University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Nordie’s at Noon

Power of Women Book Review and Discussion
Wednesday, April 21st - 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Donaghey Student Center Leadership Lounge

Nordie’s at Noon shares the personal stories of each of these extraordinary women. A source of humor, strength, inspiration, and education, the book will speak to anyone who has ever been diagnosed with cancer or faced a seemingly insurmountable challenge. A celebration of friendship and of living life to the fullest, Nordie’s at Noon is also a book that will encourage women everywhere to be proactive with their health—and realize that no one is “too young” for breast cancer.

Thirty free copies are available to UALR students. If interested in reading this book and attending this book discussion, please contact Jenny Dodson Hunt in the Office of Campus Life, DSC 216 - Ph: (501) 569-3308.

Better Single Than Sorry:
A No-Regrets Guide to Loving Yourself and Never Settling by Jen Schefft
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:15 pm
Donaghey Student Center Leadership Lounge

Let’s be honest. No woman really wants to be alone for the rest of her life. But does being alone mean you’re doomed to be miserable forever? Definitely not! And does being single have to equal lonely? No way! You can have the best time of your life when you’re single, but you wouldn’t know that from our relationship obsessed society, where celebrity magazines devote the majority of their content to who’s dating whom and the wedding industry is a $100-billion business. Yet more than a third of marriages end in divorce, and countless other couples languish in unions that shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

Don’t become a statistic—love yourself and never settle!

Free copies of this book are available to the first 30 people attending the event.

Power of Women
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
12:00 pm Donaghey Student Center Meeting Room D

This program provides resources to women who are looking to “go green.”  It will address different aspects of “Green” such as beauty (cosmetics & apparel), consumer behaviors (shopping bags, boxes, etc.), and more.

Power of Women
Thursday, March 19, 2009
12:00 pm Donaghey Student Center Leadership Lounge

Living in the era of The Great Gatsby, flappers succeeded in breaking through the barricades of gender prejudice and social inequality on a large scale. Using vibrant archival film clips and interviews with women who came of age during the Roaring 20s in Britain, this program chronicles the emergence of the modern woman in the aftermath of World War I. Higher education for women, the entry of women into politics and the professions, women’s suffrage, new attitudes toward sexuality, and other topics are addressed within the historical context of the early 1900s. (53 minutes)

Power of Women
Thursday, March 12, 2009
12:00 pm Donaghey Student Center Meeting Room G

This National Endowment for the Humanities documentary captures an historic moment when feminists, unionists, and educators came together to pursue a common social ideal. The Women of Summer is their emotionally riveting and previously untold story. From 1921 to 1938, seventeen hundred blue collar women participated in a controversial and inspired educational experiment know as The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers. The program forever changed their lives and has left a legacy meriting public awareness.

Funded by such prominent capitalists as the Rockefellers, DuPonts, and Carnegies, the School introduced women workers of every race and nationality to the realm of humanistic and political thought, including Marxism and trade unionism. In the end, it was considered too radical by its funders and was discontinued, but not before it had exerted a profound influence on its faculty and students, producing union, community and government leaders.

This film tells the story of the summer program as seen through the eyes of the alumnae fifty years later at a specially planned reunion. Folksingers Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert are on hand to celebrate the occasion. Time has not dimmed the spirit and intellect of the graduates, who talk with passion about their lives in factories, mills, and unions. They recount the experience of living through the Depression, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the New Deal.

The Women of Summer is a story of class and race uniting on the common goals of education and social justice. It is a living demonstration of the power of education to improve lives.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
12:00 pm Donaghey Student Center Leadership Lounge

This program brings to life the hardships the women of Arkansas faced during the War between the states.  Meet the ladies and learn why Arkansas’s war involvement was totally unique to that of the rest of the nation.  Listen to the women who lived through it tell their stories of deprivation, desolation, and destruction.  A 45-minute presentation that is suitable for all students of Women’s history, Civil War history and Arkansas history.

Power of Women
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
12:00 pm Donaghey Student Center Meeting Room A

This fascinating film portrays the life and work of five outstanding women photographers, born around the turn of the century, who perfected their craft in an era when photography was a man’s domain. Using examples of their photography with clips from news of the day, their on-camera interviews are woven together to tell a story about life for professional women living in turbulent decades of the middle of the twentieth century.

Gisele Freund, a reporter-photographer describes her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany with negatives taped to her body. Fashion photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe recalls her evolution from a young art student to the creator of Harpers Bazaar covers. Maurine Loomis was a little known but highly successful photographer of Hollywood stars. Lisette Model, the teacher of Diane Arbus, reveals her method for making a successful photograph. Eiko Yamazawa practiced her art in Japan for over seventy years with the elegant eye of an abstract painter. These dedicated women share their successes and struggles with candor and warmth.

Decoding Reality TV’s Twisted Fairy Tales
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 12:00 pm
Donaghey Student Center Meeting Rooms B & C
Speaker- Jennifer L. Pozner

Do you ever wonder …
Why TV frames humiliation of women as “perfect fairy tale romance”?
If Prince Charming would really make his “true love” bend over to remove his boots, then kick her in the butt?
If men should be valued for more than just the size of their … wallets?
With humor, razor-sharp analysis and provocative clips from shows like The Bachelor, The Swan and America’s Next Top Model, Pozner exposes how “reality” TV reinforces regressive stereotypes about women, men, love, marriage, sexuality and class in America.
She skewers the lack of ethnic and physical diversity in a genre where women are sold right alongside soda and cell phones, and reveals how reality TV glorifies eating disorders, derides female intelligence and reduces Prince Charming to any jerk with a firm butt and a firmer financial portfolio.
Students will never see mating and makeover shows the same way again, and they will laugh - a lot.

Power of Women
Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 12:00 pm
Donaghey Student Center Leadership Lounge

Band of Sisters presents twelve amazing and often heart-wrenching stories of American women in the frontlines: accounts from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines; America’s first female pilot to be shot down and survive; the U.S. military’s first black female combat pilot; a 21-year-old turret gunner defending a convoy; two military policewomen in a firefight; a nurse struggling to save lives, including her own; and more.

In Iraq, the front line is everywhere…and everywhere in Iraq, women in the U.S. military fight. More than 155,000 of them have served in Iraq since 2003–four times the number of women sent to Desert Storm in 1991–and more than 430 have been wounded and over 60 killed, almost twice the number of U.S. military women killed in action in Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm combined! But should women be in combat? Do they have what it takes to be warriors? Compelling questions once…but empty questions now, because more than ever, American women are in combat, and they are warriors. The real question is: What is their experience of war? We haven’t heard their stories–until now.

Note: 30 copies of the book Band of Sisters will be available for those interested in participating in the book discussion on February 5, 2009. Please contact Jenny Hunt to secure your copy today!

Self Defense Workshop with Michelle Ray of Little Rock Martial Arts
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Donaghey Student Center Leadership Lounge

Come and take part in a free self-defense course from a 4th Degree Black Belt, Michelle Ray! This event is sponsored by the Office of Campus Life.