From: Phil deHaan (dehp@calvin.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 16:55:11 EST
February 26, 2003 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Calvin College will host a variety of events in March to celebrate Women's
History Month. Included will be movies, music and more.
The events will begin March 3 with the first of five movies on four
consecutive nights as part of a women's film festival. All five films will be
shown in the new Bytwerk Video Theater in the DeVos Communication Center and
all five are free and open to all. Show time is 7 p.m. for each.
The five films (in order of appearance) are:
March 3 ~ Monsoon Wedding (filmmaker Mira Nair's comedic examination of
pressures in preparing for marriage in modern day Delhi)
March 4 ~ a double feature: Kadosh and Leila (Jewish and Muslim directors
consider the plight of the barren wife in conservative religious societies)
March 5 ~ War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us (an award-winning documentary
chronicling the lives of seven women during the World War II)
March 6 ~ Woman of the Year (a classic comedy, starring Katharine Hepburn and
Spenser Tracy)
Calvin also will host A Concert of Women's Music at 8 p.m. on March 5,
featuring pianist Nancy Paddleford in a guest recital in the Fine Arts Center
Auditorium. A member of the music faculty at St. Olaf College, Paddleford is
active as both a solo recitalist and a chamber musician in the United States
and in Central America. Her recital at Calvin is one of several performances
of "Music By and About Women" that she will give in March to mark Women's
History Month. The program features music by women composers and music about
women from both the 19th and 20th centuries. Admission is free.
On March 10 Calvin will host a talk by University of Texas professor Denise
Schmandt-Besserat on ""Symbols at 'Ain Ghazal." It will be in the Commons
Lecture Hall from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Schmandt-Besserat is a professor of art and
middle eastern studies who specializes in the archaeology of the Near East. She
has worked on the origin of writing and mathematics and her work has been
widely reported in magazines and newspapers such as Scientific American, Time,
Life, New York Times, and The Washington Post. She will also speak that
evening on the "Symbols and the Origins of Writing" on the GVSU Pew Campus.
A professor of American history at Florida State University will speak at
Calvin on March 13 on "Dutch Immigrant Women and American Culture." Suzannne
Sinke will speak in the Meeter Center at 3:30 p.m. A specialist in
immigration and gender studies, she is the author of Dutch Immigrant Women in
the United States, 1880-1920. Her current research links marriage and
international migration across U.S. history from bride ships, male majorities,
and anti-miscegenation policies in the colonial era to web-matchmaking, female
majorities, and fiancee visas in the late twentieth century.
Women, religion and civil rights will be the topics for a March 26 talk by
Rosetta Ross. She will speak at 3:30 p.m. that day in the Commons Lecture Hall
on "Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights."
Author of a book by the same name, Ross is a minister and a professor of ethics
at United Theological Seminary in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
The month-long celebration will conclude at 7:30 p.m. on March 26 when Calvin
hosts Marie Wilson, director of the White House Project whose goals is "to
create a climate in America where it is normal for women to be governors, CEOs
and president." Wilson, co-founder of the Project, will speak on "Why Women
Matter -- The Path to Leadership" in the DeVos Communication Center Forum.
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