FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: vivian may <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please announce/distribute widely: ______________________________________________________________________________ Texas Woman's University's Women's Studies Program, in partnership with the journal, _Womanist Theory and Research_, published at the University of Georgia, proudly presents a distinguished lecture series for Spring, 2000 entitled, "BLACK FEMINIST THEORIZING ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES." We invite you to enjoy intellectual dialogue with eight scholars who will discuss the foundations, concerns, and implications of Black feminist theory and practice across the last 200 years. The Series will take place on Thursday evenings, from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. [in either MCL Auditorium or Redbud Theater on TWU's Denton, TX campus] and will be followed by a booksigning/reception. All lectures are FREE and open to the public. TWU is located in Denton, TX, which is at the northern end of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex on I-35. For further details, please contact the Series Coordinators: Dr. Vivian May at (940) [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Dr. Beth Ferri at (940) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________________ Feb. 24 (MCL Auditorium) -- JOYCE E. KING, "'Who Knoweth Whether Thou Art Come to the Kingdom for Such a Time as This?' Transformative Public Scholarship for Social Change". Dr. King is an Associate Vice Provost and a Professor of Education, Medgar Evers College-City University of New York. Her research focuses on emancipatory education, alienation in education, teacher development and consciousness, the ideology of race, Black women's leadership, and social change. March 2 (MCL Auditorium) -- ELIZABETH WEST, "Black Female Protagonists and the Abstruse Racialized Self in Antebellum African American Fiction". Dr. West is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on 19th century Black feminist rhetoric, including the works of Anna Julia Cooper and Alexander Crummell, slave narratives, and 20th century Caribbean women writers. March 9 (Redbud Theater) -- BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL, "Global Black Feminisms". Dr. Guy-Sheftall is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman College. Her research focuses on black women's history, activism and theory across the diaspora. She is also the founding co-editor of SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black women. March 23 (Redbud Theater) -- KRISTAL BRENT ZOOK, "Wandering Journalist: The Role of Autobiography and Personal Reflection in Black Feminist Scholarship". Dr. Brent Zook is a freelance journalist and an Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies, California State University-Northridge. Her writing focuses on race and representation, the politics of black television and film production, black women writers, contemporary issues in African American communities, and gender and activism. March 30 (Redbud Theater) -- CHERRY MUHANJI, "Sound Track". Dr. Muhanji is a creative writer, the acting Director of Black Studies and Assistant Professor of English, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her writing focuses on African American experiences of space and place, both urban and rural, blues and jazz culture, familial and interpersonal relationships, including lesbian identity/desire, and questions of social constraint and agency. April 6 (MCL Auditorium) -- RITA LIBERTI, "'Finer Womanhood' and the Place of Competitive Basketball for Women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1900-1950". Dr. Liberti is an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Physical Education, CSU-Hayward. Her research focuses on the athletic experiences of women enrolled as students in historically black colleges and universities throughout the first half of the 20th century. April 13 (MCL Auditorium) -- AARONETTE WHITE, "Ain't I a Feminist? Black Men as Advocates of Feminism". Dr. white is a visiting scholar in residence in African American Gender Studies, Wilberforce University. Her research focuses on social psychology, black men's roles in feminist activism, and narrative, testimonials, and life stories as rich sources of social and political knowledge. April 20 (MCL Auditorium) -- TRUDIER HARRIS, "Strength, Morality, Tyranny: The Nature of African American Literary Mother". Dr. Harris is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on African American literature and folklore, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Black women and domestic work, lynching, and Black women's social roles, including mothering. _______________________________________________________________________________ ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
