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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Stern Center, Great Room - 7:00 p.m.

Program presented by Kimberly Dozier, CBS News correspondent injured in Iraq, on April 21, 2008.

Kimberly Dozier Lecture

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Obama Advisor Mark Alexander visits Dickinson March 27, 2008

Mark Alexander, Senior Advisor to Senator Barack Obama, visited Dickinson College on Thursday to rally voters for the upcoming Pennsylvania primary election. Alexander’s visit, sponsored by the Dickinson College Student Democrats with the logistical support of The Clarke Forum, overflowed the Stern Center Great Room and kicked off an exciting day of politics that also included a visit from William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States.

Students hand out Obama literature in the Stern Center.

James Liska ‘09, president of the Dickinson College Democrats, introduces Alexander.

The crowd in the Stern Center overflows the building.

Senior Advisor to Senator Barack Obama, Mark Alexander.

Audience members listen to Alexander.

Photos by A. Pierce Bounds ‘71
Video by Chad Everts

Morgan Lecture program presented by Cynthia Enloe on 3/24/08
Cynthia Enloe Lecture

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Program presented by Robert Cook-Deegan on 3/18/08
Genomics Podcast

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Legal Age 21 after 23 Years: Has it Worked? Is it Working?

Program presented by John McCardell, Founder of Choose Responsibility and Chuck Hurley ‘67, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)

Drinking Age Program

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Program presented on 2/21/08 by Hans Dellien, Camilla Nestor, and Benjamin Powell with Craig Weeks as moderator.
Microfinance Panel

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Program presented by Denise Brennan on 2/14/08
Denise Brennan Lecture
Program presented by France Winddance Twine on 2/14/08
France Winddance Twine
Program presented by Prof. Ann Hill for Karen Kelsky on 2/14/08
Karen Kelsky Lecture
Panel Discussion
Gender & Sexuality Discussion

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Rush Award Lecture presented by Stephen Adler, Editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek magazine, on February 28, 2008.

Stephen Adler Lecture

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Program presented by Cindi Katz, City University of New York, Graduate Center, on February 7, 2008

Cindi Katz Lecture

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Program presented by Daniel Desmond, Deputy Secretary, Pennsylvania Office of Energy and Technology Deployment, on January 31, 2008
Daniel Desmond Lecture

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U.S. Army War College; Director, Office of Economic Opportunities with U.S. Aid for International Development

Engendering Development: Experience from the Field

Friday, March 28, 2008 - Lunch Discussion
The Clarke Forum - Reservations required
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Development practitioners have explored a range of approaches to ensure that both women and men benefit from development projects. This talk will describe approaches in Africa and the Middle East that have enabled women to progress economically and consequently gain more social and political power. It also cautions against assuming that power is only in the public domain and will discuss similarities between Moslem and Japanese cultures where female power is less overt but nonetheless influential in society.

Scholar-in-residence with Community Studies

Walking in a Sari and Combat Boots: Texts and Contexts of South Asian Diasporic Cinema

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - Lunch Discussion
The Clarke Forum - Reservations Required
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Discussion and clips of feature films and documentaries that illuminate the processes by which the South Asian community strives to forge an identity for itself in three Western countries (United States, Britain and Canada). Most independent filmmakers focus upon their South Asian tradition and how it collides with Western individuality. How do these films challenge and transcend homogenized mainstream media representations, and recognize heterogeneous differences within the South Asian diaspora?

Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow

Power and Influence in the House: Progressive Coalitions, Interracial Alliances and Marginal Group Politics

Monday, February 25, 2008 - Lunch Discussion
The Clarke Forum - Reservations Required
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Discussion on the internal dynamics of the House of Representatives and the ability of members from the representing marginal groups, particularly racial minorities, to navigate the legislative process.

CBS News Correspondent injured in Iraq and author

Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report - and Survive - the War in Iraq

Monday, April 21, 2008
7:00 p.m.- Stern Center, Great Room

Terrorism has made news reporting very dangerous. Reporters have become the targets of terrorist acts, where they once only stood next to targets. Being embedded has also made the role of correspondent more complex, raising such questions as which ’side’ we’re on, whether we are legitimate targets when shadowing the military or insurgents, and the ethics of going on a raid to kill insurgents. Also, the ‘cable effect’ has made it more difficult to report a straight story because so many people now expect some sort of opinion, and cable television representatives openly criticize correspondents for anything they report.

Sponsored by Betty R.’58, and Dan Churchill and Penn State Dickinson School of Law

Issue in Context
From World War II to the Vietnam War and the first Persian Gulf War, reporters have been responsible for providing a connection between the battlefield and the American public. This connection was mediated by various means of communication from the telegraph, to the television and, finally, computers. The technological boom has facilitated on site immediate news reporting and, at times of war, journalists venture to the battlefields and put themselves in harm’s way to capture the information and broadcast it instantly. Those working on the War in Iraq have faced new challenges and consequences primarily associated with their safety and well being.
The practice of embedding reporters within military units first came to be used during the media coverage of the 2003 invasion in Iraq. Embedded journalism has allowed reporters access to soldiers on the front lines in exchange for certain restrictions on coverage. Although this partnership has benefited journalists by letting them report from inside the military and protecting them with the security of that environment, questions have arisen regarding the accuracy and objectivity of the coverage. Also, due to the unpredictable nature and chaos of guerrilla warfare, reporters, like much of the general public, can easily become casualties and therefore must take extraordinary precautions to survive. Wall Street Journal reporter Farnaz Fassihi described that “…my most pressing concern everyday is not to write a kick-ass story, but to stay alive and make sure our Iraqi employees stay alive. In Bagdad, I am a security personnel first, a reporter second.”
While the daily struggle to survive continues in Iraq, reporters face a different sort of challenge at home. The so-called “cable effect” refers to a new kind of TV journalism that disparages objectivity, disregards criticism and discounts investigative reporting. The demand for entertainment spurred by the competitive market within cable television, rather than accurate reporting, has created a backlash against journalists who strive for the straight story. Reporters must struggle to find the truth and combat insurgents as well as American television. The pressures on embedded correspondents to gather all possible information while dealing with public preferences, government censorship, and security issues have complicated the ethics of journalism.

