Spring 2015 Diversity Events Calendar
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JANUARY
1 – Mar. 1
Art Exhibition. Esther Traugot: Arboretum | Samek Downtown Gallery, noon – 5 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday
This solo exhibition presents artworks by Esther Traugot–meticulously crafted installations that combine crochet,
roots, seeds and shells–which investigate our conflicted impulses to nurture and control nature. Her work raises
questions about how ideas of craft, nature and nurture are often gendered.
7 – 30
Book pickup. Front of the Class by Brad Cohen | ELC 064, 8:30 a.m – 4:30 p.m.
After being challenged by Tourette Syndrome from a very young age, Brad Cohen defies all odds to become a
gifted teacher. As Cohen grows up, he must face friends and classmates who don’t realize that he sometimes cannot
control his outbursts and a father who seems unwilling to accept his son’s condition. Book discussion and film
screening on February 24. Sponsored by ISS and OAR.
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Book pickup. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed | ELC 063, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
At age 26, following the death of her mother, divorce and a run of reckless behavior, Cheryl Strayed found herself
alone near the foot of the Pacific Crest Trail–inexperienced, over-equipped and desperate to reclaim her life.
Wild tracks Strayed’s personal journey on the PCT through California and Oregon, as she comes to terms with
devastating loss and her unpredictable reactions to it. Sponsored by WRC. Book Discussion on February 25.
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Film Screening and Discussion. Sans Soleil | Campus Theatre, 2 p.m.
Marker, the cinema’s globetrotter essayist par excellence, traveled between Japan, Africa and Iceland to create his
masterpiece portrait of late 20th century civilization. Juxtaposing sounds and images with astonishing fluidity,
Marker dissolves the distinctions between fiction and non-fiction, offering the viewer the extraordinary sensation
of simultaneously spanning the globe and being enclosed within someone’s mind.
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MLK Jr. Day Teach-in | Multiple classes across campus.
• Facilitated discussion: The Illusion of Race and its Lived Realities | Hunt 101, 10 a.m.
Linden F. Lewis, professor of sociology and Hiram Smith, assistant professor of spanish.
• Facilitated discussion: Labor Market Discrimination and Educational Disparities in the Post-Civil Rights
Era. | Hunt 101, 2 p.m.
Sue Ellen Henry, associate professor of education, and Rhonda Sharpe, visiting associate professor of economics.
Beloved Community Dinner | Hunt 101, 5 p.m.
Dinner and conversation focus on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK Jr. Day. Panel Discussion. “I Can’t Breathe”: The Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice.” | Forum, 7 p.m.
Marcellus Andrews, professor of economics; Nina Banks, associate professor of economics; Carmen Henne-Ochoa,
visiting assistant professor of sociology; Dave Ragland, visiting assistant professor of education; Atiya StokesBrown, associate professor of political science.
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Discussion. Women on Wednesdays | ELC 063, noon.
WoW is an open discussion on Wednesdays that aims to bring people together to discuss issues impacting women
on our campus, in the United States and around the world. Student organizations partner with the WRC each week
to select a topic and help lead the discussion.
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Live Music. Hot 8 Brass Band | Weis Center, 7:30 p.m.
New Orleans’ own Hot 8 Brass Band has epitomized New Orleans street music for over a decade. The band plays
the traditional Second Line parades, hosted each Sunday afternoon by Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, infusing their
performances with the funk and energy that makes New Orleans music loved around the world.
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Film Screening and Discussion. Hospital | Campus Theatre, 6 p.m.
Wiseman’s absorbing profile of a large urban hospital is “as open and revealing as filmed experience has ever been.
You look misery in the eye and you realize there’s nothing to be afraid of ” (Pauline Kael). With its emphasis on the
emergency ward and outpatient clinics, its patients and medical staff bound up in the daily activities of health care
in America, Hospital sears the retina and the brain with images of suffering, frustration, fear and dedication.
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Film Screening and Discussion. Freedom Summer | Gallery Theater, 7 p.m.
Freedom Summer captures the volatile summer of 1964 through remarkable period footage and firsthand
testimonies of volunteers who were transformed by their time in Mississippi. Given that the Supreme Court
recently struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act, the film is a potent reminder of the sacrifices made half
a century ago to ensure civil rights for all as well as the vigilance needed to protect that accomplishment. Part of a
series of events sponsored jointly by the Bucknell Institute of Public Policy and CSREG, The Civil Rights Act and
the Voting Rights Act: Fifty Years After.
