Dr. Claude Steele

How Stereotypes Shape Achievement and the Experience of Diversity Thursday, September 5, 4:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium, Oxford Campus Reception following   Claude Steele is Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, and Chair of the Psychology Department at Stanford University. Throughout his career he has been interested in the process of self-evaluation, in particular in how people cope with self-image threat, and how group stereotypes can influence intellectual performance and academic identities. Dr. Steele’s research on stereotype threat has become widely known and has garnered much attention from academics and educators in the public schools throughout the United States. Dr. Steele is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and is the recipient of a Cattell Faculty Fellowship and the 1996 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize. He has published widely, and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals and study sections at both the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.

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Chad Pergram

“The Interregnum: From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism” Co-sponsored by the Departments of Communication and Political Science Wednesday, September 11, 7:30 p.m. Laws 100, Oxford Campus Reception following There is no admission charge; however, tickets are required for admission.

Chad Pergram is a native of Jacksonburg, Ohio, the state's smallest incorporated village (population: 52). He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Miami University (Ohio) in 1991 and his master's degree in communication from Miami in 1993. Chad began his career in journalism in high school working at WKRC-AM in Cincinnati. He later joined WKRC-TV and NPR Member Station WMUB-FM in Oxford, OH. He became Senate Producer for C-SPAN in 1993 and then produced and anchored newscasts for National Public Radio in Washington. Chad was named Best Radio Reporter by the Ohio Associated Press in 1992. He has also received statewide awards for Best Use of Sound, Best Investigative Reporting and Best Broadcast Writing. He has covered a variety of stories including the Robert Mapplethorpe photo exhibit trial, the Pete Rose baseball banishment, the impeachment of President Clinton and the Stanley Cup Finals.

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Dr. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Muslim Women in the West: the Mother of All Battles Thursday, September 26, 7:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium, Oxford Campus Reception following There is no admission charge; however, tickets are required for admission.

Yvonne Haddad is professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Haddad has published over fourteen books including Muslim Communities in the North America and The Muslims of America. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Middle East Policy Council, New England Region of the American Academy of Religion, and the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies. Professor Haddad’s fields of expertise include twentieth-century Islam; intellectual, social and political history in the Arab world; and Islam in North America and the West.

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Marilyn Chin

Reading October 4, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Harrison Hall 111, Oxford Campus Co-sponsored by the Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages, Center for American and World Cultures, Department of English, Office of Liberal Education, Program in International Studies, and Program in Women’s Studies.

Marilyn Chin is the author of Dwarf Bamboo (nominated for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in 1987). She is currently on the faculty of the M.F.A. program at San Diego State University. Recently, her poetry has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Parnassus, and Ploughshares and is included in The Norton Introduction to Poetry. She majored in ancient Chinese Literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and received her M.F.A. in Poetry from the Iowa Workshop in 1981. Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. She considers San Francisco her home and San Diego her most recent exile. The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty is her second book of poems.

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Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit

HeartBEAT
Saturday, October 5, 7:00 p.m.
Hall Auditorium, Oxford Campus

Mosaic Youth Choir
Sunday, October 6, 2:00 p.m.
Hall Auditorium, Oxford Campus

Mosaic Youth Choir
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
2:00 p.m. Leonard Theater, Peabody Hall, Oxford Campus

The Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit’s National Touring Company is returning to Miami University by popular demand. There will be a performance of HeartBEAT, a sensuous musical about Love, Hate and Rhythm. This play is loosely based on Aristophanes, which intertwines the vibrant languages of classic Greek theatre and the poetry of the street “step” dance, percussion and song. Bringing forth recollections of the artists’ own lives, this play provides moving and humorous accounts of the battles of love and hate these young people and their peers face on a day-to-day basis and how they make meaning of their lives. The phenomenal Mosaic Youth Choir will also perform. Founded in 1992, the internationally recognized and award-winning Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit is a multicultural arts organization whose mission has been to develop young theatre artists through comprehensive theatrical training and to provide high quality performances for audiences of all ages. In 2001, Mosaic completed an Artistic Residency in Singapore, and a critically acclaimed European Tour of theatrical and concert performance.

