CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series archive : spring 1998 Can Non-Violence Work in the 21st Century, or Shall We Use "Any Means Necessary"? January 23, 1998 Friday 4:00 p.m. Tryon Festival Theatre Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana Diane Nash Former Field Staff Member, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Having lived the activism of the 1960s, Diane Nash questions the relevance and usefulness of non-violent, direct action protest in contemporary efforts to counter racism, sexism and classism. She then turns to challenge whether this approach can remain a viable philosophy for social change extending into the next century. Diane Nash was at the center of the early 1960s civil rights movement. Largely because she led or helped organize student sit-ins, freedom rides, voter registration drives, and educational workshops, she was one of only four women introduced (by an all male leadership) at the 1963 March on Washington. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; College of Education; School of Social Work; Department of Anthropology; Department of Educational Policy Studies; Department of English; Department of History; Department of Political Science; Department of Sociology; Department of Speech Communication; Afro-American Studies and Research Program; Center for African Studies; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; Latina/Latino Studies Program; LAS/Humanities Council; Women's Studies Program; African-American Cultural Program; LaCasa Cultural Latina; Office of Minority Student Affairs; St. John's Episcopal Church; Wesley Foundation. Civil Rights Time maintained by the Seattle Times Romancing the Stone: The Architecture of Cartagena, Colombia, A World Heritage City January 28, 1998 Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Plym Auditorium Temple Hoyne Buell Hall 611 Taft Drive, Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jaime Hernandez-Perez Restoration Architect, Cartagena, Colombia Alan K. and Leonarda Laing Visiting Professor in the School of Architecture and George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC Jamie Hernandez-Perez has rightfully gained prominence in his country as a preservation architect, restoring many of Cartagena's colonial and early republican period buildings. Instrumental in getting Cartagena recognized as a World Heritage City through UNESCO (one of only two such designated in the western hemisphere), he has also served in government as mayor of the city, as Lieutenant Governor for the state of Bolivar, and as head of a regional telecommunications company. Mr. Hernandez returns to UIUC where he received a Masters degree in Architecture in 1982 to share his vision of this historic and beautiful Caribbean port city. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; School of Architecture: Alan K. and Leonarda Laing Bequest. The Resurgence of Africa: Reclaiming the Congo February 5, 1998 Thursday 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign André M. Kapanga Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations In recent years, the African continent has been undergoing profound transformation and renewal, characterized by economic growth and political democratization. Ambassador Kapanga discusses the regional, continental and global significance of the demise of Mobitu Sese Seko' thirty-two year regime in the Congo (formerly Zaire) which, according to some observers, is as significant for the future of Africa as is the end of apartheid in South Africa. Ambassador Kapanga received both a MA and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is currently on leave from the Department of French, Illinois State University at Normal, where he is a tenured member of the faculty. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; Department of French; Department of History; Department of Linguistics; Department of Political Science; Center for African Studies; Continuing Education in International Affairs; International Programs and Studies. Madness, Hype, or Vision of Hope: The World Brain and the Organization of All of the Knowledge in All of the World February 10, 1998 Tuesday 4:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign W. Boyd Rayward Professor, School of Information, Library and Archive Studies, University of New South Wales, Australia and George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC H.G. Wells argued that it is only by creating "a permanent organization of knowledge, systematically assembled, continuously extended and made freely and easily accessible to every one, that there is the slightest hope of our species meeting the serried challenges of destiny that are advancing upon it." Such an organization he believed was best described as a "World Brain," so capturing an old idea in a new metaphor and raising still vitally intractable problems of usable knowledge, social control, and technological determinism. And the idea takes on new life today in the world of the Internet, the World Wide Web and speculation about the capabilities of complex self-adaptive systems. Few individuals have thought as long and systematically as W. Boyd Rayward about changes in the organization of, and access to, information. Dr. Rayward earned his MS, in Library Science (1965) from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where he went on to become a member of the Faculty and then Dean of the Graduate Library School. At the University of New South Wales he has served as Head of the School of Information Library and Archive Studies and most recently as Dean of the Faculty of Professional Studies. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Language as Homeland: The Writings of Julia Alvarez February 16, 1998 Monday 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Julia Alvarez Author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies. Julia Alvarez was born in the Dominican Republic and came to the United States with her family when she was ten years old. Her first novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, traces the family history: their flight from the dictator Trujillo and their often difficult, sometimes comic adjustments to life in America. Her subsequent novels (In the Time of Butterflies) explore the political history of the Dominican Republic and the travails of a writer's life. She is also the author of two books of poetry. She has received a PEN Oakland Award for works which present a multicultural viewpoint and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award in fiction in 1995. " am always that immigrant," Ms. Alvarez says of her journey between two homelands and two languages. Her fiction and poetry address important questions of culture, identity, and creativity. She is a writer of compelling vision who possesses the natural storyteller's gift for what delights and moves us. Ms. Alvarez was a faculty member in the UIUC Department of English from 1985-88. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; 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; Department of English: Creative Writing Program, Robert J. Carr Visiting Author Fund; Department of History; Department of Journalism; Department of Political Science; Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Campus Honors Program; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; LAS/Humanities Council; Latina/o Studies Program; Women's Studies Program; La Casa Cultural Latina. Beyond the Immigrant Paradigm: The Situation Asian Americans and the Filipino Diaspora March 2, 1998 Monday 4:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign E. San Juan Professor of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio In an age of globalization and neoconservatism, Filipinos like most Asians are trying to articulate their community identities in a way that will not only be respectful of their separate cultural traditions, but also committed to the shaping of a just, democratic, and egalitarian order in the United States. What are the prospects and limits of this trend? Using excerpts from the documentary film "Savage Acts: Wars and Fairs" San Juan approaches the situation of Filipinos in the United States as a product of a long historical process that began with the colonization of the Philippines at the turn of the century and the entry of Filipinos into a labor market (in Hawaii and the West Coast) long inhabited by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean workers. For more information on UIUC's observation of 1998 Asian American Awareness Month please consult http://www.odos.uiuc.edu/apaa/aaam98.htm or contact Jonathan Ying, Office of the Dean of Students-Asian Pacific American Affairs, 333-0050. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; Department of Anthropology; Department of Educational Policy Studies; Department of English; Department of History; Department of Political Science; Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Asian American Studies Committee; Asian Pacific American Resource Committee; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; Office of the Dean of Students; Asian Pacific American Affairs. Saving Nature's Legacy: Conservation Biology and Planning on a Regional Scale March 3, 1998 Tuesday 4:00 p.m. Room 103, Mumford Hall 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Reed Noss President-elect, Society for Conservation Biology and Co-Executive Director, Conservation Biology Institute Biology and regional planning usually have been considered separate disciplines with disparate aims and methodologies. However, recently the limitations of species-by-species, and resource-by-resource approaches to conservation have become clear. Reed Noss argues that successful conservation efforts, especially biological reserve selection and design, require greater attention to ecosystems, landscapes, and ecoregions, as well as a unification of science with planning. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES): Office of Research; Department of Ecology, Ethology and Evolution; Department of Entomology; Department of Geography; Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences; Department of Plant Biology; Department of Urban and Regional Planning; Environmental Council; Illinois State Natural History Survey; Natural History Museum. Nothing to Declare: Identity, Shame and Class March 10, 1998 Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rita Felski Department of English, University of Virginia; George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC Those who lament the recent disappearance of class from cultural criticism invariably mean the working class. Very little attention has been paid to the lower middle class, recently described by John Hartley as "the social class with the lowest reputation in the entire history of class theory." Yet the lives of ever more individuals in the industrialized West are defined by occupations, life-styles and attitudes traditionally associated with the lower middle class. Rita Felski considers the reasons why the lower middle class has been, and is likely to remain, a singularly "uncool" identity among the intelligentsia. She then examines some relevant representations of this class in literature and in the work of historians and sociologists of culture. While lower-middle-classness poses a problem for contemporary forms of identity politics, it nevertheless raises important issues that cultural studies has yet to systematically address. 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Women and Creativity: Why Few Women are Creative March 12, 1998 Thursday 4:00 p.m. Room 112, Gregory Hall 810 South Wright Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nawal El Sayed El Saadawi Egyptian feminist, writer, and physician "I will talk about obstacles facing women in the creative field, in Africa, the Arab societies and in the world in general. These obstacles are universal but the degree of oppression and its shape differ from place to place. The class-patriarchal system is global and affects women's ability to create since childhood. To liberate women early in their lives from class and male domination is necessary to liberate their physical and mental powers. Women are brought up to create children and not ideas. The role of women in life is limited mainly to reproduction, they are allowed to give birth to children and be mothers but they are prevented from having human rights especially the right of pleasure (intellectual pleasure or physical pleasure). In history since the sinner Eve, "pleasure" was forbidden for women and "pain" became their lot. To taste the pleasure of creativity is essential to being creative." Dr. Nawal El Saadawi is one of Africa's and the Arab world's most well known writers and feminists. As a result of her literary and scholarly writings and activism, she has faced persecution and harassment from intolerant state officials and religious extremists, including dismissal, imprisonment and the banning of some of her works. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; Afro-American Studies and Research Program; Center for African Studies; Department of French; Department of English; Department of Political Science; Department of Sociology; Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent; Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program; Medical Scholars Program; Office of Women in International Develop.m.ent; Program in Comparative Literature; Program in South and West Asian Studies; Women's Studies Program. Does "Postmodernist" Philosophy Make Any Difference to Politics? March 13, 1998 Friday 4:00 p.m. Lincoln Hall Theater 702 South Wright Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Richard Rorty William R. Kenan Professor and University Professor of Humanities, University of Virginia "I urge that whatever good the ideas of 'objectivity' and 'transcendence' have done for our culture can be attained equally well by the idea of a community which strives after both intersubjective agreement and novelty - a democratic, progressive, pluralist community of the sort of which Dewey dreamt. If one interprets objectivity as intersubjectivity, or as solidarity, then one will drop the question of how to get in touch with 'mind-independent and language-independent reality.' One will replace it with questions like 'What are the limits of our community? Are our encounters sufficiently free and open? Has what we have recently gained in solidarity cost us our ability to listen to outsiders who are suffering? To outsiders who have new ideas?' These are political questions rather than metaphysical or epistemological questions." Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Vol. 1, p. 13. Philosophy Annual Public Lecture 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; Department of the Classics; Department of English; Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of History; Department of Linguistics; Department of Philosophy; Department of Political Science; Department of Sociology; Department of Speech Communications; Drobny Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; Program in Comparative Literature; Program for the Study of Religion; Unit for Cinema Studies; Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; Graduate Philosophy Organization. Globalizing Feminist Ethics March 18, 1998 Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alison M. Jaggar Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder Alison M. Jaggar explores relationships between local feminist discourse communities and the imagined global feminist discourse community. The work she presents here is part of a larger ongoing project on feminist discourse ethics, a form of ethical theory that seeks to identify universal criteria for consensus and legitimate agreement. Many feminists question the possibility of establishing such a universal criteria, precisely because of the power differences between different members of a given society. Because not all members of society enter into ethical and political conversations on equal terms, it is difficult to know what would count as legitimate agreement among these members. Taking a global perspective on this issue renders the problem still more vexing, because disparities of power (economic, political, cultural, etc.) are often even more pronounced as, for example, between North American and European feminists and their counterparts in developing or Third World countries. Despite these difficulties, feminists are beginning to talk to each other across global boundaries. What further develop.m.ents might a global perspective bring? As a distinguished and internationally recognized philospoher, widely published in the fields of feminist theory, ethics, and social and political philosopher, Jaggar expresses theoretical issues skillfully and in an accessible and engaging manner. The Inaugural Annie Pritchard Lecture A graduate student in the Department of Philosophy from 1986 until her early death in 1994, Annie Pritchard worked extensively in feminist theory. