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The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?
April 22, 1999
Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John L. Esposito
Founding Director, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding: History and International Affairs, Georgetown University
Since the end of the Cold War, scholars and journalists have focused on the potential threat of political Islam to world peace and the values of democracy and personal freedom valued by Western civilization. From the Ayatollah Khomeini to Saddam Hussein, the image of Islam as a militant, expansionist, and rabidly anti-Western religion has gripped the minds of
governments and the media. John Esposito evaluates the validity of such fears with respect to Islam both as a religion and its political expressions in the past two decades.
Sponsored by: Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in conjunction with: Department of Economics, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of History, Department of Linguistics, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Center for African Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Program for the Study of Religion , Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), Women in International Develop.m.ent, Women’s Studies Program, Independent Muslim Students Association.
Series support provided by: 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.
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Circles of Influence: Paul Klee's Exchange of Pictures with His Artist Friends
April 21, 1999
Wednesday 4:00 p.m.
Room 62, Krannert Art Museum
500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Josef Helfenstein
Associate Director, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland and George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC
For artists to give each other gifts or exchange their pictures has always been a sign of mutual appreciation. Paul Klee exchanged many works during the course of his friendship with artists like Alfred Kubin, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Franz Marc, Lyonel Feininger, Emil Nolde, and many others. Even more astonishing than the quantity is the regularity of this mutual gift-giving and the variety and intensity of the dialogue which went on in private. This practice of exchanging gifts was full of symbolic allusions and hidden commentary concerning Klee's and his friends’ artistic concepts, as this lecture will show. At least during some crucial phases in his career, artist friends seem to have been, for Klee, the ideal public for his art.
Sponsored by: Art History Program in conjunction with: School of Art and Design, International Programs and Studies
Series support provided by: 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
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Traces of the Past: Unraveling the Secrets of Archaeology
through Chemistry
April 14,1999
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joseph B. Lambert
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Chemical analysis of archaeological materials provides information largely unavailable by other means. Although there are many examples of chemical dating and site prospection, the major impact of chemistry on archaeology has come from analysis of artifacts and human remains. Such studies provide information on sources of raw material, authenticity of artifacts, technology of manufacture, and ancient diet.
Sponsored by: Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials (ATAM) in conjunction with Department of Anthropology, Department of Chemistry, Department of the Classics, Department of Geology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Campus Honors Program, Spurlock Museum, Archaeological Institute of America, Central Illinois Society.
Series support provided by: 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
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Child Labor: Policy and Program Issues
April 13, 1999
Tuesday 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jack Otis
Dean and Professor, School of Social Work, University of Texas
The single most important source of child abuse and child exploitation in the world is child labor, which affects over 250 million children under the age of sixteen. These children are considered desirable employees not only because they work for low or no wages, but because they are powerless and docile. Prevention and ameliorative programs and policies should focus on economics and education, giving priority to the most dangerous forms of child labor, identifying the most vulnerable children and enforcing already existing laws.
The Ninth Daniel S. Sanders Lecture
Daniel S. Sanders was dean of the UIUC School of Social Work from 1986 to 1989.
Sponsored by: School of Social Work, Daniel S. Sanders Memorial Fund, Graduate Social Work Association and Social Work Alumni Association in conjunction with College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES), College of Education, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law
Continuing Education in International Affairs, Department of Political Science, Office of International Programs and Studies, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Women’s Studies Program, Faculty/Staff Assistance Program, St. Andrew’s Lutheran Campus Center
Series support provided by: 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 |
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From Corsets to Body Piercing: An Historical Perspective on Female Adolescence
April 12, 1999
Monday 7:00 p.m.
Lincoln Hall Theatre
702 South Wright Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignJoan 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 best-selling book, 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.
Sponsored by: Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent in conjunction with School of Social Work, Department of Dance, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Department of History, Department of Kinesiology, Department of Sociology, Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program, Women’s Studies Program, Counseling Center, McKinley Health Center, Office of Women’s Programs, Psychological Services Center
Series support provided by: 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.
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Redistribution, Recognition and Social Justice
April 9, 1999
Friday 4:00 p.m.
Room 141, Commerce West
1206 South Sixth Street, Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nancy Fraser
Department of Political Science, The New School for Social Research, New York
Do the demands of cultural recognition on the basis of nationality, ethnicity, “race” or gender essentially conflict with the more traditional demands for justice that focus on exploitation and the need for economic redistribution?
Nancy Fraser’s books include Justice Interruptus: Rethinking Key Concepts of a “Postsocialist” Age (1997) and Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory (1989).
