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Notice:
Two candidates for the position of Director of the Center for Women’s Studies in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences will be interviewed in the coming weeks. Interested University and community members are invited to attend the candidates’ public forums. The forum for Janice Spleth (Professor in Foreign Languages) will be held on Tuesday, November 18, at 4:00 p.m., in the Rhododendron Room of the Mountainlair. The forum for Ann Oberhauser (Professor in Geography) will be held on Tuesday, December 2, at 4:00 p.m., in the Shenandoah Room of the Mountainlair.

Students are invited to both attend the candidates’ public forums and meet with the candidates in special meetings for students. The student meeting with Dr. Spleth will be on Monday, November 17, from 12:30-1:30. The student meeting for Dr. Oberhauser will be on Monday, December 1, from 12:30-1:30. Both meetings will be held in the Center for Women’s Studies lounge, 218 Eiesland Hall.

Contact Dr. Katherine Karraker, chair of the search committee (Katherine.Karraker@mail.wvu.edu, 293-4611) for further information.

November 11-13
Tenth Annual Women’s Studies Residency in honor of Judith Gold Stitzel, with Susan M. Shaw, director of Women Studies and director of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program at Oregon State University. She is the author of God Speaks to Us, Too: Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home, and Society and co-author of Girls Rock! Fifty Years of Women Making Music. Shaw is also co-author with Janet Lee of Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings and the forthcoming Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women.

Thursday, November 13
Tenth Women’s Studies Residency in Honor of Judith Gold Stitzel—Keynote Address
“Girls with Guitars: Women, Feminism, and Rock & Roll,” G24 Eiesland Hall, 7:00 p. m.