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Projects for Peace (proposals due)
In its ninth year, the Projects for Peace program honors philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis. Each of the 100
projects selected are designed to encourage and support motivated youth to create and implement their ideas for
building peace throughout the world in the 21st century. Contact [email protected] for more information.
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Discussion. Women on Wednesdays | ELC 063, noon.
WoW is an open discussion on Wednesdays that aims to bring people together to discuss issues impacting women
on our campus, in the United States and around the world. Student organizations partner with the WRC each week
to select a topic and help lead the discussion.
Performance. Tanya Tagaq | Campus Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Inuit throat singer, improviser and two-time Juno Award nominee Tanya Tagaq reclaims the controversial 1922
silent film classic Nanook of the North. Tanya Tagaq’s passion for propelling her art form forward is striking. She’s
the world’s most well-known Inuit throat singer and is determined to integrate her mercurial vocals—which range
from the raw and guttural to the refined and soaring—into as many contexts as possible. www.innerviews.org/
inner/tagaq.html
Reception. Esther Traugot: Arboretum | Samek Downtown Gallery, 8 p.m.
Join us after the Weis Center’s presentation of Tanya Tagaq in Concert with Nanook of the North for a celebration of
Esther Traugot’s solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery. Refreshments provided.
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Lost in Translation: Hot Topics Discussion | ELC 063, noon.
Hot topic discussions based on current events and student-led initiatives. Suggest your topic and lead a discussion
by emailing [email protected].
Film Screening and Discussion. Ornette: Made in America | Campus Theatre, 2 p.m.
With William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Buckminster Fuller, Don Cherry, Yoko Ono, Charlie Haden, Robert Palmer,
Jayne Cortez and John Rockwell. Chronicling Ornette Coleman’s boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent
emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world-class icon, Clarke uses documentary footage, dramatic scenes
and some of the first music video-style segments ever made to portray the inner life of an extraordinary artist.
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FEBRUARY
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Panel/Discussion. “Black in America” panel hosted by Soledad O’Brien | Weis Center, 7 p.m.
The Soledad O’Brien Presents Black in America franchise turns on the microphone for a wide-ranging
conversation on how race is experienced in the U.S. Soledad O’Brien, nationally acclaimed journalist, author and
speaker, tells the story of what she learned about being Black in America through her own professional and life
experiences. Using a topical, custom-produced audio/visual presentation, she draws the audience into a complex
and nuanced discussion about what ails or excites their community as it confronts social change. Panelists include
Benjamin Jealous, civil & human rights leader, Rhodes Scholar, former NAACP president & venture capitalist,
and Dr. Julianne Malveaux, labor economist, noted author and commentator. This event is sponsored by the
Lectureship Committee and Bucknell Student Government.
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Discussion. Women on Wednesdays | ELC 063, noon.
WoW is an open discussion on Wednesdays that aims to bring people together to discuss issues impacting women
on our campus, in the United States and around the world. Student organizations partner with the WRC each week
to select a topic and help lead the discussion.
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Discussion. Pizza & Policy Forum: Ferguson | Location TBD, Time TBD
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Film Screening and Discussion. A Married Couple | Campus Theatre, 2 p.m.
With Billy Edwards, Antoinette Edwards, Bogart Edwards King’s documentary is a benchmark of directcinema filmmaking: a shocking portrait of a young, middle class Toronto couple’s combative marriage, as well
as a document of the moment when entrenched gender roles began to crumble. Former bohemians Billy and
Antoinette squabble about sex, money, their son, even how to use a vacuum. They are seemingly uninhibited by
the presence of King’s film crew, yet the question of how much conflict is being performed for the benefit of the
camera is as unavoidable here as it is in all of King’s “actuality dramas.”
10 Lecture. Asking For It: The Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent. Harry Brod, University of Northern Iowa |
Trout Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Harry Brod, leading figure in masculinity studies, Holocaust studies and gender studies, speaks on affirmative
consent. In conjunction with his visit, Brod will conduct two workshops, details forthcoming.
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Women@Bucknell Lunch/Workshop. Work-Life Integration. Ellen Kossek, Purdue University |
Center Room, 11:30 a.m.
Participation in this workshop includes the option of completing a work-life diagnostic prior to the lunch. Those
who take this opportunity receive a personalized report/guide with strategies/tools for being more effective in
managing boundaries between work and family.