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Dr. Manju Jaidka, Punjab University

"Diasporic Writing from India with a Special Emphasis on Indian Women Writers"
Monday, October 21, 4:00 p.m.
Bachelor Reading Room (Oxford Campus)
Reception following
Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the English Department, the Honors Program, and the Women's Studies Program

Dr. Manju Jaidka is currently Reader in the Department of English at Punjab University in Chandigarh, India, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Studies Research Centre in Hyderabad. She is the author of three books on U.S. and English Poetry--Confession and Beyond: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (1991), Tiresias and Other Masks: English and American Poetry after the Waste Land (1994), and T.S. Eliot's Use of Popular Sources (1997) as well as numerous articles, research papers, and reviews in India and abroad. Works in press include an annotated anthology of twentieth-century English and American poetry and a collection of essays on twentieth-century women's poetry. While at the University of Iowa, Dr. Jaidka worked on a project entitled "Beyond the Seven Seas: Asian-American Cultural Transactions in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee, Sara Suleri, and Meena Alexander." Manju Jaidka earned her doctorate in English Literature in 1981 at Punjab University in India, and is a past recipient of awards from the American Studies Centre (India), the University Grants Commission (India), the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study Center in Italy, the USIA (USA) and the Fulbright Program (USA).

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Dr. Mary Frances Berry

Affirmative Action: Are Political Opportunists Exploiting Racial Fears? Wednesday, October 23, 7:00 p.m. Wilks Conference Center, Hamilton Campus Reception following There is no admission charge; however, tickets are required for admission.

Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania where she teaches history and law. She served in the Carter administration as a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and as Assistant Secretary of Education in the Department of HEW. After President Reagan fired her for criticizing his civil rights policies, she sued him and won reinstatement in federal district court. In 1993, President Clinton designated her Chairperson of the Civil Rights Commission. Dr. Berry is also one of the founders of the Free South Africa Movement, which instigated protests at the South African Embassy in the struggle for democracy in South Africa. Dr. Berry has numerous awards for her public service and scholarly activities, including the NAACP's Image Award, the Rosa Parks Award of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Hubert Humphrey Award of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Her books include The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of Law and Justice; Race and Sex in the Courts 1865 to the Present; and Black Resistance/White Law: A History.

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Dr. Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland at College Park

"African American Literature Within and Beyond the Nation: Dred Scott and the Question of Periodization"
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 4:00 p.m.
Bachelor Reading Room, Oxford Campus
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Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the English Department, the Graduate School, and American Studies

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Dr. Mary Jane Berman, Miami University

“Skeletons Stepping Out of the Closet- a View of Mexican Day of the Dead”
Wednesday, October 30, 12:00 p.m.
Miami University Art Museum
Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Miami University Art Museum

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Le Théâtre de La Chandelle Verte

“Huis Clos” by Jean-Paul Sartre
Friday, October 15, 7:30 p.m.
Peabody Hall, Oxford Campus
Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, College of Arts and Science, Department of French and Italian, Department of Theater, Miami University fund, the Office of Residence Life and New Students
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The Théâtre de la Chandelle Verte is an alliance of professional artists and scholars dedicated to broadening the appreciation for theatre performed in French. They believe in the educational value of French theatre performed in the United States.

They are trained in both the theory and practice of French language theatre, and it is their mission to perform plays of all genres and periods in French (and in English) for college students, instructors, and the general public.

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LeAnne Howe

Reading Monday, November 25, 7:00 p.m. Leonard Theater (Peabody Hall), Oxford Campus Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Department of Theater, and the Native American Women Playwrights Archive (University Library).

LeAnne Howe, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, was born on April 29, 1951. She was raised in Oklahoma City, and educated in Oklahoma as well. In addition to being an American Indian author, she is a scholar, and she has read her fiction and lectured throughout the United States, Japan, and the Middle East.

As an American Indian scholar, she has presented programs on recruitment and retention of American Indian students at higher education institutions. She is currently teaching at colleges and universities around the country, and she is finishing a novel.

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Tim Giago

Tuesday, December 3, 7:30 p.m. “The State of the Media in Indian Country and a Little Bit About Indian Mission Boarding Schools and their Impact Upon Several Generations of Indians." Heritage Room of Shriver Center. (Oxford Campus) Co-sponsored by the A.T. Hansen Anthropology Lecture Fund of the Department of Anthropology, Center for American and World Cultures, College of Arts and Science, Department of English, Department of Teacher Education, Office of Student Activities and Organizational Leadership, and Scripps Gerontology Center.

