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International Women's Day Celebration

March 8, 2022
Levi's Faculty Center

International Women's Day Event Recording
Click link below for video:

SPEAKER LIST

Carol Ammons
Illinois State Representative
Recognized Woman: Fannie Lou Hamer

Kat Fuenty
Asian American Studies
Recognized Woman: Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone

Patty Jones
Beckman Institute
Recognized Woman: Dr. Valerie Thomas

Enoma Egiebor
UIUC Student Body President
Recognized Woman: Shirley Chisholm

Ana Barros
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Recognized Woman: Malin Falkenmark

Dawn Blackman
Randolph St. Community Garden
Recognized Woman: Dr. Mae Jemison

C. Kemal Nance
Department of Dance, African American Studies Department
Recognized Woman: Kariamu Welsh

Angharad N. Valdivia
Department of Latina/o/x Studies
Recognized Woman: Michèle Mattelart

Jacki Thompson Rand
Associate Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs
Recognized Woman: Dr. Luana Ross

Latrelle Bright
Department of Theatre
Recognized Woman: Kathy A. Perkins

James Anderson
College of Education
Recognized Woman: Ella Sheppard

Andreas C. Cangellaris
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost
Recognized Woman: Dr. Genevieve Bell

Recommended Links

• Fannie Lou Hamer
  • “Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer” by Kate Clifford Larson (book)
  • “This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer” by Kay Mills (book)
  • Fannie Lou Hamer’s America (film)
  • Fannie Lou Hamer’s Powerful Testimony (live footage)
• Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone
  • “The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age” by Allucquere Rosanne Stone (book)
  • “The ‘Empire’ Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto” by Sandy Stone (manifesto)
  • “Sandy Stone. Transgender Feminism. 2006 1/5”  (lecture)
• Dr. Valerie Thomas
  • “Valerie Thomas: Illusion Transmitter” (website) 
  • “Valerie Thomas” (interview) 
• Shirley Chisholm
  • “Unbought and Unbossed” by Shirley Chisholm (autobiography)
  • “Speak Up, Speak Out!: The Extraordinary Life of Fighting Shirley Chisholm” by Tonya Bolden (biography)
  • “Chisholm ‘72: Unbought & Unbossed” (documentary film)
  • “Shirley” (upcoming Netflix film)
• Malin Falkenmark
  • ​​​​​​​“Balancing Water for Humans and Nature: The New Approach in Ecohydrology” by Malin Falkenmark and Johan Rockstrom (book)
  • Prof. Malin Falkenmark lecture: “Water- Bloodstream of the Biosphere” (lecture)
• Dr. Mae Jemison
  • ​​​​​​​“Mae Jemison” by Kerri Lee Alexander (website) 
  • “Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments from My Life” by Dr. Mae Jemison (autobiography)
  • Harry Walker Keynote Speaker- Dr. Mae Jemison: Recapture the Sense of Infinite Possibilities (talk)
  • “Mae Jemison: First African American Woman in Space”  (video)
• Kariamu Welsh
  • ​​​​​​​“African Dance: An Artistic Historical and Philosophical Inquiry” by Kariamu Welsh-Asante (book)
  • Kariamu Welsh Asante (1949-2021) by Sonya Morris (website)
  • “The Umfundalai Technique of Contemporary African Dance” (tutorial by Kariamu Welsh)
  • “Ibos’ Landing (1993)” (choreography by Kariamu Welsh-Asante)
• Michele Mattelart
  • ​​​​​​​“Women Media Crisis: Femininity and Disorder” by Michele Mattelart (book)
  • “La cultura de la opresión femenina” by Michele Mattelart (book)
  • “Michelle Mattelart Reads the Chilean Press Avant Coup: Every Day It Gets Harder To Be A Good Housewife” (studio program)
• Dr. Luana Ross
  • ​​​​​​​“Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality” (book)
• Kathy A. Perkins
  • ​​​​​​​“Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays” edited by Kathy A. Perkins (book)
  • “Telling Our Stories of Home: International Performance Pieces By and About Women” by Kathy A. Perkins (book)
  • “Lighting up Broadway with Kathy A. Perkins | Black America” (video)
  • Kathy Perkins - Winner of the 2019 ATHE Career Achievement in Academic Theatre Award (video interview)
• Ella Sheppard
  • ​​​​​​​“Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Slaves Took on the World” by Kathy Lowinger (book)
  • “Give me Wings- The story of Ella Sheppard and the Jubilee Singers” (video)
• Dr. Genevieve Bell
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing” by Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish
  • “6 big ethical questions about the future of AI- Genevieve Bell” (TED talk)
  • “Genevieve Bell: The future is already here (Breaking the Data Silos keynote speech)”  (speech)