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Lynn Thiesmeyer, member of the Board of Advisers for two World Bank projects in Southeast Asia, will speak at the University of Delaware on Thursday, March 20. Her talk, “Sustainable Development Across the Gender Divide: Local Knowledge and Community Initiatives in 21st-Century Asia,” is free and open to the public. It will be held at 7:30 p.m., in 127 Memorial Hall, on The Green, in Newark, as part of the lecture series “Passing the Torch: An Interdisciplinary Look at a World Poised for Change.”

Thiesmeyer, a specialist in discourse, social theory and gender and modernization, became an associate professor of the information environment at Keio University’s Shonan-Fujisawa campus in 1995. Previously, she spent five years as an assistant professor at Japan Women’s University.

Through her Mekhong Region Development Net/Women and Development Online Information Project, she has had the opportunity to work with community projects sponsored by government, non-governmental, academic and private sector organizations in Thailand and Vietnam.

In 2001 she was a team leader for the Asia Pacific HIV Impact Research Project of the United Nations Development Program. She is also a member of the steering committee of the Kawasaki City YMCA.

Thiesmeyer obtained her bachelor’s degree in 1974 from Middlebury College receiving her Ph.D in literature and the sociology of language at Princeton University in 1980.

Her Newark appearance is sponsored by the duPont Scholars at UD. For more information, call (302) 831-1195.

Contact: Amy Pasternack, (302) 831-8749
March 13, 2003