Tim Giago, the editor and publisher of The Lakota Journal and a member of the Oglala Lakota, will deliver the A.T. Hansen Anthropology Lecture.

A syndicated columnist for Knight Ridder Tribune News Services, Giago has taken uncompromising public stands on trends in society that demonstrate a lack of respect for Native culture, including the veneration of historical figures who took part in injustices committed against Native Americans. Giago is credited with writing the first newspaper columns that brought attention to the use of mascots referring to Native people.

Born on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Giago attended mission school, an experience he wrote about in The Aboriginal Sin: Reflections on the Holy Rosary Indian Mission School. He founded the Lakota Times (later renamed Indian Country Today), which became the nation’s largest American Indian newspaper.

Giago received the Civil and Human Rights award from the National Education Association and the Harvard Foundation Award for his contributions to Native American journalism.

The A.T. Hansen Anthropology Fund was established by Hansen’s former students, George and Johanne Fathauer, who served as members of Miami’s Department of Sociology, Gerontology and Anthropology for many years.

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Dr. Edgar Beckham, Senior Research Fellow with the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Tuesday, January 14, 4:00 p.m. "Learning Through Diversity: The Campus Diversity Agenda for the Twenty-First Century" Room 128 Pearson Hall (Oxford Campus) Sponsored by the Office of the Provost

Dr. Edgar F. Beckham was born August 5, 1933 in Hartford, Connecticut. After graduation from Weaver High School in 1951 he enrolled at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Between his junior and senior years he served for three years in the United States Army, where he was trained as a neuropsychiatric technician. He graduated from Wesleyan with Honors in 1958. In 1959 Mr. Beckham received an MA degree in Germanic Languages and Literature from Yale University. He continued his studies at Yale for another two years. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1997 from Olivet College and in 2000 from Clark University.

Mr. Beckham returned to Wesleyan to begin his professional academic career as Instructor of German in 1961. He spent 28 of the next 29 years at Wesleyan, serving in various posts, including Lecturer in German, Director of the Language Laboratory, Associate Provost, and from 1973-1990 Dean of the College. In addition to courses in German language and literature, Mr. Beckham taught Freshman Humanities (Great Books) and courses in African American Studies at Wesleyan. He spent academic year 1966-67 in Germany, where he taught English language and African-American history and literature at the University of Erlangen. He also lectured extensively at America Houses throughout the Federal Republic of Germany on the state of civil rights and racial consciousness in the United States.

Mr. Beckham was Chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Education from December 1992 to March 1995. He chairs the Board of the Donna Wood Foundation and is Trustee Emeritus of Vermont Academy. He is a Trustee of Mt. Holyoke College and a member of the Board of NAFSA, the National Association of International Educators. In the past he has chaired the Boards of Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Middlesex Hospital, The Rockfall Foundation, The Connecticut Humanities Council, and the Connecticut Housing Investment Fund. He has also served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

Mr. Beckham left Wesleyan in 1990 to take a position as Program Officer in the Education and Culture Program of the Ford Foundation, where he coordinated the Foundation's Campus Diversity Initiative until 1998. In 1998 Mr. Beckham was named Senior Fellow by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

In 1991 Mr. Beckham received Wesleyan's Raymond E. Baldwin Distinguished Alumnus Medal. In 1996 he was named Dean of the College Emeritus.

In 1997 Mr. Beckham received the Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. In 1998 the Wesleyan Alumni Association honored Mr. Beckham with its Distinguished Service Award.

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Dr. Cornel West, Princeton University

“Race Matters” Thursday, January 23, 8:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford Campus) Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and University Lecture Series Reception following There is no admission charge; however, tickets are required for admission.

Cornel West, professor of African-American studies and philosophy of religion at Harvard University, has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. A noted social and economic philosopher, he has taken his struggle for racial equity to the national spotlight. His best-selling book, "Race Matters," touched a nerve in the American public and triggered a national debate on race issues.

A compelling orator and a noted commentator, West urges blacks and whites to explore their past and find common ground. His current academic interests include researching the problems facing urban African-Americans and creating a dialogue between blacks and Jews. His latest book, "Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin,"was co-authored by Jewish journalist Michael Lerner.
West graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in only three years. He earned his master's and doctorate degrees from Princeton University. He then became a professor of religion and the director of the Afro-American Studies program at Princeton.

