March is Women's History Month @ Daemen!

Daemen College invites you to celebrate Women's History Month--join us for events taking place throughout the month of March. 

Naomi Parker Fraley (1921-2018), inspiration for iconic Rosie the Riveter poster

 
Monday, March 5

7:00pm-9:00pm, RIC120

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Film and discussion by Dr. Serife Tekin

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s. 2017 film, based on the book by journalist Rebecca Skloot.

* Discussion led by Dr. Serife Tekin (Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies)

Daemen Film Series

* Light refreshments provided

Thursday, March 8

7:00pm-8:00pm, RIC120

Redirecting the Gaze: Self-Portraits by Female Artists

Lecture by Dr. Yvonne K. Widenor

Yvonne K. Widenor is Visiting Assistant Professor and Program Director for the Art History program at Canisius College

* Sponsored by the Sister Jeanne File Art History Lecture Series

Tuesday, March 20

10:00am-11:20am, DS219

Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Open Classroom: Victorian Women as Social Activists

Lecture/discussion by Dr. Nancy Marck

Victorian female poets wrote about more than love and romance. Join Dr. Marck's LIT204 open classroom to learn about Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem, “The Cry of the Children,” which explores the use of child labor in British factories.

Wednesday, March 21

7:30pm – 9:15pm, RIC (3^rd floor)

Readings in the RIC: Women’s Poetry

Join Buffalo poets Jennifer Campbell and Janna Willoughby-Lorh, for readings of their poems, at the March meeting of “Readings in the RIC” poetry series.

* Light refreshments provided

Thursday, March 22

6:00pm – 8:00pm, RIC120

Miss Representation

Film & panel discussion

Miss Representation asks, Why are women so underrepresented in positions of power and authority in America? How is women’s low status and power related to the distorted portrayals of women in the mass media? This powerful 2012 documentary connects the dots, arguing, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” 

The PANEL DISCUSSION after the movie features members of the AAUW Student Organization. Students on the panel and in the audience will discuss the issues of media representation and political participation explored in the film.

* Sponsored by the AAUW Student Organization and Daemen’s Women’s Studies Program

* Light refreshments provided

Wednesday, March 28

6:00pm-9:00pm, (RIC101)

Suffragette…and Suffragetto!

Watch the film…and play the board game!

SUFFRAGETTE
A century ago, British women were fighting (literally!) for the right to vote. The 2015 drama Suffragette features a young working-class woman
(Maud Watts, played by Carey Mulligan) who is drawn into the increasingly radical British suffrage movement, led by the dynamic Emmeline Pankhurst. Secret meetings, terrorism, and police suppression endanger Maud’s status as a worker, wife, and mother.
 

BONUS: SUFFRAGETTO!
After the film, we will pair off to play the vintage 1908 board game Suffragetto! In this two-person board game, radical suffragettes try to enter the British House of Commons while dodging arrests by the police barring their way.

* Sponsored by the AAUW Student Organization & Daemen’s Women’s Studies Program

* Light refreshments provided

COMING ATTRACTIONS (April):

Sunday, April 15

8:30am to 5:30pm

Day trip to Seneca Falls Women’s Rights National Historic Park (NPS)

Visit the birthplace of the Woman’s Rights Movement in the US on a day trip to Seneca Falls. Tour the Wesleyan Chapel and Women’s Rights Museum, with options to visit the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Home and other sites in historic Seneca Falls. 
* Tickets are only $10 per person (includes transportation and snacks; admission to the museum is free).    
* Deadline to sign up is April 7
Purchase your ticket here:  https://daemensenecafallstrip.eventbrite.com

* Sponsored by the AAUW Student Organization & Daemen’s Women’s Studies Program

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

See Academic Festival schedule for location/time

Acknowledgement of World Hijab Day

The hijab is a type of religious covering worn by many Muslim women across the world. Have you ever wondered what it really means to wear a hijab? Or how to put one on? Or what you'd look like covered? Join Daemen's American Association of University Women (AAUW) to explore the answers to these questions.

* Sponsored by the AAUW Student Organization 

** All events are open to the public**

** For more information about any of these events, contact Dr. Penny Messinger Women’s Studies Program Director, at pmessing@daemen.edu **