The 29th Annual Women’s History Month Film Series Schedule
Mondays, Feb. 23 – March 23, 2015
7:00-9:00 pm – 206 Kirkbride Hall
February 23: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power
In 1991, law professor Anita Hill testified before a Senate committee considering Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. By recounting the sexual harassment she had endured from Thomas, she highlighted issues of power and sexual misconduct in the workplace that remain relevant in 2015. In the years since her testimony, she has become an icon as a woman willing to stand up for justice and gender equality—to “speak truth to power.” Speaker: Carole Marks, University of Delaware, Professor of Sociology PLEASE NOTE: This film will be shown in Trabant Theatre (map) |
March 2: Highway of Tears
For decades, indigenous women along a lonely stretch of Canadian Highway 16 have been abducted, murdered, or simply gone missing, without much ever being done to identify the perpetrators. This film traces the roots of systemic violence in endemic poverty, isolation, and high unemployment rates, and makes the case that all women’s lives matter! Speaker: Justin de Leon, University of Delaware, Political Science and International Relations Doctoral Student, Co-founder Newark Bike Project 206 Kirkbride Hall |
March 9: Tales of the Waria
This documentary film intimately explores how a transgender community confronts issues of love, family and faith. Traveling to Indonesia, the world’s most populated Muslim country, the film shares the stories of several warias, biological men who identify as women and are a surprisingly visible presence in a culture normally associated with strict gender divides. Speaker: Laurent Widjaya, hotpot! Philly, the Visibility Project 206 Kirkbride Hall |
March 16: Service: When Women Come Marching Home
March 23: Saving Face
Every year hundreds of people — mostly women — are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Recently honored with a Best Documentary Short Oscar®, Saving Face follows several of survivors of acid attacks in their fight for justice, and reveals the work of a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to his homeland to help them restore their faces. Saving Face analyzes the under-reporting of acid violence against women because of cultural and structural gender inequalities in Pakistan. The documentary also follows the effort to enact new legislation that imposes stricter sentencing on perpetrators of acid attacks. Speaker: Raili Roy, Department of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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This year’s series is sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, Black American Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology and Criminal Justice, and Women and Gender Studies, as well as the Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events (CAPE), the Student Centers Programming Advisory Board (SCPAB) and the Office of Equity and Inclusion, Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Committee (SAPE).
All films are free and open to the public.