Sponsored by: Department of Philosophy and Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities in conjunction with Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women’s Studies Program, Graduate Philosophy Student Organization.
Series support provided by: 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 |
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Michelangelo and the Poetry of Vision in Italian Renaissance Art
April 8, 1999
Thursday 7:30 p.m.
Room 114, David Kinley Hall
1407 West Gregory Drive, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul Barolsky
Commonwealth Professor of Art History, University of Virginia
Deftly interweaving poetry, theology, philosophy, and art, Paul Barolsky explores issues of poetic imagination, artistic inventiveness, and powers of pictorial expression. Using Michelangelo’s Creation scenes in the Sistine Chapel, Barolsky’s subtle analysis of such visionary art deepens our understanding not only of the Sistine frescoes but encourages further reflections on a celebrated monument of the Renaissance era.
The Rosemary Coffey Memorial Lecture
This lecture commemorates Rosemary Coffey, an exceptionally gifted teacher of Art History and a highly valued colleague, who died prematurely in 1984.
Sponsored by: Art History Program Rosemary Coffey Memorial Lecture Fund in conjunction with: School of Architecture, School of Art and Design, Department of History, Campus Honors Program, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Krannert Art Museum, Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Comparative Literature , Society of Art History and Archeology.
Series support provided by: 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.
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Dangerous Crossroads: Culture, Time, and Place in the New Millennium
March 24, 1999
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George Lipsitz
George A. Miller Endowment Professor, UIUC and Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego
New technologies, economic structures, and cultural forms are enacting dramatic transformations in social relations around the globe. While these transformations affect every place in the world, they do not make every place the same. The particulars of place and history give global institutions and processes their determinate shape. They revive and renew ancient enmities, while at the same time generating new forms of social organization and identification.
These new circumstances demand new ways of knowing inside and outside the academy. By looking at the unpredictable creativity of contemporary artists, intellectuals, and activists we can discern the outlines of epistemologies and analyses to arm us appropriately for the problems we face in this emerging world.
Sponsored by: Department of History, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research in conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Campus Honors Program, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of English, Department of Geography, Department of Journalism, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Latina/o Studies Program, Program in Comparative Literature, Unit for Cinema Studies, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Unit One, University of Illinois Press.
Series support provided by: 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.
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A Tale of Two Synods: How Christianity and Judaism Converged On the Eve of the Middle Ages
March 23, 1999
Tuesday 8:00 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Daniel Boyarin
Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, University of California at Berkeley and Ann and Paul Krouse Visiting Scholar in Judaism and Western Culture, UIUC
Christianity and Judaism continued to be one religio-cultural system through late antiquity, exhibiting many mutual influences and practices. Daniel Boyarin reflects on this relationship and, in the process, explores attitudes toward a number of issues central to our own intellectual and social life.
Boyarin has written widely on major Jewish texts from all periods of the Bible to the modern period addressing such topics as the formation of Jewish identity, connections between Jewish experience and sexual or gender identity and the concept of diaspora. He is the author of Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture, Intertexuality and the Reading of Midrash, and A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity.
Sponsored by: Sheldon and Anita Drobny Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society and Ann and Paul Krouse Endowment in conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Comparative Literature, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women’s Studies Program, B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation, Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation and Psychological Services Center.
Series support provided by: 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. |
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Human Domination of Global Ecosystems: Implications for a Stable and Sustainable Society
March 10, 1999
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Room 112 Gregory Hall
810 South Wright Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
G. David Tilman
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
During the 20th century the world's human population increased almost 4-fold and per capita consumption increased about 8-fold making humans the dominant force impacting ecosystems of the world. Human impacts including habitat destruction, introduction of exotic species, and pollution are causing the largest species extinction event in history. Recent research demonstrates that this loss of biodiversity threatens the productivity and stability of earth’s ecosystems. New policies and ethics are required if we are to have a stable and sustainable society during the new millennium.
An additional talk will be given by Peter Vitousek, Professor and Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, “Beyond Climate Change: Human Alteration of the Earth” on April 12. Contact the Department of Ecology, Ethology and Evolution, 333-7801 or www.life.uiuc.edu/eee for time and place.
Sponsored by: Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in conjunction with: College of Applied Life Studies, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Environmental Council, School of Life Sciences, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Crop Sciences, 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 Statistics, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Veterinary Bioscience, Agricultural Experiment Station, Illinois Natural History Survey, Water Resources Center, Rainforest Action Group, Students for Environmental Concerns, Champaign County Audubon Society, Educational Resources in Environmental Sciences.