Discussion. Women on Wednesdays | ELC 063, noon.
WoW is an open discussion on Wednesdays that aims to bring people together to discuss issues impacting women
on our campus, in the United States and around the world. Student organizations partner with the WRC each week
to select a topic and help lead the discussion.
Community Dinner | Hunt 101, 5 p.m.
Dinner conversation focuses on diversity and Greek Life.
Griot Institute Annual Lecture/Performance Series and Academic Course. Post-Obama Paradigms:
Problems and Potentialities. Ta’Nehisi Coates (Atlantic) | Gallery Theatre, 7 p.m.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American writer, journalist, and educator. Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, and
blogger for that publication’s website where he writes about cultural, social and political issues.
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Live Music. Raul Midón | Campus Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Raul Midón has earned renown as one of music’s most distinctive and searching
voices. He is “a one-man band who turns a guitar into an orchestra and his voice into a chorus,” according
to The New York Times. Midón has collaborated with such heroes as Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder. The
New Mexico native, blind since birth, has released seven albums since 1999. Told when he was a child that
his blindness meant that “you can’t do this, you can’t do that,” Midón has lived a life devoted to shattering
stereotypes.
13 Film Screening and Discussion. Paris is Burning | Campus Theatre, 2 p.m.
With Carmen and Brooke, Andre Christian, Dorian Corey. Livingston’s exploration of the Christopher Street
piers and the Harlem drag balls of the late 1980s pays tribute to the vibrant New York City fashion subculture
that inspired Madonna’s hit single “Vogue.” While competitions between Black and Latino gay men and
transgender women, in categories like “Realness,” “Face” “Model’s Body” and “Executive Realness,” reveal
the construction of identity around gender, race and class, Livingston poignantly celebrates how an urban
community engenders creativity and pride.
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Lecture/Workshop. Beat the Blame Game | Trout Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Many have become desensitized to the cultural forces that provide the structure for a rape supportive culture. Beat
The Blame Game is designed to be a reality check that interrupts this desensitization. It actively engages audiences
into a candid dialogue about the deep-seated, often self-protective need to blame victims, dismantling the false
logic behind it. The program highlights not only how victim-blaming lacks any real moral center, but also how to
respond effectively to those arguments. Sponsored by Speak UP Bucknell–open to all students.
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Discussion. Women on Wednesdays | ELC 063, noon
WoW is an open discussion on Wednesdays that aims to bring people together to discuss issues impacting
women on our campus, in the United States and around the world. Student organizations partner with the WRC
each week to select a topic and help lead the discussion.
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Lecture. Title TBD. Lani Guinier, Harvard University | Trout Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Dr. Guinier speaks on the 1965 Voting Rights Act and current challenges to it. Part of a series of events
sponsored jointly by the Bucknell Institute of Public Policy and CSREG on The Civil Rights Act and the Voting
Rights Act: Fifty Years After.
Global Women Film Series. Film TBD | ELC 045, 9 p.m.
The theme for this spring’s series is Equality for Women is Progress for All. This film series is sponsored by ISS
and WRC.
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Poetry Slam featuring Roger Reeves, University of Illinois | Uptown, 8 p.m.
Roger Reeves’ poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston
Review, and Tin House, among others. Reeves earned his Ph.D. the University of Texas-Austin and is an assistant
professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His first book is King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013).
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Women and Negotiation. Sara Laschever | Terrace Room, 11 a.m.
Convinced that negotiation requires bluffing, steamrolling, and playing hardball, many women avoid negotiating
whenever they can. This workshop for women students, staff, and faculty explores the internal and external
barriers that can prevent women from negotiating effectively; introduces “best practice” negotiation strategy;
and describes ways to maximize one’s bargaining power, set the right targets for a negotiation and manage the
anxiety women often feel around this essential workplace skill. Sara Laschever has spent her career investigating
the obstacles, detours and special circumstances that shape women’s lives and careers. Her work has been
published in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, The New York Review of Books, Vogue, Glamour,
among others. This event is sponsored by WRC.
23-27
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (scheduled of events TBA)
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Book Reading Group. Front of the Class by Brad Cohen | ELC 045, noon.
After being challenged by Tourette Syndrome from a very young age, Brad Cohen defies all odds to become a
gifted teacher. As Cohen grows up, he must face friends and classmates who don’t realize that he sometimes
cannot control his outbursts and a father who seems unwilling to accept his son’s condition. Sponsored by ISS
and OAR. Books available January 7-30 at ELC 064.
