American Indian Women Making a Difference
Tuesday, March 1, 6-8pm, UWM Union Fireside Lounge
Three local American Indian women and graduates of UW-Milwaukee share their inspiring stories of overcoming obstacles and taking hold of opportunities to become accomplished leaders in the Milwaukee Indian Community. Travel with them on their journey to see how they are “making a difference.” A special invitation is extended to UWM women students of Native American ancestry to gather at this community-building event. Refreshments served. Sponsored by UWM American Indian Student Services, UWM Union Sociocultural Programming, and the UWM Women's Resource Center.
Free Event
For more information, contact the UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852.

Middle East & North African Film Series: “My Home – Your War”
Wednesday, March 2, 7pm, UWM Union Theatre
Shot over three years before, during, and after the US invasion of Iraq this documentary takes us inside the home of an Iraqi family as they deal with the disruptions and terrors of war as it affects their daily lives. Layla is a middle class Iraqi woman, striking and intelligent – but the war is testing her most intimate relationships. As Islamic fundamentalism takes hold in the chaos of Baghdad, her shy teenage son turns militant, her once-progressive sister dons the veil, and whatever freedom Layla once had under Saddam Hussein’s secular rule is steadily being eroded. “My Home ? Your War” gives revealing insight into the contrasting ways war and regime change strain close relationships, nurture extremism and perhaps change this family’s destiny. Sponsored by the UWM Union Theatre, UWM Union Programming, UWM Middle East & North African Studies Certificate, UWM Center for International Education, and the US Department of Education. (Kylie Grey, Australia/Iraq, in Arabic & English w/English subtitles, 52min, video, 2006)
Free Film Screening
For more information, contact UWM Union Theatre at 414-229-4070 or e-mail cinema@uwm.edu

“Waiting to Exhale” – Film Screening
Thursday, March 3, Noon-2pm, UWM Multicultural Student Lounge (Union W198)
Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, “Waiting to Exhale” is a must see film for you and your friends – especially following Terry McMillan’s visit to UWM on February 23rd as part of the UWM Distinguished Lecture Series! Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon star in this funny and touching film about four women who are all searching for true love while they find strength through their rare and special friendship. Sponsored by the UWM Women’s Resource Center and the UWM Black Cultural Center
Free Film Screening
For more information contact the Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852

Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival: "Just the Two of Us"
Thursday, March 3, 7pm, UWM Union Theatre
Denise and Adria are both married but one fateful day they decide to stop at a new coffee shop on The Strip where they spy an actual lesbian couple. For Denise, it is a shattering moment of recognition; for Adria, it stirs a desire to live, in the parlance of the day, "free." The two women daringly enter into an affair, but will this new and secret love last? Sponsored by the UWM Peck School of the Arts Department of Film, Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Johnson & Pabst LGBT Humanity Fund and many other supporters including the UWM Women's Resource Center and UWM LGBT Resource Center as Campus Partners.
Tickets: $5
For more information, go to www.arts.uwm.edu/lgbt or contact Carl Bogner-UWM Department of Film at 414-627-3996 or lgbtfilm@uwm.edu.

Gasthaus Entertainment Series - Martha Berner in Concert
Thursday, March 3, 9-11pm, UWM Union Gasthaus
Martha Berner stands out amongst the throngs of new, budding musicians. Armed with a genuine voice and songs of depth and devotion, Martha blends acoustic folk with the energetic passion of rock ‘n’ roll. She recently released the song, “A Town Called Happiness” featured along with other songs and artists on a compilation CD entitled, The Voices and Faces Project, which benefits survivors of sexual abuse.  Come celebrate women's history month with this soulful acoustic artist with gentle lyrics and heartfelt tunes. Sponsored by UWM Union Programming and the UWM Women’s Resource Center.
Free Event
For more information, contact the UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852.

