CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series archive : spring 2000 Telepistemology Descartes' Last Stand April 28, 2000 Friday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hubert Dreyfus Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley Are the new ways that we have of communicating with one another -- teleconferencing, telecomuting, telerobots and internet web cams --- resurrecting the skeptical doubts that Descartes had raised and which we thought we had overcome? Philosophy Annual Lecture This lecture is held in conjunction with the 22nd Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sponsored by: Department of Philosophy in conjunction with: Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence Program, Beckman Institute, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and Graduate Philosophy Student Organization. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans and Annual Philosophy Lecture. Heaven and Earth: Images and Strategies for Representing the Planet April 20, 2000 Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sheila Jasanoff Department of Science and Public Policy, Harvard University Environmentalism in the year 2000 is seen by many as inevitably linked to globalism. Sheila Jasanoff compares the visual, political, and scientific repertoires for representing the environment in three countries and suggests that global environmentalism remains a deeply contested concept. The construction of the environment as local or global does not follow automatically from advances in scientific knowledge but reflects deeper commitments concerning human relations with nature. Environmental representation thus serves as a window on the co-production of natural and social order. Sponsored by: Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Environmental Council, Bioindicators Group and Program in Science, Technology, Information and Medicine in conjunction with: International Programs and Studies, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Office of Women in Develop.m.ent, Program in South Asian Studies and Middle Eastern Studies and Women’s Studies Program. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Mapping Transnational Women’s Movements: Globalizing the Local, Localizing the Global April 14, 2000 Friday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Amrita Basu Professor of Political Science and of Women’s and Gender Studies, Amherst College Amrita Basu, a leading expert on women’s issues, examines how “globalization” has influenced feminist and other women’s movements, what new opportunities have emerged and what new tensions have surfaced. First tracing the relationship between Robin Morgan’s "Sisterhood is Global" of the 1960s and '70s and the transnationalism of the ‘90s, Basu then anticipates the new century examining local reaction to globalization and the resulting interaction between the global and the local. She concludes her presentation with a more detailed look at the women's movement in India. Graphic from Amrita Basu, The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements in Global Perspective (Westview Press, 1995) Sponsored by: Center for African Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Office of Women in International Develop.m.ent (WID), Program for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Russian and East European Center and Women’s Studies Program in conjunction with: Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Anthropology, Department of Economics, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Program for Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), Program for the Study of Religion, School of Social Work, Asian Pacific American Coalition, Cosmopolitan Club, Indian Student Association and University YMCA Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Ockham’s Razor and Proust’s Beard April 13, 2000 Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Roger Shattuck Professor Emeritus, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Boston University In the offices of a major New York publisher, two editors, a literate sales manager, a French scholar, and a literary critic discuss an unorthodox proposal for a new translation and edition of Proust’s novel. The matter of presentation soon leads the debate into questions of how to interpret and evaluate Proust’s work today. This lecture is held in conjunction with the symposium “Proust 2000” held April 13-16 at Krannert Art Museum, UIUC. Other sites of interest: 1999 article from the Atlantic Monthly, When Evil is "Cool" 1996 article from Johns Hopkins Press Literature and Philosophy, A Reciprocating Engine--Like Proust Book Reviews Sponsored by: Department of French in conjunction with: Department of English, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Linguistics, Department of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Program in Art History, Program in Comparative Literature, School of Music, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and University Library. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Gender Duties and Daily Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Women, Law, Property, and Family in Mexico April 6, 2000 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Carmen Ramos Escandon Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS) , Mexico City Carmen Ramos' presentation will integrate legal, cultural, and social issues through an international and multidisciplinary perspective on historical conflicts involving women as citizens and as mothers, property, and family formation. Her work, focusing on the Mexican case, opens new avenues of inquiry on gender and modernity with both historical and contemporary significance. Ramos' vision of the turn-of-the twentieth century provides new reflections on our current entry into the twenty-first century. Photo credit must be stated and printed as follows: Sue?o (Dream), 1932 Diego Rivera M?xico (1886-1957) Lithograph, 