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Welcome to Women's Programming
We seek to promote awareness of the many speakers, events, and activities on and off campus that may be of interest to the Hope community. It is also our desire to provide a central hub for information and resources significant to women. If you have questions or know of an event you would like posted on our website, please contact womensprogramming@hope.edu EVENTS FOR FALL 2012 Monday, September 10 4:00 p.m. Winants Auditorium (Graves Hall) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, September 18 3:30 p.m. Winants Auditorium (Graves Hall) 7:00 p.m. Winants Auditorium (Graves Hall) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 5-6 and 10-13 8:00 p.m. DeWitt Studio Theatre ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 29 7:00 p.m. Fried-Hemenway Auditorium (Martha Miller Center) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, November 12 7:00 p.m. Knickerbocker Theatre Hope College Education department and Women's Studies program will be hosting a free showing of a documentary called MissRepresentation. It is a film that exposes how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in position of power and influence in America. The film will be shown at 7p.m. in the Knickerbocker with a panel discussion to immediately follow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, November 14 4:00 p.m. Winants Auditorium (Graves) Co-sponsored with Theta Gamma Pi, Hope United for Justice, and International Studies ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
EVENTS FOR SPRING 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, January 13 3:00 p.m., Wichers Auditorium ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, January 22 7:00 p.m., Martha Miller Center 249 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, January 29 3:30 p.m., Winants Auditorium 7:00 p.m., Wichers Auditorium The word ger (a sojourner, or immigrant) occurs 92 times in the Hebrew Scriptures. G92 is "a student movement that seeks to understand and respond to the challenges and opportunities of immigration in ways consistent with biblical values of justice, compassion, and hospitality." Matthew Soerens is co-author of Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and Truth in the Immigration Debate. He will make a presentation on immigration and his work with G92, followed by a panel of community members who will speak about their own experiences. Co-sponsored with Hope United for Justice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, February 4 7:00 p.m. Winants Auditorium The number of Latino students at Hope College nearly quadrupled between 2001 and 2011, rising from 46 to 175. Given the projected decline in white high school graduates (especially in Michigan), and the rapid increase in Latino high school graduates across the nation, we need to ask ourselves some important questions: Are we well-prepared to serve Latino students? What do individual faculty and staff need to know? What kinds of institutional changes should we consider? Yoli Vega is a Hope alumna who has served in many roles at the college, from Admissions to Multicultural Life to Upward Bound. Last year, she completed a master's degree in higher education; her research project was on Latino persistence to graduation. We are grateful that she is willing to share what she has learned. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, February 5 11:00 a.m. Maas Auditorium Doris Cook and Rosemary Stevenson overcame gender ideologies and The public is invited. Admission is free. 4:30 p.m. Fried-Hemenway Auditorium This talk will focus on the workshop Julie and Meghan hosted called “Talking, Writing, and Teaching Democratic Values in Post-Genocide Rwanda” (Kigali, July 7-8, 2012). The goal of the workshop was to help Peace Corp Rwanda Volunteers (PCVs) working as teachers in secondary schools throughout Rwanda get closer to creating classrooms where open and honest writing and discussion are valued. Over two days, the group worked together to discuss strategies to facilitate more open, truthful, and effective communication in Rwandan classrooms as well as the difficulties PCVs faced in confronting the challenges generally inhibiting the expression of individual thought in Rwandan classrooms, including gender inequalities, students’ lingering post-conflict stress, and their severe poverty. They will contextualize the conversation about the workshop by talking a bit about broader issues of speech and silence in Rwanda: touching on the current political situation, the history of oral storytelling and recent transition into “literacy,” and the production of art and music in the post-genocide period. Julie Kipp is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Hope College and author of Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic (Cambridge UP 2003). Her research in Rwanda and participation in the workshop was supported by a GLCA New Directions for Mid-Career Faculty grant. Meghan Costello received a BA from the University of Notre Dame in 2010, where she studied Political Science and Peace Studies. She joined Peace Corps Rwanda in October 2010 and worked for two years as a secondary teacher in the village of Nyamiyaga. Co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Education, International Studies, and the English Department. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Breaking Chains: Hope College The Hope College Women’s Studies Department, in conjunction with other departments and groups on campus will be sponsoring a week-long series of events to raise awareness about human trafficking (see below). The speakers and presentations will analyze this issue from global, national and local perspectives. The programming involves talks by scholars and activists, as well as a documentary and a benefit concert. Our intention is to provide a multi-disciplinary perspective on this issue to help the community understand and imagine solutions to the problem of modern day slavery. Series of Events: Friday, February 15
Monday, February 18 Tuesday, February 19 Wednesday, February 20 Thursday, February 21 Dr. Robertson argues that 19th Century Abolitionists can serve as a model for the abolition of modern day slavery. As she says: “Support for modern-day abolitionism has exploded in recent years. The reason for this upsurge in consciousness is the movement’s sophisticated use of the latest information technology. Like nineteenth-century abolitionists, today’s antislavery activists know how to educate and motivate using the communication tools available to them. In the 1830s, William Lloyd Garrison relied on the printing revolution -- with its steam press and cheap paper -- to spread his message across the nation. He stirred up a pamphlet storm that blew across the South and enraged slaveholders. Today’s abolitionists tweet and twitter, and they use Facebook and text messages. They produce stylish, informative websites and mainstream commercials featuring Hollywood stars. Like their predecessors of 150 years ago, modern abolitionists recognize that their strength lay in a savvy, technology-driven grassroots effort to reach as many hearts and minds as possible." Friday February 22 These events are co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program, Hope United for Justice, International Studies Program, Department of History, Department of Religion, Department of Economics, Management and Accounting, Department of Political Science, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Theta Gamma Pi Sorority, Dean of the Chapel’s Office, Dean of Arts and Humanities, Dean of Social Science, Dean for International Education and Multicultural Life, Communication Check out the VanWylen Library Research Guides on Human Trafficking. