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Women's History and Awareness Month

Each year, in the month of March, the Women's Studies Program sponsors programs in celebration of Women's History and Awareness Month.

WHAM 2013: "SEARCHING FOR CLIO: WOMEN AND PUBLIC MEMORY"

Click here for clips of WHAM at EIU!

WOMEN IMAGINE CHANGE: CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Keynote lecture- Linda Hogan-Native American Author, Novelist, Poet & Memoirist
Tuesday, March 6, 5:00 p.m., Doudna Theatre
Free and open to the public

Linda Hogan, a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and activist, is widely considered to be one of the most influential and provocative Native American figures in the contemporary American literary landscape. Her most recent books are the poetry collection, Rounding the Human Corners (Coffee House Press, 2008), and the novel, People of the Whale (Norton, 2008). She is the author of more than fifteen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and editor of three collections.

Hogan has received a prestigious Lannan Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim, and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from both the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and Wordcraft Circle. She has also received the Mountains and Plains Lifetime Achievement award and has been inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame. A Professor Emerita from the University of Colorado, she is now the Writer-in-Residence for The Chickasaw Nation and lives in Oklahoma.

She has been involved for thirteen years with the Native Science Dialogues and the new Native American Academy and for four years with the graduate SEED Institute. She was an invited writer-speaker at the United Nations Forum, has had work translated in all major languages.

Sunday, February 26, 2:00 p.m., Carnegie Public Library Charleston
Living History Project Premier

Thursday, March 1, 7:00 p.m., 7th St. Underground-MLK Union
Gullah Storyteller Aunt Pearlie-Sue
co-sponsored by Women's Studies in collaboration with African American Heritage Month

Tuesday, March 6, 3:30 & 7:00 p.m., Roberson Auditorium Lumpkin Hall 2030
School of Business WHAM speaker, Francine McKenna, Journalist and Forensic Auditor

Tuesday, March 6, 5:00 p.m., Doudna Theatre
Keynote lecture- Linda Hogan "Women Watching Over the World"
co-sponsored by Doudna Fine Arts Center, The Humanities Center at EIU, UBoard

Monday, March 19, 5:00 p.m., Booth Library Conf. Rm. 4440
Janet Marquardt, Professor, Art History and Women's Studies, and Director of the Center for the Humanities, will be giving a talk on 'The French Woman Who Loved Irish Medieval Art: The Journals of Françoise Henry'

Tuesday, March 20, 4:30-6 p.m., Booth Library Conf. Rm. 4440
Women Imagine Change: Faculty Research Panel:"Valuing Women's Work and Words"
Presenters: Melanie B. Mills, Robin L. Murray, M. Caroline Simpson

Wednesday, March 21, 4:30 p.m., MLK Arcola/Tuscola Rm.
Video Showing: "Miss Representation"

Thursday, March 22, 12:00 p.m., Foreign Lang. Conference Room
Brown Bag Presentation: "Women Writing Argentina and Spain" with Vanesa Landrus and Kristin Routt

Friday, March 23, 7:30 p.m., Doudna Recital Hall
Concert: Elaine Fine and John David Moore

Saturday, March 24, 7:30 p.m., Doudna Recital Hall
Concert: Marilyn Coles with Paul Johnston "An Evening of American Songs"

Monday, March 26, 5:00 p.m., 7th Street Underground
Women's Studies Award Reception

Tuesday, March 27 - Thursday, March 29, Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival

• Tuesday, March 27, 4:30 p.m., CIFFF, Coleman Auditorium: Contest with screenings of film entries
  
• Wednesday, March 28, 7 p.m., Coleman Auditorium: "Women, Art, Revolution" (Dir. Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2010)
• Thursday, March 29, 3:30 - 6 p.m., Coleman Auditorium: Film Screening "Everybody's Dying Here" (Mexico, Dir. Ali Gardoki, 2002)

Thursday, March 29, 11:00 a.m., Coleman Hall Rm. 3732
Guest Presentation: Fiona I. B. Ngô, Assistant Professor in the Asian American Studies Program and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will be giving a talk on "Punk In The Shadow of War"

2012 Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival Call for Submissions

2012 Essay Contest Rules
Deadline for entries is 4:00 p.m. on the first MONDAY in February.

As part of our celebration of Women's History & Awareness Month, the EIU Women's Studies Program invites students to submit essays or scholarly papers that incorporate a feminist perspective to our writing contest.

