Women's History Month - March 2009

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT
presents an exhibition
Making Their Presence Felt: Notable Long Island Women
This exhibit includes books, photographs, and ephemera about a sampling of women who lived on Long Island during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dates/Time: Monday, March2-Tuesday, March 31; Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, Lower Level Lobby (East Side), South Campus
Admission: Free.
For more information please call the Hofstra University Special Collections Department at (516) 463-6411.

DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION
and
DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN'S STUDIES 
present
"What Would Oprah Do"  
Everybody knows that Oprah is a powerful woman, garnering fans, funds and political power with aplomb. But what does all this power create? What, precisely does Oprah sell? This talk will explore the spirituality of Harpo, Inc. What is the reason for its popular appeal? "It's Oprah's world, and we are all just consuming in it."
Speaker: Katie Lofton, Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 4, 7 p.m.
Location: Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus
Admission: Free
For more information please call the Department of Religion at (516) 463-5623.

HOFSTRA ENTERTAINMENT  
presents
Lady Bird, Pat and Betty: Tea for Three  
by Eric H. Weinberger with Elaine Bromka
Emmy-Award winning actress Elaine Bromka has more than 30 years of experience in film and television, as well as on Broadway and off-Broadway. In 85 minutes of heartwarming delight, she reveals a gallery of intimate portraits of three remarkable and radically different first ladies - Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon and Betty Ford. Particularly apt in a time of heightened politics, this one-woman show is both funny and deeply moving, a thought-provoking exploration of these fascinating women and what they faced in this most unusual job. We discover each at a threshold moment in her life, and learn the personal cost of what Pat Nixon called "the hardest unpaid job in the world."
Date/Time: Sunday, March 8, 2 p.m.
Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, South Campus
Tickets:  $21, $18 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student, $10 child under 12. One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard.
For tickets and more information please call the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516) 463-6644, M-F, 11 a.m.-3:45 p.m.

OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PROGRAMS
presents
Women's "Herstory" Month Opening Reception 
Date/Time: Thursday, March 5, 5:30-7 p.m.
Location: Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus
Admission: Free

The Hours 
This 2002 film, directed by Stephen Daltry, examines the lives of three women from different time periods who find themselves interconnected through personal experiences and themes of sexuality, suicide and self-image.
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 11, 6-8:30 p.m.
Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Admission:  Free

What if Women Ruled the World? A Gender Analysis of Leadership 
Date/Time: Friday, March 20, 2-4 p.m.
Location: 145 Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Admission: Free
For more information please email Ryan Greene in the Office of Multicultural and Student Programs at Ryan.Greene@hofstra.edu.

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM   
presents
The Feminine Musique  
The Feminine Musique specializes in performing vocal repertoire written by the wives, sisters, daughters and lovers of some of the world's most famous composers. Inspired by the enormous breadth of song literature written by women but widely unknown in the recital repertoire, The Feminine Musique was founded in 2008. This concert, to be given in conjunction with the Hofstra University Museum exhibition Ancient Echoes in Contemporary Printmaking, which features three women artists, will also feature music by American composers Lori Laitman and Libby Larsen. Singers Tammy Hensrud and Donna Balson will be joined by pianists Marilyn Lehman and Blanche Abram.
Date/Time: Friday, March 13, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, South Campus
Admission: $5 general public, $3 senior citizen (over 65). One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard. Hofstra University Museum members admitted free.
For tickets and information please call the Hofstra University Museum at (516) 463-5672, M-F, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 
and the
HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER 
present
Sacajawea: The Most Honored Woman in America  
What happened to Sacajawea after the Lewis and Clark expedition? Her legacy includes the naming, in her honor, of three lakes, one river, four mountains, 24 statutes (including one in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol), 12 granite/bronze markers, one movie, six paintings, numerous state parks, historic sites, museums and schools, one plant (the Sacajawea silver buffaloberry), and one gold dollar.
Speaker:  Alfred Jay Bollet, M.D., former Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and members, Archaeological Institute of America/Long Island Society (AIA/LIS)
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 18, 8 p.m.
Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Admission: Free
For more information please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at (516) 463-5669.

HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER 
in cooperation with
THE GRADUATE ASSOCIATION OF RHETORIC AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES  
presents
The 5 Shades of Pink: A Coerced Identity
 A Graduate Thesis Performance Exploring Biracial Identity in the 19th Century
by Melissa J. Edwards, Class of 2009
The 5 Shades of Pink: A Coerced Identity explores the influences of the 1859 play The Octoroon by Dion Boucicualt, miscegenation laws and the U.S. Census on biracial identity. All these factors are used in the analysis of the racial identity of Sally Maria Diggs, a 9-year old girl whose freedom was purchased by the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, through the efforts of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and his associates. The performance is intended to present the theories of social impact on racial identity while providing historical fact and content.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 19, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, South Campus
Admission: Free
Co-sponsored by the New Opportunities at Hofstra (NOAH) Program (Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program at Hofstra University) and the Women's Studies Program.
For more information please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at (516) 463-5669.

