The Women’s Studies Program of Ithaca College warmly invites you to attend WomenSpeak 2006: Women and Beauty.
Monday, February 27
Klingenstein Lounge, Phillips Hall
10:00 a.m.: Meg Webster '06, music: excerpts from "Sea Glass"
10:15 a.m.: Katharyn Howd Machan, writing: “Mirror, Mirror”
10:30 a.m.: Annette Corth, Longview resident and extramural student: “Laughing on the Outside”
11:00 a.m.: Michelle Courtney Berry, communications, poet laureate of Tompkins County: “A Poetry Performance”
(During the noon hour, WomenSpeak will adjourn, with presenters invited to a luncheon in their honor in the McDonald Lounge, hosted by women’s studies.)
1:00 p.m.: Katy Elder '06, writing: “Sleeping Beauty: Waking Up”
1:15 p.m.: Krista Scott, theatre arts: “A Monologue from 'The Heidi Chronicles' by Wendy Wasserstein”
1:30 p.m.: Diane McPherson, writing: “A Prose Reading”
2:00 p.m.: Vera Whisman, women’s studies: “Playing Dress-up”
2:20 p.m.: Katie Marks, writing: “Beauty Is as Beauty Does”
2:30 p.m.: Wilka Roig ’99: “Fashioned: Performance in Identity Construction” (a photographic study)
3:00 p.m.: Mary Beth O’Connor and Sally Parr, writing, with students from their Women and Writing classes: “An Oral Anthology”
Members of the public as well as the Ithaca College community are welcome to attend all or part of WomenSpeak. We encourage attendance by whole classes. Our gratitude goes to the Offices of the Dean of Humanities and Sciences, the Provost, and the President for continued support of the women’s studies program. For more information, contact Katharyn Howd Machan at 274-3325 or machan@ithaca.edu.
In the words of Marge Piercy, may WomenSpeak empower us all as “We remember together what we are supposed to be doing.”