About the Speaker
Kimberly Dozier has been a CBS News correspondent since 2003, and has covered issues in Iraq and the Middle East extensively for the CBS Evening News, The Early Show and CBS Radio News. Her first book, Breathing the Fire, published by Meredith Books will debut in 2008.
Prior to her CBS News appointment, she was the chief correspondent for WCBS-TV, New York’s
Middle East bureau in Jerusalem, and served as the London bureau chief and chief European correspondent for CBS Radio News.
On May 29, 2006, Dozier, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, were the victims of a car bombing while reporting a story in Baghdad. Douglas and Brolan were killed, as were the U.S. Army captain and Iraqi translator accompanying them. Dozier was seriously wounded, but has since fully recovered.
Dozier received the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Grand Gracie Award in 2007 for her body of work on Iraq. She was also the recipient of the AWRT’s Gracie Awards for 2000, 2001 and 2002 for her radio reports on Middle Eastern violence, Kosovo and the Afghan war. Dozier was honored by the Overseas Press Club in 2007 and spoke on behalf of journalists killed and injured in Iraq. She also received the Association for Women in Communication’s 2007 Helen Duhamel Achievement Award. In 2007, she was awarded the Radio and Television News Directors Association and Foundation’s Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award. Most recently she won a 2007 Peabody award for “CBS News Sunday Morning: The Way Home,” for her piece about two female veterans who lost limbs in Iraq.
Dozier graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts in human rights and Spanish from Wellesley College in 1987 and holds a master’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of
Virginia.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Various Locations

Student Comments

Denisa Lazarescu ‘08

Tahar Lamri
The Pilgrimage of the Voice
Award winning author and noted artist Tahar Lamri presented within the second part of the symposium the short story titled “The Pilgrimage of the Voice” which was interpreted in four different languages: standard Italian, as well as Mantovano, Romagnolo, and Venetian dialects. Sitting on the floor, surrounded by students and professors, Tahar Lamri read his story while accompanied by Cafe Mira lead singer, Reda Zine who played the gnawa, a Moroccan musical instrument resembling a lute. Trying to recreate the atmosphere of storytelling around a camp fire, Tahar Lamri and Reda’s spiritual music complemented and emphasized the story of the “The Pilgrimage of the Voice” which delves into the topic of languages and cultures blending and influencing one another across borders. The diverse musical and linguistic experience was meant to underscore the message that communication through storytelling, as the basis of many cultures, is the means to attaining tolerance and understanding among people across the world. As the story of Scheherazade and the “One Thousand and One Nights”, storytelling preserves life, forges bonds among people, ensures cultural progress, and, most importantly, fosters communication. The new Mediterranean, as encapsulated by Tahar Lamri and the band Cafe Mira, is a place of extraordinary exuberance and diversity of cultures where borders are permeable and people engage in a constant dialogue through literature and music.

Katie Stewart ‘10

Cafe Mira as a Symbol of Multiculturalism
The New Mediterranean Symposium was effective in presenting the issues surrounding migration, cultural diaspora and identity. One key point of the symposium was that the blending of cultures and acceptance of the “other” can be beneficial to society. Cafe Mira, through the composition of the band itself and their genre, lyrics and instruments, demonstrated the positive effects of multiculturalism. The band is comprised of members from all over the world who, based on stereotypical and historical antipathies, are not even supposed to get along. Despite their range of cultures, Cafe Mira is able to unite and find common ground in their music. Their blending of musical genres, languages and instruments from all over the world further established how borrowing from a variety of cultures can lead to the creation of an enhanced whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Cafe Mira provides an example of the benefits of tolerance and cooperation that can be gained today if people are willing to accept and appreciate cultures that differ from their own.

This day-long symposium will address new ways of understanding diasporic identity, cultural, political boundaries and exchanges between Europe and North Africa through critical discussions and performances by writers, cultural critics, and musicians. The discussions will conclude with an improvisational and participatory Culture Jam and concert by the world music and Afro-Nord group, Cafe Mira.

11:00 a.m.

Panel discussion with Mark LeVine, University of California, Irvine; Marie Orton, Truman State University, Missouri;and Tahar Lamri, prize-winning author from Italy and Algeria. Tullio Pagano, Associate Professor of French and Italian, will moderate.
Stern Center, Great Room

1:30 p.m.

Tahar Lamri, prize-winning author from Italy and Algeria.
Stern Center, Great Room

7:00 p.m.

Culture Jam titled Diasporic Identities in Art. Culture Jams blend artists, activists, scholars and the audience in performance and dialogue. Mark LeVine, University of California, Irvine; Reda Zine, Cafe Mira band; Tahar Lamri, author; Cotton Seiler, assistant professor of American Studies, Dickinson College; Andrea Lieber, associate professor of religion, Dickinson College and Ed Webb, assistant professor of political science and international studies, Dickinson College, will participate.
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium

8:30 p.m.

World Music Concert - Cafe Mira from Western Europe and Northern Africa
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium

Co-sponsors: The Office of the Dean of Students, Department of Music, Multi-Organization Board (MOB), Student Activities; Panhellenic, Intrafraternity Council, Department of French and Italian, and the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania

Issue in Context
The Mediterranean Sea serves as a physical boundary between North Africa and Europe, however this boundary is permeable as people move from one body of land to the other. As Africans and Middle Easterners migrate to European countries, elements of their cultures of origin blend with and affect their host societies. This diasporic process of cultural exchange has sparked considerable debate between those who would welcome a rich mixing of backgrounds and others who see diversity as a threat to the purity of their culture.
Those who favor the presence of new people, ideas, and artistic forms view migration as beneficial to society, believing that differences enrich a country’s culture, providing various viewpoints from traditions upon which new cultural practices might be created. For example, the mixing of musical cultures may lead to the creation of new genres in that diverse musical elements are blended and expanded. In a culturally diverse society, a wide range of perspectives enables lively discussion, opening minds to new ways of understanding the world. This exchange of ideas may lead to a broader knowledge base while people of different backgrounds generate new modes of analysis and approaches to contemporary social problems.
Religion, economy and nationality have emerged as areas of contestation in the Mediterranean. The North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt are predominately Muslim as compared with southern European states, which are predominately Christian. Some Christians worry that the influx of Muslims will diminish Europe’s longstanding “Christian identity” and increase the risk of terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, racialized prejudices still exist in Europe, with both popular and official resistance to immigration from parts of the developing world. Some Europeans argue that immigration from Africa leads to a depression of wages and increased competition for jobs in that many impoverished Africans are willing to work for lower wages. Fear of a “collective ethnic threat,” as expressed frequently in the popular press, has lead to the implementation of stricter immigration policies. Jean-Marie Le Pen, a French politician who represents the racist, anti-immigration National Front party, supports policies such as a ban on the building of mosques in France. He argues that immigration is the “biggest problem facing France, Europe and probably the world. We risk being submerged.” This rhetoric clearly illustrates a concern with the influx of foreign populations into France as a might challenge to the supremacy and presumed homogeneity of French culture.
An ongoing debate among those in support of immigration and others in favor of isolation takes place in many different parts of the world. Noted scholar Mark Levine has created an innovative template for political discussion of such issues as the contemporary crisis of identitiy, which he describes as a “culture jam,” a scholarly and artistic dialogue modeled on the free and synergistic experimentation of improvisation and jazz. Culture jamming enables artists, scholars and activists to engage in verbal and non-verbal discussion about pressing current issues such as the issue of cultural diaspora through a creative montage of discussion, performance, and activism. The forum encourages a subversive, open expression of a variety of views and feelings in a free flowing, improvisational format that welcomes audience participation as well as the insights of leading scholars in the field of diasporic studies and creative artists.