CSREG Faculty Colloquium. Sex and Subjugation: Gender, the Body and Roman Imperialism in Ovid’s ‘Love’
Poetry. Ashli Baker, Bucknell University | C. Willard Smith Library, 4:30 p.m.
Film. Front of the Class | ELC 045, 5:30 p.m.
After being challenged by Tourette Syndrome from a very young age, Brad Cohen defies all odds to become a
gifted teacher. As Cohen grows up, he must face friends and classmates who don’t realize that he sometimes
cannot control his outbursts and a father who seems unwilling to accept his son’s condition. Sponsored by ISS
and OAR.
Lecture. Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Trout Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid is the first-year common reading for the Class of 2018.
Published in 2007, this work of fiction portrays the ambitions, struggles and shifting perspectives of a young
Pakistani man whose seemingly idyllic life in Manhattan as a budding member of the American elite is rocked in
the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack.
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Discussion. Women on Wednesdays | ELC 063, noon
WoW is an open discussion on Wednesdays that aims to bring people together to discuss issues impacting
women on our campus, in the United States and around the world. Student organizations partner with the WRC
each week to select a topic and help lead the discussion.
Book Reading Group. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed | ELC 045, 5:30 p.m.
At age 26, following the death of her mother, divorce and a run of reckless behavior, Cheryl Strayed found
herself alone near the foot of the Pacific Crest Trail—inexperienced, over-equipped and desperate to reclaim
her life. Wild tracks Strayed’s personal journey on the PCT through California and Oregon, as she comes to
terms with devastating loss and her unpredictable reactions to it. Sponsored by WRC. Books available beginning
January 14 at ELC 063.
Griot Institute Annual Lecture/Performance Series and Academic Course. Post-Obama Paradigms: Problems
and Potentialities. Charles Blow (NY Times) | Gallery Theatre, 7 p.m.
Charles Blow is an American journalist, and the visual op-ed columnist for The New York Times.
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Pizza and Policy Forum. The 1964 Voting Rights Act: Challenges Then and Now | Academic West Events
Lounge, First Floor, 11 a.m.
Part of a series of events sponsored jointly by the Bucknell Institute of Public Policy and CSREG on The Civil
Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act: Fifty Years After.
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Lost in Translation: Hot Topics Discussion | ELC 063, noon.
Hot topic discussions based on current events and student-led initiatives. Suggest your topic and lead a
discussion by emailing [email protected].
Film Screening and Discussion. Forest of Bliss | Campus Theatre, 2 p.m.
Gardner shaped his finest work so that it occupies the time between two sunrises, immersing the viewer in
an intense aural and visual statement “about people being and also dying” (Gardner) and boldly challenging
ethnographic cinema’s conventions by using neither voice-over commentary nor subtitles. Filmed in the holy
Indian city of Benares, Forest of Bliss observes the daily activities punctuating the lives of the humans, marigolds,
dogs and cows that populate the city, giving equal attention to the sacred Ganges River, upon whose shores
children fly kites and men bathe and pray.
Performance. The Ghosts of Monticello | Samek Gallery, 7 p.m.
With composition by Garrett Fisher, libretto by Carmen Gillespie, opera tells the story of two ghosts: Sally
Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved mistress and her white half-sister Martha Wayles Jefferson, Jefferson’s wife
who struggle to understand, and heal, their multivalent relationship.
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MARCH
1 – Apr. 22
Griot Annual Curricular/Performative Event. Installation Artist Paloma McGregor, Angela’s Pulse.
Paloma McGregor is director of Angela’s Pulse, which creates and produces collaborative performance work
dedicated to building community and illuminating bold, new stories. McGregor will work with the Bucknell
course associated with the series and taught by Prof. Anthony Stewart, with the assistance of Prof. Bob Gainer to
help students produce digital stories in response to course content and lecture material. Student presentations of
digital narratives takes place on April 22. Please visit http://angelaspulse.org/ for more information.
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Presentation/Book Discussion. The Adventure Gap by James Edward Mills. Outdoor Education | Location
TBD, Time TBD.
2 – Apr. 15
Book pickup. Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe by Ritu Sharma | WRC, ELC 045,
5:30 p.m.
As the old axiom goes: “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.”
