Welcome to CEW's Programs and Events for Winter 2008

Our programs are organized by the topics listed on the right, making it easier for you to identify programs you are interested in attending. In addition, the monthly listing provides a chronological list of all the semester's events.

Download a copy of CEW's Programs Brochure or view Programs online by category:

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Events by Month

Featured Events

Focus on Women in the Arts
"The Words of a Woman"
Friday, May 9, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Ann Arbor Library, Downtown, Multipurpose Room
Presenter: Christine Mary McGinley “The Words of a Woman”
343 South Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor

The Words of a Woman is a literary mosaic and one-woman monologue, composed entirely of excerpts from the written works of more than fifty exceptional women from literature and history. It is an exploration of the female voice in literature and in the world — a moving meditation on life, love, learning, and the art of writing.

Some of the artists, thinkers and writers represented in the piece —
Anna Akhmatova, Hannah Arendt, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jane Austen,
Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Cather,
Marie Curie, Bernadette Devlin, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, Isadora Duncan, George Eliot, Margaret Fuller, Alice James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Doris Lessing,
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Katherine Mansfield, Beryl Markham, Florence Nightingale, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Ayn Rand, George Sand, Sappho,
May Sarton, Olive Schreiner, Mary Shelley, Gertrude Stein, Jeanne de Vietinghoff,
Alice Walker, Simone Weil, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Mary Wollstonecraft,
Virginia Woolf and Marguerite Yourcenar.

Michigan native and local author, Christine Mary McGinley worked for many years in a number of states as executive director and fundraiser for arts and humanities organizations—including as Director of Development for the U-M Library from 1992 through 1997. Her work, The Words of a Woman, completed in Ann Arbor in 1997, inspired her to pursue her lifelong dream of writing full time, which she has done for the years since. She describes her work as passionate advocacy for Human Rights and Social Justice in all of their complexities and for the arts and humanities as societal imperatives.

Christine will read the monologue, The Words of a Woman, reflect on the process of creating the work, and answer questions and share with the audience.

Registration is recommended but not required. You may register online( see button at top of page) or by calling 734.764.6005.

This event is co-sonored with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and LS&A Women's Studies Department.