About the Participants
Mark LeVine is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Irvine. His areas of study include the histories, theologies, political and cultural economies of the Middle East and Islam, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and globalization and its effect on the religions and cultures of Europe and the Middle East. He has written extensively on these subjects including Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv and the Struggle for Palestine (2005), Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil (2005) and Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine, which he co-edited in 2007. Professor LeVine is also a professional musician and has recorded and toured all over the world with various artists such as Mick Jagger and Johnny Copeland. He blends scholarship, music and activism by “culture jamming” around the world. Culture jams bring together scholars, musicians and activists to create an open dialogue on issues of great concern. Professor LeVine received a B.A. in comparative religion and biblical studies from Hunter College and a M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies.
Tahar Lamri is a prize-winning author and graduate of the University of Benghazi Law School. Mr. Lamri was born in Algiers, but has lived in Ravenna, Italy since 1987. As an author, lecturer and artist, Mr. Lamri has taken part in various seminars, conferences and cultural activities. In 1995, his story Solo allora sono certo potrò capire (Only Then, I Am Sure, Will I Be Able to Understand) won first prize for narrative in the literary competition Eks&Tra in Rimini, Italy. Furthermore, Mr. Lamri is currently a member of the European theatre project And the City Spoke, which performs in London, Warsaw and Gdinya. Along with the cultural association Insieme per l’Algeria (Together for Algeria), Mr. Lamri helps to organize the annual initiative ‘Le vie dei venti’ (’The Ways of the Winds’). Recently, Mr. Lamri has toured the United States with his show, Il pellegrinaggio della voce and co-authored the book I sessanta nomi dell’amore (The Sixty Names of Love) in 2006.
Marie Orton is an associate professor of Italian Studies at Truman State University whose research focuses on immigration in Europe, Holocaust literature and Italian multiculturalism, film and contemporary culture. In 2007, Professor Orton co-edited Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy, a collection of prose selections from migrant authors in Italy. She is currently researching comedy in migration literature. Honors received by Professor Orton include a Fulbright Research Fellowship and Truman’s 2006 Educator of the Year award. Professor Orton received her bachelor’s degree from Bringham Young University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Chicago.
Cotten Seiler is an assistant professor of American Studies at Dickinson College. His areas of focus include United States cultural and intellectual history, popular culture and social theory. Professor Seiler’s works have been published in journals such as the American Quarterly and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. Professor Seiler earned a B.A. from Northwestern University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.
Andrea Lieber is the Sophia Ava Asbell Chair in Judaic Studies and an associate professor of Religion at Dickinson College. Professor Lieber’s areas of interest include Judaism and early Christianity, Jewish mysticism (kabbalah) and women and gender in Jewish tradition. Professor Lieber is widely published in journals such as the Jewish Quarterly Review. Professor Lieber received a B.A. from Vassar College and a M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Edward Webb is an assistant professor of political science and international studies at Dickinson College. His areas of focus include Middle East politics, comparative politics, international relations, the interaction of religions and politics and the politics of education. Professor Webb earned a B.A. from Cambridge University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Café Mira is a world music and Afro-Nord group from France, Morocco, Algeria and Italy. Their music is a blend of genres that is influenced by traditional African songs, rock riffs, Reggae, jazz, funk and ska. Café Mira’s lyrics are comprised of a variety of languages, a majority of which are in Derija, the Arabic of Morocco. Through their music, Café Mira addresses issues of individual freedom, the right of movement and the violence and hostility suffered by people on both sides of the Mediterranean. The band members are Reda Zine, Paolo Delaforest, Abdeljalil Errougui and Samir Serguini.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m
The Kline Athletic Center

Student Comments

Caitlin Rice

Former President Clinton did an excellent job of detailing what makes Hillary Clinton’s plans for America distinctive. On the event in general, I thought it was great to see so many people there and so excited–regardless of whether they were Democrat or Republican. Having former President Clinton speak on behalf of Hillary was an excellent opportunity as I feel it drew an open minded crowd.

Through this experience and leading the Dickinson Student for Hillary Group on campus, I have learned a great deal, not only about the logistics and politics of a campaign, but about how to communicate more effectively on many levels with peers and professionals. Some of Hillary’s young campaign workers have described being a “Clintonian” on a campus as if describing being a “punk rocker”! Senator Obama’s popularity permeates most college-aged youth, and I have been discovering better ways to engage the opposition in productive conversation about the seemingly slight differences between Obama and Clinton’s policies and the strengths and weaknesses of each.

For me, President Clinton’s visit was the opportunity of a lifetime to introduce the man who defined what I believe was an era of peace and propsperity in which my generation lived as children in America during the 1990s.

Lee Tankle

When President Clinton spoke to the crowd, I was given a unique insight into many of the issues facing America and the world. I was particularly touched by President Clinton’s discussion of the environment and his efforts to connect the sustainability initiatives of Dickinson College to the broader initiatives of “green building” that Hillary Clinton would implement if elected president. I was proud to be a Dickinsonian because many of the environmental initiatives that President Clinton discussed, Dickinson was already actively engaged in, or pursuing.

Being part of the campaign process allowed me to see that political campaigns are much more fast paced than any textbook could ever convey. The rapidity in which the event came together was proof positive of this. I also noticed that while political campaigns may come across as smooth and perfect on television, there is often a great deal of disorganization and confusion in preparation for a massive event like the appearance of a former President of the United States. Much of the confusion and secretiveness is necessary in order to prevent any security breaches to ensure that the president is safe.

I was also very pleased about how down to earth and pleasant President Clinton was. When we chatted with him, he didn’t give off an air of arrogance or elitism which one might expect from a person of his stature.

“Presidential Politics and the Clinton Campaign”

The appearance of President Clinton on behalf of presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton is at the invitation of the Dickinson College Democrats student organization, with logistical support from The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. Dickinson College does not endorse any candidates for public office and the views or opinions expressed by this speaker are not those of Dickinson College.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 1:00 p.m.

Stern Center, Great Room

Student Comments

Jonathan Roberts

Benjamin Rush and his colleagues understood that American democracy would only survive if its citizens were informed. By bringing representatives of the major candidates to campus, and allowing us to hear their arguments, we can make better-informed decisions about what is politically important to us. I think most Dickinsonians read the news and stay on top of what candidates are doing, but it’s rare that we have the chance to hear it straight from them. That’s unique, and an extraordinary opportunity, and I’m grateful to the College for organizing events like these.

James Liska

I felt that the visits from the Obama and Clinton campaigns demonstrated a high level of interest in this election, but in different ways relating to the different events. For example, President Clinton drew many townspeople and community members, but not predominantly students. The Mark Alexander event, however, featured primarily students. Some students I spoke with looked forward more to the Alexander event than the Clinton event. This gives us interesting insight into what drives the students and what interests students. Regardless, I feel that both events were very well attended and provided good insights into this election cycle.

“Presidential Politics and the Obama Campaign”

The appearance of this campaign representative is at the invitation of the Dickinson College Democrats student organization, with logistical support from The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. Dickinson College does not endorse any candidates for public office and the views or opinions expressed by this speaker are not those of Dickinson College.

2007 Susan Strange Award Winner in International Studies, Clark University, Worcester, MA

Morgan Lecture
Women and Men in the Iraq War: What Can a Feminist Curiosity Reveal?

Monday, March 24, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room

We are all inundated with news about the Iraq war, but too often the only women shown are mothers and wives weeping - without ever asking them what they think or what they now will do. By asking feminist questions about BOTH American and Iraqi women, about their own thoughts and their complex experiences, we are more likely to get a truly realistic understanding of men’s actions and of the causes and consequences of this war.

