October 1, 2009 - 12:00 p.m.
Weiss Center, Rubendall Recital Hall

Women at Dickinson:  Past, Present and Future

Since Zatae Longsdorff entered Dickinson College as the first enrolled female student, the college has expanded its female student representation, sponsored diverse women’s leadership organizations, adopted a Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and opened a full-time Women’s Center in the Division of Student Life. This panel explores the past, present and future of women at Dickinson College, from the women who worked on the campus before female students were admitted to the exciting diversity of women’s leadership and advocacy on campus today.  Presenters:

• Amy Farrell, Professor, American Studies (History of women’s studies at Dickinson)
• Malinda Triller, Archivist (Discussion of Women’s Experiences at Dickinson exhibit)
• Paula Lima, chair; Director, Office of Diversity Initiatives (Expanding the stories of women at Dickinson)
• Caroline Radesky ’09 (Student activism and Women’s Experiences at Dickinson exhibit)
• Susannah Bartlow, Director, Women’s Center (Women’s Center at Dickinson past, present and future)
• Andrea Alexander ’05 (Sisterhood and student organizations)

Sponsored by the Departments of American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Political Science, Art and Art History, Office of Campus Life, Office of Diversity Initiatives, Special Assistant to the President for Institutional & Diversity Initiatives, Women’s Center, Vice President for Student Development and the Waidner-Spahr Library.

Light lunch provided.

Contact Susannah Bartlow at bartlows@dickinson.edu for more information.