But teach a woman to fish, and everyone eats for a lifetime. In this firsthand account, Ritu Sharma shares how
women can, and are, overcoming the forces that keep them in poverty. She chronicles her travels through four
countries—Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Honduras and Nicaragua—and the intimate interactions she had with the
women living there. Sharma’s story not only details her experiences, but also looks at the broader systems that
prevent women from leaving poverty behind. Book Discussion on April 15. http://www.palgrave.com/page/
detail/teach-a-woman-to-fish-ritu-sharma/?K=9781137278586
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Community Dinner, Recruiting Multicultural Students to Bucknell | Hunt 101, 5 p.m.
Poetry Reading. Greg Wrenn & Diana Khoi Nguyen | Bucknell Hall, 7 p.m.
Greg Wrenn is the 2014 Drew Darrow Memorial Poet, Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and author of
Centaur. His poems appear in The Best American Poetry 2014, The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The
New Republic and elsewhere. Diana Khoi Nguyen is the spring Philip K. Roth Resident in Creative Writing. Her
poems and reviews appear in journals such as Poetry, Lana Turner, Kenyon Review, and West Branch, among
others. She earned her MFA from Columbia University and is at work on her first book.
Annual Distinguished WGS Lecturer. Title TBD. Jeanne Marecek, Swarthmore College | Forum, 7 p.m.
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Women@Bucknell Lunch/Workshop. Sexism in the Workplace. Jeanne Marecek | Center Room, 11:30 a.m.
WGS Faculty Colloquium. Women, Suicide and Suicide-like Behavior across Cultures. Jeanne Marecek,
Swarthmore College | C. Willard Smith Library, 4:30 p.m.
Griot Institute Annual Lecture/Performance Series and Academic Course. Post-Obama Paradigms:
Problems and Potentialities. Lisa Thompson (University of Texas, Austin) | Gallery Theatre, 7 p.m.
Lisa Thompson is a playwright and associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and affiliate
faculty in the departments of English, Women and Gender Studies, and Theatre and Dance at the University of
Texas at Austin. She is the Associate Director of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American
Studies.
17 – May 31 Art Exhibition. Yeon Ji Yoo – Respiration | Samek Downtown Gallery, noon – 5 p.m., Tuesday – Sunday
Yeon Ji Yoo’s work uses ephemeral materials to create fantastical landscapes that explore the cycle of growth,
death and decomposition.
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Poetry Reading. Percival Everett | Bucknell Hall, 5 p.m.
Percival Everett is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author
of nearly 30 books, including Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Assumption, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and
Glyph. This event is sponsored by the Stadler Center for Poetry and Griot.
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Griot Institute Annual Lecture/Performance Series and Academic Course. Post-Obama Paradigms: Problems
and Potentialities. Percival Everett (novelist). Griot/MSS | Gallery Theatre, 7 p.m.
Percival Everett is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern
California.
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Empty Bowls: A Focus on International Women’s Day | Second Floor ELC, 11:30 a.m. & 4 p.m.
With the 2015 deadline to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) around the corner, we
take this opportunity to focus on this year’s International Women’s Day theme, Equality for Women is Progress for
All, and review the challenges and achievements in the MDG implementation for women and girls worldwide,
many of which are tied to poverty, health and environmental sustainability. Sponsored by the Office of Civic
Engagement, ISS and WRC.
Global Women Film Series. Film TBD | ELC 045, 9 p.m.
The theme for this spring’s series is Equality for Women is Progress for All. This film series is sponsored by ISS
and WRC.
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Discussion. Women on Wednesdays | ELC 063, noon.
WoW is an open discussion on Wednesdays that aims to bring people together to discuss issues impacting
women on our campus, in the United States and around the world. Student organizations partner with the WRC
each week to select a topic and help lead the discussion.
Griot Institute Annual Lecture/Performance Series and Academic Course. Post-Obama Paradigms: Problems
and Potentialities. Travis L. Gosa (Cornell University) | Gallery Theatre, 7 p.m.
Dr. Travis L. Gosa is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Cornell University. He holds faculty appointments in
the graduate fields of Africana Studies and Education, and is affiliated with the Cornell Center for the Study of
Inequality.
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Lost in Translation: Hot Topics Discussion | ELC 063, noon.
Hot topic discussions based on current events and student-led initiatives. Suggest your topic and lead a
discussion by emailing [email protected].
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Women’s History Month Dinner, Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives | Terrace Room, 5:30 p.m.
Sponsored by WRC.
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Discussion. Women on Wednesdays | ELC 063, noon.