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"Gendered Modernities: Being Maasai Men and Women." Monday, February 10, 5:00 p.m. Center for Black Culture-Display Room, Warfield Hall, Lower Level (Oxford Campus) Co-sponsored by Black World Studies, Center for American and World Cultures, Department of Anthropology (Lectures in Contemporary Anthropology), Dept of Comparative Religion, International Studies Deptartment, Office of Multicultural Services (Miami Hamilton), Office of Multicultural Student Enrichment, and the Women’s Center.

"I am a cultural anthropologist with long term research experience in Tanzania, primarily among Maasai pastoralists and agro-pastoralists. My first book 'Once Intrepid Warriors' combines cultural, historical, and political economy approaches to explore the intersection and interconstruction of gender and ethnicity, and to demonstrate how they shaped and were shaped by the shifting meanings, uses and effects of "development" from the colonial period until the present. The book seeks to define, locate and analyze "development" historically, culturally and spatially, with particular attention to how "development" is mediated, reshaped, and even resisted at local levels as policies are translated into practices. I explore the gendered ways in which Maasai imagine and experience "development," and negotiate "marginality" as well as "modernity."

Dr. Dorothy Hodgson (more information in her website).

"Immigrant Rights: What are they? What should they be?" Wednesday, February 19, 7:00 p.m. Room 10, Shideler Hall (Oxford Campus) Co-sponsored by the Bishop Debate Society, Center for American and World Cultures, International Studies Program, Latin American Studies Program, Students for Peace & Justice, and the Women’s Studies Program. For further information contact: Dan La Botz at 513-529-5123 or labotzdh@muohio.edu

As a student, Beatriz Maya participated in the fight against the military dictatorship in Argentina. In the United States she has worked to organize Mexican Americans, and Mexican and Central American immigrants into the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. As part of her work with FLOC she has organized the National Coalition for Dignity and Amnesty for Undocumented Immigrants. Come learn about the issues immigrant workers face and what is being done to try to give them more rights and respect in the U.S.

Dr. Londa Schiebinger

"Has Feminism Changed Science?" Edwin E. Sparks Professor of the History of Science, Department of History, and Co-Director, Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture, Pennsylvania State University Thursday, February 20, 7:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium, Oxford campus Reception following There is no admission charge; however, tickets are required for admission.

Londa Schiebinger is Edwin E. Sparks Professor of History of Science and Co-Director of Penn State's Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture program at Pennsylvania State University. She is author of The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (Harvard University Press, 1989), the prize-winning Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Beacon Press, 1993), Has Feminism Changed Science? (Harvard University Press, 1999), editor of Feminism and the Body (Oxford University Press, 2000), co-editor with Angela Creager and Elizabeth Lunbeck of Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2001); and section editor with Colin Blakemore, Alan Cuthbert, Sheila Jennett, Roy Porter, Tom Sears, and Tilli Tansey of the Oxford Companion to the Body (Oxford University Press, 2001). She was the first woman historian to win the prestigious, international Alexander von Humboldt-Forschungspreise (Humboldt Research Prize) and served as a senior research fellow at the Berlin Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Institute for History of Science) during the academic year 1999/2000. Her current research explores gender in the European voyages of scientific discovery.

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Dr. Khaula Murtadha

Guest Speaker - Women of Color Luncheon Thursday, February 27, 2003 Multipurpose Room - Shriver Center (Oxford Campus) Sponsored by the Women's Center; co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program; Center for American and World Cultures; College of Arts and Science; Division of Student Affairs; Graduate School; Housing, Dining, and Guest Services; Office of Continuing Education; Office of Multicultural Student Enrichment; Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration; School of Education and Allied Professions; School of Engineering and Applied Science; and the Women's Studies Program. Tickets sold at the Shriver Center Box Office, 529-3200, beginning February, 3, 2003. Limited seating available. Non-students: $15.00 Students: $8.00 Doors Open: 10:30 a.m. Program Begins: 11:00 a.m. Program Ends: 1:00 p.m.   Dr. Murtadha is the Executive Associate Dean, Indiana University School of Education. She has written about African-centered education, spirituality, social justice activism, and urban school leadership. She is also a Miami University alumna. She is currently researching the lives of African American women in educational leadership and the roles they play in city school reform efforts. Jennie Elder Suel Outstanding Woman of Color Award An outstanding woman of color from the Miami community will be honored. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales goes to the Myrtis H. Powell Scholarship Fund. For more information about the program, call the Women's Center at 529-1510. Please contact the Office of Disability Resources, 529-1541, at least a week prior to this event to request accomodations (e.g. real time captioning, sign language, interpreter). Website Women of Color Celebration To Top

 

 

Mary Robinson

“The True Agenda of Human Rights” Wednesday, March 19, 7:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus) Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Etheridge Center for Reflective Leadership (Division of Student Affairs), the Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture Series Fund (International Studies Program), and the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration. There is no admission charge; however, tickets are required for admission.

