2025 Women’s History Month Celebration
March 2025
Call for WHM 2025 Program Proposals:
We invite members of the University of Mary Washington community to submit program proposals for the annual Women’s History Month Celebration. Proposals are due by Friday, December 6, 2024. The deadline for open-class proposals is Friday, January 10, 2025. The sponsor(s) will be notified promptly. Approved programs will be included on the Women’s History Month calendar, as well as in print and electronic publications. Preference will be given to programs and events relating to the 2025 theme, “Women Educating and Inspiring Generations.” All programs must secure their source of funding, if applicable.
The program proposal form can be found HERE. Please include as much information on the form as possible.
Return forms and appropriate attachments to:
Women’s History Month Planning Committee
Attention: Dr. Marion Sanford
James Farmer Multicultural Center
University Center, Room 319
1301 College Avenue
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Email at msanford@umw.edu
Women’s History Month Major Speaker: Dr. Shereen Inayatulla
Wednesday, March 19 | 7:00 p.m. | Chandler Ballroom C, Cedric Rucker University Center
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Linguistics, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
Dr. Shereen Inayatulla, Professor of English, teaches courses in composition and critical literacy studies at York College, CUNY in Jamaica, NY. Her areas of research include autoethnography, antiracist feminist pedagogy, and queer theory. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications such as the Journal of Basic Writing, Self+Culture+Writing, and The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric. The “Trans/Feminisms” special issue of Sinister Wisdom that she co-edited in 2023 was a finalist for the Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans & Gender-Variant Literature. Dr. Inayatulla is currently the General Co-editor of WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly).
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. For more information, please contact the James Farmer Multicultural Center at (540) 654-1044 or visit students.umw.edu/multicultural. Please email us at jfmc@umw.edu if you have any questions regarding disability-related accommodations.