WoW is an open discussion on Wednesdays that aims to bring people together to discuss issues that are
impacting women on our campus, in the United States and around the world. Student organizations partner
with the WRC each week to select a topic and help lead the discussion.
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CSREG Faculty Colloquium. Why Women Rebel: Understanding Women’s Participation in Armed Rebel
Groups. Alexis Henshaw, Bucknell University | C. Willard Smith Library, 4:30 p.m.
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Discussion. Women on Wednesdays | ELC 063, noon.
WoW is an open discussion on Wednesdays that aims to bring people together to discuss issues impacting
women on our campus, in the United States and around the world. Student organizations partner with the WRC
each week to select a topic and help lead the discussion.
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Lecture/Book Discussion. Alex’s Wake by Martin Goldsmith | Gallery Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Martin Goldsmith, American radio personality and author, best known as a classical music host on National
Public Radio and Sirius XM, discusses his book Alex’s Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance
(2014). Goldsmith re-traveled the route of his grandfather and uncle, both lost to the Holocaust, through their
internment in France to their horrid deaths at Auschwitz. His book is a personally significant retelling of the
shameful tale of the German liner St. Louis, which sailed the seas in 1939 with its Jewish refugee passengers in
search of safe harbor. This event is sponsored by the Office of Chaplains & Religious Life.
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Women@Bucknell Lunch/Workshop. Women’s leadership, Making Structural Changes for a Non-Sexist
Higher Ed Workplace, Darlyne Bailey, Bryn Mawr | Hunt Hall 101, 11:30 a.m.
Darlyne Bailey, Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, facilitates
this luncheon conversation.
Discussion. Women on Wednesdays | ELC 063, noon.
WoW is an open discussion on Wednesdays that aims to bring people together to discuss issues impacting
women on our campus, in the United States and around the world. Student organizations partner with the WRC
each week to select a topic and help lead the discussion.
Book Reading Group. Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe by Ritu Sharma | ELC
045, 5:30 p.m.
As the old axiom goes: “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.”
But teach a woman to fish, and everyone eats for a lifetime. In this firsthand account, Ritu Sharma shares how
women can, and are, overcoming the forces that keep them in poverty. She chronicles her travels through four
countries—Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Honduras, and Nicaragua—and the intimate interactions she had with
the women living there. Sharma’s story not only details her experiences, but also looks at the broader systems
that prevent women from leaving poverty behind. Books available beginning March 2 at ELC 063. This event is
sponsored by WRC.
Live Music. Fatoumata Diawara | Campus Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Inspired by Wassoulou tradition, jazz and blues, Fatoumata Diawara created her own unique contemporary folk
sound, with a distinctly African spin to the concept of the female singer-songwriter. Born in Côte d’Ivoire, raised
in Mali, based in Paris, Diawara faced parental opposition to her artistic ambitions and the cultural prejudice
experienced by women throughout Africa, winning success as an actress in film and theater before finding her
feet in the medium she was always destined to make her own: music.
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Community Dinner | Hunt 101, 5 p.m.
This conversation is on aspects of religious diversity.
Global Women Film Series. Film TBD | ELC 045, 9 p.m.
Equality for Women is Progress for All is the theme of this series sponsored by ISS and WRC.
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A Trip Around the World – a festival of music and games | Location TBD, 2 p.m.
Participants experience music styles from around the world, including live student performances. Traditional
games are hosted on the quad as an interactive experience to engage with fun practices from other cultures.
Sponsored by ISS and the Fremont Scholars.
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Lavender Graduation | Center Room, 6:30 p.m.
Lavender Graduation, sponsored by the Office of LGBTQ Resources and the Gender and Sexuality Alliance, is an
opportunity to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer, Asexual and Allied graduating seniors and reflect
on the 2014-15 Academic Year.
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Griot Institute Annual Lecture/Performance Series and Academic Course. Post-Obama Paradigms:
Problems and Potentialities, Screening of Students Digital Stories | Gallery Theatre, 7 p.m.
Screening of digital stories created by students in America After Obama.
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Micro Artist Residency: Yeon Ji Yoo. | Samek Downtown Gallery, 1 p.m.
Artist Yeon Ji Yoo, with a solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery, visits Lewisburg to lead an art-making
activity with the public involving photo-transfer and collage. All ages are welcome. Part of the Lewisburg Arts
Festival and Bucknell’s Arts Weekend.
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