Issue in Context
Over the past two decades, feminist critics and practitioners have become an essential part of the discipline of international relations (IR). Feminist IR emerged in the late 1980s. The end of the Cold War brought about a re-evaluation of traditional IR theory which opened up a space for gendering international relations. Cynthia Enloe’s Bananas, Beaches and Bases (Pandora Press 1990) is one of the most influential publications in feminist IR. In this book, Enloe poses a simple question: What happens to our understanding of international politics if we place women’s lives at the centre of our analysis? In attempting to answer this question, Enloe focuses on seven major areas of gendered international politics: tourism, nationalism, the military, diplomacy and the female international labor force in agriculture, textiles, and domestic service.
Women, Enloe argues, play an essential role in the war effort. In Bananas, Beaches and Bases, Enloe states that the creation of stable diplomatic and military communities has been the responsibility of women, as wives, girlfriends, prostitutes and hostesses. She focuses on the role of “diplomatic wives” in stabilizing the lives of military personnel stationed abroad.
The Iraq War has allowed numerous feminist voices to surface as a part of a greater war debate. Is the Iraq War a feminist issue? Under the Taliban’s radical Islamic rule in Afghanistan, women and girls were singled out for especially horrific oppression. In Iraq, however, Hussein’s tyranny was not necessarily gender-specific in its brutality. Iraqi women continue to suffer the detrimental effects of the war, including violence and intimidation. In addition, they lack the security necessary to engage in civic life.
Cynthia Enloe will speak as part of the Morgan Lecture for 2008. The Morgan Lectureship was endowed by the board of trustees in 1929 in grateful appreciation for the distinguished service of James Henry Morgan of the Class of 1878. The lectureship brings to campus a scholar to meet informally with individuals and class groups, and to deliver the Morgan lectures on topics in the social sciences and humanities.

About the Speaker
Cynthia Enloe is a feminist writer and professor who concentrates on women’s politics in the national and international arenas. She has given lectures on feminism, militarization and globalization in Japan, Korea, Turkey, Canada, Britain and numerous colleges around the United States.
Professor Enloe is the author of nine books. Her most famous books include: The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War (1993), Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (1990), Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000), and The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire. (2004).
Professor Enloe’s Bananas, Beaches and Bases examines the role of women in international politics within the context of globalization. Depicting typical scenes of tourism, military and outsourcing of labor, Enloe shows how the global landscape is not exclusively male. Enloe argues that women’s seemingly personal strategies of marriage, housework and beauty are in fact linked to global politics. Enloe gives a radical analysis of globalization, showing how the world system is often more fragile and open to change than we think.
Enloe’s most recent book, Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link (2007) explains women’s desires to be patriotic yet feminine and men’s fears of being feminized as a strategy to explain the globalization of the military. Enloe depicts the workings of the military by exploring strategies of national security, examining the marginalization of women in post-war reconstruction efforts, and illustrating how feminist ideas were used to humiliate male prisoners in Abu Ghraib. Focusing her lens on both international politics and on the complex everyday lives of women and men, Enloe challenges us to recognize militarism in all its forms.
Professor Enloe completed her undergraduate education at Connecticut College, earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a research professor in the International Development, Community and Environment Department (IDCE) and director of the Women’s Studies Department at Clark University.

The Morgan Lecture
The Morgan lecture, endowed by the board of trustees in 1929, provides the College with the opportunity to bring to the campus each year a distinguished scholar to be in residence for a few days. Recent Morgan lecturers have been Samantha Power, Jorge Luis Borges, Frederick Jameson, William Jordan, Jonathan Spence, Michael Walzer, Barbara Stoller Miller, Paul Fussel, James Rosenau, G.M. Tamas, Margaret Miles, Patricia Spacks, Christopher Bigsby, and Laurence Kritzman.

Continuing the Conversation - Student-led follow-up discussion
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 4:30 p.m.
The Underground

University of Notre Dame

Memorial Mania: Issues of Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America

Thursday, March 20, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room

Concentrating especially on recent 9/11 memorials, war memorials, and on issues such as fear, terror, security, and tribute. This program considers how “memorial mania” has altered the style and substance of America’s contemporary public sphere and assumptions of national identity.

Issue in Context
Since the Revolutionary War, the building of American nationhood has involved the design and presentation of war memorials. The memorials that have been built to commemorate the sacrifices of soldiers from the Civil War to the Vietnam War have taken on new cultural orientations and styles. In the wake of 9/11, there has been great passion for memorial design, and heated disagreements about how to best honor those lost in the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Arguments about how to make use of the land that once held the great monuments of New York’s financial district represent a new generation of memorial mania. Professor Doss will address the influences of historical perspectives on the planning, organizing, and constructing of memorials. She will also discuss how fear, terror, security, and the explosion of modern art influence American memorial taste and national identity.

About the Speaker
Professor Erika Doss is the recipient of the 98th Distinguished Research Lectureship from the Council on Research and Creative Work in the Graduate Program at the University of Colorado. She was also the 2005-2006 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. An expert on American Culture and Modern Art, Professor Doss has studied recent developments of tastes in regards to memorials and commemorations in The United States.
Professor Doss is a Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado. She obtained her Ph.D in art history and American studies from the University of Minnesota. A former director of the American studies program at U. Colorado, Doss is also a well published author and editor. Her recent publications include: Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press), “Public Art Controversy: Cultural Expression and Civic Debate” Americans for the Arts Monographs Series (Washington, DC: Americans for the Arts), and Memorial Mania: Self, Nation, and the Culture of Commemoration in Contemporary America.

Suggested Readings
Twentieth-Century American Art (2002)
Looking at Life Magazine (editor, 2001)
Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999)
Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities (1995)
Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism (1991)
She is currently writing the book Memorial Mania: Self, Nation, and the Culture of Commemoration in Contemporary America.

Duke University

Genomics and Intellectual Property: Life in the Information Jungle

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room

Controversies about gene patents and methods in genomics have led U.S. and international organizations to produce guidance about patenting and licensing genomic inventions. However, case studies show that patents are neither necessary nor sufficient for “some” kinds of genomic invention. The rich stories of genomic invention do not yield precise guides about optimal incentives for invention or to ensure broad and fair access to resulting goods and services.
The Clarke Forum Student Board generated this program.

Issue in Context
Since the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick, scientists have been experimenting with and modifying genes. As useful genes and gene fragments have developed, a market for these genes has emerged. Companies have invested and funded research to create desirable and useful genes. In order to protect their research investments, businesses have been granted patents for the genes they help create. Controversy regarding this practice of patenting living organisms emerged in 1980 with the Supreme Court Case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty. This case involved a scientist who sought to patent his creation of a bacterium with the ability to breakdown crude oil. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court and in a 5-4 decision the Court ruled that artificially-engineered microorganisms were patentable.
In the years since, a debate about the effects of the Supreme Court decision has been gaining momentum. There are two basic sides to the argument, those who completely disagree with patenting living organisms, and those who do not find this practice ethically objectionable. Of those who agree with the patenting, there are two schools of thought: those who believe that genes and gene fragments are patentable if research has the potential to develop them into beneficial organisms, and others who contend that a gene should not be patented until its full physiological function is determined. Gene patents, as with all patents are issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). The patented aspect of the gene is its sequence and chemical composition. The problem that the PTO faces is the possibility of a flood of patent requests for manufactured genes.
Should the PTO grant too many patents, the greater scientific community could be hurt by patents acting as barriers to research. However, if they fail to grant a reasonable amount of patents, the incentive to conduct research and develop useful genes and gene fragments will be gone because companies will be unable to profit from their investment. Media attention to this has transformed the issue from that of practicality and investment into a debate about bioethics.

