Women's History Month - University of Idaho Women's Center

Women's Center
University of Idaho
Memorial Gym,
Rm 109
PO Box 1064
Moscow, ID
83844-1064

www.myspace.com/
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During the School Year
Monday - Friday
8am to 5pm

Summer Hours
Monday - Friday
By Appointment

Phone: 208.885.6616
Fax: 208.885.6285
wcenter@uidaho.edu

The University of Idaho Women's Center is pleased to offer this calendar as a clearinghouse of events/activities honoring Women's History Month on the Palouse. If you have an item that you'd like to see listed here, please send the relevant information to wcenter@uidaho.edu.

March is Women's History Month
1 1973 - Robyn Smith becomes the first female jockey to win a major race	2 1978 – Bette Davis becomes the first woman to win American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award.	3 Allison Hedge Coke	4 International Women's Day Fair	5 1962 – Marilyn Monroe wins Golden Globe Award: World’s Favorite Actress.	6 Reinterpreting Reality Reception 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning is born.	7 1992 – Nicole Stevenson swims short course world record for the 200-meter backstroke.
8 International Women's Day	9 1945 – Anne Frank dies.	10 1913 - Harriet Tubman Dies	11 Anita Hill @ WSU	12 1912 - Girl Scouts of America is Formed	13 Reinterpreting Reality Reception 1906 - Susan B. Anthony Dies	14 1991 - American Kristi Yamaguchi Wins World Ladies Figure Skating Championship
15 1933 - US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is born	16 1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes the first female pharmacist	17 1912 - Campfire girls is created	18 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist Bonnie Blair is born	19 1997 - Pamela Gordon is elected the first female prime minister of Bermuda	20 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin	21 1994 – Anne P. Sidamon-Eristoff is named chairwoman of Museum of National History.
22 1972 - Congress sends Equal Rights Amendment to states for ratification	23 1950 – Olivia de Havilland wins Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Heiress.	24 1899 – Dorothy Constance Stratton – first director of Coast Guard Women’s Reserve – is born.	25 Sapatq'ayn Cinema - on campus performance 1934 - Gloria Steinem is born	26 1973 - The first women are admitted as members of the London Stock Exchange	27	28 1912 – First Lady Helen Taft and the wife of the Japanese ambassador plant the first two Japanese cherry trees along the Potomac River.
29 1918 - Pearl Bailey is born	30 1932 - Amelia Earhart is the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean	31 “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” – Maya Angelou

Tuesday, March 3: Reading by Allison Hedge Coke - Native American Poet & Writer, 6:00 pm, Room TBA. Allison Hedge Coke, Huron and Cherokee, is a published writer and poet. Allison has authored a memoir: Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer; and three volumes of poetry: Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe and Blood Run. Blood Run is based on her fight to preserve and protect Indigenous mound sites in eastern South Dakota. Allison will also be sharing some of her poems at the International Women's Day Fair at approximately 1:00 pm on Wednesday, March 4th.

Wednesday, March 4: International Women’s Day Fair, 11:00 am -2:00 pm, Clearwater Room, Idaho Commons. Special guest performers in the food court at noon: The Sesitshaya Marimba Group.

Wednesday, March 11: Lawyer, scholar, and civil rights activist Anita Hill will headline Washington State University’s Annual Women’s Recognition Luncheon. The luncheon will take place at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 11, in WSU’s Compton Union Building Ballroom. For more information on how to purchase tickets, contact the WSU Women's Resource Center. To read a press release about Professor Hill's visit, click here.

Student Q & A With Professor Anita Hill - March 11, 2009, 5:00 pm, Communications Addition Room 21. Reception to follow.

Friday, March 13: "Reinterpreting Reality" - All Women Art Exhibition. Six venues in Pullman & Moscow, March 2009. Over 100 artists in this first ever, interstate, all women's art exhibition.
Reception: Compton Union Art Gallery, WSU, Reception on Friday, March 13, 5-7 p.m. with Marilyn Lysohir.
Reception: 1912 Center, Moscow. Reception on Wednesday, Feb 25, 5-7 p.m.
Reception: Third Street Gallery, Moscow. Reception on Friday, March 6, 5-7 p.m.

All locations: CUB Art Gallery (WSU), Neill Public Library (210 North Grand Ave, Pullman), Pullman Gallery & Studios (Market Square Building, 107 S. Grand Ave), 1912 Center (513 South Main St, Moscow), Third Street Gallery (Moscow City Hall, 206 East Third St)

Download a poster about the exhibition here.

Friday, March 25: As part of Sapatq'ayn Cinema, filmmaker Sonya Rosario will do an on-campus presentation on her film, "Idaho's Forgotten War: A Lost Tale of Courage." The film highlights Kootenai Tribal Chief Amy Trice, who in 1974 declared war against the U.S. Amy Trice will also be at the presentation. Whitewater Room (Idaho Commons), 12-1:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by OMA, CORE, and American Indian Studies.

For more information about the rest of the film festival, click here.

Friday, March 27: Women’s Center Film Series: Water, 12:00 pm, Memorial Gym 109. The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi, in India.

Moscow, ID 83844

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