There are many Co-curricular and Diversity activities each semester that concern women and/or reflect issues of special interest to women. These are well-publicized with posters and electronic announcements. In addition, each year Women's Studies supports and/or sponsors speakers and events of particular interest to women.

Spring 2009

March 27, 2009 – Becoming Medusa: Taking the Current Pulse of Gender Equality in the Field of Music Composition
This year’s Women’s Studies Speaker Series features a lecture/seminar/performance by Ms. Amy Kirsten that will take place in the Monteabaro Recital Hall in the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Building, beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending at noon.  Based on her interviews with notable women composers and notable women in music, Ms. Kirsten will pair current ideas about gender equality in music with sound clips from the works of living women composers. Featured in this program will be the premier of “To See What I See for Soprano and Piano.” Text by Shakespeare. Performed by Amy Kirsten.

February 4- March 8 – A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard
Don’t miss this powerful exploration of how a severe incident of spousal abuse alters the lives of two families, connected by marriage in the gritty American West. Through the marriage of Jake and Beth, we explore the consequences of violence, the complicated nature of love, and the final confrontation between two families in an isolated cabin. Are we seeing woman-as-object or woman-as-subject in the character of Beth? Xerxes Mehta, voted Best Theater Director for 2007 by The Baltimore City Paper, brings visual and visceral power to his direction of the play. And, Natasha Staley and Michael Stebbins, who dazzled us in last year’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession, are again among the cast.

Don't forget
In October 2002, Judy Chicago spoke in Smith Theater. After many years in storage, her masterwork The Dinner Party has been purchased by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation and donated to the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. After extensive renovation to accommodate this room-sized installation, The Dinner Party will debut as a permanent exhibit in March 2007. Thirty-nine women, who have been lost to history, have place settings at a massive equilateral triangle. Each has a unique porcelain dinner plate and an embroidered runner depicting the key features of her life and work. Why not take one of the New York bus trips, sponsored by Student Activities, and see this incredible art installation for yourself?

There are also ongoing exhibits at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.. Don't forget this unique, national repository of the work of women artists when you next visit Washington, D.C.