WGST 50th Anniversary Celebration
Women’s History Month 2025: Past, Present, & Future
50th Anniversary Celebration Year
Please join EMU students, faculty, alums, and community members as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Women's & Gender Studies at EMU! All events are free and open to the public.
Tuesday, March 4
Decorate Your Own WGST Logo
All Day
EMU Student Center
Monday, March 10
A Celebration of Nikki Giovanni
12:30-2:00 p.m.
109 Halle Library
Co-Sponsored with Africology & African American Studies
Lunch will be served
Tuesday, March 11
Symposium: Women of Color Feminisms & Leadership
2:00-5:30 p.m.
Student Center, Ballroom A
All are Welcome Here
Thursday, March 13
“Between the Living & the Buried: Archival Stories and Ancestral Imagination”
Erin Sharkey and Tia-Simone Gardner, a talk with JNT
6:30 p.m.
Halle Library Auditorium
Tuesday, March 18
Careers in Women’s & Gender Studies
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Pray Harrold 202 or ZOOM
Monday, March 24-Friday, March 28
Women’s & Gender Studies Department-Wide
Scavenger Hunt
All Week
EMU Campus
Monday, March 24
‘“Dear Miss Perkins’:
A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees”
Dr. Rebecca Brenner Graham, Brown University
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Strong Hall, Room 100
Co-Sponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies & History Section Speakers Series