Panelists address gender, race, politics
or the 12th year, the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies presents its day-long Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. The event kicks off Tuesday, March 22, in the Gamble Room of Rush Rhees Library with a breakfast at 9 a.m. and culminates with a closing reception at 4:15 p.m. in the Welles-Brown Room of the library.
Three panels of graduate students, each one moderated by a University professor, will focus on the topics of gender, race and ethnicity, and sexuality and the politics of visibility. Opening and closing remarks will be made by Susan Gustafson, director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute and professor of German and comparative literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures.
This year's keynote speaker will be Tim Dean, associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo. His talk is titled "Breeding Culture: Bare-backing, Bug-chasing, and Gift-giving." Dean, who received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University, is a former British civil servant and the author of several books, including Beyond Sexuality, Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious, and Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis, coedited with Christopher Lane.
Free and open to the public, the conference is cosponsored by the School of Nursing, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Frederick Douglass Institute of African and African-American Studies, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Film and Media Studies Program, Department of Clinical and Social Psychology, Visual and Cultural Studies Program, Department of Art and Art History, the Warner School, Department of English, and the Graduate Organizing Group.
For more information, contact the Susan B. Anthony Institute at x5-8318.
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