Women's and Gender STudies lecture series Fall 2008
Please join us as we highlight and celebrate the accomplishments of women through the Women's and Gender Studies Lecture Series.
"Your Negro Tour Guide" written by Kathy Y. Wilson
September 22, 2008
7:30pm
Bailey Science Center AuditoriumThe Women’s and Gender Studies program is proud to present “Your Negro Tour Guide” a one woman play based on Kathy Y. Wilson’s book, Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths In Black and White (2004, Emmis Books). The play, performed by Actress Torie Wiggins, explores African American identity, racism, and the American racial divide by tearing down racial constructs and stereotypes in thought provoking ways. Kathy and Torie will conduct a talk-back session and book signing after the show. This event is free and open to the public.
Kathy Y. Wilson
Besides writing "Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths In Black and White (2004, Emmis Books), Kathy is a senior editor at Cincinnati Magazine and an adjunct instructor teaching Women's Studies and Journalism at the University of Cincinnati. She frequently lectures university audiences on The Big Three: gender, race, and class identity.Torie Wiggins, Actor
Torie has been performing since the age of two. She trained in Atlanta, Chicago's Second City, and was the second African-American actress to graduate with a BFA in Dramatic Performance from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. She served as Artistic Director of the Black Arts Collaborative and appeared in Love's Fire, The Tempest, The Grapes of Wrath, The Mutilate, Marisol, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Colored Museum and The Vietnam Project. Currently residing in New York, she has appeared on All My Children, the new feature film Love Me Through It and her voice can be heard on national television and radio commercials for The Home Depot, Burger King, H & M, The WNBA and The National Center for Family Literacy.
Dr. Pippa Holloway, Associate Professor of History
Middle Tennessee State University
October 29, 2008
7:00pm
Bailey Science Center Auditorium
"Veneral Disease and the Politics of Social Control in Virginia 1920-1940"
Pippa is an associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Sexuality Politics and Social Control in Virginia 1920-1945 (UNC Press, 2006) which won the Willie Lee Rose prize from the Southern Association of Women's Historians. She is the editor of Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present (University of Georgia Press, 2008). For the 2007-2008 academic year she was a Soros Justice Fellow with the Open Society Institute, where she pursued research on the history of disfranchisement for crime in the 19th and 20th century south. Her forthcoming article, "A Chicken-Stealer Shall Lose His Vote: Disfranchisement for Larceny in the South, 1874-1890," will be published in the Journal of Southern History in Novemeber 2009.
PAST LECTURE SERIES
Women's and Gender STudies lecture series Fall 2007
John Guzlowski, Writer & Pulitzer Prize Nominee
"What The War Taught My Mother"
September 11, 2007
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| Dr. Louis Levy, Vice President for Academic Affairs Introducing John Guzlowski | John talking about his mother's experiences in Nazi Slave labor camps. The picture behind John is his mohter, his sister Donna, and himself. | John reading one of his poems about his mother's experinces from his book Ligtning and Ashes |
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| The audience listening to John's poems | John signing books | John signing books |
Signed copies of all three of John's books are availabe for purchase at the Women's and Gender Studies program located in Carswell Hall
Language of Mules $8.00
Lightning and Ashes $12.00
Third Winter of War: Buchenwald $10.00
For more information about John Guzlowski please see his webpage
http://lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com/
To hear John reading some of his poems please see the Spectator's Storyboard