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ON VIEW - ENTIRE MONTH
Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination:
Impact in the Workplace
Display – Student Center
Voices
Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination
An exhibition by women students in the Fine Art Programs
Humanities building
Display – Instructional Resource Building (first floor)
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Wednesday March, 6
Rhonda Broussard
Monday, March 4
Women of Innovation and Imagination Inspiring Happiness
The students learn about 6 tenets of happiness. For their
presentations they will focus on woman in history who embodies
these tenets and describe why and how they fit. The audience
therefore gains a perspective of happiness, historical figure/s, and
an overview how one lives with regard for happiness.
Keynote Address
Motherhood and the Necessity
for Invention
This comprehensive video is compartmentalized into five
individual segments, which feature compelling messages from violence
prevention advocates/activists and riveting testimonials from women
who are multiple survivors of sexual violence. Dr. Linda Collins will be
facilitating a discussion following the documentary.
Keynote Speaker - Rhonda Broussard,
Founder, President St. Louis Language
Immersion Schools, Inc.
Rhonda Broussard has taught French
in public schools in New York City,
Connecticut, California and St. Louis
and has earned National Board Certification, the most prestigious
teaching credential in the United States. Growing up in Louisiana, she
was inspired by the idea of the francophone world and has dedicated
herself to continuing to explore the connections between francophone
regions. As a result, in addition to learning French since childhood, she
has studied and conducted research in metropolitan France, Cameroon
and Martinique.
Rhonda began her education reform career as a teenage staff
member with the Breakthrough Collaborative in New Orleans, Kansas
City and San Francisco. Rhonda is the founder of St. Louis Language
Immersion Schools (SLLIS), a charter management organization that
operates The French School, The Spanish School and The Chinese
School and will eventually provide Missouri’s first K-12 immersion and
International Baccalaureate education continuum. Under Rhonda’s
direction SLLIS is developing future elementary campuses with
language immersion in Japanese, Arabic and other lesser commonly
taught languages to provide our communities with even greater niche
academic skills.
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., SS102
Sponsored by Sociology / Contact LaRhonda Wilson x4390
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Terry M. Fischer Theatre
Sponsored by the WHM Committee / Contact Janice Nesser-Chu x4861
12:30 - 1:45 p.m., IR 319 Sponsored by the Counseling Program / Contact: Jenna Mueller x4267
Tuesday, March 5
Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics)
Women have made profound contributions to science, technology,
engineering and mathematics. They have displayed keen insight,
creativity and tenacity in changing the technological landscape of
society. No celebration of the historic contributions of women would be
complete without recognizing their achievements in the STEM fields.
Stop by to view displays and listen to a panel discuss the roles of
women in STEM.
9:30 -10:45 a.m. & 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., TC 105
Sponsored by STEM / Contact Terrence Freeman x4813
No! The Rape Documentary - by Aisha Simmons
An afternoon with Rhonda Broussard
Faculty workshop/Luncheon with Rhonda Broussard
Faculty workshop/luncheon with Rhonda Broussard. Seating is
limited to 35 participants.
12:45 - 2 p.m., Emerson Lobby
Sponsored by Center for Teaching and Learning / Contact Karen Wade
x4494
Wednesday, March 20
Women Making a Change in Times of War
View a brief PowerPoint about the war in Liberia and then the
documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell Pray the Devil Back to Hell
chronicles the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women
who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to
their shattered country. Thousands of women — ordinary mothers,
grandmothers, aunts and daughters, both Christian and Muslim —
came together to pray for peace and then staged a silent protest
outside of the Presidential Palace. Armed only with white T-shirts and
the courage of their convictions, they demanded a resolution to the
country’s civil war.
11 a.m. - 1 p.m., IR third floor
Sponsored by the History Department / Contact Barbara Hufker x4711
children’s books and will read about inspiring women who dared to
be different. Notable women such as Coco Chanel, Cleopatra, Amelia
Earhart, Mary Bethune, Jane Goodall, and many more imaginative,
often scandalizing, and passionate women. Students in the Children’s
Literature course will present alternatives to the traditional book report
focusing on the achievements of extraordinary, relevant, and inspiring
women throughout history discovered in their reading of nonfiction
children’s books.
