Women's History Month is being celebrated at Cornell during March with a series of lectures, performances, seminars, readings, conferences and round-table discussions.

Some of the events during the month include:

• a round-table discussion on "The Million Women March," with Latitia Greene, academic program counselor, Ithaca College; Tshidi Muendane, Ph.D. candidate in agricultural education at Cornell; and Karen Washington, coordinator of Multicultural Affairs, Tompkins Cortland Community College, March 11 at noon in the Hoyt Fuller Room, Africana Studies and Research Center, 310 Triphammer Road;
• the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture "Celebrating Feminism and the Crisis of Masculinity" by Backlash author Susan Faludi, March 26 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall;
• "TransPositions: A Conference Toward Transgender Studies," including performances, lectures and film, March 27 to 29, in various locations on campus;
• Juliet Mitchell, A.D. White Professor at Large, on "Whatever Happened to 'Psychoanalysis and Feminism?' Some Personal Observations," March 30 at noon, in the A.D. White House;
• a seminar "Voices of Resistance: Women and Activism in Pakistan," by Tahera Aftab, visiting area studies professor, March 30 at 12:15 p.m. in G08 Uris Hall;
• a Women's Resource Fair, including groups from Cornell, Ithaca College and the local community, March 31 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall; and
• a March-June mini-exhibit, "Women's History," in 2B of the Kroch Library.

"To consider the overlapping territories that make up Women's Studies often means pushing at boundaries," says Shirley Samuels, associate professor of English and director of the Women's Studies Program. "It can sometimes mean that you're almost at sea with new vocabularies, goals and methods. We want to enhance awareness, increase understanding and promote comparisons that will enable us to present relations between the more abstract or theoretical critics with policy-makers, performing artists, writers and film makers who have new takes on the relations of genders and nations."

The sponsors and co-sponsors for the month's events include: the Women's Studies Program; the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center; Ujamaa and the Africana Studies and Research Center; the Olin Foundation; the Graduate School; the A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program; Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Studies; the departments of Government, Anthropology, German Studies, English and Romance Studies; Society for the Humanities; Rose Goldsen Fund; Lambda Law Association of Cornell; the College of Arts and Sciences; Cornell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Coalition, the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Resource Office; the Office of the Dean of Students; Out in the World; and Planned Parenthood of Tompkins County.

Most events are free and open to the public. For more information on upcoming events, call the Women's Studies Program at (607) 255-6480.