JOAN AND DONALD E. AXINN LIBRARY
presents
Readings in Celebration of Women's History Month  
Hofstra students, faculty, staff and administrators are invited to read from favorite books by or about women, including material of their own. Readings are limited to five minutes.
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 25, 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. (Common Hour)
Location: Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library Lobby, First Floor, South Campus
Admission: Free (light refreshments will be served)
For more information on reading for this event or to register, please call Professor Margaret Burke at (516) 463-6448 or email margaret.burke@hofstra.edu.

WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM
MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND LANGUAGES 
and the
DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION, RHETORIC AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES 
present
In the Crossing 
Featuring Leila Buck an Arab-American actress, writer and teaching artist. Ms. Buck shares her story of a woman who sees herself as a bridge between her Muslim, Christian, Lebanese and American backgrounds and the Jewish culture into which she has married. When she brings her husband to Lebanon for the first time, the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah erupts. As they choose between staying in Lebanon or risking leaving, the couple navigates conflicting feelings within themselves and their families about the role of Hezbollah, Isreal and the United States in the conflict. When she returns home, Ms. Buck faces a new challenge - how to tell the story of their journey without jeopardizing the complex connections that shape their lives.
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 31, 11:10 a.m.-12:35 p.m.
Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Admission:  Free
For more information please call the Women's Studies Program Co-Director Cindy Rosenthal at (516) 463-4966 or email cindy.rosenthal@hofstra.edu. 

WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM 
presents
On Paper Wings 
Filmmaker Ilana Sol presents her documentary film On Paper Wings about the Japanese balloon bombs in World War II, and the peacemaking efforts of the Japanese "factory girls" and a Japanese-American scholar in the 40 years that followed. Talk-back to follow screening.
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 31, 2:20-3:45 p.m. and 4:30-5:55 p.m. (two showings of the same film)
Location: 216 Beslin Hall, South Campus
Admission: Free
For more information please call the Women's Studies Program Co-Director Cindy Rosenthal at (516) 463-4966 or email cindy.rosenthal@hofstra.edu.

HOFSTRA COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
and the
PROGRAM IN ITALIAN STUDIES AND ITALIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
in honor of the establishment of the UNICO Distinguished Professorship
present
"For a Rosary of Memories: Italian American Women Writers and Artists and Memory-Work" 
A discussion of women's role as bearers of memory - personal and collective.
Moderator: Pellegrino D'Acierno, Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages, UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies and Italian American Studies
Speakers: Helen Barolini, prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist; author of Umbertina, a canonical narrative of the Italian American experience
                   Gioia Timpanelli, master storyteller (cantastorie), and novelist; author of Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
                   B. Amore, celebrated sculptor, visual artist and writer; Lifeline - filo della vita, her multimedia, six-room exhibit, premiered at Ellis Island and has served as a traveling exhibition in the United States and Italy
                   Edvige Giunta, distinguished memoriste and professor of writing; author of Writing With an Accident: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 31, 5-7 p.m.
Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus
Admission:  Free
For more information please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at (516) 463-5669.

HOFSTRA ENTERTAINMENT
and the
FRANK G. ZARB SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 
present
Paula Nelson's Soar With Your Strengths:
Making Money, Creating Security and Identifying Opportunities in Today's Chaotic Economy 
Join Paula Nelson hailed as "one of the brightest people in the money world," as she explores the current economic crisis and offers insight and strategies to help you discover ways to increase your income, create financial security, aquire funding for your company, and much more. Bob Spiotto will moderate this entertaining and informative interview-style program, followed by a question and answer session.
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 31, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, South Campus
Tickets:  $2, $15 senior citizens (over 65), $5 non-Hofstra student with ID. One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard.
For tickets and information please call the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516) 463-6644, M-F, 11 a.m.-3:45 p.m.

SPONSORS OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
Department of Anthropology
Department of Asian Studies
Department of Comparative Literature and Languages
Department of History
Department of Religion
Department of Speech Communication, Rhetoric and Performance Studies
Department of Women's Studies
Division of Student Affairs
Frank G. Zarb School of Business
Graduate Association of Rhetoric and Performance Studies
Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Hofstra Cultural Center
Hofstra Entertainment
Hofstra University Museum
Hofstra University Special Collections Department
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library
Middle East and Central Asian Studies Program
Office of Multicultural & International Student Programs
New Opportunities at Hofstra (NOAH) Program (Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity at Hofstra University)
Program in Italian Studies and Italian American Studies