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2012 Calendar
National Women’s
History Month
Middle Tennessee State University
Women’s Education, Women’s Empowerment
March 14
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Women’s Leadership Forum:
Cultivating Balance
Keathley University Center, Room 314
Contact: Valerie Avent, 898-5989
March 15 • 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Women and Quilts of the Civil War
(M’boro AAUW)
Faculty Senate Chamber,
James Union Building, Room 100
Contact: Cathy Crabtree, 867-3963
Women and their use of domestic arts demonstrate
how available resources were employed to establish
participation in the public sphere during a period of
male domination.
March 21 • 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Fighting for Food: The Struggle of
Women and Children
Ellington Human Sciences Building, Room 106
Contact: Becca Seul, 898-8910
The Child Development and Family Studies class
Family Centered Community Building II is presenting
information regarding domestic and world hunger and
its effects on women and children to the CDFS 4340
Contemporary Family class during their class on
parenting issues. Visitors are welcome!
March 21 • 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Looking Back and Moving Forward:
The Women’s and Gender Studies
Program at MTSU
A Centennial Celebration Event
Faculty Senate Chamber,
James Union Building, Room 100
Contact: Tina Johnson, 898-5910
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies
Events
Middle Tennessee State University
National Women's History Month
2012 Calendar
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March 22 • 4:00 p.m.
March 29 • 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Tucker Theatre, Contact: Anne Fraley, 898-5989
Faculty Senate Chamber,
James Union Building, Room 100
Contact: Tina Johnson, (615) 898-5910
NWHM Keynote Speaker Marlee Matlin
(Book signing to follow)
A reception honoring Ms. Matlin will be held in the Studio Theater, Boutwell Dramatic Arts Building, Room 101 at 6:15 p.m.
Sponsored by The Distinguished Lecture Fund,
Student Programming, The Speech-Language-Hearing
Clinic, The June Anderson Center for Women and
Nontraditional Students, The Centennial Committee,
The Sociology Club, Disabled Student Services,
Intercultural and Diversity Affairs Center, Black History
Month, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program
March 26–30
Celebrating Women as Scholars,
MTSU Scholars Week
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies
March 26 • 7:00 p.m.
SAFE Panel: “Women and the Arab
Spring” (silent auction to follow)
Tom Jackson Building
Contact: SAFEMTSU@gmail.com
Sponsored by Students Active for Feminism and
Equality (SAFE), Muslim Student Organization, and
Women’s and Gender Studies
Celebrating Women as Scholars Event
March 27 • 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Women at MTSU: Retrospective Views
A Centennial Celebration Event
Faculty Senate Chamber,
James Union Building, Room 100
Contact: Tina Johnson, 898-5910
Panelist will reminisce on their many years of dedicated
service to MTSU, share insights on issues that have
long been of interest or concern to women on campus,
and point to ways to enhance women’s postive
experience on campus
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies,
Association of Faculty and Administrative Women
(AFAW), and President’s Commission on the Status
of Women (PCSW)
Celebrating Women as Scholars Event
March 28 • 5:00–6:00 p.m.
I Love You Terribly
Studio Theatre, Boutwell Dramtic Arts
Contact: Claudia Barnett, 898-2887
Penny Walrath Cole (UC–Boulder) visits MTSU to
direct staged readings of four short plays from Claudia
Barnett’s newly published book, I Love You Terribly.
Thanks to the Virginia Peck Trust Fund and the
Department of Speech and Theatre.
Women’s and Gender Studies
Research Series: “Mother Tongues:
The Kinetics of Genetics,”
presentation by Erin Rehberg
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies
Celebrating Women as Scholars
Event
MTSU 2012
National Women’s
American Association for University
History Month Button
MTSU National Women’s History Month Annie Sullivan
April 2–4
Women Book Sale
Keathley University Center, First floor
April 3 • 12:30–2:00 p.m.
Becoming a Thistle Farmer: Learning to
Walk with Courage and Humility
Becca Stevens and the Women of
Magdalene House/Thistle Farms (JAC)
Keathley University Cetner, Theatre/Lobby
Contact: Anne Fraley, 898-5989
April 9–10
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
The Clothesline Project
Keathley University Center Knoll
Contact: June Anderson Center for Women and
Nontraditional Students, 898-5989
April 17
Equal Pay Day
Keathley University Center
Contact: June Anderson Center for Women and
Nontraditional Students, 898-5989
April 17
Take Back the Night
Keathley Universtiy Center Knoll
Contact: June Anderson Center for Women and
Nontraditional Students, 898-5989
April 17 • 5:00 p.m.
Pocketbook Monologues
Location: TBA
Contact: June Anderson Center for Women and
Nontraditional Students, 898-5989
Sponsored by Women in Action
April 18 • Noon–1:00 p.m.
Annie Sullivan
Annie Mansfield Sullivan was born
Johanna Sullivan on April 14, 1866, in the Feeding Hills area of Agawam,
Massachusetts. By the age of four
Annie was legally blind from trachoma,
an eye disease which eventually leads to total blindness. Orphaned at
the age of nine, she was sent to the Almshouse in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, where her desire to be
educated grew out of the enjoyment of being read to by the prostitutes
there. She entered the then Perkins
Institution in South Boston at age 16,
and though often on the verge of
expulsion, she graduated as class
valedictorian in 1886. After several eye operations Annie’s sight was
partially restored. She was asked by
the school’s director to go to Alabama
as a governess and teacher to a
deaf-blind mute six-and-a half-year-old
girl. So it was that in March 1887 she
arrived in Tuscumbia, Alabama, to
begin work in earnest with Helen
Adams Keller.
