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\"\"<\/a>A play, a concert, an opera. Painting and photography exhibits. Documentary screenings, panel discussions and a research symposium on everything from black feminism to the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all part of Wright State University\u2019s \u201cRISING: Women in American Culture since Suffrage<\/a>,\u201d a semester-long commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping we\u2019re able to provide information that allows people to understand the historical journey that women have undertaken in the United States to gain the rights and privileges they have currently,\u201d said co-organizer Lafleur Small, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would also like them to understand the challenges that women face today in society and to start discourse about not only womenhood,\u201d she said, \u201cbut how men and women can work together to better society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woman\u2019s suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution \u2014 passed by Congress in 1919 and officially adopted in 1920 \u2014 prohibits the states and the federal government from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to be a very unique and innovative program,\u201d said Hank Dahlman, director of CELIA (Collaborative Education, Leadership, and Innovation in the Arts)<\/a>, which is facilitating the program. \u201cWe are educating our students, educating staff and faculty, educating the greater community at large about the 19th Amendment and how it\u2019s affected our lives over the last 100 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series of events, which runs from January through mid-April, is a collaboration between the university\u2019s social science programs and CELIA. In recent seasons, programs by CELIA have been mainly arts events.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like we are bridging the divide this year by including some of the social sciences and humanities,\u201d said Small, who has worked on the program with Cynthia Marshall Burns, coordinator of the Woman Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Dickey, administrative coordinator for CELIA, said the organizers focused on making women the drivers of most of the events.<\/p>\n

\u201cCulturally, women have been drivers all along; it\u2019s just that recognition has not been forthcoming,\u201d said Dickey. \u201cThere is real power here, but it\u2019s latent and now it\u2019s coming to the fore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the events, such as the documentary screening and panel discussion, should give attendees a fresh look at the history of suffrage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a relationship between black women through the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) founded in 1890 and white women working together for suffrage,\u201d said Small. \u201cSo there is this bifurcated narrative. It\u2019s not all the same.”<\/p>\n

\u201cMoreover,\u201d she added, \u201cNative American women gained suffrage after the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, four years after the passage of the 19th Amendment. Also of import, the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 and then later the Voting Rights Act of 1965 later insured that Asian American women could vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Small stresses that the program is very collaborative, involving not only Wright State but other universities and the outside community.<\/p>\n

Small said the overall program focuses on where women are in society today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some ways we\u2019re celebrating,\u201d she said, \u201cbut in other ways we\u2019re talking about struggles. In other ways we\u2019re still talking about changes that are yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through May<\/strong>: 50 works from women artists in the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries that are part of Wright State\u2019s Permanent Collection.<\/p>\n

Jan. 7 to Feb. 29:<\/strong> Traveling pop-up exhibit from Ohio Humanities and Ohio History Connection titled \u201cOhio Women Vote: 100 Years of Change.\u201d The exhibit is on the second floor of Dunbar Library.<\/p>\n

Feb. 6 to 16:<\/strong> Wright State Theatre’s production of \u201cThe Wolves,\u201d a 2016 play by Sarah DeLappe that centers on the experiences of high school girls through their weekly Saturday morning pregame soccer warmups. The play was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.<\/p>\n

March 10 and 11:<\/strong> Master class and recital by the Seraph Brass quintet\/sextet, an ensemble drawing from a roster of America\u2019s top female brass players. Winner of the 2019 American Prize in Chamber Music, the group has toured extensively in the United States, Europe, China and Mexico. \u201cIt\u2019s probably the premier women\u2019s brass ensemble in the world,\u201d says Dahlman.<\/p>\n

March 15<\/strong>: Concert by Wright State\u2019s Collegiate Chorale.<\/p>\n

March 23<\/strong>: Master class by Distinguished Visiting Artist Angel Blue, an operatic soprano and classical crossover artist. Blue received rave reviews last fall for her portrayal of Bess in \u201cPorgy and Bess\u201d at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Her voice has been recognized for its shining and agile upper register, “smoky” middle register, beautiful timbre and her ability to switch from a classical to a contemporary sound.<\/p>\n

March 24<\/strong>: \u201cStill We Rise\u201d featuring women\u2019s documentary screenings and panel discussion.<\/p>\n

March 25<\/strong>: Uprising Symposium featuring student presentations in conjunction with the Women\u2019s Center.<\/p>\n

March 26<\/strong>: Still We Rise Research Symposium featuring programs, performances and scholarly papers. Topics include who fought for suffrage, social justice movements, women in the justice system, women\u2019s liberation today, black feminism, domestic violence and the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n

April 17 and 18<\/strong>: \u201cThe Mother of Us All,\u201d a pageant opera by Virgil Thomson and libretto by Gertrude Stein, a novelist, poet and playwright who helped shape an artistic movement that demanded a novel form of expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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