Women’s History Month Convocation
Monday, March 12, 2012
7 p.m. – Bush Memorial Hall

Free and open to the Community

Professor, author, and activist Dr. Virginia Eubanks will be speaking on the topics of feminist participatory action research and community activism which are explored in her book, Digital Dead End.   Dr. Eubanks is the co-founder of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP), a grassroots anti-poverty and welfare rights organization, and teaches in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She edited the cyberfeminist ‘zine Brillo and was active in the community technology center movements in the San Francisco Bay Area and Troy, New York.   

Historical Fashion Show
Friday, March 16, 2012
7 p.m. – Bush Memorial Hall

In celebration of Women’s History Month, The Helen M. Upton Center and the Rensselaer County Historical Society are presenting a Historical Fashion Show.  This event brings together clothing and accessories from the RCHS collections and joint research by women's studies students and RCHS staff to explore trends in gender, fashion, and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States. 

For more information, please call (518) 244-2306. 

Women's History Month 2012 Events

       Our 2012 calendar:

Download a full event calendar [pdf]

Throughout the year the women's center sponsors a number of programs and events that are open to The Sage Colleges community and the public:

• Women's History Month Convocation -- March
• Women's History Month Activities -- March
• Occasional Forums -- year round
• Annual Helen M. Upton Women of Achievement Dinner -- May
• Films, Lectures, Workshops and Performances
• Annual Ice Cream Social -- September