16 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. Inter-American Develop.m.ent Bank Art Collection, Washington, D.C. Photo: courtesy of the IDB Audiovisual Unit Sponsored by: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in conjunction with Afro-American Studies and Research Program, College of Law, Department of Economics, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), International Programs and Studies, La Casa Cultural Latina, Latina/Latino Studies Program, Office of Women in International Develop.m.ent, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS), School of Social Work and Women’s Studies Program Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Countercultural Youth From the 60s at Midlife April 5, 2000 Wednesday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor,Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thomas Weisner Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles Professor Weisner's research focuses on a longitudinal sample of Euro American countercultural young adults of the 1960s and early 70s, now somewhere in their late forties and fifties. This group came of age as part of a cohort with a unique generational identity that influenced their future develop.m.ent as adults and how they raised their own children. In midlife, these individuals vary widely in their commitment to their countercultural values. Their children, now young adults themselves, exhibit some surprising continuities with, as well as some paradoxical differences from, the values of the 60s. The midlife experiences of the countercultural cohort are yoked in complex ways to past identities and to the coming of age of this new generation. Cultural Functions of ‘the Midlife’ in Contemporary America: Generations, Race, Class, Culture and History This lecture is the third of a series given in conjunction with this CAS interdisciplinary initiative during the spring semester 2000. One of the foremost age theorists in America, Miller Endowment Visiting Professor Margaret Morganroth Gullette began the series in February with “The Contrived War Between ‘The Boomers’ and ‘The Xers’. Katherine Newman, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University discussed “A Different Shade of Gray: Growing Old in the Inner City” in March. Sponsored by: Center for Advanced Study in conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Speech Communication, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, School of Social Work and Women’s Studies Program. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans The New Democratic South Africa: The Past and the Future April 3, 2000 Monday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sheila Violet Makate Sisulu South African Ambassador to the United States, 1999-present Apartheid divided South Africa along racial lines and created injustices with innumerable permutations. Although Apartheid has been abolished and democratic elections held, deep inequalities still divide South Africa, and the South African government is working to overcome the problems. The Ambassador of South Africa to the United States, Sheila Sisula, looks to the future to discuss her government's agenda including: * the strengthening of democracy; * social needs of the South African population including improvements in health, education, and housing; * economic growth domestically and international through trade, investment and regional integration; and * South Africa's role as a new entrant in the international arena. Sponsored by: Center for African Studies in conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of Political Science, International Programs and Studies and Program in Arms, Control, Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS)Sponsored by: Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry March 29, 2000 Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sponsored by: Joel Beinin Department of History, Stanford University On the eve of the first Arab-Israeli war the Jews of Egypt were a heterogeneous community of cosmopolitan hybrids, which was both an element of strength and a factor in its eventual demise. Joel Beinin examines the history of this community in Egypt, where the majority remained, between 1948 and 1956; their subsequent dispersion and reestablishment in the U.S., France, and Israel; and the contested memories of Jewish life in Egypt since Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem in 1977. He argues that the experiences of Egyptian Jews cannot be adequately accounted for by either Egyptian nationalist or Zionist narratives. Sponsored by: Program in South Asian and Middle East Studies in conjunction with: Center for African Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Economics, Department of English, Department of French, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Journalism, Department of Linguistics, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Drobny Program for Jewish Culture and Society, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, International Programs and Studies, Office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center, Hillel Foundation and Students for Palestine. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. A Different Shade of Grey: Growing Old in The Inner City March 27, 2000 Monday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Katherine Newman Ford Foundation Professor of Urban Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Race and space play an important role in shaping the midlife years. While affluent Americans contemplate the empty nest and a long stretch of time free of the burdens of their earlier years, mature adults in the inner city confront a very different scenario. They reach middle age with fewer resources, the onset of chronic diseases before their time, and nests that don't empty. Many are responsible for the care of grandchildren whose own parents have been undone by the ravages of drugs. Midlife minorities in New York City must manage the aging process without the support structures that middle class Americans have come to expect. They teach us that context matters in thinking about midlife. Cultural Functions of ‘the Midlife’ in Contemporary America: Generations, Race, Class, Culture and History This lecture is the second of a series given in conjunction with this CAS interdisciplinary initiative during the spring semester 2000. One of the foremost age theorists in America, Miller Endowment Visiting Professor Margaret Morganroth Gullette began the series in February. Thomas Weisner, UCLA, explores “Countercultural Youth From the 60s at Midlife,” on April 5. Sponsored by Center for Advanced Study in conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Speech Communication, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), School of Social Work and Women’s Studies Program. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans Closing the Gender Gap: Post War Educational and Social Changes March 23, 2000 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Room 407,Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Madeleine Arnot Sociology of Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC Striking new findings regarding educational achievement in England suggest one of the most extensive reversals in patterns of social inequality in contemporary times. Girls have not only caught up with boys in test scores, but in a number of subject areas have decisively pulled ahead. How do we account for such a dramatic reversal in academic fortunes? And what implications do these findings have for public policy here in the United States? Madeline Arnot contends that Victorian principles of gender differentiation embedded in traditional schooling have been unintentionally transformed by social democratic and conservative government reforms including those initiated by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. As a result there has been a sea change in girls' attitudes to work and family life, which is not necessarily matched by a similar change in boys' attitudes. Sponsored by: Bureau of Educational Research, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Institute of Communications Research in conjunction with: College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, European Union Center, International Programs and Studies, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Women’s Studies Program and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action , 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans Show Biz As a Cross-Cultural System: Circuses, Geertz, and Song March 21, 2000 Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign James A. Boon Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University and George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC What does “the show business” mean -- not just in America since P. T. Barnum, but elsewhere and earlier: across cultures and eras, continually transforming and translated? In this lecture, Jim Boon makes seriocomic stabs at interpreting show biz (a vast arena of human endeavor) a bit differently, and ethnographically. Prolific cultural anthropologist and intellectual historian, Jim Boon’s work has been at the forefront of critical anthropology and cultural studies for over twenty-five years; his latest book Verging on Extra-Vagrance was published in 1999. Photo credit: Tom Elliott, exhibition bicyclist. Used with permission of Princeton University Library. Sponsored by: Department of Anthropology and Department of History Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action , 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans Postcoloniality, Modernity and the Case of the Stolen Kidney February 28, 2000 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana Mary Louise Pratt Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, Stanford University What does it mean to say we live in a world that is "post-colonial"? Have our geopolitical relations, institutions, structures of knowledge been "decolonized?" Who is the "we"? Mary Louise Pratt asks what a critical scholarly practice might be in the context of changing imperial dynamics in the contemporary world and inquires as to what content and lived experience are referred to -- or occluded -- by the terms "globalization" and "modernity." Focusing briefly on the current controversy surrounding the testimonio of Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Mench? she also draws on recent attempts to postulate "alternative modernities” as a way of addressing these issues. This lecture is held in conjunction with the three-year, interdisciplinary program "Area Studies, Identity, and the Arts," funded in part by the Ford Foundation. Sponsored by: The Ford Foundation in conjunction with: Art History Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of Linguistics, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), Krannert Art Museum, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and Women's Studies Program. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. The Contrived War Between `The Boomers' and `The Xers' February 15, 2000 Tuesday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana Margaret Morganroth Gullette Resident Scholar, Women's Studies, Brandeis University and George A. Miller Visiting Professor, UIUC Naming the age cohorts began as a connivance with niche marketing, but before long the media turned it into an explanation of American economic history under global capitalism. Cultural critic and pioneer in age studies, Margaret Morganroth Gullette shows how new characters creep into the social text, modifying not only our views of others and of ourselves, but also of the ways the world works. Gullette is the author of Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat at the Politics of the Midlife, which won a 1998 award as the best feminist book on American popular culture. This lecture is held in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Study interdisciplinary initiative “Cultural Functions of `the Midlife' in Contemporary America: Generations, Race, Class, Culture and History.” On Monday, March 27 Katherine Newman, Ford Foundation Professor of Urban Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, speaks on growing old in the inner cities and on Wednesday, April 5, Thomas Weisner, departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, explores the impact of the counterculture values on the “kids of hippies.” Sponsored by: Center for Advanced Study in conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Speech Communication, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, School of Social Work and Women's Studies Program. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Human Genetic Research and Life in Human Societies: An Overview of Likely Interactions January 31, 2000 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Room 112, Gregory Hall 810 South Wright Street, Urbana Henry T. Greely Professor of Law and Co-director, Stanford Program on Genomics, Ethics and Society, Stanford University Everyone knows that we are living through the beginnings of "The Genetics Revolution," but what does that mean? One meaning is that the consequences of the human genetics research program are broad, uncertain, and confusing--a true revolution and not just a change. Henry Greely provides a structure for thinking about the likely consequences of this research, both for human societies and for the people who live in them. Along the way, he points out some particularly thorny questions before us, from the meaning of "genetic" to the meaning of "human." Sponsored by: Department of Political Science in conjunction with: Biotechnology Center, College of Law, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Medical Scholars Program, Neuroscience Program, Robinson-Carmen CRI Speakers Fund and School of Integrative Biology. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Ralph Bunche: A World View of Race January 20, 2000 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana Charles P. Henry Department of African American Studies and Faculty Equity Associate, University of California at Berkeley Ralph Bunche, the first black Nobel laureate (for Peace in 1950), was one of this century's pre-eminent African-American intellectual and political leaders. Charles P. Henry, author of Ralph Bunche: Redefining the American Other and editor of Ralph J. Bunche Selected Speeches and Writings, covers five decades of Bunche's remarkable influence as the first black American to receive a doctorate in Political Science, a co-founder of the National Negro Congress, and undersecretary-general of the United Nations whose passion for peace and civil rights never faltered. The Third Annual W.E. B. DuBois Lecture This lecture is held in conjunction with the University's week-long Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Symposium “Living Dr. King's Dream in the New Millennium.” For more information please contact Nathaniel Banks, African American Cultural Program, 217-333-2092. Sponsored by: Afro-American Studies and Research Program and Center for African Studies in conjunction with: African American Cultural Program, Asian American Studies Committee, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Latina/Latino Studies Program, Office of Women in International Develop.m.ent and Women's Studies Program. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Photo credit: UN/DPI Photo (photo oh Ralph Bunche) Living Dr. King's Dream for Civil and Human Rights in the New Millennium January 17, 2000 Monday, 1:30 p.m. Illini Rooms A, B and C, Illini Union 1401 West Green Street, Urbana Wade Henderson Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C. In the 1950s and 60s, while many marched in the streets, sat-in at lunch counters, and participated in freedom rides in the south, the Leadership Conference coordinated a campaign of 30 organizations to make simple justice the law of the land helping to pass The Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Since then, the Leadership Conference has increased its coalition to more than 185 groups representing people of color, women, children, labor unions, individuals with disabilities, older Americans, religious groups, gays and lesbians, and civil liberties and human rights groups. Wade Henderson discusses the daily realities of monitoring public policies affecting these groups, speaking in detail about the Conference's activities to address the detrimental effects of hate crimes. This lecture is held in conjunction with the University's week-long Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Symposium “Living Dr. King's Dream in the New Millennium.” For more information please contact Nathaniel Banks, African American Cultural Program, 217-333-2092. Sponsored by: African American Cultural Program, Afro-American Studies and Research Program and Student Affairs Program Coordinating Committee in conjunction with: Center for African Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for Writing Studies, College of Commerce and Business Administration, College of Education, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Counseling Center, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Crop Sciences, Department of Dance, Department of History, Department of Leisure Studies, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Department of Political Science, Department of Journalism, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Drobny Program for Jewish Culture and Society, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Illinois State Geological Survey, Latina/Latino Studies Program, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), School of Social Work, Champaign County NAACP, Champaign Country Urban League, Champaign Park District Douglas Community Center and Champaign-Urbana Ministerial Alliance. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans.