The following is a list of our Fall 2025 Sack Lunch Seminars 

 Contact danforth@montana.edu for more information on these events

"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women." -Elizabeth Blackwell (first U.S. female physician)

Wednesday, September 17, 2025: Montana Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Training Program

SUB 168,  Noon - 1 p.m.

Join Sydney Hunsaker, MPA from the Montana Office of Rural Health/AHEC Program Office, for a discussion about the Montana Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Training Program.  Information will be provided about the SANE Training Program funded by the Federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in a grant awarded to the Montana Office of Rural Health/Area Health Education Center and the Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing at Montana State University. In their first year, this very successful program has surpassed their training goal by 200%, hosted or have scheduled 7 clinical training opportunities around the state and developed a support network for SANEs. Come learn about this essential and fascinating new program!
 

Wednesday, October 8, 2025: Hispanic Heritage Month Sack Lunch Seminar, Language and Identity: Belonging

SUB Alumni Legacy Lounge,  Noon - 1 p.m.

Join Dr. Rebecca Turk, Director of The Center for Bilingual and Multicultural Education and Director of Accreditation in MSU’s Department of Education for this seminar, Language and Identity: Belonging on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 in the Alumni Legacy Lounge. This presentation will touch on how language (multilingualism, accents,  raciolinguistics, translanguaging, etc.) plays a role in one’s internal and external identity. Through this identity exploration, we will connect concepts of one’s sense of belonging to identity pressures. Audience members will leave with a better understanding of how language and identity are connected as well as reflections of the impact and implications of belonging or not belonging.
 
 

 Contact danforth@montana.edu for more information on these events

 "What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply." -Barbara Strickland

Sack Lunch Seminars are free, fun, informal, and open to everyone!
Sponsored by the Women's Center, a department in the division of Student Success 
SUB 372, 406-994-3836
Bring your lunch and join us!