Women in the Workforce Film Series Registration

Discussion for the 1916 film, Shoes, will be led by Dr. Maggie Hennefeld.
Dr Hennefeld is Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is author of Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (Columbia UP, 2018), co-editor of the journal Cultural Critique (UMN Press), and co-editor of two volumes: Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019) and Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence (Duke UP, 2020). She is co-curator of the DVD/Blu-ray set, Cinema’s First Nasty Women (Kino Lorber, 2022), which includes 99 feminist silent films.

Discussion for the 1933 film, Baby Face, will be led by Lenore Blank Kelner
Lenore Blank Kelner is an author, arts educator, arts integration specialist, as well as a theatre teaching artist. Lenore directed and acted in a touring company for the regional theatre in Baltimore, Center Stage. She also founded and directed a professional theatre company that served young audiences and their families.
Lenore has presented her work in all 50 states and abroad. She has been a presenter with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since 1982. Lenore is the author of two professional books: The Creative Classroom and A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension. She served as an Arts Education consultant for the Maryland State Department of Education and is presently a consultant with the Maryland State Arts Council.

Discussion for the 2016 film, Hidden Figures, will be led by Dr Amy Mattson Lauters
Amy Mattson Lauters, Ph.D., is a journalist, storyteller, and Professor of Communication and Media at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is the editor or author of three books, including The Rediscovered Writings of Rose Wilder Lane, Literary Journalist, and More Than a Farmer’s Wife: Voices of American Farm Women 1910 to 1960. Lauters specializes in examining lost stories in women’s history.

Shoes July 9th 7-9pm in the Community Room at Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Minneapolis (JFCS)
Baby Face July 20th 7-9pm at Temple Mount Zion, St Paul
Hidden Figures July 23 7-9pm in the Community Room at Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Minneapolis  (JFCS)

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