Women's Center
15 Hamilton Hall
(406) 994-3836
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Montana State University Women's Center 15 Hamilton Hall (406) 994-3836 |
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Spring 2008
Wednesdays Noon - 1:00 pm
Sponsored by the MSU Women's Center.
"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."
-Elizabeth Blackwell (first U.S. female physician)
January 30 Change Your Questions, Change Your Life
SUB 276 Noon-1pm
"We live in the worlds our questions create," Marilee Adams. Transformation for individuals and organizations begins with new questions. Join Jill Davis from MSU's English department and the College of Technology for this workshop which offers simple, yet incredibly powerful tools for finding our ways to questions that can change our lives. Find out how asking "learner" questions rather than "judger" questions can transform your life!
February 13 Love and Money
SUB 276 Noon-1pm
Money is the number 1 cause of stress and divorce in marriages. Join leslie Cunningham, a money coach and Financial dating expert to learn about financial dating, a positive communication system for having fun, productive (and even romantic!) dates to talk about money and achieve your financial goals. Learn the steps you can take so that you can enjoy talking about money instead of fearing it. Discover how to successfully manage your money as a couple so that you are working together and making financial challenges a strength!
February 27 A Glance at Eating Disorders in Our Society
SUB 276 Noon-1pm
Join linda Hogg, RD, LN, dietician and nutritionist at MSU's Student Health Service, for this discussion of eating disorders in honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Linda has been a nutritionist for over 13 years and will look at media influences, social trends, and how eating disorders impact those at highest risk. She will also address the latest hot topics surrounding this issue and ways in which dieticians and health professionals are working to improve how people view themselves in our society that is so fraught with conflicting messages.
MARCH IS NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH--
COME CELEBRATE WITH US!
March 5 "Some Girls": The History and Implications of Cultural Stereotyping
SUB 276 Noon-1pm
In honor of International Women's Day (March 8th), join us for this panel discussion, featuring MSU faculty and international students. This panel will address the history of cultural stereotyping and the ways in which these stereotypes are often harmful to individual women. Panel members will also focus on the myths surrounding various cultural backgrounds and the importance of awareness and sensitivity. This Sack Lunch is co-sponsored with our friends in the Office of International Programs.
March 19 Badass Women Astronomers
SUB 276 Noon-1pm
During the early 20th century, women were often given jobs in astronomy labs that were deemed too tedious or easy for their male counterparts. Because these women were exposed to so many pictures of the night sky, they made some of the major discoveries of their times. Shannon Willoughby, a badass woman astronomer and professor in the Physics department at MSU, will discuss the lives, history and discoveries of several of these women as well as their personal struggles to be accepted by their male colleagues.
March 26 Women's Rites--Divine Possibilities and Everyday Miracles
SUB 276 Noon-1pm
Join Shaun Phoenix, MS, LCPC, local group facilitator, and "midwife of the soul," for this journey into discovering women's unique ways of knowing that extend into our experience of the sacred. Come join the discussion of how we make meaning, find truth, and honor the divine as we experience our bodies, relationships, and daily lives.
April 9 Financial Quicksand: Alternative Student Loans
SUB 276 Noon-1pm
Join Artyce Lizotte, AFC, from SAFE (Student Loan Advocates for Financial Education), for this power point slide presentation examining the differences between alternative or private student loans and federal student loans. Artyce will point out the necessity of completing the FAFSA even if a student may not qualify for federal loans. She will also discuss scholarship and other financial opportunities within the university system.
April 16 Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol
SUB 276 Noon-1pm
This discussion, presented by the MSU VOICE Center and MSU Health Promotion, will examine the college party scene. We will address cultural messages about gender and alcohol, and factors contributing to sexual assault and violence on campus. this seminar includes a video by award-winning media critics Jean Killbourne and Jackson Katz. This program is part of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
April 23 Gender in the Science Classroom: Do Female Students Really Learn More Poorly Than Males?
SUB 276 Noon-1pm
There is a well-documented "performance gap" between men and women, and boys and girls, on a number of standardized tests. Men consistently outperform women on exams that involve computation, spatial reasoning, and other stereotypically "masculine" tasks. Join Anneke Metz, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, for this examination of how higher achievement of men on classroom tests in undergraduate physics has been used to support the contention that men not only know more, but learn better than women in the same courses. Current work in biology and physics classrooms at MSU is challenging the notion that this is necessarily true.
"What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply."
-Barbara Strickland
Sack
Lunch Seminars are free, fun, informal, and open to everyone!
Sponsored by the Women’s Center, a department in the division of
Student
Affairs and Services
15 Hamilton Hall, 406-994-3836
Bring your lunch and join us!
Take Back the Night March, Sack Lunch Seminars, Coffee Night, Women's History Month
Other Women's Centers, MSU's Counseling Center, Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Women's Center Newsletter, Shannon Weatherly Lecture, Grantwriting Workshop