Series support provided by: 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 |
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Ishmael Reed: Reading From His Work
March 4, 1999
Thursday 4:00 p.m.
Room 112, Gregory Hall
810 South Wright Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ishmael Reed
Poet, Novelist, Essayist, Anthologist, Activist and MacArthur Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
An uncompromising, challenging and complicated voice, Ishmael Reed is widely considered one of today's preeminent African American literary figures. Consistently inventive and provocative, Reed’s career spans over four decades and has been recognized with numerous awards including the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award for Fiction, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the American Civil Liberties Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998.
“Ishmael Reed . . . will be recalled at least in part for his self-willed expulsion from the literary tradition that he parodies, for his fierce political and literary individuality, and for his skill as an archer of satire. Despite the large tasks that Reed has set for his project as a writer, he achieved the most difficult goal of all---the registering of a literary voice at once black and American, yet always uniquely his own.”
Henry Louis Gates
Sponsored by: Department of English and Carr Visiting Writers Series in conjunction with: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Center for African Studies, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Program for the Study of Religion, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, African-American Cultural Program.
Series support provided by: 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.
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Microevolutionary Influences of Global Environmental Change on Plant Populations
March 3, 1999
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Auditorium, Environmental and Agricultural Sciences Building
1101 West Peabody Drive, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spencer C.H. Barrett
Professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Department of Botany, University of Toronto
Global change involves diverse environmental influences many of which are likely to act as important selective pressures on plant populations. Predicting the particular microevolutionary responses of plant populations to these changes is a difficult task without knowledge of the amounts and patterns of genetic variation for adaptive traits. Barrett explores the genetic consequences of climate-induced changes in reproduction, effects of habitat fragmentation and land use change on the ecology and genetics of metapopulations, and the influence of changing agricultural practices and biotechnology on the origin and evolution of plant invaders.
Sponsored by: Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in conjunction with: College of Applied Life Studies, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Environmental Council, School of Life Sciences, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Crop Sciences, 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 Statistics, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Veterinary Bioscience, Agricultural Experiment Station, Illinois Natural History Survey, Water Resources Center, Rainforest Action Group, Students for Environmental Concerns, Champaign County Audubon Society, Educational Resources in Environmental Sciences.
Series support provided by: 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.
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Nightgowns from Cuba: Desire and Diaspora After the Revolution
February 25, 1999
Thursday 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ruth Behar
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
As a child growing up in post-revolutionary Cuba as a member of an Ashkenazi-Sephardic family, Ruth Behar was cared for by Cardidad Martinez, an Afro-Cuban woman. Years later, the now noted anthropologist and MacArthur Fellow, once again encounters Martinez although under vastly different circumstances.
This is the very personal story of that encounter as Ruth Behar examines her childhood relationship with Martinez through a variety of modes - ethnographical, autobiographical and fictional. The difficulties, as well as advantages, of autobiography in anthropology are revealed in this fascinating account of the racial dynamics of the Cuban-Jewish experience in the late twentieth century.
Sponsored by: Department of Anthropology, Drobny Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society and Latina/o Studies Program in conjunction with: Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, CAS Initiative, Territories and Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Latina/o Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Women’s Studies Program and La Casa Cultural Latina.
Series support provided by: 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 and Peggy Harris Memorial Fund.
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Anthropology Yesterday: Reflections on the Historiography of Cold War Anthropology in the United States
February 17, 1999
Wednesday 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George W. Stocking, Jr.
George A. Miller Endowment Professor, UIUC and Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in Anthropology, University of Chicago
George Stocking is the world's leading historian of anthropology. His seminal publications on 19th and 20th-century British and American anthropology include Race, Culture, and Evolution (1968), Victorian Anthropology (1987), The Ethnographer's Magic (1992), and After Tylor (1995). He is also the founding editor of the History of Anthropology series.
Sponsored by: Department of Anthropology and Department of History in conjunction with Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.
Series support provided by: 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
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Mark Doty: Reading From His Work
February 16, 1999
Tuesday 7:30 p.m..
Auditorium, Room 2100, Music Building
1114 West Nevada, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark Doty
Poet and Recipient National Book Critics Award for My Alexandria
. . She’s a man
you wouldn’t look twice at in street clothes,
two hundred pounds of hard living, the gap in her smile
sadly narrative---but she’s a monument,
in the mysterious permission of the dress.
This is Esta Noche, a Latin drag bar in the Mission,
its black door a gap in the face
of a battered wall. All over the neighborhood
storefront windows show all night
shrined hats and gloves, wedding dresses,
First Communion’s frothing lace:
gowns of perfection and commencement,
fixed promises glowing. In the dress
the color of the spaces between streetlamps
Lola stands unassailable, the dress
in which she is in the largest sense
fabulous: a lesson, a criticism and colossus
of gender, all fire and irony . . .
