Public Lectures 2001-2002- Text Only
Grant Muir
Masculinities and Sexual Coercion: A Paradoxical
Relationship
Tuesday, October 23, 12-1 p.m.
Dexter Building 34, Room 228
What is the relationship between masculinity and sexual coercion? On one hand, sexual coercion could be seen as a way of asserting masculinity. Yet "forced sex" could be seen as undermining masculinity in terms of how perpetrators are perceived by other men. In this lecture, visiting Carnegie Endowment doctoral student Grant Muir will present his research on this paradox of masculinity and sexual coercion. Using both quantitative and qualitative studies, Muir will illustrate his findings and present a pattern of results that suggests a relationship between what could be termed an 'insecure' masculinity and the inclination to be coercive.
SUSAN McCully
Cyber Becomes Electcra: An Errata(ca)
Thursday, November 1st, 6pm
Music Building, Room 218
Susan McCully's one-woman performance piece "Cyber Becomes
Electra: An Errata(ca) is a dizzying verbal ride through eight
characters and their modern madness. What's a girl to do when
her biological clock is ticking and her high paid/high tech job
just isn't enough? What begins as a "natural" biological urge for
Electra quickly becomes modern techno mayhem as she turns
from fertility clinics and human cloning cults to cyborg
immortals for answers to her all too human baby quest. Will the
Amazon (dotcom) Goddess respond to her prayers, or will
cyber become Electra?
Dr. Linda Halisky
Of and For the Borderlands: The Myths of Inanna and Borderline Personality Disorder
Thursday, February 7, 11am -12pm
Erhart Ag Building 10, Room 222
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) , whose onset principally appears in adolescent or young adult females, is a highly distressing and controversial disorder—and one which has been historically resistant to treatment. Current theory within the psychiatric profession holds that perceptions of reality that rely heavily—sometimes solely—on either/or categories of experience or belief both contribute to BPD and hinder its management In this lecture, Professor Linda Halisky will address new approaches to behavioral conditioning whose aim is to loosen the hold dualistic patterns of thinking tend to have on borderline patients. She will focus particularly in the applicability of the Sumerian mythology of the Goddess Inanna (ca. 3500 BCE) to emerging treatment strategies for women diagnosed as suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Dr. Phillip Mabry
"Rethinking the One-Drop Rule:
The Race-Gender-Nation Nexus and
the Asian American Experience"
Thursday, April 11th
11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Erhart Ag
Building 10, Room 200
The “one drop rule” has historically meant that anyone with “one drop” of non-white blood should be classified as non-white. This talk proposes a reformulation of the one drop rule and expands its application to “war babies” in Asia. This broadened scope suggests that the “one drop rule” is not merely a classification device, but a revealing manifestation of broader structures of dominance, including race, sexuality and nationhood.
Professor Teresa Allen
"This Ain't No Country Club: Women Doing Hard Time"
Tuesday, May 7th
3 pm to 4 pm
Education Building 02 ,
Room 24
Professor Teresa Allen explores the changing world of women currently living behind bars in America's prison system. She will discuss the problems in researching women behind bars, and talk some about the stereotyping of female felons in the public and in print. Having spent more than three years conducting research in female penal institutions around the country, Allen is uniquely qualified to expose life "inside the walls" and tell the truth about incarcerated women: who they are, why they are there, and how they live.
