Checker will play Dodd Auditorium on Friday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the Virginia Amateur Athletic Union.
Women’s History Month 2011 “Role” Call: Women’s Presence and Power in Society
Sheesh, Is She Crying Again?
The Connection between Gender and Rationality
Date: March 8 | Time: 3:30-4:45 p.m.
Location: Annex A, Room 110
Traditionally, women have been associated with an excess of emotion and a lack of mental discipline; men, on the other hand, have been thought to be more rational. Do these stereotypes still exist? Please join Dr. Ray Mataloni, Visiting Professor of Economics as he discusses this topic and much more.
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Who Opens the Door and Covers the Check? Exploring Roles and Stereotypes in the GLBTTQQIAAP Community
Date: March 9 | Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Meeting Room #4, Woodard Campus Center
Please join members of Women of Color and People for the Rights of Individuals of Sexual Minorities (PRISM) for a stimulating conversation about the expected and stereotypical roles of women in GLBTTQQIAAP relationships. FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED
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Latin American Women Intellectuals
Date: March 10
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Combs 139
Join Dr. Claudia Cabello-Hutt, Assistant Professor at The University of North Carolina Greensboro as she discusses how Latin American women writers challenged the traditional definition of the Latin American public intellectual.
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Writing the South in the 21st Century
Date: March 10 | Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Combs 139
Award-winning author Jill McCorkle, a writing professor at N.C. State University, will talk about what it means to be among the foremost female fiction writers of our time.
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You Better Work!
Open Lecture featuring 2003 America’s Next Top Model finalist April Wilkner
Date: March 14 | Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Lee Hall 411
April Wilkner will discuss her experience as a model-hopeful on one of the world’s leading shows. Her emphasis will be on the significance of intelligence and diversity within the modeling industry.
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Ms. UMW: More than a just Beauty Pageant
Date: March 15 | Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Dodd Auditorium, George Washington Hall
Join UMW hopefuls as they compete for the coveted title of Ms. UMW in this nontraditional pageant that celebrates women and their beauty from the inside out.
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Dr. Gail Dines Women’s History Month Keynote & Cultural Awareness Series Speaker
Date: March 16 | Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Great Hall, Woodard Campus Center
A professor, author, and internationally-acclaimed lecturer, Gail Dines is an energetic and outspoken critic of pornography and the hypersexuality that permeates pop culture. Dines’ vision is to heighten awareness of the shallow and sexist side of the mass media, and she has targeted outlets like MTV with undermining equality and intimacy in relationships.
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The Vagina Monologues
Date: March 18 & 19 | Time: 8-9:30 pm
Location: Great Hall, Woodard Campus Center
Cost: $3 in advance; $5 at the door
Proceeds to benefit Hope House
Email zoller.eli@gmail.com to purchase tickets.
The 8th annual UMW production of The Vagina Monologues, written by Eve Ensler, uses the arts to explore women’s issues such as sex, love, rape, abuse, relationships, menstruation, and childbirth. By promoting inner beauty and self-worth, The Vagina Monologues celebrates the true essence of the vagina, femininity, and the ability to speak out against the pressures of society.
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The Gender Pay Gap:
Where do Women Stand Now?
Date: March 22 | Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Lee Hall 411
Join Radford University Professor of Psychology Hilary M. Lips as she explores the current status of the gender pay gap and how it undercuts women’s power and limits their achievements in today’s workforce.
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Women’s Research Symposium
Date: March 23 | Time: 4-6 p.m.
Location: Red Room, Woodard Campus Center
Please join UMW students as they showcase their undergraduate research in women’s studies. Cash prizes will be awarded to winners. Please contact Professor Cooperman at rcooperm@umw.edu for more information regarding submitting an entry.
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This is What Makes Her Special…
Brown Bag Lunch
Date: March 24 | Time: Noon
Location: The Underground
Join campus and community members as they read short stories and poems about the women who have had the greatest impact on their lives.
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Fresh Face to the World…Easy, Breezy, No Makeup on that CoverGirl
Makeup Drive
Date: March 25 | Time: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Locations: Lee Hall 211 or OSACS office
Beauty is far more than enhanced eyelashes, plucked brows, and fiery red lips. Campus and community members are invited to share their true beauty by participating in a day devoted to no makeup. Participants are strongly encouraged to donate their new and unopened cosmetic products to benefit Hope House.
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For Colored Girls
Film and Discussion
Date: March 29 | Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Lee Hall 412
Based on Ntozake Shange’s Obie Award-winning play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, this presentation is a poetic exploration of what it means to be a woman of color in today’s world. Discussion immediately following the film. Food will be provided.
