The Women’s and Gender Studies Program celebrates Women’s History Month with films and filmmakers

The College of Charleston’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program will be sponsoring a series of events celebrating Women’s History Month. The events kick off with the award-winning documentary The Life and Times of Sara Baartman (dir. Zola Maseko, 1998). The film tells the story of a Khoi Khoiwoman who was kidnapped from her home in South Africa in 1810, and brought to England to be displayed as “curiousity” to spectators, and then later to France to become the object of scientific and medical “research.” The film will be shown March 19 in Addlestone Library, room 227, at 7:00pm. The following week, March 29, there will be a lecture by Melinda Barlow, Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, on the work of experimental filmmaker and puppeteer Janie Geiser, on faculty at the School of Theater at CalArts. The lecture will be held in Addlestone Library in room 227, and it will begin at 7:00pm. The lecture will be followed a screening of two of Geiser’s films, The Secret Story (1996) and Lost Motion (1999). All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.