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This WHAM 2013 faculty event is great opportunity to gather for food and drinks as we learn about some truly amazing historical figures.

The faculty panel will use a “fast chat” format (20 slides/20 secs each/6 minute presentations per person) to demonstrate how the images of particular women have served as vehicles for different ideological positions. A diverse group of EIU faculty will gather to present on women ranging from the mythic past to the present.

Faculty Participants:

• Lee Paterson  (History) - Cleopatra
• Bonnie Irwin (CAH/English) – Scherehazade
• Irene Coromina (Foreign Languages) - La Malinche
• Roger Beck (History) - Sarah Baartman
• Chris Hanlon (English) - Emily Dickinson
• Dagni Bredesen (English) - Queen Victoria
• Jeff Ashley (Political Science) - Betty Ford
• Janice Collins (Journalism UIUC) - Anita Hill
• Christina Yousaf (Family and Consumer Sciences) - Benazir Bhutto
• Linda Scholz (Communications Studies) - Rigoberta Menchu
• Jamila Smith (English) ¬ Gabrielle Douglas
• Robert Peterson (Art History) - Faculty Panel Coach

This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of English, History, and the College of Arts and Humanities.