WRAC Program / Events - Brown Bag Lunch Series

Brown Bag Lecture Series

Proudly Presented by the Department of Women's Studies and the Women's Resource and Action Center

March (Women’s History Month)

March 3
Screening “Threads of Hope” by Marjorie Agosin
TV Room KSC 273B
12 noon-2PM

March 5
International Women’s Week Celebration
Music by Sara Thomsen
Kirby Lounge
12 Noon – 1:30PM

March 5
“Writing Towards Hope” Women’s History Month Keynote Speaker: Marjorie Agosin
Reception to follow Dr. Agosin’s lecture.
Bohannon Hall 90
7 PM

March 8
International Women’s Day

March 10
International Women at UMD
Open House and Roundtable Conversation
Garden Room
11:30 AM

March 12
“ Buenos Aires from a Distance, Thinking Visually”
Brown Bag Presentation by Cecilia Ramon
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12 Noon – 1PM

Women on the Wall
Inland Wall (adjacent to SpHC Ice Rink/Courts)
4 PM – 8 PM
Cost: $3 UMD Students/$10 Others

March 15 & 16
Doula Training
Lead by Marla Lukes, CD (DONA), Birth Doula Trainer
Birthing Ways Doula Connection
Location TBA
7:30 AM – 5:30 PM

March 26
“A Dialogue with the Post-Tsunami Gendered Victims of Tamil Nadu”
Brown Bag Presentation by Sutapa Chattopadhyay
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12 Noon – 1PM

March 28 & 29
The Vagina Monologues
Performed by V-Day UMD
Bohannon 90
Doors open at 7 PM on 3/28 and 2:30 PM on 3/29
Cost: $5 students / $8 general

 

April (Sexual Assault Awareness Month)  

April 2
Domestic Violence in GLBT Communities (Topic)
Title TBA
Brown Bag Presentation by Joan Varney
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12 Noon – 1PM

April 16
“The Story of Stuff”
Brown Bag Film Screening & Discussion
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12 Noon – 1PM

April 24
Take Our Children to Work Day

Take Back the Night

April 30
Brown Bag Presentation by Tineke Ritmeester
Topic & Title TBA
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12 Noon – 1PM

 

For more information, please contact us at 218.726.6292 or wrac@d.umn.edu.