkees
Sarkees will discuss the role of women in foreign policy-making, defense planning, conflict resolution and promoting women's leadership.

3:30 p.m. -- John Peace Library Building Room 4.03.08, 1604 Campus
Film Presentation: "Up to a Certain Point." Host: Catherine Nolan Ferrell
When Oscar, a documentary filmmaker preparing for a project focusing on Cuban machismo, meets Lina, one of the country's few female dockworkers, he's instantly intrigued. As the two get better acquainted, they become friends and finally lovers. However, the relationship forces the married Oscar to confront his own machismo -- and to realize that his feminist principles only go to a certain point.

5:30 p.m. -- Buena Vista Street Building Room 1.338, Downtown Campus
Reading -- Elva Trevino Hart
Reading from "Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child"

Wednesday, March 31

6 p.m. -- Frio Street Building Riklin Auditorium (1.406), Downtown Campus
Creating a Business Impact! - College of Business panel with guest speaker David Baenziger
The seminar will focus on assisting the student entrepreneur. The action-packed event will teach you the basics of networking and sales techniques with an emphasis on women and minority-owned business. A Small Business Mini-Fair coincides with the event.