Labworks: The Second Best Bed: Shakespeare’s Women Revealed
Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5 at 7:30pm, and Sunday, March 6 at 2 p.m., UWM Kenilworth Studio 508 Passionate, powerful, fancy-free and fierce. Students and teachers devise a performance exploring the “infinite variety” of Shakespeare’s female characters, resulting in a spare and fluidly mounted exploration of sonnets, monologues and scenes. The piece will be shaped by a rigorous playing of language, character and in-your-face theatricality. Directed by James Tasse. Sponsored by the UWM Peck School of the Arts.
Tickets: $5 For tickets contact the UWM Peck School of the Arts Box Office at 414-229-4308 or visit them in the UWM Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee.
For more information, go to arts.uwm.edu.

“Until the Violence Stops”  –  Film Screening & Discussion
Monday, March 7, 5-7pm, UWM Sandburg Halls Flicks
An uplifting documentary that looks at the V-Day movement and the work we have done around the world. “Until The Violence Stops” features playwright and activist Eve Ensler in a powerful film that documents how The Vagina Monologues grew into the international grassroots movement stopping violence against women and girls: V-Day. Sponsored by the UWM Women’s Resource Center.
Free Film Screening
For more information, contact the UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852

A Book’s Afterlife: The Ryan Report, State Complicity, and the Magdalen Laundries
Monday, March 7, Reception at 6pm, Lecture at 6:30pm, UWM Hefter Center - 3271 N. Lake Drive, Milwaukee
Professor James M. Smith will deliver a lecture about the Magdalen laundries, workhouses operated by various orders of the Catholic Church in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. In 1993, an order of nuns in Dublin sold part of their Magdalen convent to a real estate developer. The remains of 155 inmates, buried in unmarked graves on the property were exhumed, cremated, and buried elsewhere in a mass grave. This triggered a public scandal in Ireland and since then the Magdalen laundries have become an important issue in Irish culture. Professor Smith is an advocate for the rights of Magdalens and their relatives. In this lecture he will also address the report of the Ryan Commission (2009) that investigated the abuse in Irish institutions for children. Sponsored by the UWM Center for Celtic Studies, UWM Center for Women’s Studies, and the UWM Departments of English, History and Sociology.
Free Event
For more information, contact the UWM Center for Celtic Studies at 414-229-2608.

Join Me on the Bridge: A Global Action for World Peace on International Women’s Day
Tuesday, March 8, 11:30am-Noon, UWM Walking Bridge over Maryland Avenue  –north of Kenwood Boulevard
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, UWM will participate in Women for Women International’s world-wide Join Me on the Bridge event. In 2010 over 20,000 women across four continents took part in 108 events  – including one at UWM. Come be part of an even bigger global “gathering” this year that says No to war and YES to peace and hope. Sponsored by a coalition of UWM departments and activists across campus.
Free Event
For more information, contact the UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852.

AAUW Women's History Month Lecture by UWM Choral Arts Director Dr. Sharon Hansen
Tuesday,  March 8, 2011, 6:30pm, UWM Hefter Conference Center (3271 N Lake Drive, Milwaukee)
Dr. Sharon A. Hansen, Professor and Department Chair, Graduate Choral Studies at UWM, and author of "Women, Conductors, and the Tenure Process: What's Up in the Academy?",  talks about her musical academic experiences. Esteemed as a conductor and master teacher throughout the US and Europe, Dr. Hansen is the Founder and Music Director of the Milwaukee Choral Artists, one of only five professional women's vocal ensembles in the country. Founded in 1998, the Milwaukee Choral Artists has been named to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's "Top Ten Milwaukee Performances" list in four consecutive years, most recently being named “Milwaukee’s #1 Performing Arts Event for 2007.” In tribute to her influence on Southeast Wisconsin’s music scene, Hansen was the recipient of both the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Milwaukee Civic Music Association’s 2003 Award of Excellence in Choral Music. Sponsored by the American Association of University Women, Milwaukee North Shore Branch and the UWM Center for Women's Studies.
Free Event
For more information, contact Janet Nortrom at 414-964-3764.

Middle East & North African Film Series  – “The Glass House”
Tuesday, March 8, 7pm, UWM Union Theatre
The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on. “The Glass House” follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the margins. With a virtually invisible camera, the girls of “The Glass House” take us on a tour of the underclass of Iran with their brave and defiant stories. This groundbreaking documentary reflects a side of Iran few have access to or paid attention to: a group of courageous women working to instill a sense of empowerment and hope
into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls. Sponsored by the UWM Middle East & North African Studies Certificate, UWM Center for International Education, and the U.S. Department of Education. (Yamina Bachir, Algeria/France, in French & Arabic w/English subtitles, 100min, 2002)
Free Film Screening
For more information, contact the UWM Union Theatre at 414-229-4070.

