AAUW Valparaiso – AAUW Valparaiso

American Association of University Women

Valparaiso IN Affiliate

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UPCOMING EVENTS 2025-2026

Monday – November 3 & 10, 2025 – 10:00-11:25 – Greek Goddesses in Mythology – PCCF

New member, Nina Corazzo is offering a six-week series on Greek Goddesses in Mythology. It is not necessary to sign up in advance, and there is no fee.

Come and explore how the myths of Pandora, Daphne, Medusa, Arachne, Scylla and Circe were created. Through artwork and historical context, we’ll be discussing why these women were assigned such negative characteristics. Who wrote their story? Who decided what incidents in their lives were to be highlighted and what those decisions might reveal about gender biases in the Classical past.

For more information, contact Renee Caprile.

Thursday – November 6,2025 – 1:00PM – Spirituality Seekers,

The Spirituality Seekers will be discussing Chapter 4 of Welcome to the Wisdom of the World by Joan Chittister.

Contact Ann Ruggaber for additional information.

Certain questions are common to all of us as human beings. Why was I born? What’s important in life? How do I know the right thing to do? What does it mean to “make a difference”? What’s wrong with me — why can’t I change? Such questions are so deeply human that they transcend time and place, religions and cultures. In this inviting book Joan Chittister presents the insights of others from different cultures throughout history who have grappled with the same kinds of life questions that plague us here and now.

Contact: Cheryl Slack for information

Monday-November 10, 2025 – Greek Goddesses in Mythology – PCCF

Wednesday – November 12, 2025 – 3:45 PM – Sister to Sister – Gelsosomo’s Pizza, 2605 Laporte Ave, Valparaiso

Title: The Downstairs Girl

This annual event is an opportunity to hear young women’s thoughts about a book that both they and our members have read. Enjoy pizza and a lively discussion with local high school students about the book The Downstairs Girl by Stacy Lee.

Contact: Joan Funk

Thursday – November 13, 2025 – ArtFlix – Zoom only – 6:30 pm

Film: One Day

Discussion Leader: Carla Banks

The 2011 film, One Day, is a romance that stars Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess and follow their characters, Emma and Dexter, for two decades as they reunite on the same day each year after graduating from college on July 15, 1988. Based on David Nichols’ 2009 novel of the same name, the film explores their evolving relationship, friendship, and professional lives. The story is a bittersweet look at love, life, and friendship.

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 – 1:00 pm – Art Interest Group, VU’s Brauer Art Museum

Come join us for a fun afternoon at the Brauer Art Museum at VU. We will meet at the Brauer for an art exploration game called Buy, Burn or Steal. You will have the opportunity to wander the galleries, searching for a work of art that you would like to buy ( money is no object), a work of art that you hate so much you would like to burn it, and a work you love so much that you would steal it. When we are finished John and Gloria Ruff will help us examine how and why we made our choices. Why does some art attract us and other art repels us? Why does some art “speak to us” on a deeper level?
Hope to see you on November 19 to experience art in a new way and maybe learn something new about ourselves.

Contact: Renee Caprile for the details.

Wednesday – November 19, 2025 – All Member/Board Meeting – 6:30pm – Zoom only

Contact Cindy Hesemann or Linda Cronk for details

Thursday – November 20,2025 – 1:00PM – Spirituality Seekers,

The Spirituality Seekers will be discussing Chapter 5 of Welcome to the Wisdom of the World by Joan Chittister.

Contact Ann Ruggaber for additional information.

Thursday – November 20, 2025 – Great Decisions – 6:30 PM – PCCF and via Zoom

Topic: After Gaza: American Policy in the Middle East

Leader: MaryAnn Thompson

The war in Gaza has brought the region to a crossroads. What are the possible outcomes of the war, and how might the United States use its influence to shape a long-term settlement that leaves both Israel and the Palestinians in a better position? How might Arab states in the wider region be brought into a settlement? What are the America’s interest in the Middle East and how can it advance them? Arthur Daniel Kurtzer

For more information, contact Renee Caprile

Tuesday – Book Group – 4 PM –

No 4th Tuesday Book Group for November and December.

January, February, and March discussion will be via Zoom only.

For titles see Book Group Page

For more information, contact Clare Pokorny