Film screening first of distinguished visitor events

Filmmaker Susan Bazilli will be on hand for a campus screening of her documentary film Constitute!—which explores the work of the 1981 Ad Hoc Committee on Women and the Constitution—on Monday, October 15.

The event is the first in a series celebrating the 2012 Distinguished Visitor in Women’s Studies, the Women Behind The Charter. The screening is free and open to the public; it begins at 7 p.m. in room 203, Toldo Health Education Centre.

A community meet-and-greet reception continues the theme on Tuesday, October 16.

At a brown bag lunch event on Friday, October 19, “Legislating What Women Can Wear: the Niqab in the Courtroom,” a panel will discuss the Supreme Court case R.v.N.S.

Find a full schedule of events on the women’s studies Web site.