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; College of Law; Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Department of Anthropology; Department of the Classics; Department of English; Department of Educational Psychology; Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of French; Department of History; Department of Kinesiology; Department of Philosophy; Department of Sociology; Department of Speech Communications; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; Institute for Communications Research; Program in Comparative Literature; Program for the Study of Religion; Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; Women's Studies Program; Graduate Philosophy Organization. Lady of the Day: The Myths and Meanings of Billie Holiday April 6, 1998 Monday 7:30 p.m. Auditorium, Room 2100, Music Building 1114 West Nevada Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Farah Jasmine Griffin Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Billie Holiday's voice and image are used to sell cars, clothing, evoke atmosphere in restaurants, coffee shops and bookstores, and set the mood for films, plays, novels and poems. She is widely recognized as one of our nation's major jazz artists; her image is also a familiar symbol to many who know little of her life or her work. As part of a larger study of the circulation and commodification of the Holiday image, myth, legacy and voice, Farah Jasmine Griffin will explore Holiday's own contribution to the various myths that have been constructed about her. "What interests are served, what moods are evoked, in the various Holiday's that are currently in circulation?" Such questions reveal a great deal about the place of jazz music and culture in the United States. Farah Jasmine Griffin is the author of Who Set You Flowin'?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford University Press, 1995) and the editor of Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African American Travel Narratives (forthcoming from Beacon Press) and Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: The Rebecca Primus-Addie Brown Correspondence (forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf). 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; School of Music; Department of English; Department of History; Department of Political Science; Department of Theatre; Afro-American Studies and Research Program; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; Unit One/Allen Hall; Women's Studies Program; African-American Cultural Program; YWCA of the University of Illinois; CAS/MillerComm98. From Painting to Media: From Here to There April 9, 1998 Thursday 7:30 p.m. Room 62, Krannert Art Museum 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Visual Artist, Unit One Guest-in-Residence "In my work I struggle with issues of accessibility and social responsibility. I have a personal commitment to speak about people, histories and ways of being that are not necessarily mainstream concerns: but I feel an individual obligations toward these narratives and would like to see them be a vehicle of inspiration and self-affirmation for the people who most need it... My goal is to achieve a sense of place in which visual poetry communicates and connects with others, challenging viewers to explore their own experiences of contradictions and synthesis which may intersect with mine." Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is best known as a leader of the Cuban Artistic Renaissance of the 1980's. She is a visual artist who uses painting, sculpture, performance, film, video and photography to explore issues of gender, identity and territory. This slide and video illustrated conversation will trace the progression of Campos-Pons' work from 1985 to the present. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; Unit One/Allen Hall. Tribal America at the Crossroads: Cultural and Political Autonomy Within Larger Governmental Systems April 14, 1998 Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign LaDonna Harris Founder and President, Americans for Indian Opportunity, New Mexico In an era when tribal and ethnic strife have become the focus of unrest on nearly every continent, Tribal America has a unique opportunity to make a significant contribution to global society. How have traditional Native American tribal methods of consensus-building been used to facilitate conflict resolution throughout the world? LaDonna Harris, founder of INDIANnet, the first Native American owned and operated telecommunications network, will also address the impact of computer technology and the Information Age on tribal communities. Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) is a catalyst for new concepts and opportunities for Indian peoples. This national organization works to enhance the cultural, social, political and economic self-sufficiency of tribes. Eighth Daniel S. Sanders Peace and Justice Lecture Daniel S. Sanders was dean of the UIUC School of Social Work from 1986-1989. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; College of Education; College of Fine and Applied Arts; School of Social Work: Daniel S. Sanders Memorial Fund, Social Work Alumni Association; Department of Anthropology; Department of History; Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent; Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences; Department of Political Science; Department of Sociology; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; Office of Women in International Develop.m.ent; Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS); Women's Studies Program; Faculty/Staff Assistance Program; Office of International Student Affairs; Office of Women's Programs; WILL Radio-AM/FM. Options in the Persian Gulf April 16, 1998 Thursday 7:30 p.m. Room 114, David Kinley Hall 1407 West Gregory Drive, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign David Cortright President, Fourth Freedom Forum Warren Marik Senior Central Intelligence Agency Official (retired) Does the United States have any real "options" in dealing with Iraq besides the use of military force? Is the policy of "dual containment" (which includes Iran) still viable? Are the risks of a break-up of Iraq so great that the United States must be cautious in its attempts to destabilize, remove, or punish Saddam's regime? This dual presentation by David Cortright and Warren Marik will open up debate on American options in the Gulf, provide fresh insights into the American strategy to isolate and punish the Saddam regime, and suggest new policy corridors. Both have been publicly visible and very active in the recent national debate over policy towards Iraq. As president of the Fourth Freedom Forum, David Cortright has actively pursued the utility of economic and other sanctions in dealing with regimes such as Iraq. Warren Marik directed the CIA's program to support opposition democratic forces in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein; the collapse of the program was followed by his own resignation one year ago. Marik is a UIUC graduate (1971). 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS); Continuing Education in International Affairs; International Programs and Studies; Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Department of History; Department of Nuclear Engineering; Department of Philosophy; Department of Political Science. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls April 20, 1998 Monday 7:00 p.m. CANCELLED Lincoln Hall Theatre 702 South Wright Street, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Joan Jacobs Brumberg Professor of History, Human Develop.m.ent and Women's Studies, Cornell University and author of The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls In The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, social historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over the past century and why that experience is more difficult today than ever before. With an eye for the humor in as well as the pain of female adolescence, Brumberg uses personal diaries, as well as other historical sources, to show how American girls came to define themselves increasingly through their appearance, so that today the body has become their primary project. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; College of Nursing; School of Social Work; Department of Community Health; Department of Dance; Department of English; Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent; Department of Kinesiology; Department of Sociology; LAS/Humanities Council; Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program; Women's Studies Program; Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women; McKinley Health Center; Office of Women's Programs. Fifty Years After Independence: India's Evolving Role in Transforming the Global Economy April 23, 1998 Thursday 7:30 p.m. Room 103, Mumford Hall 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jagdish N. Sheth Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Giozueta Business School, Emery University Just after India's independence fifty years ago, a policy of economic non-alignment was adopted; twenty-five years later, a policy of self-reliance was embraced. However, neither path has resulted in realizing the vast potential of this nation rich in resources both physical and human. In an era of global deregulation, liberalization of trade and investment, India must once again make a choice. Should existing policies and practices continue with the risk of further marginalization in a rapidly changing global economy? Would it be more advantageous to align with one of the emerging regional trading blocs (the American, European Union, and the Asian) and, if so, which bloc really needs or wants India? Are there other options? Which path should India actively pursue? Jagdish Sheth, one of the worlds most respected authorities on marketing management, corporate strategy and economic develop.m.ent returns to UIUC, where he was on the faculty 1969-1984. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; College of Commerce and Business Administration; Department of Advertising; Department of Business Administration; Department of Economics; Program in South and West Asian Studies; Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS); Indian Cultural Society; Indian Students Association; Working with Class: Social Workers, Metropolitan Culture and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity in Twentieth-Century America April 30, 1998 Thursday 7:30 p.m. Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall 611 Taft Drive, Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Daniel J. Walkowitz Professor of History and Director, Metropolitan Studies, New York University The vast majority of Americans, regardless of income, consider themselves to be middle-class. Daniel J. Walkowitz uses the history of social work in the U.S. to explore how issues of gender, race and ethnicity have been central to how the notion of "class" has shifted from an economic to a political category. 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; Office of Affirmative Action; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller Endowment; George A. Miller Committee; Peggy Harris Memorial Fund; School of Social Work; Department of History; Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent; Department of Urban and Regional Planning; Afro-American Studies and Research Program; Lorado Taft Lecture Committee; Women's Studies Program.