Celebrate Women's History Month at the Library
The March book display at the library offers fascinating books about all sorts of women, the roles they play in society & the challenges they overcome. Come check them out!
https://resources.library.lemoyne.edu/library
Orlando
A play by Sarah Ruhl, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, directed by Maya Dwyer.
February 23, 24, 29, March 1, 2, 8:00 pm, and March 2, 2:00 pm
Jesuit Theater, W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts (PAC)
Tickets: https://lemoyne.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=78
Sally Hemings: Given Her Time
Join us for a webinar presented by Professor Leigh Fought, Ph.D., author of the forthcoming Sally Hemings: Given Her Time
March 6, noon
Register for the webinar
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality
Dr. Shenila Khoja of Georgetown University will highlight women’s critical role in rebuilding Shia Ismaili Muslim communities displaced from East Pakistan and East Africa to North America in the 1970s.
Free and open to the public.
March 13, 2024 (Wednesday), 4:00 pm
Register to attend: https://lemoyne.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvd-CsrTsoEteR7I5MMXRIBWwfRnql9mBQ#/registration
Plastic Representation
Kristin Warner of Cornell University will discuss what she calls “plastic representation” or the hollow attempts at diversity in media representations of race and gender in television and film. Sponsored by Film Studies Program; Gender Women, and Sexuality Studies, and the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.
Free and open to the public.
March 21, 2024 (Thursday), 5:30 pm
Reilly Room
The Things She Carried: The Power and Persistence of the Purse in America
Kathleen Casey of Furman University will tell the feminist history of purses as versatile toolkits that have provided women with a private, female-controlled space in a world where they rarely occupied public space on equal terms as men.
Free and open to the public.
April 3, 2024 (Wednesday), 4:00 pm
Register to attend: https://lemoyne.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElce2ppjsuE9Mrk-Ic7GvgGGHgAZItD0NB
When Rape Goes Viral Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age.
Dr. Anna Gjika will be here in-person on April 4th and talking to Prof. Alison Marganski’s Criminal Theory (CJS/SOC 305) and Victimology (CJS/GWS/SOC 351) classes about her book When Rape Goes Viral Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age. You can check out more here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520391048/when-rape-goes-viral
Open for others to attend!
April 4, 2024 (Thursday)
1:00 pm in GH 103
2:30 pm in GH 203