Women's History Month

February 27, 2004 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Women's History Month Events
Calvin College
March 2004

Calvin professor of religion Christiana DeGroot will speak on "Florence Nightingale: Major or Minor Saint" on Thursday, March 4 at 3 pm in the Meeter Center Lecture Hall in a talk sponsored by the Calvin religion and nursing department and the school's gender studies minor.

Joanne Gilbert, professor of communication at Alma College, will speak on "Funny Business: Female Comics and the Performance of Power" on Friday, March 5 from 3:30-5 pm in the Meeter Center Lecture Hall in a talk sponsored by the Calvin communication arts and sciences department and the gender studies minor.

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, a Western Michigan University professor who hails from Liberia, will speak on "Becoming Ebony" on Thursday, March 11 at 7 pm at the Calvin Seminary Auditorium in a talk sponsored by the Calvin English Department, the school's gender studies minor and the Calvin office of multicultural affairs. Also that day there will be a conversation with Jabbeh Wesley on "Living in the Diaspora" to be held at 3:30 pm in the Alumni Board Room, Commons Annex.

Calvin professor of history Peggy Bendroth will speak on "Women and American Religion" on Thursday, March 11 at noon in the Gezon Auditorium as part of CALL's Noontime Series.

Women's History Month Film Festival
Calvin College
March 2004

The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl is a portrait of controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl that grapples with the central controversy of her career: was she a "pure" filmmaker whose political naiveté allowed her stunning visions to be harnessed by Hitler, or was she the key mythmaker of the Nazi propaganda machine? To be shown on Monday, March 1 in the Bytwerk Video Theater at Calvin at 7 pm.

Double Indemnity is an adaptation of James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into the story of insurance man Walter Neff who schemes the perfect murder. To be shown on Monday, March 15 in the Bytwerk Video Theater at Calvin at 7 pm. Free and open to all.

Sylvia tells the life of poet Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar. Gwyneth Paltrow plays the title role of this thwarted, talented, ultimately suicidal woman of the 1950s. To be shown on Monday, March 29 in the Bytwerk Video Theater at Calvin at 7 pm. Free and open to all.

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Received on Fri Feb 27 13:42:49 2004