CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series archive : fall 1995 Chemical Protection Against the Risk of Cancer: The Broccoli Connection October 6, 1995 Auditorium, Room 2100, Music Building 1114 West Nevada Street, Urbana Paul Talalay Johns Hopkins University Could George Bush have made a mistake when he didn't eat his vegetables? In bypassing broccoli, a member of the Brassica family of vegetables, President Bush was missing sulforaphane, which, like many chemicals from plants, has demonstrable anti-cancer properties. Paul Talalay, founder of the Brassica Chemoprotection Laboratory at Johns Hopkins, will discuss the role of diet in cancer prevention, including results of his most current research. Sponsors: Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; College of Veterinary Medicine; Agriculture Experiment Station; Nutritional Sciences Division; Department of Biochemistry; Department of Entomology; Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Department of Microbiology; Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences; Department of Physiology and Biophysics; Department of Plant Biology; Department of Veterinary Pathobiology; Functional Foods for Health Program; Interdisciplinary Program in Environmental Toxicology. Painting from a Different Palette: Thomas Gainsborough and the Viola da Gamba October 11, 1995 Wednesday 8:00 p.m. Auditorium, Room 2100, Music Building 1114 West Nevada Street, Urbana Mary Cyr Professor and Chair, Dept. of Music, University of Guelph, Ontario; George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor Although primarily known as an Old Master of English landscape and portraiture, Thomas Gainsborough was also a virtuoso musician commissioning works by Carl Frederick Abel for the viola da gamba. In this illustrated lecture, Mary Cyr combines performance of Abel's solos with slides to trace the connection between these two great artists of the 18th century. Sponsors: Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; School of Music; College of Fine and Applied Arts; Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. Typhoid Mary: Personal Liberty vs. The Public's Health in the Early Twentieth Century October 19, 1995 Thursday 8:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana Judith Walzer Leavitt Evjue-Bascom Professor of Women's Studies, Professor of History of Medicine and Science, University of Wisconsin at Madison As early as 1904, Mary Mallon, an unmarried, working-class Irish immigrant woman, was identified as the source of typhoid outbreaks in wealthy family where she worked as a cook. Eventually three deaths and more than fifty original cases of typhoid would be attributed to her. An otherwise health carrier "Typhoid Mary" was held in quarantine for more than twenty years by the state of New York. Professor Leavitt's focus on civil liberties and public health is a crucial and timely one when we regularly hear calls to quarantine individuals with HIV, AIDS, or tuberculosis. Sponsors: Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; College of Nursing; Department of Community Health; Department of English; Department of Food Science; Department of History; Department of Internal Medicine; Department of Political Science; Department of Sociology; Department of Urban and Regional Planning; Institute of Communications Research; Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations; Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program; Medical Scholars Program; Women's Studies Program. Rethinking the Closet: Lesbian and Gay Life Before Stonewall October 23, 1995 Monday 8:00 p.m. Room 100, Gregory Hall 810 South Wright Street, Urbana George Chauncey Department of History, The University of Chicago George Chauncey challenges the myth that gay people were inevitably isolated, invisible, and self-hating before the Stonewall rebellion and the emergence of the lesbian and gay liberation movement in the 1960s and 70s. In this lecture, he will detail the rich collective life developed by gay people in the early twentieth century and show how they resisted anti-gay repression on an everyday basis. On October 24, George Chauncey will discuss "The 'Fairy' and the Prostitute: Gender, Street Culture, and Working Class Sexuality in the Early Twentieth Century," starting at 4:00 p.m. in Room 223 , Gregory Hall. Sponsors: Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; Office of Affirmative Action; School of Art and Design; Department of Anthropology; Department of English; Department for Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of History; Department of Journalism; Department of Philosophy; Department of Political Science; Department of Psychology; Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Afro-American Studies and Research Program; Campus Honors Program; Humanities Council/LAS; Medical Humanities Program; Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns; Office of Minority Student Affairs; Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics; WILL-AM Radio; Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; Women's Studies Program; McKinley Presbyterian Foundation. Discrimination by Design: A Global Perspective on Development and Gender Equity October 30, 1995 Monday 8:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana Leslie Kanes Weisman School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology George A. Miller Endowment Professor Today, homelessness, militarism, environmental degradation, and disease are widespread in affluent, industrialized countries as well as in the developing nations of the world. Certainly many people are aware of these global problems; yet too few are aware of the disproportionately devastating effects they have on the lives of women and children. In their quest to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives, architects, planners, and landscape architects, as well as those committed to social justice, must understand the complex ways in which these development, environmental and housing policies further discriminate against women worldwide. Sponsors: Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; School of Architecture; College of Fine and Applied Arts; Department of Landscape Architecture; Department of Urban and Regional Planning; Women's Studies Program. Electronic Empathy: Encounters with Interactive and Digital Art November 16, 1995 Thursday 8:00 p.m. Auditorium, Beckman Institute 405 North Mathews, Urbana Margaret Morse Department of Theatre Arts, University of California at Santa Cruz "The allure of this cyberspace was the impression that it was responsive to me, as if my gaze itself was creating (or performing) this world and that I was to some extent enunciating it according to my own desire" - Margaret Morse Dr. Morse's lecture coincides with the major exhibition "Art as Signal: Inside the Loop," at the Krannert Art Museum from November 17 through January 21, 1996. Dr. Morse wrote an essay for the exhibit catalog. Sponsors: Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; School of Art and Design; School of Music; Department of Anthropology; Department of Speech Communication; Department of Theatre; Art History Program; Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; Advanced Information Technologies Group (AITG); Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; Women, Information Technology and Scholarship (WITS). Avenging Racism: The Thin Line Between Uncle Tomming and Mau-Mauing November 30, 1995 Thursday 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana Jill Nelson Freelance writer, journalist and former reporter for the Washington Post "After all, I came here (to the Washington Post) to write and be successful. I'm willing to be a token, but not an unused one. I figure everyone, including white men, gets hired because of who they are. It's just that because white men run things, they're able to pretend that when they hire one another, they do so based on merit; when they hire a black person or a woman, they're doing us a favor." Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience (Penguin Books, 1993) Sponsors: Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; Department of Communications; Department of English; Department of Journalism; Afro-American Studies and Research Program; Institute of Communications Research; University High School; University Library; Women's Studies Program; African American Cultural Program; La Casa Cultural Latina; Daily Illini; Illini Union; University YMCA; YWCA of the University of Illinois.