Feldt/Barbanell Women of the World Lecture Series

The Feldt/Barbanell Women of the World (WOW) lecture series is supported by Gloria Feldt, women’s-rights advocate and former CEO of Planned Parenthood, and her husband, Alex Barbanell, past president of ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Association and a founding member of the College of Liberal Arts and Science’s original dean’s council.

The Feldt/Barbanell WOW lecture brings to ASU prominent individuals to address issues of a global nature and their effects on women.

Past WOW lectures have brought several outstanding lecturers to ASU

	Jane Fonda, political activist, writer and Academy Award–winning actress, spoke on “Sex, Gender, and the Journey to Wholeness” at the fifth Feldt/Barbanell Women of the World (WOW) lecture held on Oct. 17, 2008.
	Gloria Steinem, energized an overflow crowd of more than 1,000 guests on October 18, 2007. Women and gender studies faculty, students and alumni met with the feminist icon prior to the lecture. VIP guests included Gov. Janet Napolitano.
	Nafis Sadik, special advisor to the U.N. secretary-general, special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, and former executive director of the United Nations Population Fund who spoke on Oct. 16, 2006 about “The Global Politics of Women’s Health, Human Rights and Development.”
	Kathleen Turner, Tony Award– and Academy Award–nominated actress whose talk Oct. 23, 2003, “Reel Women and Real Women,” touched on her advocacy work with Planned Parenthood as well as her film career.
	Eve Ensler, playwright, performer and activist, who wrote the Obie Award–winning play, “The Vagina Monologues” and founded V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Eve Ensler's presentation was the inaugural Feldt/Barbanell Women of the World Lecture on Oct. 10, 2002.