Sista Talk
Every Other Wednesday during Spring Semester, including March 9 and 30, 1-3pm UWM Multicultural Student Lounge (Union W198)
Sista Talk is an open discussion group for UWM African American women students where everything and anything is discussed. If you missed out last semester you definitely don’t want to pass this up again. Please join us as we discuss various topics such as relationships, education and politics. Light refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the UWM Black Cultural Center, UWM Union Sociocultural Programming, and the UWM
Women’s Resource Center.
Free Group
For more information, contact Victoria Pryor-UWM Black Cultural Center at 414-229-3704.

Women and Money: Using Credit Wisely
Wednesday, March 9, 3-4:30pm, UWM Multicultural Student Lounge (Union W198)
It’s Friday night and you’re broke. So you reach for your credit card, right? Well . . . managing credit is more complicated than it may seem. If you rely on credit too much, you could run into trouble. But having some credit can help you build a good credit history. Do you have a good handle on your credit situation? Come to this session and learn how to: Understand why good credit is important, build your credit history, use credit wisely, request and read your credit report, and close credit accounts. Sponsored by the UWM Women’s Resource Center and the UW Credit Union.
Free Event
For more information, contact the UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852

Relationship Violence
Wednesday, March 9, 3:30-5pm, UWM Union 280
Everyone in a community deserves to feel safe and needs to play a role in preventing relationship violence (also frequently referred to as domestic violence and/or interpersonal violence). The prevalence and impact of relationship violence is a serious problem and has been at the root of some of the most extraordinary acts of violence on college campuses. This introductory workshop will provide a basic understanding of relationship violence, the systemic nature of this phenomenon and warning signs to look for, and foundational knowledge needed to inform one's approach in working with victims and or perpetrators of relationship violence. This workshop will be repeated on 4/14. Participants in the Panther Professional Development program can sign up through PPD. Sponsored by the UWM Women’s Resource Center. Free Event
For more information, contact Sue McCarthy-UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2582 or suzimac@uwm.edu.

Inclusive Excellence Conference  – Diversity and Climate at UWM: A Campus Conversation
Thursday, March 10, Afternoon screening of “Out of Respect”, 6pm Panel Discussion in the UWM Union Ballroom, and
Friday, March 11, 9am-1:30pm, UWM Union Wisconsin Room
As part of the strategic planning for diversity and inclusion at UWM, this two-day event consists of an overview of research findings on diversity, followed by a half-day program of facilitated workshops. Outcomes from workshops will help establish systemic actions that result in greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and accountability at all levels of this institution. Women’s and gender issues are woven into the content focus of this campus-specific conference. A discussion of the previous findings and recommendations from UWM's former Committee on the Status of Women  – the last report written in 2006  – will be included in the Thursday evening program, and a  facilitated work session on Friday will focus on identifying current climate concerns for women who work or study at UWM. Session participants on Friday will identify obstacles and challenges to creating a more inclusive environment for all women on campus: what policies, support services, other resources or environmental changes will improve the campus climate for women? Participants will also identify long-term and short-term goals for greater inclusion and suggest strategies to achieve them.
Free and Open to Members of the UWM Campus Community
To register, go to www.mydevelopment.uwm.edu/campusconversation. For more information or to request special accommodations, contact Linda Huang at 414-229-5433.

