Women and War in Yugoslavia

Croatian journalist Vesna Kesic will visit the University of Southern Maine the week of April 9 to talk about the experience of women during the war in the former Yugoslavia and the rise of women’s movements there. Vesnic, a feminist activist and the coordinator of the Center for Women War Victims, will give a free public lecture on women’s movements in the former Yugoslavia at 3 p.m. on Monday, April 9 in Payson Smith Hall, Room 301 on USM’s Portland campus. She also will give class lectures on “Women’s Bodies as Battlefields” in a number of USM courses during the week.

Her visit to USM is sponsored by USM’s Women’s Studies Program as part of the celebration of women’s history, “Remaking the World: Women & the Environment.” Other events during April as part of the series include:

• A lecture, “A Feminine City? Women, Shopping & the 19th-Century Downtown,” by Mona Domosh, of the Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, at 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, April 10 in Room ABC Woodbury Campus Center, Portland.
• Tolerance and Diversity Film Festival, 7 p.m., Friday, April 13 in Luther Bonney Auditorium, Portland.
• A talk, “Transgender Masculinity,” by activist P.J. Mears, 4:15 p.m., Monday, April 23 in Woodbury Campus Center, Portland.

For more information on any of these events, call Women’s Studies at 780-4289.