For information about
events call Anne Fraley
at (615) 898-5989.
Women’s Leadership Forum:
Taking a Break
Keathley University Center, Room 314
Contact: Valerie Avent, 898-5989
April 19 • 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Women’s and Gender Studies Research
Series: “Gender, Anime, and the Making
of Fan Writers,” presentation by
Elyce Helford
Faculty Senate Chamber,
James Union Building, Room 100
Contact: Tina Johnson, 898-5910
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies
Produced by:
MTSU Creative and Visual Services and Printing Services
0112-486 – MTSU is an AA/EEO employer.
Middle Tennessee State University
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Spring Break – No Classes, March 5–11
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Women’s Leaderhsip
Forum: Cultivating
Balance
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Women and Quilts
of the Civil War
JUB 100, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Contact: Cathy Crabtree, 867-3963
KUC 314, 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Contact: Valerie Avent, 898-5989
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First Day of Spring
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Fighting for Food:
The Struggle of
Women and Childrenn
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EHS 106, 4:30–6:00 p.m.
(book signing to follow)
Tucker Theatre, 4:00 p.m.
(Limited seating Available)
Contact: Tina Johnson, 898-5910
Looking Back and Moving
Forward: The Women’s and
Gender Studies Program at
MTSU, A Centennial
Celebration Event
A reception honoring Ms. Matlin will be held in the Studio Theater,
Boutwell Dramatic Arts Building, Room 101 at 6:15 p.m.
Contact: Anne Fraley, 898-5989
Sponsored by:
The Distinguished Lecture Fund, Student Programming, The SpeechLanguage-Hearing Clinic, The June
Anderson Center for Women and
Nontraditional Students, The Centennial
Committee, The Sociology Club, Disabled
Student Services, Intercultural and Diversity
Affairs Center, Black History Month, and
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Faculty Senate Chamber, JUB 100,
4:30–6:00 p.m.
Contact: Tina Johnson, 898-5910
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender
Studies
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SAFE Panel: “Women
and the Arab Spring”
(silent auction to follow)
Location: TBA, 4:00 p.m.
Contact: SAFEMTSU@gmail.com
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender
Studies
Celebrating Women as Scholars Event
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Women at MTSU:
Restrospective View,
A Centennial Celebration
Event
I Love you Terribly
Studio Theatre, BDA,
5:00–6:30 p.m.
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Contact: Claudia Barnett, 898-2887
Faculty Senate Chamber, JUB 100,
4:30–6:00 p.m.
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Women’s and Gender
Studies Research
Series: “Men and
Masulinities”
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Faculty Senate Chamber, JUB 100,
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Contact: Tina Johnson, 898-5910
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender
Studies, AFAW, and PCSW
Contact: Tina Johnson, 898-5910
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender
Studies
Celebrating Women as Scholars Event
Celebrating Women as Scholars, MTSU Scholars Week
April Fool’s Day
NWHM 2012
Keynote Speaker
Marlee Matlin
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Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies
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Becoming a Thistle
Farmer: Learning to Walk
with Courage and Humility
Becca Stevens and the Women of
Magdelen House/Thisle Farms
KUC Theater/Lobby, 12:30–2:00 p.m.
Contact: Anne Fraley, 898-5989
American Association for University Women Book Sale
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Clothesline Project
April 9-10
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KUC first floor
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KUC Knoll, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Contact: June Anderson Center, 898-5989
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Equal Pay Day
KUC
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Contact: June Anderson Center, 898-5989
Women’s Leadership
Forum: Taking a Break
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KUC 314, Noon–1:00 p.m.
Contact: Valerie Avent, 898-5989
Pocketbook Monologues
Location: TBA, 5:00 p.m.
Contact: June Anderson Center
Sponsored by Women in Action
Faculty Senate Chamber, JUB 100,
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Take Back the Night
Contact: Tina Johnson, 898-5910
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender
Studies
KUC Knoll
Contact: June Anderson Center
Earth Day
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Women’s and Gender
Studies Research
Series: “Gender, Anime,
and the Making of Fan
Writers,” presentation by
Elyce Helford
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All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.
For information about events call June Anderson Center for
Women and Nontraditional Students at 615-898-5989.
Keynote Speaker Marlee Matlin
4:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 22, 2012 • Tucker Theatre
(Limited seating available) Book signing immediately following keynote presentation.
A reception honoring Ms. Matlin will be held in the Studio Theater, Boutwell Dramatic Arts Building, Room 101 at 6:15 p.m.
Marlee Matlin sponsored by: The Distinguished Lecture Fund, Student Programming, The Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, The June Anderson Center for Women and Nontraditional Students, The Centennial Committee, The Sociology Club, Disabled Student Services, Intercultural and Diversity Affairs Center, Black History Month, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program
At 21, Marlee Matlin became the youngest recipient of an Academy Award for her role in Children
of a Lesser God (1986). She is one of only four
actresses to win the Best Actress Award for
a debut film performance. She also won the
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance. Since that breakthrough role, Matlin
has appeared in many other films and television programs, including a seven-year stint on NBC’s
award-winning political drama The West Wing.
Matlin is a well-known advocate for deaf and
hard-of-hearing children and has served as chair of National Volunteer Week. She was
instrumental in getting legislation passed by
Congress in support of closed captioning, and
she is a national celebrity spokesperson for the
American Red Cross. She sits on the boards
of numerous charitable organizations, including
the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation and
Easter Seals.
Matlin is the author of three well-received
books for children, and her 2009 autobiography,
I’ll Scream Later, was a New York Times bestseller.
She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband and their four children.