LISTENING TO HISTORY

Celebrate the Amazing Women in Sonoma County
Listening Stations Online and in the University Library Gallery

Through the dedicated efforts of Dr. Michelle Jolly, the campus has the opportunity to explore the stories of women involved in the contemporary women's movement as it played out in Sonoma County from 1960 to 1985. Jolly's year-long oral history project is the subject of an exhibition in the University Library Art Gallery titled "A Fine and Long Tradition: Stories from the Contemporary Women's Movement in Sonoma County." The web site - http://www.sonomawomenshistory.org/ - provides a "listening station" where the oral histories can be heard and downloaded.

Several events are planned on campus on Sept. 20 by the University Library, History Department, and Women and Gender Studies Department to celebrate the project:

Noon, Schulz 3001

History professor Michelle Jolly and others participate in a discussion called "A Fine and Long Tradition: Stories from the Contemporary Women's Movement in Sonoma County"

3-4:30 p.m., Student Union Multipurpose Room

The Women's and Gender Studies Department offers a dynamic panel presentation, "Women's Studies Past, Present, and Future": A Panel of Women's Studies Founders and Alumni" to answer questions such as: How Women's Studies came to be at Sonoma State University? Were there the same tension and protests as seen at other campuses throughout the late 60s and 1970s? Were classes really taught off-campus in a storefront? Why? What are the major issues/tensions in feminist movement today? Why are young folks afraid of the "f-word"? Speakers include Ann Neel (the first Women's Studies Coordinator from 1973-1975), Kay Trimberger (first tenure track hire in Women's Studies and Coordinator from 1981-2000), and Yuka Kamiishi (Sonoma County Domestic Violence advocate, alumna class of 2001).

5-6:30 p.m. , University Library Art Gallery

A reception celebrates this project and all the participants.

For more information visit the websites: http://www.sonomawomenshistory.org/ or http://library.sonoma.edu/about/gallery.html.