Papers written during the previous calendar year (spring, summer, or fall semesters) or the spring semester in which the submissions are due are eligible.

A cash award will be presented to the contest winners -graduate and undergraduate- at our annual awards reception at the Tarble Arts Center during Women's History & Awareness Month in March.

2012 Women of Achievement Award guidelines
Deadline for entries is 4:00 p.m. on the first MONDAY in February.

Also during our annual celebration of Women's History and Awareness Month at EIU, the Women's Studies Program sponsors "Women of Achievement" Awards. Anyone can nominate a woman who has made significant contributions to our community or to EIU. Deadline for submissions is 4:00 p.m. on the first MONDAY in February.

For details, contact the Women's Resource Center at 581-5947.

See below for a list of our previous Women of Achievement Award Winners.

2012 Woman of Achievement - Gaye Harrison shown with nominator Althea Pendergast.

2012 Woman of Achievement - Kit Morice shown with nominator Robin Murray.

Women of Achievement Awards 1980-2012

1980 – Mary Rogers
1981 – Vanlou Nan Trank, Margaret Soderberg, Koralie Murad
1982 – Patty Tucker-Ladd, Marsha Hausser, Sharon Bartling
1983 – Carol Elder Schmudde, Peggy Brayfield, Isabel Parrott
1984 – Eulalee Anderson, Camille Compo, Barbara Hill, Ellen Schanzle-Haskins
1985 – Rosemary Shepherd, Janet Norberg, Toni Collins
1986 – Olga Durham, Sandy Rives, Angelynn Richardson
1987 – Susan Woods, Genie Lenihan, Jana Raymond
1988 – Judith Anderson, Bonnie Buckley, Nancy Taitt
1989 – Virginia Davis, Debra Camren-Anderson, Cynthia Jackson
1990 – Andrea Bonnicksen, Ruth Dow, Sandra Gallion, Janice Grewell
1991 – Sue Stoner, Carol Sanders, Karen Medina
1992 – Melody Allison, Kathleen Roberts, Antoinette Spinner, Evette Pearson
1993 – Luciana Gomes, Tanya Wood, Mathiel Crane
1994 – Carolyn Smith, Edith Hedges, Nanditha Balasubramanian
1995 – Betty Boyer, Johnetta Jones, Christine Krashak
1996 – Mary Anne Hanner, Jacqueline Record, Hazel Watson
1997 – Linda Coleman, Jacqueline Bacon
1998 – Margaret Hollowell, Cathy Reynolds, Christina Hardin
1999 – Judith Moll, Therese Supple Kincaid, Anne Zahlan
2000 – Nancy Owen, Gail Mason, Courtney Mcdermott
2001 – Carol Stevens, Birdina Gregg
2002 – Jonelle DePetro, Kristy Poteete, Patsy Black
2003 – Jayne Ozier, Deborah Shrum
2004 – Janet Marquardt, Joanna Swick, Stephanie Michaelis
2005 – Kathy Bower, Clare L. McCulla
2006 – Diana Veach, Robin Beach, Tammy Veach, Annette Samuels
2007 – Pam Hood, Sue Kaufman
2008 – Ann Fritz, Angie Hunt
2009 - Teri McCarthy, Dianne Nelson
2010 - Stacia Lynch, Althea Pendergast, Nell Wiseman
2011 - Janet Messenger
2012 - Kit Morice, Gaye Harrison

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Student Awardees

2012 Outstanding Women's Studies Minor - Becky Rowe

2012 Women's Studies Empowerment Awardee - Jenny Martin

2012 Essay Winners - Heather Gerrish(Undergraduate Honorable Mention), Gina LoBianco(Undergraduate First Place), and Elena Scoggin(Graduate).

2012 Women of Artistic Vision (W.A.V.E.) Awardee - Stephanie Frank

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