Events

The Women's Studies Program at IUP is proud to co-sponsor "In Sisterhood", a feminist exhibition on women's movements in Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in the University Museum, 2nd floor of Sutton Hall, from February 2 through March 16, 2013. The exhibition will feature more than 40 leading feminist activists from the past few decades in Western PA on the advocacy for gender equality and social justice. The artistic, educational, and activist "In Sisterhood" exhibition is generously co-sponsored and supported by the Women's Studies Program, University Museum, President's Commission on the Status of Women, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the departments of Political Science, English, Psychology, History, Philosophy, Theater and Dance, and African American Cultural Center at IUP. Having been established for over 20 years, the Women's Studies Program has been an interdisciplinary minor program at IUP. It has over 20 affiliated faculty from across the campus, a robust number of active Women's Studies minors, and offers an engaging, dynamic, creative, and vigorous multidisciplinary minors curriculum and a rich repertoire of women and gender-centered courses in Women's Studies, Communication Media, Criminology, English, History, Journalism, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology, Psychology, etc. The mission of the Women's Studies Program at IUP and in the academy are to create and share women and gender and professionalize women students, faculty, staff, and administrators, improve women's multicultural, and gendered world view, and advocate for the importance of gender equity and social justice as vital to academic excellence and quality higher education. The opening reception for "In Sisterhood" will take place from 6:00 - 8:30 pm Saturday, February 2, 2013. A Six O-clock Series panel featuring several women scholars and activists will take place on February 18, 2013 to further introduce the exhibition. They are free and open to the public.