Since her appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in June 1997, Mary Robinson has taken on the difficult challenges of her office without hesitation and has consistently stressed the need for action in the struggle to extend the full range of human rights to all citizens.

In December 1990, Mrs. Robinson was inaugurated as the seventh president of Ireland. As president, she represented her country internationally, developing a new sense of Ireland’s economic, political, and cultural ties to other countries and cultures. Linking the history of the Great Irish Famine to today’s nutrition, poverty, and policy issues, she articulated a special relationship between Ireland and developing countries.

Her humanitarian work as president, her background in human rights law, and her uncompromising pursuit of justice and equality made her a prime candidate for the position of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. As High Commissioner, Mrs. Robinson is responsible for overseeing the human rights activities of the United Nations, including promoting universal enjoyment of human rights, responding to human rights violations, undertaking preventive human rights action, and providing education and assistance in the field of human rights. Taking every opportunity to speak out on human rights abuses as they occur, she has recently expressed urgent concern about conflicts in East Timor, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone, among others.

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"Exploring our Roles as Interpreters and Storytellers: Enhancing Inclusive Climates." Thursday, March 20, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.Miami University Art Museum Auditorium (Oxford campus)Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and Teaching Effectiveness Programs

Join Jack Gladstone, Native American balladeer, for an energizing presentation and interactive discussion. His representation of American Indian culture is potentially instructive to those of us who pursue cultural interpretations that extend beyond the traditional discourse in our courses. In this session, he will perform and discuss the value of storytelling, narratives, and the arts as avenues for understanding marginalized cultures, viewpoint epistemology, and rekindling the spirit of the “interpreters” of the Western Frontiers. The “interpreters” were often hired by explorers or trappers as scouts. As teachers, researchers, writers, and artists, we have the opportunity of scouting and “interpreting” our disciplines for explorers—our students.

Please e-mail your RSVP (please include your department) to Melody Barton at <bartonm@muohio.edu> by March 18. Please indicate any specific issues or questions you would like addressed at this seminar.

"Is Anybody Normal: Does the Mental Health Establishment Believe that Anyone Is Normal?"
Thursday, March 20, 7:00 p.m. 144 Benton Hall (Oxford campus)
Sponsored by the Department of Psychology, co-sponsored by Center for American and World Cultures, Student Counseling Service, Department of Theatre, Sigma Chi Foundation/William P. Huffman Scholars-In-Residence Program, Women’s Center, and the Women’s Studies Program.


Paula J. Caplan is a clinical and research psychologist, author of books and plays, and actor. She was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri, received her A.B. with honors from Radcliffe College of Harvard University, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Duke University. Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar at the Pembroke Center at Brown University. She is former Full Professor of Applied Psychology and Head of the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, as well as former Lecturer in Women’s Studies and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Among her plays, “Call Me Crazy” (about the questions “Is anybody normal? And who gets to decide?”) won second place in the 1997 Arlene and William Lewis Playwriting Contest for Women and other awards, and “The Test” (based on the poignant, true story of two men on Death Row) will be published this year by Samuel French in its collection of winners of its 2001 Off-Off-Broadway New, Short Plays Competition.

Mostly in regard to her expertise in psychology and women’s studies, as well as her social action work, she has appeared on “Donahue” five times, in addition to appearing on “Oprah,” “Geraldo,” “The Today Show,” “Hour Magazine,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” and “Sally Jessy” and hundreds of other media appearances. She has given hundreds of invited addresses to a wide variety of community and academic groups.

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Interdisciplinary Symposium on Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
Friday, March 21, Faculty and Student research presentations -- ongoing from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Shriver Multipurpose Room
Co-sponsored by Black World Studies, the Center for American and World Cultures, College of Arts and Science, and the Women's Studies Research Center .
All events are free and open to the public. Pre-registration is not required. Please feel free to attend any and all events that fit into your schedule.

