FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, Feb. 29, 2008
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications (304) 696-7153
 

Margaret Randall featured presenter
for Schmidlapp Distinguished Lectureship at Marshall

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Margaret Randall, a writer, photographer and social activist who lived for nearly a quarter century in Latin America, will be the featured presenter for the Schmidlapp Distinguished Lectureship in Women’s Studies on Marshall University’s Huntington campus.

Randall will give a poetry reading at 1 p.m. Monday, March 10 in the third-floor atrium of the Drinko Library, then lecture on “Women and Resistance: Cuba and Nicaragua,” at 7 p.m. that same day in the Memorial Student Center’s Alumni Lounge.

The lectureship, which is free to the public, is sponsored by the Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee.  Marshall Women’s Studies and the Women’s Center also are supporting the event. Refreshments will be served at both the afternoon poetry reading and the evening lecture.

Randall’s stay in Latin America included approximately nine years in Mexico, 11 years in Cuba and four in Nicaragua. Among her more than 80 titles are Cuban Women Now, Cuban Women Twenty Years Later, Sandino’s Daughters, Sandino’s Daughters Revisited, When I Look Into The Mirror And See You: Women, Terror & Resistance, and the recently-released Stones Witness.

As a sign of the significance of her writings, the U.S. government tried to have her deported in 1984, but failed.

For more information on Randall’s visit, contact Dr. Greta Rensenbrink at (304) 696-2955.

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