• The National Education Association’s Read Across America day Monday (March 3) will also commemorate the 99th birthday anniversary of Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Geisel) one day before. http://www.nea.org/readacross/2003.html
• Marjorie Agosín, a poet, human rights activist and professor of Spanish at Wellesley College, will present “The House of Memory: Jewish Women Writers of Latin America,” Monday (March 3) at 7:30 p.m. in Room 168 of the Science Building on the IPFW campus. The presentation will highlight writers whose work explores their background as Latin American Jewish women and their relationships with various groups of people. The event marks the spring installment of the twelfth season of IPFW’s Visiting Writers Series. On Tuesday (March 4), she will read her poetry at the Fort Wayne Cinema Center, 437 East Berry St., at 7:30 p.m.
• Feminist Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. magazine, will be the keynote speaker at IU East’s women’s conference March 28. She will appear the day before on the IU South Bend campus as part of St. Joseph County’s YWCA centennial. http://homepages.indiana.edu/121302/text/iue3.html
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