Documentary Frontiers – “Prisoner of Her Past”
Thursday, March 10, 7pm, UWM Union Theatre
On the night of February 15, 2001, a woman fled her home in Skokie, Illinois, insisting that someone was trying to kill her. It would take a year for her family to understand why. “Prisoner of Her Past” tells the haunting story of a secret childhood trauma resurfacing, sixty years later, to unravel the life of Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich. The film follows her son, Chicago Tribune jazz critic Howard Reich, as he journeys across the US and Eastern Europe to uncover why his mother believes the world is conspiring to kill her. This film is the first to illuminate a little-known illness: late-onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Sponsored by the UWM Union Theatre, UWM Union Programming, UWM Center for Jewish Studies, and the UWM Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. (Gordon Quinn, USA, 57min, video, 2010). Co-producer/writer Howard Reich and director Gordon Quinn will attend.
Free Film Screening
For more information, contact UWM Union Theatre at 414-229-4070 or e-mail cinema@uwm.edu

V-Day Benefit Performances of “The Vagina Monologues – UWM”
Thursday, March 10, and Friday, March 11, 7pm performances, UWM Zelazo Center
As part of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls, UWM students perform Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues to increase awareness about women’s experiences and to raise funds for anti-gender violence groups in Milwaukee and in Haiti. “Probably the most important piece of political theatre of the last decade...” ? The New York Times. Sponsored by the UWM Women’s Resource Center with support from the UWM Bookstore.
Tickets (available in advance at the UWM Bookstore): $5 UWM Students; $10 All Others; Donations for violence against women services will be accepted at the door.
For more information, contact the UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852.

UWM Feminist Theory Research Workshop
Friday, March 11, Noon-1:30pm, UWM Curtin Hall 939
This monthly series aims to bring together feminist scholars from across disciplines, and interested others, to read and discuss recent works in feminist theory and to cultivate members' research programs as these relate to feminist theory. A specific reading is selected for each workshop. This month we will discuss Parts II and III of Sandra Harding’s Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities. Feel free to come late or leave early if you cannot attend the entire discussion.
For more information, contact Kristin Pitt at kepitt@uwm.edu.

Diversity Dialogues: Understanding Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment on College Campuses
Tuesday, March 15, 11:30am-1pm, UWM Union 280 Understanding, awareness and respect are key to prevention and creating a safe and inclusive campus climate. Learn about the prevalence and impact of sexual harassment and sexual assault on college campuses. You can make a difference! Bring your lunch and join us for this workshop. Sponsored by the UWM Office of Equity/Diversity Services and the UWM Women's Resource Center.
Free Event
For more information and accommodation, contact EDS at 414-229-5923; To register at the UWM Employee Development site go to www.4.uwm.edu/employeedev.

"Taming Women's Embodied Argument: The Transgressive Potential of Suffrage Advocates’ Body Argument and Social Responses of Recuperation”
Friday, March 11, 2011, 2-3:15pm, UWM Merrill Hall 131
Join us for UWM's annual Rhetorical Leadership lecture. Delivered by Professor Cate Palczewski, Professor of Communication Studies and affiliate faculty in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Northern Iowa, this lecture is especially timely given its focus on social protest and the uses of humor to defuse political impact. Professor Palczewski's research focuses on rhetorical controversy, with specialties in feminist and protest rhetorics and public memorials. She was recently named the NCA Women?s Caucus Francine Merritt Award winner and publishes in journals including Quarterly Journal of Speech, Argumentation and Advocacy, and Women & Language. Join us for this timely lecture given its focus on social protest and the uses of humor to defuse political impact. Sponsored by UWM's Rhetorical Leadership Graduate Certificate/Concentration Program.
Free Event
For more information, contact Kathryn Olson, UWM Communication, 414-229-4261 or kolson.uwm.edu.

Forms of Oppression: Understanding Sexism
Wednesday, March 16, 2-4pm, UWM Union 240
The struggle against sexism, and for women’s rights and gender equity, has profoundly impacted our society. Despite improvements, and in part due to backlash, there has been a heightened emphasis on hyper-masculinity and hyper-femininity and on defining/ redefining women as sex objects. Violence against women has escalated, as has the numbers of women and children living in poverty. Women still earn approximately 25% less than men and men still control nearly all of our institutions. This workshop will explore the status of women in the US and the myth of gender equality. We will also discuss the interaction of gender with other social group memberships, sexism, socialization and institutional sexism. Participants will gain ageneral understanding of feminism and basic awareness of actions that can be taken to interrupt sexism, understand the process/relationship of gender socializations and sexism, and gain a basic knowledge of the way the culture and our institutions reinforce sexist messages and shape our behavior. Participants in the Panther Professional Development program can sign up through PPD. Sponsored by the UWM Women’s Resource Center.
Free Event
For more information, contact Sue McCarthy-UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852 or suzimac@uwm.edu.

