Women's Center
Spring 2024 Events
All WMC events are open to all & everyone is welcome!
January Events
Charlotte Green & Lesbian Fiction
January 30, 6:00pm, Virtual- Watch Party at the WMC (RUC 339)
Charlotte Green is this semesters WMC Book Club title Author! Listen to a sample of her most recent work and her experience with writing queer women's fiction and diverse characters!
February Events
WMC Gallery Opening: Featuring Matdeline Phillips
February 6, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Women's Center (RUC 339)
Celebrate the work of Matdeline Phillips, this semester's winner of the WMC Exhibition Award, with us at the opening of her exhibition.
Book Club, Session 1:
February 6 , 11:00-12:00pm, WMC (RUC 339)
This semester we are reading: Gnarled Hollows by Charlotte Green. More information to come!
One Billion Rising
February 14, 10:00am-2:00pm, RUC Lobby
One Billion Rising is the biggest mass action to end violence against women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence) in human history. The campaign, which launched on Valentine’s Day 2012, began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women will be beaten or raped during their lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. The Women's Center participates in this international event every Valentine’s day.
The Tennessee Innocence Project:
Jessica Van Dyke and Joyce Watkins
February 20th, 6PM, Bell Hall 285
Sponsored by Center Stage and co-hosted by the Commission on the Status of Women. Come listen to Joyce Watkins tell of her fierce fight for exoneration for crimes she didn't commit, after serving at 27 year sentence. Learn more about the Tennessee Innocence Project and how to support them here.
The Rise of the Hip Hop South
February 22, 6:00pm, Tech Pride Room (RUC 101)
Come listen to Regina N. Bradley, Ph.D., a prominent public voice and leading scholar on contemporary Southern Black life and hip-hop culture, discuss Chronicling Stankonia. This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post–civil rights generation. We celebrate fifty years of hip hop with this tribute to southerness, black culture, resilience, and music.
Go TEAM! Having Healthy Conflict! With Tammy Key from Key Learning & Development
February 27, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Tech Pride Room (RUC 101)
Every team experiences conflict. Come learn tips on building your interpersonal influence, having a good difficult conversation, and more!
Lunch Provided- RSVP Here for Lunch!
More on Key Learning & Development
Sponsored by The CAFE
March Events
Celebrate International Women: Simone Veil
March 5, 5:30 pm, Henderson 004
Join us and the Soirée Cine club to celebrate the life of Simone Veil, holocaust survivor and first woman to serve as President of the European Parliament.
Popcorn, drinks, and charcuterie provided!
Gnarled Hollow: Book Club with LambdaGSA
March 5, 11:00-12:00pm, WMC (RUC 339)
Come discuss the first half of Gnarled Hollow with us!
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, the author of a new database that aims to make stars of Black women in physics.
It Wouldn't Have Happened without Her: Celebrating Women in STEM
March 26, 11 pm, Stonecipher Lecture Hall Lobby
Join us and the Women in Physics Club to walk a gallery full of informational posters that showcase the contributions that women have made to science.
Refreshments provided.
April Events
Gnarled Hollow: Book Club with LambdaGSA
April 2, 11:00-12:00pm, WMC (RUC 339)
Come discuss the second half of Gnarled Hollow with us! This will be our last book club of the semester, referesments and snacks provided!
The Clothesline Project
April 11, 10:30am-2:00pm, RUC MultiPurpose Room
Every April, during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the WMC participates in the Clothesline
Project.
The Clothesline Project is an event, created to bring awareness to the issue of violence
against women, men, and children. For those who have been affected by violence, it
is a means of expressing their emotions by decorating a t-shirt.
Women in Leadership Luncheon
April 16, 12:00pm-1:30pm, RUC Tech Pride Room (101)
Come join us at this semester's Women in leadership Luncheon. We welcome our speaker Lindsay Pride! Editor of the Herold Citizen. Lunch provided by the Office of the Provost with RSVP below.
Financial Wellness Session
April 19, 12:00-2:00pm, Bell Hall 260
Join us for this semesters session of our Financial Wellness Series! More information coming soon! Boxed lunches provided with RSVP below.
Commission on the Status of Women & the Women's Center: 2024 Banquet
April 22, 6:00pm, RUC Tech Pride Room (101)
Celebrate the all the hard work of the year with the Women's Center and the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). We'll recognize the graduates of the WMC, our Attune contributors, our interns, and everyone who has worked so hard this year. The CSW will be recognizing the winners of the student and employee annual awards.
Dinner Provided- RSVP Here