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Freedom Riders
Great Lives lecture featuring Raymond Arsenault
Date: March 31 | Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Dodd Auditorium, George Washington Hall
Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, will present the Great Lives lecture, followed by a discussion with a panel of Freedom Riders, which will include some of the women who changed the face of racial and gender equality for our country
Monumental “In Holland” Painting Returns to Belmont
After logging thousands of miles while traveling with “Dutch Utopia,” Gari Melchers’ iconic painting is once again hanging in the Studio.In Holland is no stranger to travel, however. This much-loved painting was originally exhibited at the 1887 Paris Salon where its monumental scale guaranteed notice. Since 1887, no fewer than ten exhibitions have included this work in cities as diverse as Boston, Munich, Berlin, Brussels, and Pittsburgh.
Featuring two Egmond farm women working in the dunes, the painting was significantly altered by Melchers at a later date making it more decorative with a brighter color scheme.
In Holland remains a visitor favorite and was missed by many during its absence.
How does fine art travel? Watch our short video on You Tube.
Last week to see “New Reality” exhibition at Belmont
“The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century” closes on Feb. 27.
Stop by to check out the exhibition that everyone is talking about!
Gari Melchers Home & Studio is open daily, except Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Online Credit Card Payments Now Accepted
The Finance Office is pleased to announce that University departments, through Commerce Manager, can now accept online credit card and e-payments for UMW-sponsored events, conferences, workshops and other one-time programs.
Policies and Procedures for handling incoming payments have been updated and posted on the Finance website.
All events must first be approved by the Associate Vice President for Finance and Controller before departments collect any funds. Departments that currently collect funds are requested to submit updated procedures to Marta Smith to maintain current authorization. Please contact Marta Smith with any questions. Training will be held in March 2011 for all authorized collection sites.
Discovery Day, Feb. 21
The Office of Admissions will hold the first Discovery Day of the spring semester Mon., Feb. 21. The latest registration numbers indicate that nearly 300 prospective students–and about 1,000 visitors in all–will visit the Fredericksburg campus on Monday!
The Discovery Day schedule includes events and activities for our visitors from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., although we expect our guests to begin arriving on campus earlier in the morning. Expect to see increased foot traffic on campus and a large amount of visitors in the campus dining facilities. Our visitors have been instructed to park in the parking garage, but with the amount of people expected, they will likely need to seek other parking options throughout campus and on neighboring side streets.
Hopefully this information will allow you to plan accordingly for Monday. Please feel free to help us in welcoming our visitors to the University of Mary Washington.
Sincerely, UMW Office of Admissions, 540/654-2000
New Faculty Publication
Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, edited by Scott M. Powers, Associate Professor of French at the University of Mary Washington, is now in stock at the UMW Bookstore.
“Confronting the twentieth century of the Christian Era, a century of horrors and marvels, Scott Powers has assembled a diverse group of young scholars to explore literary representations of evil in the French language, beginning with Jean-Paul Sartre but global in its perspective. Works studied include French, Belgian, Algerian, and Guinean writers, ending with two major chapters on The Kindly Ones, the controversial prize-winning masterpiece of the Franco-American Jonathan Littell, the Holocaust being the prime test for the adequacy of verbal narrative. Urgently relevant for its moral scope, taking into account poststructuralist/postmodern theories, and quite readable, Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature is a book of wisdom, courage, and lucid interpretation.” –Edward K. Kaplan, Brandeis University
New Display at the James Monroe Museum
JMM student interns Rebecca Lee and Rachel Frederick have completed an addition to the museum’s exhibit on “The Making of a Revolutionary.”
Called “The Continental Soldier: Young and Far Away from Home,” it shows through a display and an interactive component what life was like for James Monroe and the other young men who joined the revolutionary forces. Rachel and Rebecca researched, designed and installed the exhibit on their own, and they’ve done a great job.
We hope you’ll come by and see it! Remember, UMW faculty and staff always enter free.
New exhibit component at JMM: "The Continental Soldier: Young and Far Away from Home"
“Seascape” Closes Feb. 20
Edward Albee’s “Seascape,” by UMW Department of Theatre and Dance; duPont Hall, Klein Theatre; February 10-12 and 17-19, 8 p.m., February 13 and 20, 2 p.m.; AfterWords post-performance discussion, February 13; $10 general admission, $8 students and seniors; (540) 654-1111.
Revolution and Change in the Middle East
The University of Mary Washington invites the community to a panel discussion featuring UMW scholars of revolution, the Egyptian government, Islam, security and international relations. This event, “Revolution and Change in the Middle East,” will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, February 16 in Room 109 of Annex A, next to George Washington Hall.
The panel will include Jack Kramer, professor and chair of political science and international affairs and an expert on the study of revolution; Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion and an expert on Islam, politics and the Iranian revolution of 1979; and Ranjit Singh, associate professor of political science and international affairs, who will discuss the Egyptian government and its opposition. The moderator will be Jason Davidson, associate professor of political science and international affairs, who teaches security and international relations.
Admission is free. For more information, contact Ranjit Singh at rsingh@umw.edu or (540) 654-1496.