PITT WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM ANNOUNCES SPRING 2000 SPEAKER SERIES
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 26 -- The University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program is offering a wide array of guest lecturers for its Spring 2000
Speaker Series. All talks are on the Pitt campus and are free and open to the public. A schedule follows:
February
Wednesday, 2/2
Sabrina Sojourner ("Shadow" U.S. Representative, Dist. of Columbia)
"The ABCs of Diversity"
8:30 p.m., David Lawrence Auditorium
Thursday, 2/3
Peggy Reeves Sanday (University of Pennsylvania/Anthropology Department)
"Acquaintance Rape: Sexual Subjectivity & the Meaning of Consent"
7 p.m., 120 David Lawrence Hall
Friday, 2/4
Peggy Reeves Sanday (University of Pennsylvania/Anthropology Department)
"Eggi's Village: Rethinking Matriarchy Through Minangkabau Meanings"
3 p.m., 2M/2P56 Posvar Hall (formerly Forbes Quadrangle)
Wednesday, 2/9
Experiences of Islamic Women at Pitt—A Student Panel Discussion
Moderators: Karen Peterson (Pitt/Health Services Administration),
Maureen Porter (Pitt/School of Education, Administration & Policy Studies)
Noon - 1 p.m., Dining Room A, William Pitt Union, Brown Bag Lunch
February cont'd.
Wednesday, 2/16
Filomena Varvaro (Women's Studies Research Associate)
"Self-Esteem in Battered Women Living in Shelters"
Noon - 1 p.m., 2017C Cathedral of Learning, Brown Bag Lunch (Enter through 2098 Cathedral of Learning)
Thursday, 2/17
Undergraduate Women's Studies Certificate Reception
William Pitt Union Ballroom
Noon - 4 p.m. Student Presentations
7 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Rachel Maines
"The Vibrator and the Issue of Orgasmic Mutuality"
Wednesday, 2/23
Rhonda Clarke (Women's Studies Research Associate)
"Russian Women Publishers"
Noon - 1 p.m., 901 Cathedral of Learning, Brown Bag Lunch
March
Thursday, 3/2
Jacquelyn Grant (Callaway Professor of Systematic Theology/Interdenominational
Theological Center, Atlanta)
"The Making of Womanist Theology"
7 p.m., Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
Wednesday, 3/22
Molly Rush (Thomas Merton Center)
"Moving Mountains: Dorothy Day, Rosa Parks & Women of Faith"
Noon - 1 p.m., 901 Cathedral of Learning, Brown Bag Lunch
Monday, 3/27
Mervat Hatem (Howard University/Political Science)
"Neo-Orientalists & Feminine Discursive Responses to Islamism in the Arab World"
4 - 5 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
April
Monday, 4/3
Andrea Hibbard (Women's Studies Research Associate)
"Amelia Norman, the Sentimental Novel, and Nineteenth-Century American Seduction Law"
Noon - 1 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning, Brown Bag Lunch
Tuesday, 4/11
Sally Schlippert (Women's Studies Undergraduate/Study Abroad)
"Gender and Society in Nepal"
Noon - 1 p.m., 901 Cathedral of Learning, Brown Bag Lunch
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