About the Speaker
Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan is the director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy at Duke University’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy (IGSP). The Center was created in order to “foster ethically responsible and socially beneficial uses of genome science, while addressing the complex ethical, legal, social and political impacts of the Genome Revolution.” He is also a research professor in public policy and the department of medicine at Duke. Prior to this, Dr. Cook-Deegan directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship program at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), National Academy of Sciences. He also spent four years as the founding director of IOM’s National Cancer Policy Board. Also while at IOM, from 1991 through 2002, Dr. Cook-Deegan worked on issues ranging from mental health and cancer policy to tobacco control, to federal research and development budgeting.
Dr. Cook-Deegan also worked for the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health during its inaugural year in 1989 and as an acting executive director for a congressional bioethics commission in 1988. He graduated from the University of Colorado Medical School in 1979 and from Harvard College in 1975.
Currently Dr. Cook-Deegan also chairs the Royalty Fund Advisory Committee for the Alzheimer’s Association and the external advisory board of a four-site project on genetic testing for Alzheimer’s susceptibility. Additionally, he has chaired the section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science dealing with social impacts of science and engineering from 1997 to 1998. Dr. Cook-Deegan is also on the board of directors for Physicians for Human Rights, with whom he participated in human rights missions to Turkey, Iraq, and Panama.

Related Links
National Human Genome Research Institute http://www.genome.gov/10001772
OYEZ U.S. Supreme Court Media Diamond v. Chakrabarty http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1979/1979_79_136/

Legal Age 21 after 23 Years: Has it Worked? Is it Working?

Thursday, March 6, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Holland Union Building, Social Hall

John McCardell, Founder and Director, Choose Responsibility
Chuck Hurley ‘67, Chief Executive Officer, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
Douglas Edlin, professor of political science, moderator

Link to NBC Nightly News Coverage of this program
Results from ballots passed out at the Drinking Age Debate Program:
57 People Voted for Lowering the Drinking Age to 18
28 People Voted for Keeping the Drinking Age at 21
(140 audience members - 85 ballots received)

The National Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act (NMLDA)has now been on the books for almost 24 years. During that time, we have had the opportunity to observe, measure, and experience its effects. Like most laws, the NMLDA has intended and unintended consequences. The purpose of this program is to explore those consequences in as serious, informed, dispassionate, and comprehensive a way possible, and to consider whether any change in the law, or any reorientation of public policy is warranted. This debate involves statistics, probabilities, charts, formulae, and tables. It also involves human lives. Every life lost to alcohol, in whatever setting, is lamentable, tragic. The goal of public policy is to create a safe environment. This debate will examine how effective the law has been in meeting these public policy criteria, and what Dickinson should be doing to address binge and underage drinking.
Sponsored by James ‘78 and Niecy Chambers.

“Continuing the Conversation”
Following the program, a discussion will be held in HUB Side Rooms 202-203. Refreshments including “Mocktails” will be served.

Comments from “Weigh In on the Drinking Age”

Issue in Context
Twenty-three years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the National Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act (NMLDA) marking the United States’ status as a country with one of the highest minimum drinking ages in the world. The NMLDA required all U.S. states to raise their minimum purchase and public possession of alcohol age to twenty-one. Even though this law did not specifically legislate a minimum age for consumption per se, several states decided to extend the law to prohibit the use and consumption of alcohol by the age of 21. Today, several states allow underage drinking under specific circumstances, including the supervision of parents or during religious services.
Has the Minimum Legal Drinking Age law been effective? Some studies show that not only has the law not been effective but it has even been counter-productive. The State University System of Florida carried out a study on underage alcohol consumption and found that while the consumption of alcohol had decreased following the passage of the NMLDA, alcohol-related problems, such as binge drinking and alcoholism had increased significantly. On the other side of this issue, the National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) has reported that fatal crashes involving underage drivers have decreased over the years.
John McCardell, founder and president of Choose Responsibility, and opponents of the NMLDA law have stated that the 21-year-old drinking age is bad social policy not only because of its ineffectiveness but also because it has encouraged college students to conceal their alcohol consumption and engage in dangerous activities such as binge drinking, which causes at least 1,400 deaths per year. Chuck Hurley ‘67, chief executive officer of MADD, has said, “Everything in science indicates that the drinking age didn’t cause binge drinking and will make it worse if it’s lowered.” Advocates of this law emphasize that the minimum drinking age saves lives each year by deterring underage alcohol consumption. “This is a choice a free society gets to make,” said Hurley in light of a 2007 Gallup Poll which showed that 77% of Americans are opposed to lowering the drinking age.
The original intention of the NMLDA was to reduce underage alcohol consumption and the legal and medical problems associated with it. The legislators’ reasoning twenty-three year ago was based on the belief that young people lacked the maturity and the ability to deal with alcohol safely and healthily. Where this limit should be set and its potential effectiveness as a prevention measure has been debated for some time.

About the Speakers
John McCardell, founder and president of Choose Responsibility, did his graduate work at Johns Hopkins University and received his doctorate in history from Harvard in 1976. Mr. McCardell was named president of Middlebury College in 1992. Previous to his appointment he also held several administrative and professorial positions at the college since 1976. In December 2006, John McCardell founded Choose Responsibility, a non-profit organization which stimulates public discussion about the presence of alcohol in American culture and encourages consideration of policies to empower young adults ages 18 to 20 to make mature decisions about alcohol.

Chuck Hurley ‘67, chief executive officer of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) served as the vice president of the Transportation Safety Group for the National Safety Council and as the executive director of the Council’s Air Bag and Seat Belt Safety Campaign. Mr. Hurley was recognized for his lifetime contribution to transportation safety with the prestigious J. Stannard Baker Award for Highway Safety from the International Association of Chiefs of Police. In 1984, he strongly supported and assisted in MADD’s efforts to pass the National Minimum Legal Drinking Age (NMLDA) Act. In March 2005, Mr. Hurley joined MADD as its C.E.O., with more than 30 years of experience in highway safety. Chuck Hurley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. From 1968 to 1970, he served in the United States Navy as an intelligence officer in Taipei, Taiwan.

Professor Douglas Edlin, a member of the Department of Political Science at Dickinson College, will be moderating the debate.

Related Links
www.chooseresponsibility.org/ Choose Responsibility
www.madd.org/ Mothers Against Drunk Driving
http://www.icap.org/ International Center for Alcohol Policies
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/opinion/13mccardell.html?_r=1&n=Top%2f
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“What Your College President Didn’t Tell You” By John McCardell, Jr.

Editor-in-Chief, BusinessWeek Magazine

Rush Award Lecture
The Future of Media

Thursday, February 28, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room

This program will focus on how technology, law, and new consumer habits are changing the way we learn about the world, and what these changes will do to the way we live, work, and choose our leaders.

