Homepage

The Woman's Educational Society Lectureship

The WES Lectureship on Women in the West was inaugurated during the 1989-1990 academic year. The lectureship, funded by a long-term endowment from the Woman's Educational Society, expands on the theme of the WES 1989 Centennial -- "Women Helping Women" -- and provides each year for a visiting professor to the campus. The holder of the lectureship can teach a one block course in the area of his or her expertise, delivers a major public lecture for WES and an informal luncheon talk to the Aficionados, a community support group. This lectureship brings to campus scholars in a variety of disciplines. 

The WES "Women of the West" Lecturers

1989-90

 Michael Dahlin, "Women in the American West" (January 24, 1990).

1990-91

 Joy Harjo, read selections from her poetry and writings (February 19, 1991).

1991-92

 Beatrice Medicine, "Unmasking the Past to Face the Future: American Indian Women" (April 8, 1992).

1992-93

 Susan Scarberry-Garcia, "Thought Woman, Buffalo Woman, Thinking Woman:  Pueblo Concepts of Deity, Self and Creation" (December 3, 1992).

1993-94

 Aida Barrera, "Spanish-Mexican Women in the West:  An Oral Videography" (October 7, 1993).

1994-95

 Rina Swentzell, "Pueblo Women in Transition" (February 2, 1995).

1995-96

 Barbara Allen Bogart, "Stories That Shape Our Lives" (October 11, 1995).

1996-97

 Ann Zwinger, "Women Writing the West" (February 6, 1997).

1997-98

 Edna Kimbro, "Rancho Camulos:  The Home of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona (December 3,1997).

1998-99

 Kirk Gittings, "Chaco Body" (November 4, 1998).

Patricia Nelson Limerick, "Cultures in the 21st Century: Conflicts and Convergences" (February 4-6, 1999).

1999-00

 Maria Varela, "Roots of My Resistance" (February 2, 2000).

2000-2001

 Susan Scarberry-Garcia, "Wrapped in Shawls and Scarves:  Traditional Clothing of Navajo, Pueblo and Khanty Siberian Women" (February 28, 2001).

2001-02

 Claire Farrer, "'...not just the portrait of a woman...':  The Art of Writing Native American Biography" (April 3, 2002).

2002-03

 Beauty Bragg, "Identifying Major Themes in Chicana Literature" (April 2, 2003). 

2003-04

 Beverly Stoeltje, "The Cowgirl:  Ranch Women, Rodeo Queens, and Media Dreams"  (February 25, 2004)

2004-05

 Ann Zwinger, "Don't Pack Your Diamond Tiara: The Travel Habits of a Nature Writer" (March 2, 2005)

2005-06

 Demetria Martinez, "Rebirth Day: A Writer's Journey" (February 1, 2006)

2006-07

 Karen Chamberlain, "Southwest Solitude: Seduced by a Canyon Oasis"

2007-08

  Demetria Martinez (WES scholar) teaching "The Poet as Witness to War"

 

 

 

Maintained by Suzi Nishida, SNishida@ColoradoCollege.edu.
 This site created by Academic Web Design.