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., Third floor IR
Sponsored by Teacher Education and Social Sciences Department /
Contact Carol Lupardus x4411
Tuesday, March 26
Inspiring Women: Poetry Writing Workshop
This event will introduce participants to several inspiring poems
Voices - Art Exhibition Reception
by internationally-recognized women writers. Participants then will
An exhibition and reception featuring the work of the women
have the opportunity to work independently or in small groups to
students in the Arts & Humanities Department. produce their own poem/s.
Noon - 1 p.m., Humanities building
11 a.m. - 12 p.m., Third floor IR
Sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Department / contact Janice
Sponsored by the English Department / Contact Katherine Gordon x4438
Nesser-Chu x4861
Women in Conservation
Thursday, March 21
Lavinia Fontana and Laudomia Gozzadini: A Renaissance
Painter and Her Patroness
Lecture - A commission for a very special family portrait provides
insight into the lives of two remarkable women: a wealthy Bolognese
heiress and a woman painter who succeeded in the male-dominated
world of art.
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., H 113
Sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Department / Contact Carol Berger x4372
The Rebel in Every Girl’s Heart.
Students will discover the delight in the genre of nonfiction
Thursday, March 7
Uncertainty of Being - Artist Talk & Reception with
Ludmila Ketslakh
Photographer Ludmila Ketslakh will present an informal gallery
talk. Her exhibit features 31 photographs documenting images from
Ketslakh’s travel through 9 countries.
1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Gallery ADMIN (2nd floor Administration
building)
Sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Department / Contact Michael
Quintero x4375
Mid semester break March 10-16
Tuesday, March 19
Dress for Success: Professional Makeovers and Why
Dressing Well Matters
Fashion reveals and discussion panels where working
professionals discuss with women students the value of making a good
impression and caring about your appearance. We will profile Women
Inspiring Innovation through Imagination in fashion, the workplace and
society. Noon - 1 p.m., MPR
Sponsored by Human Services and Career and Employment Services /
Contact Jenna Mueller x4267 or Michela Walsh x4543
Half the Sky - WHM Night at the Movies
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
as our guides, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for
Women Worldwide undertakes an odyssey through Africa and Asia to
meet the extraordinary women struggling there. Through these stories,
Kristof and WuDunn show that the key to economic progress lies in
unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people
have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part.
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Theatre
Sponsored by the Social Justice Club / Contact LaRhonda Wilson x4390
Thursday, March 28
Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper: Storytelling as a Catalyst
for Change
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote of her short story The Yellow
Wallpaper that it “was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save
people from being driven crazy, and it worked.” This session will
explore the ways in which Gilman uses fictional representation – with,
as she claims, “its embellishments and additions” – of her personal
struggles with mental illness to bring about change in treatments to
which she herself had been subjected.
9:30 - 10:45 a.m., TC105
Sponsored by the English Department / Contact Thomas Dieckmann x4159
Women of Words
This opportunity provides campus members to read works from
published women authors and/or writings by Florissant Valley’s female
students, faculty, and staff at an open mic. You need not be a woman
to read at this event IR
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., South Lobby, Instructional Resource
building
Sponsored by English Department / Contact Drew Foster x4224
Film and lecture on innovative women that raise orphaned
animals, rehabilitate and reintegrate animals into the wild. Stories of Cuba by Tersi Bendiburg
Tersi Bendiburg gathers her stories both from her native Cuba
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., TC202
and through research and travels to Mexico, the Caribbean, and
Sponsored by the Biology Department / Contact Zoe Geist x4789
Central America, giving her an understanding of different cultures.
Tersi has a deep love and understanding for her Cuban heritage.
She has vivid memories from her childhood in post-revolutionary
Wednesday, March 27
Cuba, From There to Here
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., South Lobby, Instructional Resource
Lunch and Learn session - Where were women 200, 100 or 50
building
years ago? Where are they now? What part can you play in securing
Sponsored by Global Education / Contact Jennifer Medeiros x 4176
women’s rights? What should you watch out for? We’ll talk about it in
an informal discussion.
Noon - 1 p.m., MPR
Sponsored by Student Affairs / Contact Diane Foster x4086
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