Issue in Context
Today, much of how we communicate is digitized. E-mail allows people who are often many miles apart to exchange news instantly. Instant messaging and video conferencing allows people to talk in real-time through their internet connection. Until very recently, the best mode of world-wide communication in real-time was a telephone call that was very expensive; but as the costs have dropped drastically over the past two decades, it is not unusual for elementary school children to have personal cell phones so that their parents can contact them directly any time. Before the telephone, a common method of contact was handwritten correspondence through what we now refer to as “snail mail.”
With electronic media available to increasing numbers of citizens around the world, how do people receive breaking news and crucial information? Important television news reports are broadcast live across continents; many newspapers printed and delivered to homes or bought at a newsstand can now be accessed on the internet either at no charge or with online subscriptions. What effects do these changes have on the way that the news media portrays current events? Do these depictions encourage the public to base their decisions and views on a single information source? Do laws regulate the information accessed by the public? How does the media impact the way we think about and view the world? Certain news stations may offer more conservative views than others. Some may choose to cover a story to a certain point but omit information the public might find useful. Some papers and television news stations portray stories from perspectives which might encourage people to rely on one source for all news coverage. Some laws may restrict the publication of certain information, resulting in limited public knowledge. Whether we like it or not, media is present in our everyday lives. We need to consider the positive and negative effects the ever-growing media has on us, and whether change is necessary.

About the Speaker
Stephen Adler is an accomplished journalist and has been the editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek since 2005. He began his writing career reporting for The Tampa Times and The Tallahassee Democrat. He then joined the American Lawyer Magazine, where he became editor and eventually editorial director of the American Lawyer newspapers group. Adler was a National Magazine Award finalist for his article on the Union Carbide accident in the American Lawyer in 1985. After a few years with the publication, Mr. Adler became legal editor of the Wall Street Journal in 1988. Adler and a colleague were given a merit award in the John Peter Zenger Media Awards Competition in 1993 for an article they wrote entitled “Common Criminals.” He received several promotions at the Journal, and in 1998 became assistant managing editor. During his time with the Wall Street Journal Mr. Adler directed reporting teams which won three Pulitzer Prizes. He was promoted to deputy managing editor in 2000, expanding the Journal on the internet and in other media, directing news coverage in the daily edition and supervising the Wall Street Journal Books imprint, a division of Random House Publishing.
In 1994, Times Books published Mr. Adler’s The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom, which won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award in 1995. He also co-edited two books with his wife, Letters of the Century (1999) and Women’s Letters (2005), both published by Dial Press. Mr. Adler is on the board of directors for one of New York’s original settlement houses, the Goddard-Riverdale Community Center. In 1977, he received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and in 1983 earned his juris doctorate degree from Harvard Law School.

The Benjamin Rush Award
The Benjamin Rush Award for Humanistic Values in Corporate and Government Life, established in 1985, is one of the most prestigious annual awards presented at Dickinson College. The Award celebrates the achievements of officials and executives who have reached the highest levels in government service or the corporate world. It is named in honor of Benjamin Rush, the prominent colonial Philadelphia physician who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and founder of Dickinson.

The Award is conferred at a public ceremony on the Dickinson campus, during which the recipient presents the annual Rush Award Lecture. The lectureship guidelines stipulate that the recipient should comment on issues of significance to government or the corporate world, with some attention to the value of the liberal arts in preparing individuals for responsible citizenship. The recipient of the Award is presented with an honorarium and a bronze medal bearing Rush’s likeness. Prior to the Rush Lecture the college hosts a reception and dinner in honor of the recipient.

Thursday, February 21 - 7:00 p.m.
Stern Center, Great Room

Hans Dellien, Women’s World Banking
Camilla Nestor, The Grameen Foundation
Benjamin Powell, Agora Partnerships
Craig Weeks ‘77, J. P. Morgan Chase (moderator)

Microfinance, the provision of small-scale loans to enterprising individuals in developing countries came into being in the latter half of the 1900s. Two organizations currently involved in channeling those types of financial resources are the Grameen Foundation and Women’s World Banking. Social entrepreneurship, represented by Agora Partnerships, developed somewhat later. Over the past two decades, the revolution in information technology and competition in the “development space” have led to much change in both microfinance and social entrepreneurship.

Careers in Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship
HUB, Social Hall West - 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Students are encouraged to attend. To register, visit www.dickinsonconnect.com.

Issue in Context
Microfinance consists of extending financial services to individuals, usually women, to establish or expand a small, self-sustaining business. One of the components of microfinance is microcredit - the extension of small loans to individuals who are too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Microfinance institutions often offer business advice and counseling, and facilitate peer support between clients in order to facilitate the transition out of poverty.
Microfinance specifically targets women. Studies have shown that women are more likely to reinvest their earnings in the business and in their families. This process has helped elevate the status of women, given people employment, and formed economically successful communities. Microfinance is considered one of the most effective and flexible strategies in the fight against global poverty. It is sustainable and can be implemented on the massive scale necessary to respond to the urgent needs of the worlds poorest.
The idea for microfinance began in 1976 by Professor Muhammed Yunus. Mr. Yunus loaned the equivalent of $27 from his own pocket to forty-two stoolmakers living in a tiny village in Bangladesh. These individuals simply needed enough credit to purchase the raw material for their trade. Yunus’s loan allowed them to break out of the cycle of poverty. The Grameen Bank was formally established in 1983 and has since lifted millions of people in developing countries out of poverty. Mr. Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work in micro-credit and helping economic and social development.
Yunus is a typical example of a social entrepreneur. Social entrepreneurship is the use of entrepreneurial principles to organize, create and manage a venture to create social changes. Social entrepreneurs asses the success of their business in terms of the impact they have on society.

About the Speakers
Mr. Dellien is the senior manager of Microfinance Products and Services at Women’s World Banking. His team has extended rural loans, housing loans and savings to low income entrepreneurs around the world: in Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Gambia), Asia (Philippines, India, Pakistan), Jordan and Latin America (Colombia, Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil). Currently, Mr. Dellien works giving strategic advice to commercial banks interested in extending financial services to micro-entrepreneurs in India and Mexico. Before joining WWB in 1998, Mr. Dellien work for the International Project Consultants (IPC) a German consulting firm with twenty-five specialized banks in microfinance. Mr. Dellien has a master degree in Agricultural Economics and Rural Finance from the Ohio State University.
Camille Nestor is the director of the Capital Management & Advisory Center at the Grameen Foundation. Mrs. Nestor has worked in microfinance for the past twelve years, and has been working with the Grameen Foundation since August 2005. Before joining Grameen, she was an associate in Citigroup’s Structured Corporate Finance Department. There, she helped with debt relief in emerging firms in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She also spent five years working with microfinance institutions while based in Southeast Asia and the Balkans with Catholic Relief Services. Mrs. Nestor holds an MBA and a master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.
Ben Powell is the co-founder and managing partner of Agora Partnerships, a social enterprise dedicated to supporting entrepreneurship in developing countries. Ben is also a director of the Agora Venture Fund, a fund that invests in small businesses in Nicaragua. Mr. Powell co-founded CityGolf:Puebla, a family entertainment park in Mexico. Ever since, he has worked to harness the power of small business to transform poor communities. Mr. Powell has been an examiner in the International Affairs Division of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and has worked at Ashoka on its Full Economic Citizenship initiative. He has an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a BA from Haverford College. Mr. Powell is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship and was awarded the I-Qube award for innovation from Dalberg Global Advisors.
Craig Weeks is senior vice president in the Treasury Services Division in J.P.Morgan in New York. He is currently responsible for Global Trade Finance and Logistics Sales. His previous work experience includes Continental Grain Company where he served as assistant treasurer in New York and director of Trade Finance in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Weeks began his banking career at Marine Midland Bank in New York where he served as vice president of Correspondent Banking covering parts of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Mr. Weeks has a master’s degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Az., and a bachelor of arts degree from Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. He also studied at La Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, in Mendellin, Colombia.