“How Stella Got Her Groove Back” – Film Screening
Thursday, March 17, Noon-2pm, UWM Multicultural Student Lounge (Union W198)
Get ready to groove with this heartwarming comedy full of love and friendship, starring Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs and Whoopi Goldberg. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, ends as an exhilarating voyage of self-discovery that glows with warmth, humor and tenderness. Based on Terry McMillan’s best-selling novel of the same name. Sponsored by the UWM Women’s Resource Center and the UWM Black Cultural Center.
Free Film Screening
For more information, contact the UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852

Understanding Campus Sexual Assault
Thursday, March 17, 3:30-5pm, UWM Union 280
Sexual assault is a serious problem. It is estimated that 1 in 3 women will be victims of sexual violence in their lifetime, and sexual assault is identified as the second most common violent crime committed on college campuses. Creating a safe and inclusive campus climate involves increasing individual and collective understanding of the cultural norms that support gender-based violence, challenging widely held misconceptions about sexual assault, working to reduce victim blaming, and promoting perpetrator accountability. This workshop will provide attendees with foundational knowledge regarding the prevalence, impact and misconceptions related to campus sexual assault. Participants in the Panther Professional Development program can sign up through PPD. Sponsored by the UWM Women’s Resource Center.
Free Event
For more information, contact Sue McCarthy-UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852.

Achieving Balance
Thursday, March 17, 5:30-7:30pm, UWM Children’s Center Activity Room
Open to all UWM student parents! Join us for an evening of free fun, food, and learning. Participants will learn how to identify warning signs that you are off balance; healthy ways to feel more emotionally and physically balanced; ways to be more patient and accepting of yourself and others; how to help family members and others understand your goals to achieving balance; and how to be more realistic about what is possible and what is not. Led by Michelle McClellan, a psychologist at UWM's Norris Health Center. Sponsored by the UWM Children’s Center, UWM Life Impact Program, and the UWM Women’s Resource Center.
Free Event; Includes Dinner and Child Care; Registration by 3/14 is Required
For more information, contact the UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852.

The Guerrilla Girls at UWM!
Thursday, March 17, 7-9pm, UWM Union Ballroom East
The Guerrilla Girls are feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Wonder Woman, and Batman. They use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art, film and pop culture. Their work has been passed around the world by their tireless supporters. They’ve appeared at over 90 universities and museums in recent years, as well as in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Bitch, Mother Jones and Artforum; on NPR, the BBC and CBC; and in many art an feminist texts. They are authors of stickers, billboards, many posters and other projects (including a large-scale installation for the 2005 Venice Biennale) and several books including The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book. Founding member Frida Kahlo will talk about their work, their philosophy of activism, and their campaign against the appalling lack of ethics in the art world. Sponsored by Act Everywhere.
Free Event
For more information, email acteverywhere@gmail.com or go to acteverywhere.org.

World Cinema – “Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen” - Milwaukee Premiere
Friday, March 18 - 7pm, Saturday, March 19 - 4:30 and 7pm,
and Sunday, March 20 - 4:30pm, UWM Union Theatre
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta brings the story of this extraordinary woman to life. In a staggering performance Sukowa portrays von Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God. Lushly shot in the original medieval cloisters of the fairy-tale-like German countryside, “Vision” is a profoundly inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment.
Sponsored by the UWM Union Theatre and UWM Union Programming.
Tickets: $4 UWM Students with proper ID; $5 UWM Faculty/Staff/Alumni Association Members/All Non- UWM Students/Senior Citizens - all with proper ID; $6 General Public
For more information, contact the UWM Union Theatre at 414-229-4070 or e-mail cinema@uwm.edu.

