2000

• Speakers/Visitors:
  * Julie Fay-native of New England, her poems have appeared in numerous national publications and she is the author of, Portraits of Women and The Woman Behind You. (1/27)
  * Susan Ludingson (1/27)
  * Leslie Marmon Silko-A Laguna Pueblo Native American, fiction writer whose work includes Ceremony, Storyteller, Sacred Water, and Almanac of the Dead. (4/4)
     
• April 7-9, Appalachian sponsors the SEWSA conference "Feminists, Womanists, Grrrls…Imagine the Future" There was an amazing turnout with an unexpected 306 people who registered. Many Women's Studies faculty helped to plan and participate in the event. Thanks to these dedicated individuals the conference was a great success. Among the Women's Studies faculty who participated in planning and/or presenting were:

* Betsy Beaulieu 
* Harriette Buchanan
* Cheryl Claassen 
* CeCe Conway 
* Robbin Derry 
* Allie Funk 
* Sandie Gravett 
* Sarah Greenwald 
* Tina Groover 
* Kim Hall 
* Rosemary Horowitz 
* Edelma Huntley 
* Eva Hyatt
* Kathyrn Kirkpatrick 
* Janine Lanza 
* Maggie McFadden 
* Jan Rienerth
* Georgia Rhoades 
* Joy Rouse
* Marilyn Smith
* Nancy Sokolove
* Neva Specht
* Susan Staub
* Marianne Suggs
* Lee Williams
* Cynthia Wood

• -SEWSA Planning Committee:

* Harriette Buchanan 
* Cheryl Claassen 
* CeCe Conway 
* Robin Derry 
* Tina Groover
* Kim Hall
* Rosemary Horowitz 
* Edelma Huntley 
* Eva Hyatt 
* Kathryn Kirkpatrick 
* Maggie McFadden
* Darcy Plymire
* Georgia Rhoades 
* Marilyn Smith 
* Nancy Sokolove 
* Neva Specht 
* Susan Staub
* Lee Williams

• SEWSA-featured speakers: 
  * Dorothy Allison-author of Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller, and Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature
  * Joyce Scott-artist, her work-bead and sewn-stems from the African-American quilt making tradition and centers on issues of gender and race
  * Katha Pollitt-Award winning Feminist Writer, poet, essayist and contributor to journals such as The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, Mirabella, Ms., Mother Jones, and Newsweek. (4/7-9)
     
• Women's Studies sponsors Appalachian's first-ever Queer Film Series, now an annual event on campus.
        
• Demetria Martinez-author of Mother Tongue which won the 1994 Western States book award for fiction, also a poet and a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter. (4/27)
     

• Rev. Dr. Carter Heyward-"Can Christians be Sweet Spirited, Radically Justice-loving Folks? A Lesbian Feminist Christian Perspective." (11/30)

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