Related Links
Grameen Bank: http://www.grameen-info.org/
Grameen Foundation: http://www.grameenfoundation.org/
Agora Partnerships: http://www.agorapartnerships.org/
Women’s World Banking: http://www.swwb.org/

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Various Times
Stern Center, Great Room

This one-day symposium offers perspectives from three scholars critically exploring sexuality and gender identities in relation to shifting cultural and national boundaries.

10:30 a.m. - Denise Brennan, Georgetown University
Love Work and Sex Work in the Dominican Republic
Suggested Readings:
1. Nicole Constable’s book: Romance on A Global Stage
2. Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild’s edited volume: Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy
3. Carla Freeman’s book: High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy
4. Faye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s edited volume: Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture
5. What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex, by Denise Brennan
1:00 p.m. - France Winddance Twine, University of California, Santa Barbara

Written on the Body: Hair and Heritage in Black Europe

2:30 p.m. - Karen Kelsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The Personal is Personal: Predicaments of the Lesbian Feminist Subject in Japan.

4:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion

The panel will explore such questions as: How does transnationalism affect cultural reproduction in intimate areas, such as family relations (husband-wife, parent-child), inter-generational ethnic relations, and the sphere defined as “private?”; How has transnationalism produced new intersections of race, gender and sexuality?; Does it make sense to speak of hegemony in the case of gendered images in transnational cultural currency? What is the evidence for the dialogue or interaction between the global images of women and local ones? We expect other questions from the audience will generate additional themes for discussion.

Co-sponsored by Department of Anthropology

Issue in Context
Recent shifts in international boundaries call established gender relations into question. This one-day symposium will critically examine gender, sexuality, and transnationalism with the help of three experts who will explore such questions as how the notion of transnationalism is being used to understand sexuality, ‘racial’ and gendered identity, sex work, and how the circulation of global images has affected gender in the Dominican Republic, England, and Japan.
It is estimated that four million women all over the world are involved in the global sex trade and every year that figure is rising. While these increases are in part due to globalization, they can also be explained by the widespread exploitation of women and children. The global sex trade is gendered (most prostitutes are women), ethnic (women from non-Western backgrounds are the primary subjects in the industry), and also national (certain countries, such as Thailand, are more popular than others). Denise Brennan will discuss the facets of the sex industry and why the largest numbers of sexually exploited women in Latin America come from the Dominican Republic.
Although people of color account for a significant proportion of European citizens, these populations are often ignored in popular and scholarly accounts. France Winddance Twine has studied the ways that children of multiracial heritage in second generation African-Caribbean communities must transfer their black identities to fit into English society. Transnational circuits of consumption enable white members of interracial families to function as the cultural clones of their black female relatives. Building upon Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of capital, a new form of capital called ‘ethnic capital’ theorizes and accounts for the labor that white birth mothers of African descent children perform to secure their children’s inclusion in second generation black diasporic communities in England. Ethnic capital is a form of capital that is highly valued by members of ethnic minority communities, and its possession facilitates social cohesion within black British communities and provides a form of cultural currency that reinforces ethnic belonging and social inclusion.
Until recently, homosexual desire in Japan was likened to a mental illness, while lesbian relationships were seen as spiritual rather than sexual connections. Although these sexual norms have changed dramatically in recent years, and the acceptance of lesbians is more widespread, traditional Japanese culture still stigmatizes homosexuality. There are expectations and pressures for women to marry and raise families. Also, stereotypes and the association of homosexuality with either pornography or Western society discourage women from even exploring their sexuality. Karen Kelsky will explain why many Japanese are still unwilling to believe that homosexuals can be “normal” Japanese people.

About the Speakers
Denise Brennan is an associate professor of anthropology at Georgetown University. Her research interests include the global sex trade, human trafficking, migration, and women’s labor in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2004, Brennan authored the book, What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic and was awarded an American Association of University Women fellowship for the same academic year. Brennan received an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and both a MPhil and Ph.D. from Yale University.

France Winddance Twine is an anthropologist and a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her teaching areas and research interests include gender, girlhood, racism/anti-racism, feminist theory, critical race theory, field research methods, and multiracial/transracial families. She has also conducted extensive field research in Brazil, Britain and the United States, and authored numerous publications including her 1997 book, Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil. Twine is the deputy editor of the American Sociological Review, the journal of the American Sociological Association and serves on the editorial boards of Ethnic and Racial Studies. She holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Karen Kelsky is the head of the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, as well as an associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures and anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work focuses on Japan, gender, sexuality, race, popular culture, and transnational cultural studies. Kelsky is the author of the 2001 book, Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams in 2001, and is currently working on a book project entitled The Personal is Personal: Reading the Lesbian in Contemporary Japan. She holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, and an M.A. in anthropology and Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu.

City University of New York, Graduate Center

Writing on the Wall: From Disaster to Doing Something

Thursday, February 7, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Holland Union Building, Social Hall

Hurricane Katrina scoured the political economic landscape of New Orleans revealing the toll of decades of disinvestment in and ‘hostile privatism’ toward social reproduction in a city riddled with corrosive inequalities around class, race, and gender. Business and government have failed to address the social and economic needs of poor and working people in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina. The toll can be seen in the unevenness of neighborhood and infrastructural recovery, the difficulty of establishing a stable workforce of residents, and the deepening of ongoing neoliberal tendencies toward privatization in education, healthcare, and housing. Focusing on these issues, we will look at the sorts of activism these failures have spurred. The discussion will center on community based political groups working to redress this situation in New Orleans, but will also connect their work to groups working elsewhere to draw out a ‘countertopography’ of activisms that interrogate the underlying politics and policies–explicit and implicit–that have undermind the social wage and produced this situation not just in New Orleans but all over the United States.

Issue in Context
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, a category five hurricane at its peak, made landfall and devastated many Louisiana communities, with New Orleans particularly hard hit. Katrina caused massive flooding from breaches in the levees, power outages, property damage, and considerable loss of life. Many people lost their homes and livelihoods, forced to live as refugees in their own country. Some still remain unable to return to their homes as recovery and rebuilding are incomplete.
The sluggishness and unevenness of recovery in New Orleans reveal the inequalities of class, “race”, and gender that persist in New Orleans. Local businesses, the local government and the national government have failed to provide for the social and economic needs of the poor citizens of New Orleans. Many poor, African American neighborhoods have been left in ruin, while much more progress has been made in rebuilding the more prosperous sections of the city. New Orleans still lacks a stable work force and many sectors, including education, healthcare and housing, are undergoing privatization. Even if housing is rebuilt, people cannot return to live in New Orleans while steady employment with a living wage and a solid infrastructure are not available.
In reaction to the corruption of the government and business responses to the aftermath of Katrina and the neglect of the city’s inhabitants, much activism has emerged. Community based political groups have developed in New Orleans to demand action from the city to rectify the inequalities in the recovery process. These groups, connected with others across the country, are creating what Professor Katz calls, ‘countertopography’ of activisms working to interrogate the politics and policies that undermine the social wage not only in New Orleans, but throughout the U.S.