35th Annual Wisconsin Women’s Studies Conference and the 6th Annual UW System LGBTQ Conference – The State-of-the-Art in Women’s, Gender, and LGBTQ Studies: Interdisciplinary, Intersectional, Global, and Comparative
Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26, UW-Madison Pyle Center (Madison, WI) Join others from UWM and across the region for this conference dedicated to building a stronger Midwest Women's Studies and LGBTQ learning community of faculty, staff, administrators, students, and community activists. Over 80 sessions, speakers and events including the annual UW System Women of Color Awards Luncheon, the P.B. Poorman Awards Speaker and Luncheon, and a celebration of the 35th Anniversary of the establishment of the UW-Madison Department of Gender and Women's Studies. Sponsored by: Beloit College, Edgewood College, St. Norbert College, Madison College, the UW System Inclusivity Initiative for LGBTQ People, and the Women’s Studies Consortium made up of the 14 Women’s and Gender Studies Programs and Departments of the UW System, the Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian and the Women & Science Program.
Registration Fee: $55-$100 depending on partial or full conference attendance
For more information, contact the UW System Women’s Studies Consortium Office at 608-262-3056 or wscoffice@uwsa.edu.

UWM Division I Women’s Tennis Home Matches in March
Come support our women's tennis team to victory at these home matches held at Pleasant Valley Tennis and Fitness in Jackson!
March 26vvs. Youngstown State, 3pm
March 27 vs. Cleveland State, 10am
Free Events
For more information, go to http://uwmpanthers.cstv.com/sports/w-tennis/wiml-w-tennis- body.html.

Responding to Sexual Violence
Wednesday, March 30, 3:30-5pm, UWM Union 280
This workshop will build upon the foundational learning from “Understanding Campus Sexual Assault” PPD. Risk reduction strategies and best practices for responding to victims of sexual assault will be explored. Participants will also deepen their understanding of sexual violence and strategies for creating a safe and inclusive campus climate, in particular, one free of sexual violence and violence against women. Participants will understand the basic best practices for responding to victims of sexual assault, gain comprehensive understanding of campus and community resources, understand the concept of bystander intervention and be able to identify ways in which to respond to behaviors that support sexual violence, and learn to articulate ways in which individuals can reduce personal risk of becoming a victim and/or perpetrator of sexual assault. This workshop will be repeated on 4/19. Participants in the Panther Professional Development program can sign up through PPD.
Sponsored by the UWM Women’s Resource Center.
Free Event
For more information, contact Sue McCarthy-UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852 or suzimac@uwm.edu.

2011 Women Leaders Conference: Not Business As Usual
March 31, 8am-1:15pm, with free post-conference session, 1:30-3pm, Pfister Hotel, (Downtown Milwaukee)
This conference celebrates women who have pioneered their fields and uncovers their proven methods for success. Attendees will learn from accomplished women, discover what inspires them and harness the energy to empower themselves. Highlights include keynote speaker and UWM alum Beth Pritchard – Alshaya Nor American Advisor, and former President and CEO of Bath & Body Works and Dean & Deluca. Educational seminars and panel discussions focus on important topics including: Intergenerational Leadership, Women of Engineering, Women Leaders Across Cultures, Managing in a Man’s World, Making a Difference, Guys Who Get It, Creating Opportunities for Women, The Importance of Mentoring, and Removing Barriers and Building Bridges. Networking opportunities will abound. Attendees are invited to participate in an enriching encore event following the main program. From 1:30-3pm, the free post-conference session will expand on career development strategies. Hosted by the UWM School of Continuing Education.
Registration Fee - $259, Group Discount Available
To Register, go to www.uwm.edu/sce/conference.cfm?id=567; For more information, contact Jan Allen, UWM School of Continuing Education Business, Engineering & Technology at allen3@uwm.edu or 414-227-3219.

UWM Center for Women's Studies Annual Awards Ceremony
Thursday, March 31, 7pm, UWM Hefter Conference Center (3271 N Lake Drive, Milwaukee)
This annual event recognizes contributions from campus and community to women's history, feminist and gender scholarship, and service to the Women's Studies program. It celebrates the MPS middle- and high school student winners of the "Wisconsin Women Making History" essay contest. UWM student awards for both undergraduate and graduate research, papers, and projects are presented, along with the Award for Outstanding Service and Commitment to Women's Studies. A reception follows the program.
Free Event
For more information, contact Maria Carrizales-UWM Center for Women's Studies, 414-229-5918 or medinarm@uwm.edu.