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Kathryn Harris Women's Studies Paper Competition |
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| Saturday, March 14, Huntsville Feminist Chorus Spring Concert, "Bread and Roses," 7:30 p.m., Roberts Recital Hall at UAHuntsville. Free admission. This year’s theme is “Bread and Roses,” honoring the Bread and Roses labor strike of 1912, led by women and men textile workers and labor organizers Elizabeth Gurley Flynn of the IWW and muckracker Ida Tarbell. Judy Collins popularized their marching song “Bread and Roses” in the 1970s. Wait till you hear the HFC’s arrangement of that song! As usual, you can expect an uplifting evening of songs that empower women. Information: bettyc@hiwaay.net or 824-6210. |
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Monday, April 6, 11:30-12:30, Union Grove Gallery and Meeting
Hall, UAH. Fiction writer Susan Engberg will be doing readings and answering questions about her work. Engberg's newest book is a collection of short stories, Above the Houses (2008). Members of the University Women Club are providing light lunch. Student attendance is encouraged. Engberg will also do a reading at the Huntsville Literary Association Sunday Salon on the afternoon of April 5, for HLA members and their guests. Information about the UAHuntsville reading: 824-2373. Lunch reservations needed by April 3 to 824-6321. For information about the HLA reading: call Evie Spearman at (256) 534-9964 or Debbie West at (256) 534-3331.
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Monday, April 13, 5:30 p.m. poet Jennifer Horne will be giving a presentation in UAHuntsville’s Union Grove Gallery. Horne is a noted Alabama poet. She edited Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets and co-edited All Out of Faith: Southern Women and Spirituality. Her book Miss Betty’s School of Dance was published by bluestocking press. Horne’s talk is co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Humanities Center. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Rose Norman in the Department of English at (256) 824-2373.
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Past Women's Studies Events (since 1997)
For more information about these events, call the Women's Studies program office at 824-6210, or email Erin Reid at erin.reid@uah.edu, or call the sponsoring program at the number indicated.
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