The Women's Studies Research Center and the Black World Studies Program at Miami University will be holding an interdisciplinary symposium on Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality on March 21, 2003. The symposium will showcase work that examines the intersections between race, gender, class and sexuality in scholarship, activism, practice, cultural representation, and experience.

This is the fifth annual research symposium sponsored by the Women’s Studies Research Center: Gender and Violence (1999), Race and Gender (2000 & 2001), Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality (2002).

Faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students and community professionals are all encouraged to participate. Direct questions to:

Sally Lloyd	Rodney Coates
Women's Studies Research Center	Black World Studies Program
Miami University	Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056	Oxford, OH 45056
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Interdisciplinary Symposium on Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality, Ending address: Dr. Emma Pérez, History, University of Texas at El Paso
"Queering the Borderlands: The Challenges of Excavating the Invisible and
Unheard."
Friday, March 21. 4:00 p.m. Shriver Multipurpose Room

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"Writing: The Art of Activism." Tuesday, April 1, 2003 2:00 p.m. Leonard Theater, Peabody Hall (Oxford campus) Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures.

Born on February 12, in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of a number of books for children, young adults and adults. Her awards include a Coretta Scott King Award, two Coretta Scott King Honors, two Jane Addams Peace Awards, an LA Times Book Prize, a Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction, and a number of American Library Association Awards. Although she writes full time these days, Jacqueline also works with the National Book Foundation’s Summer Writing Camp, where along with three other Writers In Residence, she teaches creative writing to young people from under-served communities.

Dr. Tom Walker

"Latin America in the Talons of the Eagle: Reflections of a Grumpy Old Academic." Thursday, April 3, 4:00 p.m. Room 100 Art Building (Oxford campus) Co-sponsored by the Bishop Debate Society, Center for American and World Cultures, and the International Studies Program.

 

Professor Walker looks back over his four decades of observing the impact of the United States on Latin America as he went from Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Colombia, to graduate student at the University of New Mexico, to Latin Americanist academic at Ohio University. He discusses his growing awareness that US policy towards the region is not just occasionally ill-advised, but rather is normally ill-fitting, destructive, and counterproductive both for real US interests and for Latin America. He then speculates on why the world's most powerful country does such a poor job in making foreign policy. He concludes that 1.) foreign policy is made by politicians anxious to please an electorate which, because it is remarkably ignorant of the outside world, is most effectively appealed to through simplistic and distorting slogans and concepts such as "the Communist threat", the "War on Drugs", and "narco-terrorism" and 2.) the U.S. is so disproportionately powerful that the effect of even destructive or dysfunctional policy rarely impacts negatively on the average US citizen and, hence, the electorate rarely demands more appropriate behavior. Professor Walker, who illustrates his argument with frequent reference to concrete examples, is not optimistic that any improvement in the way the US treats Latin America will take place in the near future.

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Dr. Nancy Parezo is a Professor in American Indian Studies and Anthropology and Curator of Ethnology at the Arizona State Museum. She is an expert on issues related to Southwest Native American women's art production and the history of women in anthropology with special emphasis on women in museum and academic institutions. She is the editor of Hidden Scholars and co-author with Barbara Babcock of Daughters of the Desert. She is currently working on a study entitled The Indian Fashion Show that deals with an anthropologist's use of American Indian women's dress to promote women's culture and cultural tolerance in the 1940s-1950s; archaeology exhibits at world's fairs between 1876 and 1915.

Conference Speakers

"Translating Cuba: Predicaments of a Diasporic Anthropologist" 1:30-2:45 p.m. Ruth Behar is Professor of Anthropology at The University of Michigan and recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant in 1988. Also a bilingual poet and a filmmaker. Professor Behar is the author of Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story (Beacon, 1993) and The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (Beacon, 1996).   Website To Top

"From Old Age to Empire to Age Studies" 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Teresa Mangum, Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, has published a critical study entitled Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel (Michigan, 1998). Professor Mangum’s work is consistently concerned with how literary cultures construct outsiders. She is completing a book-length study of “The Victorian Invention of Old Age.” Her newest project, “India Ink,” will be a book on representations of India in popular Victorian periodical magazines. To Top