About the Speaker
Cindi Katz is a renowned urban geographer, award winning author, and professor of geography in Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Professor Katz’s areas of study include the social production and reproduction of space, place and nature, the knowledge of politics, children and the environment, and the consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life. Currently, Professor Katz is doing research on the intertwined spaces of homeland and home-based security, and a project on activism, social reproduction, and the enduring effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Professor Katz has published many works throughout her career in journals such as Society and Space, Signs, Antipode, Social Text, Social Justice, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Cultural Geographies, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Gender, Place and Culture, and Feminist Studies. She is also the author of Growing up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives (2004), which describes how globalization and development affect the lives, experiences and growth of children in both New York City and a village in Sudan. Growing up Global won the Association of American Geographers Meridian Award in 2004. Professor Katz was also the co-editor of Women’s Studies Quarterly (2004-08), Full Circles: Geographies of Women Over the Life Course (1993) and Life’s Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (2004).
Also, Professor Katz has received many honors including a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a women’s studies scholarship in residence at West Virginia University. Professor Katz holds an A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. in geography from Clark University.

Related Links
Hurricane Impact Data: http://www.gnocdc.org/impact.html
State of Policy and Progress (January 2008): http://www.gnocdc.org/NOLAIndex/ESNOLAIndex.pdf
Hurricane Katrina Information Guide: http://www.thrall.org/katrina/#statistics
Cindi Katz Biography: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/che/cerg/research_team/cindi_katz_index.htm

Deputy Secretary of the Office of Energy and Technology Deployment, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium - 7:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker for “Focus the Nation”
Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies Department and Dickinson SAVES

Visit this link for more information on Dickinson’s Focus the Nation programs.

Issue in Context
Global warming is a phenomenon believed to occur as a result of the build-up of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Over the past 200 years, the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil has caused the concentrations of heat-trapping “greenhouse gases” to increase significantly in our atmosphere. These gases prevent heat from dissipating, somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse.
Greenhouse gases are necessary to life as we know it, because they keep the planet’s surface warm. But, as the concentrations of these gases continue to increase in the atmosphere, the Earth’s temperature is climbing above previously recorded levels. According to NASA data, the Earth’s average surface temperature has increased by about 1.2 to 1.4°F in the last 100 years. Eleven of the last twelve years rank among the warmest years recorded since 1850, with the two warmest years being 1998 and 2005. Scientists are certain that human activities are changing the composition of the atmosphere, and that the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases will change the planet’s climate.
A March 2006 Time magazine, “ABC News”, and Stanford University poll revealed that most Americans are not aware of the broad scientific consensus on global warming and the majority of the survey participants see it as a problem for future generations. Human-induced warming has regional and global consequences ranging from hurricanes of greater intensity and duration, global water shortages, altered patterns of rainfall, massive forest loss, and large-scale species extinction.
Using energy more efficiently and moving to renewable sources of energy, such as wind, solar, geothermal, and bioenergy would significantly reduce the emission of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. The non-profit organization Focus the Nation is initiating a national teach-in on global warming solutions for America, creating a dialogue at over a thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, places of worship, civic organizations and businesses across the United States in order to mobilize human energies and create a sense of collective and moral purpose toward implementing efficient energy fuels and technology. The motivation for this project is to explore a new model of collaborative, interdisciplinary education, on a national scale. Focus the Nation provides an exciting model opportunity to create for one day a true national community of scholarship bridging traditional disciplinary boundaries.

About the Speaker
Daniel J. Desmond is the deputy secretary for the Office of Energy and Technology Deployment (OETD). The Office, created in January 2003, is responsible for identifying and supporting markets for innovative environmental and advanced energy technologies. OETD manages several grant initiatives focused on these business sectors, including the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority, Energy Harvest, Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants and the Small Business Advantage grant programs. OETD works with citizen groups, businesses, local governments and NGOs on policy matters and strategies to encourage pollution prevention and energy conservation practices.
Mr. Desmond also served as executive director of the Pennsylvania Energy Office and was with the agency from 1983 until its merger with the Department of Environmental Protection in 1995. From April 1995 until his appointment in May 2003, he was chair of the Pennsylvania Energy Resources Center, an advocacy and public education project aimed to secure funding for renewable energy in the aftermath of utility deregulation. In addition, he was president of Sustainable Systems Research, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based firm specializing in the development and commercialization of environmentally beneficial technology.

Related Links
Desmond Web site:http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/energy/cwp/view.asp?a=3&Q=466252
Governor’s Energy Independence Strategy: http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/energindependent/site/default.asp
Penn Future’s support for most of the Governor’s program:http://www.pennfuture.org/campaigns_detail.aspx?CampaignID=40&Home=Y
Web sites for a critique of the Governor’s program by PA environmental activists:
On the act itself implementing “alternative” requirements:http://www.actionpa.org/cleanenergy/
On waste coal and coal to diesel:http://www.energyjustice.net/coal/wastecoal/
On alternative transportation fuels:http://www.energyjustice.net/fuels/
Citizen Power in Pittsburgh: http://www.citizenpower.com/RenewableInitiatives/frontindex.html
Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America http://www.focusthenation.org/
Department of Environmental Science - Focus the Nation conference schedule http://alpha.dickinson.edu/departments/envst/news_ftn.htm
Global Warming Solutions: Act Now to Save the Planet http://www.globalwarmingsolutions.org/
Time Magazine/ABC News/Stanford University 2006 Global Warming Poll http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176975,00.html
NASA Global Temperature Trends: Summation 2007 http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007/

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Program presented by Selma James, activist and author.
Selma James Lecture
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Program presented by Lisa Sherman, ‘79. Metzger-Conway Fellow, senior vice president and general manager of LOGO TV.

Lisa Sherman Lecture
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Lecture presented by Sara Lennox, keynote speaker for the conference, Reconsidering the Arts in the German Democratic Republic

Sara Lennox Lecture
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Fulbright Scholar, School of Humanities Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg.

Eve and Lilith: Men and Women Telling the Myth of the Creation of Woman

Friday, November 16, 2007
The Clarke Forum, 12:00 p.m.
This program is open to Dickinson faculty, staff and students by reservation only. Space is limited - email flinchbk@dickinson.edu to reserve a seat. Lunch provided.

Prof. Bar-Itzhak will discuss the Lilith myth as crystallized in Jewish tradition. She will show how this myth reinforced the sacred patriarchal order of the society by creating Lilith as the worst enemy of “good” women.
The Lilith stories from ancient Jewish sources were all written by men. She will also present the story as told by women from Jewish traditional society, for whom Lility is still a living myth.

Co-sponsored by Judaic Studies.

Lecture presented by Yolanda Lopez.

Yolanda Lopez lecture
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Lecture presented by S. Bear Bergman and Julie Nemecek.

Bergman & Nemecek Common Hour Program
Bergman & Nemecek Evening Program
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Lecture presented by Dana Priest, Pulitzer Prize winning, National Security Correspondent with The Washington Post.

Dana Priest Lecture
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Lecture presented by Carmencita “Chie” Abad, former sweatshop worker.

Chie Abad Lecture
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