"VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: A CASE STUDY FROM TURKEY" by Dr. Solen Sanli-Vazquez (3 May 2017)

"REBELLION, SPEECH, AND POPULISM: HOW JANUARY 6TH HAPPENED?" by Historians Anne Donegan and Nick Perrone, and Political Scientist Johan van Gorp (25 February 2021)

"TELLING HER STORY" by Stephanie Robillard, Stanford University (1 March 2021)

"REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN - Q&A WITH CIANI REY WALKER" (3 March 2021)

"REAL TALK: UNDERSTANDING LATINX VOTERS" by Dr. Cecilia Ballí (8 March 2021)

"RADICAL WOMEN IN THE BURNED-OVER DISTRICT:  ANTEBELLUM RELIGIOUS, RACIAL, AND GENDER CHALLENGES ALONG THE ERIE CANAL" by Anne Donegan (10 March 2021)

"COLORBLINDNESS IS NOT THE GOAL!" by Michelle DeJohnette (15 March 2021)

"ACTIVISM OF SEPTIMA CLARK: THE NECESSITY OF EDUCATION AS THE CORNERSTONE OF FREEDOM" by Sabrina Rawson (17 March 2021)

"TRANSCRIBING PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY INTO WORD – USING THE VISUAL ARTS TO INSPIRE CHARACTER AND STORY" by Mary Louise Hill, Ph.D. (7 March 2022)

"SCHOOLS, FEMINISM & THE PANDEMIC" by Stephanie Robillard, (9 March 2022)

“CIRCASSIAN BEAUTY: AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF WHITENESS, SEXISM, AND ORIENTALISM" by Solen Sanli Vasquez, Ph.D. (10 March 2022)

"WOMEN AND DISABILITY IN AMERICA" by Catherine Sanchez (14 March 2022)

"MY COUNTRY ‘TIS OF THEE: MARIAN ANDERSON, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, THE CONCERT AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, AND THE EARLY BEGINNINGS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT" by Anne Donegan (16 March 2022)

"LOST IN THE BLACK/WHITE BINARY: SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN INTERIOR CHINATOWN" by Purnur Ozbirinci, Ph.D. (30 March 2022)

"AZTEC COSMO-VISION AND THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE: THE ROLE OF FEMALE SPIRITS AND ENERGIES IN THE CREATION OF THE COSMOS AND THE EARTH" by Laura Larqué (3 March 2023)

"SONOMA COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS" (16 March 2023) 

"THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE 1910 MEXICAN REVOLUTION" by Laura Larqué (29 March 2023)

"'A MAID CAME FREE:' FROM SIGHTING TO CITING IN TRACY CHEVALIER’S GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING" by Prof. Dr. Ozlem Uzundemir, Cankaya University, Turkiye (30 March 2023)

WHM 2024 Events

Women's Voices In (Indie) Arabic Music & Culture 

Thursday, March 7, 2024Indie Music Poster

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Stanford Lecturer and radio host Dr. Ramzi Salti highlights the wide array of musical productions by female singers who have emerged from the Arab world since the advent of the Arab Spring. By utilizing a wide variety of audio-visual tools, this presentation showcases several groundbreaking female vocalists - from Yasmine Hamdan (Lebanon) to Emel Mathlouthi (Tunisia) and Dina El Wedidi (Egypt) -whose oeuvre has managed to redefine modern Arabic music while simultaneously paying homage to such legendary singers as Fairuz and Umm Kulthum. 

 

Telling Her (California) Story: Neith Boyce Life & Legacy  

Thursday, March 14, 2024 Neith Boyce poster

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In this lecture, retired senior lecturer in English at Brown University, Carol DeBoer-Langworthy talks about the life and legacy of the American novelist, journalist, and theatre artist, Neith Boyce. In the years 1880-1890, California had a formative and profound effect on the American woman writer Neith Boyce (1872-1951). The future playwright and novelist rode horses—whichever one she chose—, read adult books in her parents’ library, and did not go to school: ingredients she transformed into fiction published in “little magazines” as a teenager and in later novels. This presentation discusses these key years for a writer who had profound effects on American and world theatre. 

 

Film Screening Of Alla/Over There And Q&A With Monserrat Larqué 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 Larque Poster

Link for the trailer: https://youtu.be/DdepdMEA234?si=7kOImWA24McGB-Xj 

Monserrat Larqué passionately tells the untold stories of silenced Latinas in her film Alla/Over There, focusing on immigration, abandonment, and male depopulation in a Mexican town. With a background in Communication and a Master's in Feature Film Screenwriting, Larqué focuses on women’s unity, collective organizing, and women’s liberation and has directed for prestigious channels and received international awards. The film, recognized in seven International Film Festivals, intricately explores Oscar's return to Mexico, his unique position among women, and the emotional connections formed through letter writing.

 

SRJC Making Herstory: A Conversation With Dr. Angélica Garcia, SRJC’s First Female President  

Monday, March 25, 2024Garcia Poster

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Dr. Angélica Garcia is making herstory as SRJC’s first female president and superintendent. In this event, Dr. Garcia is conversing with Press Democrat and Argus-Courier staff writer and SRJC alumna Jennifer Sawhney about her intersectional identities and how they impact her leadership at SRJC.   

 

Sonoma County’s "Petaluma Fancy Women Bike Ride:" Empowering Women, Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles, And Building A Diverse Community 

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 Fancy Women Bike Ride

Petaluma Campus, Welcome & Connect Center (WCC), Rooms 102 & 103 and  

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In this video Dr. Aylin Atilgan Relyea talks about Sonoma County's own incarnation of the global Fancy Women Bike Ride (FWBR), a worldwide grassroots women-led bike movement that started in Izmir, Türkiye in 2013. Atilgan Relyea, the first organizer of this event in California, discusses how Fancy Women Bike Ride came into being with its own sustainability goals, how a new bike community was created to support social and environmental causes, and how the women-led empowering event had a joyful impact on people of all ages and genders in Sonoma. Eris Weaver, Sonoma County Bike Coalition Executive Director and Dr. Alexa Forrester, Bikeable Santa Rosa Founder talk about their shared vision for the bike community in Sonoma, women's role in society, and environmental awareness. Original founders of FWBR, Sema Gur and Pinar Pinzuti, join the talk from Turkiye and Italy.