From “Esta Noche,” My Alexandria, (University of Illinois Press, 1993)
Mark Doty’s five books of poems, including My Alexandria and Sweet Machine, have received the National Book Critics Circle, a Whiting Writers Award, and Britain’s T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry. His memoir, Heaven’s Coast, won the PEN Martha Albrand Prize for Nonfiction for 1996 and was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, who described the book as ”a terrifying and elegant document of the age of AIDS.” A new memoir, Firebird, is forthcoming in 1999.
Sponsored by: Women’s Studies Program in conjunction with: College of Communications, Department of English, Department of History, Campus Honors Program, Carr Visiting Writers Series, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program, University of Illinois Press, Unit One, Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns
Series support provided by: 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
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False Friends and Avowed Enemies: Southern African Americans, Party Allegiances, and the Feminization of the Polling Place in the 1920s
February 11, 1999
Thursday 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Glenda E. Gilmore
Department of History, Yale University
Historians agree that the switch of African Americans from the Republican to the Democratic Party in the 1936 election is one of the major events in twentieth century U.S. politics. By tracing the roots of that switch to the South and to the passage of woman suffrage, Gilmore argues that the history of this most famous political realignment resulted from a racialized and gendered political culture. Southern African Americans, especially women, decided to leave the party of Abraham Lincoln long before the party of Franklin Roosevelt bid them welcome. That decision had resounding consequences for American politics for the remainder of the century.
Sponsored by: Afro-American Studies and Research Program in conjunction with: Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Women’s Studies Program, La Casa Cultural Latina, University YWCA
Series support provided by: 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
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Vietnam and the Wounds of Memory
February 9, 1999
Tuesday 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul Hendrickson
Staff Writer, The Washington Post , and author, The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and the Five Lives of a Lost War
For a decade, journalist Paul Hendrickson investigated the life of Robert McNamara, the brilliant, technocratic architect of the Vietnam War. Hendrickson became haunted by a man he came to see as blinded by classic American ambition and arrogance. Hendrickson’s McNamara biography--a finalist for the National Book Award--unearths and demystifies the painful yet redemptive ghosts of McNamara’s life and the Vietnam War. As Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam wrote, “The Living and the Dead is a remarkable literary and journalistic achievement.”
Sponsored by: Department of Journalism in conjunction with: College of Communications, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Campus Honors Program, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), WILL-AM 580, Women’s Studies Program, Champaign Public Library
Series support provided by: 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
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The Many Things I Call Myself: Or What Does It Mean To Work Out An 'African Feminist' Identity
February 4, 1999
Thursday 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abena P.A. Busia
Departments of English, Comparative Literature and Women's Studies, Rutgers University
“I begin with myself; what have my own travels, within Africa and around the world taught me about how I am seen, and how I see myself? Of what significance is this knowledge, and what bearing does it have on the way I conduct myself, inside and outside the classroom, as a "Black African Woman"? Furthermore as one of a community of African women living and working in our respective countries on the continent as well as in the West, what differences has our contribution made to debates on feminism? What recognition have our theories and our practices been given?” Abena P.A. Busia
Sponsored by: Center for African Studies in conjunction with: International Programs and Studies, Department of English , Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Program in Comparative Literature, Women in International Develop.m.ent, Women's Studies Program
Series support provided by: 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
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Malthus Meets the Green Giant: Biotechnology and World Food Supply
January 27, 1999
Wednesday 7:00 p.m.
Room 112, Gregory Hall
810 South Wright, Urbana
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charles Benbrook
Former Executive Director, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences
World food production must grow at a steady clip to meet the challenges of population growth and economic develop.m.ent. But how? Agricultural policy analyst, Charles Benbrook argues that we are not pursuing the best opportunities to intensify production. In addressing technological advancements and their effects on the global ecosystem, he will emphasize the growth of biotechnology and genetically modified organisms.
This is the first of three events on “Agriculture’s Changing Role in the Global Ecosystem” sponsored by the World Food and Sustainable Agriculture Program. Sandra Postel discusses “Global Water and World Food Security,” February 3 and William Lockeretz explores “Fostering Stewardship in Agriculture: Not Just How But Who?” February 10. For more information, contact Daniel Anderson, 333-1588 or access http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/~Ilwfood.
Sponsored by: College of ACES in conjunction with Agroecology/Sustainable Agriculture Program, Office of International Affairs and Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR).
Series support provided by: 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
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