Inaugural Women's Studies Tea
22 October 2012 Inaugural Women's Studies Tea
The Womens Studies Department is celebrating its 40-year history by establishing what is expected to become a new tradition. The inaugural Womens Studies Tea will take place Wednesday, Oct. 24, and is intended to unite current and prospective womens studies majors and minors to form a stronger community with one another, as well as further build relationships with faculty members. Tea and desserts will be served during an informal cross-generational roundtable discussion about womens studies as an academic discipline.
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of womens studies at the Colleges, senior faculty members will share some of their experiences creating the curriculum at a time when such courses and topics were not commonly taught at colleges and universities. Junior faculty members will also share stories of their involvement in undergraduate and graduate womens studies programs and departments. Students are invited to share their accounts and perspective as well.
More Womens Studies Tea events will be held throughout the semester to continue to bring together the womens studies community on campus. The first Womens Studies Tea will take place at 7 p.m., in the Fisher Center, located on the second floor of Demarest Hall. Current and potential womens studies majors and minors are encouraged to attend, but students of any major and minor are welcome. Majors and minors in attendance will receive a special 40th anniversary mug.