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Wrap Doll Making Workshop

March 6, 2014 Debra Britt and Tamara Mattison, co-founders of The National Black Doll Museum of History and Culture will facilitate a doll making workshop,…

The Observant Eye

March 5–April 15, 2014 Beard & Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts

A Conversation with Marilyn Nelson, Kirsten Greenidge, and Mat Johnson, moderated by Valerie Linson

March 26, 2014 The artists will discuss the role of African American history and culture in their poetry, plays, and novels. Ms. Linson is the…

Living Sociology

Knapton Hall was my favorite building when I started at Wheaton.

An Obeast Walks into a Museum:

The Politics of Fat Oppression, Performing the Other and Museum Display in Rachel Herrick’s Museum for Obeast Conservation Studies. Assist. Visiting Prof. of Art History…

Readings by the Writers: Kirsten Greenidge, Mat Johnson & Marilyn Nelson

March 25, 2014 Kirsten Greenidge (The Luck of the Irish), Mat Johnson (Pym), and Marilyn Nelson (The Fields of Praise) read from their poetry, plays,…

Girl Rising

March 27, 2014 The documentary Girl Rising focuses on the education of girls internationally and the push to reform the restrictions by sharing their personal…

Writing for Change: Feminism and Media

April 7, 2014 Writing workshop with Heather Hewett, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and English at SUNY New Paltz. This event is limited to 20…

Negotiation Skills Training Workshops

March 6 & 27, 2014 This workshop will be facilitated by the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island and the WMST Program. Students must attend both…

International Women’s Day Celebration 2014

International Women’s Day Luncheon and Talk: “Re-Imagining Immigrants as Heroes: The Visual Politics of Gender, Race, and Immigration”.

Gina Walker presents The Two Marys: Hays Transforms Wollstonecraft’s Female Biography

March 26, 2014 Professor of Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research, Walker is an intellectual historian who investigates alternatives to traditional accounts…

Dacia Maraini presents Chiara di Assisi: Poverty, Anorexia and Civil Disobedience

February 27, 2014 Maraini’s strengths are dramatic and political, as has been her life. She is a feminist and a political activist, but while both…