Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/20/2015
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Location
Miller Library
1000 W. College Avenue
- Silver City, NM
Women’s Lives and Writings–Past and Present
A WNMU W.A.C. Event in Honor of Women’s History Month
Miller Library-Friday, March 20, 2015-2:00-4:30
2:00-2:10
Deborah Heller, Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum
Introductory Remarks
Jose Herrera, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Recognitions
2:10-2:20
Andrea Jaquez, Public Services Technician, Miller Library
The Women of Fort Bayard
2:20-2:30
Manda Jost, Professor of Biology
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: seventeenth-century Mexican female polymath
2:30-2:40
Barb Ann Matson, Adjunct Professor of English
Helen (Hunt) Jackson, Indian Advocate: her mission lives on
2:40-2:50
Scott Fritz, Assistant Professor of History
Gender Equity in Early America: the feminism of Judith Sargent Murray
2:50-3:00
Patricia M. Cano, Professor Emerita of Chicano/Chicana Hemispheric Studies
The Life and Writing of Santa Teresa de Jesus
3:00-3:15
Break for Refreshments
3:15-3:30
Sharman Russell, Professor Emerita of Writing
Celebrating Patty Jo Watson: her interpretations of archaeology and her life as a scientist
3:30-3:40
Jose Herrera, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): the scientific interest of her letters from Turkey
3:40-3:50
Bruce Wilson, Adjunct Professor of History
The Many Pleasures of Reading Margaret Atwood
3:50-4:00
Jessica Enriquez: Administrative Assistant/AAEEO Coordinator, Office of Business Affairs
Lessons in Parenting: looking anew at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
4:00-4:15
Allison Evans, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Anna Akhmatova: a great Russian poet of the Silver Age
4:15-4:30
Cynthia Ann Bettison, Director of WNMU Museum
Interpreting Prehistoric Mimbres Women’s Lives