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, February 28 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Winants Auditorium This is why Student Development and the Human Sexuality Discussion Forum are hosting the first, of hopefully many, discussions on human sexuality. The topic is Marriage and Sexuality. The first hour will be each team answering prepared questions by the moderator, Kristen Gray. The second hour of the event will consist of questions posed from the audience. Hope College students, faculty, and alumni are welcome to attend! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, March 7* *This event will be rescheduled; details to follow. Thank you! The Tau Psi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. and Women's Studies presents a program on domestic violence. During this event, we will have a woman from Center of Women in Transition who will speak about her experience, how she overcame it, and where she is currently in her life, as well as having the Holland Police Department speak about reporting Domestic Violence and the components of what that entails, and someone from Campus Ministries who will speak about loving yourself to speak. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, March 27 4:00 p.m., Winants Auditorium This years address will be delivered by Juanita Bocanegra, which is titled "A Vision for a Just Society:Celebrating the Memory of Cesar Chavez". Bocanegra serves as the assistant prosecutor for Ottawa County. She graduated from Grand Valley State University and Thomas M. Cooley Law School. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, April 2 7:00 p.m., Martha Miller Center 249 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, April 3 4:00 p.m., Graves Winants Auditorium --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stand for Freedom Friday, April 5, 11:00 a.m. Pine Grove Friday, April 5, 7:00 p.m. Winants Auditorium Throughout the night there will be games and activities for participants! Saturday, April 6: Many of the vendors will be joining us again in the morning. Saturday, April 6, 12:00 p.m.: A speaker from WAR (Women At Risk) International will be joining us in the Pine Grove. Saturday, April 6, 1:00 p.m. in the Pine Grove (Weather Depending) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, April 6 4:00 p.m., Wichers Auditorium --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, April 9 4:00 p.m., Graves Winants Auditorium As many of you know, James Brownson, (James and Jean Cook Professor of New Testament, Western Theological Seminary) has recently published a significant book with Eerdmans, Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships. In an effort to recognize Professor Brownson's contribution to this significant issue, the Programming Committee has brought together a number of biblical scholars and theologians to offer brief considerations of the book to which James will then respond. The following individuals have been invited to offer brief responses to Bible, Gender, Sexuality: * Max Lee, Associate Professor of New Testament, North Park Seminary This format enables us to honor James's scholarship while, at the same time, allowing for multiple voices and perspectives to bear upon an issue of contemporary significance. Following the presentations and response there will be time for Q & A from the floor. The event will take place on Tuesday April 9, 2013 in the Maas Auditorium from 7:30-9:00pm. This is an event for the Hope College community: we hope that you will be able to attend and benefit from a rich discussion of James Brownson's new monograph. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, April 10 4:00 p.m., Winants Auditorium Dr. Nirmala Pillay is Professor of Law at John Morrison University in Liverpool, England. She has taught both Philosophy and Law at universities in South Africa and New Zealand and is on the Council of the University of Liverpool. Her main research interests are in Public Law, Human Rights, Jurisprudence and Hermeneutics. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, April 15 7:30 p.m., St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, April 26 7:00 p.m., Christ Memorial Church (Door D) This will be a time of worship, information, stories of brokenness, deliverance, and hope with an opportunity for ministry to those in need of emotional and physical healing resulting from abuse. Trained prayer teams will be available before, during, and after the services. Come hear the testimony of Ilonka Deaton from South Africa,
a gifted singer and composer, who will share her story of abuse as a
child and new-found life
with deliverance from despair. Be blessed by the music of the Old Man Worship
Band, an anointed group of Godly men who have seen God’s power at work
for years.
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Andy Soper is the project director of the Manasseh Project, an outreach
ministry of Wedgwood Christian Services dedicated to ending the sexual
exploitation of young men and women in West Michigan. Through community
education and collaboration, the Manasseh Project provides support for
victims of human trafficking and empowers the people of West Michigan to
end modern day slavery. 
Banu Demiralp is a graduate of Hope College and received her Masters
in Peace Operations Policy from George Mason University’s School of
Public Policy in Arlington, Virginia. She is the co-founder of Anka Rising,
an organization based in Alexandria Virginia whose mission is "to
provide an effective and collaborative platform for private enterprises,
governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to combat and eradicate
modern-day slavery." Anka Rising’s approach focuses on raising
awareness among businesses to include human trafficking issues in corporations'
corporate social responsibility (CSR). With training and increased awareness
private corporations will not only become strong partners in the fight
against human trafficking but also provide invaluable resources not readily
available to the public sector and NGO community. 
Hope for the Voiceless was founded by a group of students from a variety
of backgrounds, with different experiences, perceptions and opinions with
one thing in common—they believe the world can change. They founded
the organization to wake the world up to the problem of human trafficking
and to help audiences recognize their own culpability in the problem. Luke
Hassevoort is a 2012 graduate from the University of Michigan with a BA
in Psychology and minors in Health and Gender Studies. 
Dr.
Robertson is currently the Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences and the co-president of Historians Against Slavery
at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. In 2010, she publishedHearts
Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest. She
holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is
also a founding
member
of Historians against Slavery.