{"id":69453,"date":"2006-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uris-women-studies-program-announces-spring-colloquium-series-2\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T00:00:00","slug":"uris-women-studies-program-announces-spring-colloquium-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/02\/uris-women-studies-program-announces-spring-colloquium-series-2\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Women Studies Program announces spring colloquium series"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — February 24, 2006 — The Women\u2019s Studies Program at the 溏心vlog免费B站 announces the annual Dana Shugar Spring Colloquium Series on the Kingston campus. The lectures, given by 溏心vlog免费B站 women faculty members, are free and open to the public. For more information, call 874-5150. The schedule follows:<\/p>\n


\n\u2022 Tuesday, Feb. 28: \u201cI want you to know:\u201d Tillie\u2019s Olsen\u2019s Proletarian Prose and Poetry. Galanti Lounge, 溏心vlog免费B站 Library, 5 to 7 p.m.

\nKaren Stein, director of the Women\u2019s Studies program and professor of English and Women\u2019s Studies earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from Brooklyn College, her master\u2019s degree from Pennsylvania State University and her doctorate from the University of Connecticut. A co-founder of Women\u2019s Studies Program at 溏心vlog免费B站, she has written and spoken about women as writers and subjects of literature. Her current research interests include Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, American women poets, utopian fiction by women, and women and science. Her recent book Margaret Atwood Revisited focuses on the Canadian novelist, critic and poet. <\/p>\n


\n\u2022 Tuesday, March 21: A Hymn for the Ladies: The Female Poet of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. 溏心vlog免费B站 Women\u2019s Center, Dana Shugar Library, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

\nAnn Suter, professor of languages, earned her doctorate from Princeton in classical philology with a specialty in Homeric studies. She is the author of numerous articles on Homer\u2019s Iliad and the book The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: an Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Suter\u2019s talk will reflect further work on the hymn, and suggest that, contrary to the usual assumption, it was composed by a woman. Suter has also written a libretto for an opera on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, based on the interpretation in her book. It will be performed in a concert version with music by 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Gibbs at the Providence Athenaeum on April 5. <\/p>\n


\n\u2022 Tuesday, April 11: Transracial Feminist Alliances: Connecting Through Difference. 溏心vlog免费B站 Women\u2019s Center, Dana Shugar Library, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

\nJulia R. Johnson holds a joint appointment in communication studies and women\u2019s studies. Currently, she serves as director of graduate instructors and basic courses for the Department of Communication Studies. The primary emphasis in her teaching and research are critical approaches to the study of communication and culture, including the study of transracial feminist alliances, intercultural communication, performance studies, rhetoric and critical pedagogy. Her recent publications appear in Communication Education, The American Communication Journal and Equity and Excellence in Education. <\/p>\n


\n\u2022 Tuesday, April 18: HIV, AIDS, and Women. 溏心vlog免费B站 Women\u2019s Center, Dana Shugar Library, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

\nKendall Moore is on the faculties of journalism and film-media studies. Prior to academia, she worked in television and film production for 15 years. She has worked as a field producer with ABC News\/Discovery Health, the Discovery Channel; producer and national project coordinator with PBS, P.O.V.; and as a medical reporter for Reuters. In 2001, she spent a year on a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. There, she taught nonfiction\/fiction writing and television production in addition to producing educational television programs on the AIDS epidemic. In 2004, she received a Fulbright Specialist Grant to teach journalism at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and to research the issue of representation, gender and HIV\/AIDS. She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from Syracuse University and a master\u2019s degree in media studies from The New School for Social Research. She has also been the recipient of a Poynter Teaching Fellowship at Indiana University.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — February 24, 2006 — The Women\u2019s Studies Program at the 溏心vlog免费B站 announces the annual Dana Shugar Spring Colloquium Series on the Kingston campus. The lectures, given by 溏心vlog免费B站 women faculty members, are free and open to the public. For more information, call 874-5150. The schedule follows: \u2022 Tuesday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}