Calendar of Events 2005-2006

September 2005

• 14th: 6th Annual Tournees International Film Festival, Science Hall Room 72; 7:00 p.m.
• 29th: 6th Annual Tournees International Film Festival, Science Hall Room 72; 7:00 p.m.

October 2005

• Month-long display: "Brown v. Board of Education: In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality", Visser Hall, First Floor Display Case
• 10th: Arabic Club Movie, Science Hall Room 72; 8:00 p.m.
• 11th: P.R.I.D.E. National Coming Out Day Panel, Kanza Room; 7:00 p.m.
• 13th: Ramadhan in the United States, Cremer Hall Room 206; 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
• 17th: Black Student Union Open Mic Night, Memorial Union Hornet's Nest; 6:00 p.m.
• 17th: Arabic Club Movie: "Islam: An Empire of Faith," Science Hall Room 72; 8:00 p.m.
• 25th: "Compassion and Connection in a Multicultural World," Visser Hall Room 330; 3:00 p.m.
• 27th: 6th Annual Tournees International Film Festival, Science Hall Room 72; 7:00 p.m.

November 2005

• 2nd: "Faces of America," Albert Taylor Hall; 7:30 p.m.; Event is FREE
• 9th: 6th Annual Tournees International Film Festival, Science Hall Room 72; 7:00 p.m.
• 15th: Dialogues on Diversity, Visser Hall Room 330; 2:00 p.m.
• 16th: Status of Women in Islam, Visser Hall Room 330; 3:00 p.m.
• 17th: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (film), Plumb Hall Room 316; 7:00 p.m.
• 22nd: Rosa Parks Scholarship Awards Ceremony, Memorial Union - Flint Hills Room; 3:00 p.m.

January 2006

• 16th: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Keynote Speaker: Nadine Terry, Memorial Union - Colonial Ballroom; 6:00 p.m. event is FREE and open to the public
• 25th: Spanish Movie Night: "The Devil's Backbone" (in Spanish with English subtitles), Science Hall Room 72; 7:00 p.m.

February 2006

• 1st: "In the Mind of a Poet," Kanza Room - Memorial Union; 7:00 p.m., event is FREE
• 2nd: Promotion of Black History Month, Main Street - Memorial Union; 11:00 a.m.
• 8th: Race Relations in the Sunflower State, Speaker: Dr. James Leiker, Visser Hall Room 330; 4:00 p.m.
• 9th: Promotion of Black History Month, Main Street - Memorial Union; 11:00 a.m.
• 16th: Promotion of Black History Month, Main Street - Memorial Union; 11:00 a.m.
• 16th: "Ask a Black Dude," Ballroom - Memorial Union; 7:00 p.m. focus of event is to dispell myths and stereotypes, event is FREE
• 21st: Bonner & Bonner Lecture Series presents Morris Dees - civil rights attorney and co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center - "A Passion for Justice," Albert Taylor Hall (located within Plumb Hall); 7:00 p.m. event is FREE

March 2006

• 3rd: Women's History Month Opening Reception, Sauder Alumni Center; 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
• 6th: "Trafficking and Prostitution: Global Complications" - Kamala Kempadoo, guest speaker. Kanza Room - Memorial Union; 7:00 p.m., event is FREE
• 8th: The Vagina Monologues, Webb Lecture Hall - Memorial Union; 7:00 p.m., tickets required
• 9th: The Vagina Monologues, Webb Lecture Hall - Memorial Union; 7:00 p.m., tickets required
• 16th: Reading from visiting author, Sharman Apt Russell, Brighton Lecture Hall (Science Hall Room 189); 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Reception, refreshments, and book-signing will follow, event is FREE

September 2006 

• 25th to Oct. 4th: Threads of Hope exhibit in Gibson Gallery in King Hall

October 2006

• 4th: Reception and Presentation by Dr. Marjorie Agosin. Reception in lobby of King Hall, 5:30-6:45; Presentation, 7:00 pm Colonial Ballroom, Memorial Union.
• 23rd to Nov. 3rd: Photographic exhibit of New Orleans after Katrina by Donn Young, Plum Hall Rotunda

 November 2006

• 1st: President's Reception for Donn Young, 5:30-6:45, Plum Hall Rotunda
• 1st: Photographic exhibit and Presentation "40 Days and 40 Nights" by Donn Young, 7:00, Heath Recital Hall
• 6th: Hispanic Leadership Day, 5:30 Memorial Union Ballroom
• 13th: World View at ESU and Educational Exchanges, 11:00 Memorial Union Main Street
•  15th: International Thanksgiving Dinner, 6:00 Kanza Room, Memorial Union
• 16th to the 18th: "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress", 7:30 Bruder Theatre
•  18th: Women's Health Fair, 11:00 Flint Hills and Kanza rooms, Memorial Union

 March 2007,  Women's History Month

 March 1: -Rita Napier,  Department of History, University of Kansas and author/editor of Kansas and the West: New Perspectives.  Sponsors: Department of Social Sciences, Boertmann Lecture Fund.  7:30 p.m. Sauder Alumni Center

 

March 2: -Women's History Month Opening Reception and Presentation of the Ruth Schillinger Award with performance by the Emporia Theater Company.  Refreshments. Sponsor: Ethnic and Gender Studies Program.   3:30-5:00 Sauder Alumni Center

 

March 6: -Bend it Like Beckham.  Film and Discussion led by Dr. Ellen Hansen,

7:00 p.m., Science Hall 72

March 8: International Women's Day

"A Call to Service," Virginia Visser,  WWII Army nurse, speaking about her experiences in Europe 1944-1945.  Sponsors: WWII Roundtable, Social Sciences, Boertmann Fund.  7:00 p.m. Kanza Room, Memorial Union. 

 

March 9: -Novelist Selah Saterstrom  

 

1. Reading: PH 309 2:00  Sponsor: Department of English

 

2. Women and Words: Reading by Selah Saterstrom, followed by the music of Lisa Moritz and by a music and poetry open mike. Sponsor: Department of English, Emporia Arts Council. Emporia Arts Center, 7:00 pm

March 10: Expanding Your Horizons: A Day of Science and Math Activities for girls in grades 6-8.  Sponsor: Department of Mathmatics.  8:00 am -3:00 p.m.,  Memorial Union and Science Hall

 

March 12: -The Vagina Monologues,  Sponsors:  P.O.W.E.R., Ethnic and Gender Studies Program, Emporia State University Women’s Center. Brighton Lecture Hall 7:00 pm

 

March 13:

1. Women of Islam  Panel Discussion.  Sponsor: Muslim Students Association  5:00  Room TBA

 

2. The Vagina Monologues, Brighton Lecture Hall 7:00 pm

 

March 14: -

1. Susan B. Anthony & Mary Headrick Awards. Sponsor: Emporia State University Women’s Center. Kanza Room 3:00 pm

 

2. The Vagina Monologues, Brighton Lecture Hall 7:00 pm

 

March 15: “Fourth Wave Feminism,” a  Lecture by Tracy Frederick, University of Oklahoma, Sponsor:  Ethnic and Gender Studies Program, Department of Communication and Theater Arts.  Greek Room, 7:00 pm

 

March 26: -Dreams of Equality: Women's Rights National Historical Park

Film and discussion led by Prof. Joyce Thierer.  Sponsor, Society for Public Historians.  Plumb Hall 408 7:00 pm

 

March 28: -The Magdalene Sisters  Film followed by a discussion led by Prof. Karen Manners Smith. Sponsor: P.O.W.E.R. Science Hall 72 7:00 p.m. 

 

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Last Updated February 27, 2007