Purdue News

March 6, 1998

3-day event to showcase women in science, art, technology

The symposium opens at noon Thursday, March 19, with a welcoming address and concludes with a roundtable discussion at 4:45 p.m. Saturday, March 21. In between are workshops, exhibits, lectures and panel discussions. A registration and information table will be available each day in Room 107, Stewart Center. All events are free and open to the public.

Some of the events (all will be on the third floor of Stewart Center, unless noted otherwise):

-- 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. An exhibit of multimedia works by 13 women artists from the Greater Lafayette area. Watson's Crick Gallery, Room 1-125, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences. A symposium reception will be held in the gallery at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

-- 1 p.m. Thursday. "Programs for Women Students in Science and Engineering." Presentation by Barbara Clark, director of Purdue's Women in Science Program, and Jane Daniels, director of Purdue's Women in Engineering Program. Current students also will discuss their experiences.

-- 3 p.m. Thursday. "Teaching in the Belly of the Beast: Feminism in the Best of All Places," a lecture by Anne Balsamo, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology, about teaching feminism to a predominantly male audience.

-- 8 p.m. Thursday. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. Screening of the documentary film "It's Elementary," directed by Debra Chasnoff, about how teachers and students grapple with homophobia and gay invisibility in elementary and middle schools.

-- 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday. Cyber Archives. An exhibit by Silvia Malagrino, a native of Buenos Aires who is an associate professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Chicago. The exhibit is a series of video monitors playing different digital animations combined with video footage and still photographs.

-- 1:15 p.m. Friday. "Alternative Interventions in Healing," a workshop featuring Susan Cekarmis Schoon, Purdue assistant professor of nursing, discussing Therapeutic Touch, an ancient healing art of the "laying on of hands."

-- 3 p.m. Friday. Two lectures about women and AIDS policy. Paula Treichler, professor of medicine, communications and research and of women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will talk about "Women's Interventions in Medicine and HIV/AIDS Policy." Maya Rockeymoore, Purdue political science doctoral student who also is a Congressional Black Caucus fellow, will speak about "African-American Women and HIV/AIDS Policy."

-- 1:15 p.m. Saturday. Diane Glancy, poet, essayist and novelist, reads from her latest novel, "Flutie." She is an associate professor of English at Macalaster College, St. Paul, Minn., and much of her writing focuses on her Cherokee heritage.

-- 3 p.m. Saturday. Screening of the video "When You're Smiling," by former Purdue faculty member Janice Tanaka, now an assistant professor of telecommunication at the University of Florida at Gainesville. The video documents the psychological effects that the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II had on their children.

Other topics to be examined during the symposium include women's health; gender and art; photography, identity and women; learning women artists on the Internet; and issues in the Human Genome Project. Also, three women writers from Greater Lafayette will discuss the writing process.

For more information about the program, contact symposium coordinators Kirsten Lindquist, (765) 494-7782; e-mail, lindquis@omni.cc.purdue.edu, or Rachel Groner, (765) 494-7782; e-mail, rgroner@expert.cc.purdue.edu

Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu

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