Women's Educational Society Lecture

The Woman's Educational Society’s (WES) endowment was established in 1989 with the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the WES. The endowment supports the annual lecture "Women in the West."

2013 Lecturer

Janice Gould

Associate Professor of Women's and Ethnic Studies
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Lecture Topic: Doubting and Dreaming: Native American Women Write about the West

April 25, 2013 at 11:30am in Gaylord Hall. RSVPs necessary. Email swshulbert@coloradocollege.edu.

Previous Lecturers

2011-12	Michèle Companion, "Results from a Nutritional Education Program for Urban Indian Children & their Moms" (March 1, 2012)
2010-11	Sally Meyer, "Women Helping Women," presenting with Tiffany Calabaza, CC Student & Amanda Wierzba, CC class of 2010 (March 9, 2011)
2009-10	Anne Hyde, "Hard Choices: Mixed Race Parents and Children in the 19th Century West" (March 31, 2010)
2008-09	Susan Armitage, "Ages and Stages of Developing Field: Western Women's History" (February 25, 2009)
2007-08	Anne Hyde, "Love and Money in the Early American West: Stories I Can't Write Down" (February 27, 2008)
2006-07	Demetria Martinez (WES scholar) teaching "The Poet as Witness to War" ( 2007)
2006-07	Karen Chamberlain, "Southwest Solitude: Seduced by a Canyon Oasis" (November 8, 2006)
2005-06	Demetria Martinez, "Rebirth Day: A Writer's Journey" (February 1, 2006)
2004-05	Ann Zwinger, "Don't Pack Your Diamond Tiara: The Travel Habits of a Nature Writer" (March 2, 2005)
2003-04	Beverly Stoeltje, "The Cowgirl: Ranch Women, Rodeo Queens, and Media Dreams" (February 25, 2004)
2002-03	Beauty Bragg, "Identifying Major Themes in Chicana Literature" (April 2, 2003).
2001-02	Claire Farrer, "'...not just the portrait of a woman...': The Art of Writing Native American Biography" (April 3, 2002).
2000-01	Susan Scarberry-Garcia, "Wrapped in Shawls and Scarves: Traditional Clothing of Navajo, Pueblo and Khanty Siberian Women" (February 28, 2001).

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