3.01.2003

Women's History Month 2003

       Women's History Month 2003
Women of Vision & Courage

Walter J. Brown Media Archives &Peabody Awards Collection 

Screenings

all events are free and open to the public

"She Says/Women in the News"

Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 5:00 p.m.
Georgia Museum of Art

This program examines how women in the news business have changed journalism, the culture, and the world. Ten of the country's most powerful and innovative television, radio, and print journalists are featured in She Says, spanning decades of insight and experience—from Helen Thomas, the first female dean of the White House Press Corps, to Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. (60 min. Originally broadcast on PBS on December 18, 2001. Peabody Awards entry number: 2001297 DCT.)

Dr. Hugh Martin, Assistant Professor of Journalism, and Agenia Clark, a former news anchor and news correspondent, will lead a discussion following the film.



Helen Thomas (Image from TechTalk.)



"POV. True-hearted Vixens"
Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 7:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art

These women want to play professional football. Make that full-contact, NFL-style smash-mouth football. True-hearted Vixens follows two women during a tour of a start-up Women’s Professional Football League. (60 min. Originally broadcast on PBS on July 17, 2001. Peabody Awards entry number: 2001266 DCT.)

Dr. Jane Russell, Director of Recreational Sports and The Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities, will lead a discussion following the film.

"Adventure Divas, Iran: Behind Closed Cha-dors"

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 3:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art

This documentary examines Iran's obsession with poetry, all the while encountering women in and out of the public and private sectors that seem to define their lives. There are visits with a painter, an editor of a feminist magazine, a taxi cab driver, a university director, an actress, and others. (60 min. Originally broadcast on PBS on November 23, 2001. Peabody Awards entry number: 2001044 NWT.)


Dr. Tricia Lootens, Associate Professor of English, will lead a discussion following the film.



For information about other Women's History Month events, please visit the Women'sStudies Program news and events.

Other women's history programs were screened during the 2002 Women's History Month celebrations.

Programs screened by Media Archives are also available for viewing in the University of Georgia Libraries Media Department.

For more information, contact the University of Georgia Libraries Media Department at 542-7360
or Mary Miller, mlmiller@uga.edu