The AAUW Women's Virtual Community Project is designed to provide an online 3-D meeting and discussion space for women and girls in the virtual world Second Life. Monthly events and workshops are open to the public and are announced in this newsletter and on our Google calendar.
Membership in Second Life is free. If you are unfamiliar with virtual worlds, you are welcome to join one of our hour-long orientation workshops which precede the events.
The Community Project is a collaborative effort. If you have a scholarly presentation, a display of digital art, or a digital class project on a relevant topic that you would like to present to others through a virtual world platform, please contact Dr. Sharon Collingwood at the address below.
January events:
THE AFGHANISTAN MUSEUM IN SECOND LIFE.
The Afghanistan Museum was created in support of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (http://www.rawa.org/index.php
The museum is a fine example of what individual activist/artists can accomplish; it evokes the cultural history and the lived experience of the women of Afghanistan, using an immersive sense of place to make a powerful political point.
Preparing for the tour: Introduction to Second Life (workshop)
Friday, January 28, 6 pm Pacific Time (9 pm Eastern)
Saturday, January 29, 11 am Pacific Time (2 pm Eastern)
Saturday, January 29, 11 am Pacific Time (2 pm Eastern)
A gentle introduction to getting around in Second Life. If you are coming as a group of more than five persons, and would like to learn together, we can set up a special session for you. Please contact Dr. Sharon Collingwood (SL: Ellie Brewster) at the address below.
To join us, please check the Second Life system requirements page to be sure your computer can run the program, then register through the link at the top right-hand corner.
When you have Second Life installed on your computer, click this link to arrive on Minerva Island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Informal Lecture: Afghanistan’s Revolutionary Women
Saturday, January 29, 1 pm Pacific Time (4 pm Eastern)
Location in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Location in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Amy Cross (SL: Millay Freschi) is the founder of the Four Bridges Project, which houses the Afghanistan Museum. She is a student of Peace Studies at the University of Maine, and virtual worlds coordinator for Amnesty International.
Tour of the museum
Saturday, January 29, 2 pm Pacific Time (5 pm Eastern)
We begin the tour on Minerva: http://slurl.com/secondlife/
We begin the tour on Minerva: http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Gwen Penner (SL: Trill Zapatero) is the designer of the Afghanistan Museum. She will lead us on a tour, leaving time for a discussion of the possibilities of virtual spaces for feminist activism.
Related events in Second Life:
The Second Life Left Unity Feminsts Discussion group meets every Sunday at 2 pm Pacific (5 pm Eastern) Time. This is an open discussion: bring your own questions, topics, suggestions. They are an informal group, everyone is welcome. To attend, use the link below (Second Life must be installed).
Upcoming events:
Saturday, February 19: Indea Vaher, creator of St. Isabella Island in Second Life.
St. Isabella Island is a 3-D representation of a Southern coastal community that preserves the history and culture of the Gullah and Creole peoples of the USA, circa 1910-1939.
Sunday, March 6: International Women’s Day concert and roundtable discussion (time TBA).
Dr. Sharon Collingwood
The Department of Women’s Studies
The Ohio State University
The Department of Women’s Studies
The Ohio State University
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