Patricia Ireland, President of NOW spoke in the Campus Center Dining Hall of Elmira College with a book signing following in Tifft Lounge. This event was organized by student Heather Wellman'01 of Scarborough, Maine, after completing an internship at the National Action Office of NOW in Washington, D.C.
Patricia Ireland at booksigning in Tifft Lounge
The 8th Annual Julia Reinstein Symposium topic was "The Body Politic: The Body Personal." Pictured here is Keynote Speaker Zillah Einstein, Professor of Politics, Ithaca College who spoke about “Man-Made Breast Cancers” from her book of the same name. (Cornell Press, 2001)
The 9th Annual Julia Reinstein Symposium was titled Global Feminisms: International Women's Movements, with Dr. Christine Eber, New Mexico University and author of Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town speaking on "Women and the Struggle for Social Justice in Chiapas, Mexico." She was joined by Dr. Mariam Khawar, an EC Professor of Economics, who spoke on "Pakistani Women: an Inside and Outside View."
A lecture by artist Cheryl Yun
Dr. Charlie Mitchell was the first male Women's Studies Coordinator. He worked with student Cassie Coombs'03 and Julie Thompson'03 to plan for the 10th Annual Julia Reinstein Symposium: Women and Athletics. Mariah Burton Nelson was brought to campus to speak about women and athletics after Title IX. Dean Pat Thompson gave a presentation about the history of athletics for women at Elmira College.
The 11th Annual Julia Reinstein Symposium: Love, Dating, Sex and Relationships Keynote speaker was Dr. Paddy Welles, author of To Stand In Love. Paddy conducted a workshop after her talk and then joined symposium organizers for dinner in Simeon's. Women's Studies student Minh-Chau Tran performed "Music Inspired by Love" as an evening piano recital in Tifft Lounge.
Seated from left: Dr. Paddy Welles, Liz Wavle, Laurie Shunney'07 and Kristyn Scott'06. Back: Minh-Chau Tran'07, Aymi Fukada'08, Jan Kather, Faith Weeks'05, Grace Kozik'07, Jenna Wilson'07 and Krista Veblen'07.
Paddy work-shopped with students and faculty after her talk on finding passion in our lives.
Students and faculty pose with Nanny Diary authors Emma McLaughlin (3rd from right) and Nicola Kraus (2nd from right) after a reading from their latest novel Citizen Girl in Tompkins Lounge.