UD Home | UDaily | UDaily-Alumni | UDaily-Parents


HIGHLIGHTS

30 movies featured at Newark Film Festival, Sept. 4-11

D.C.-area Blue Hens gather Sept. 24 at the Old Ebbitt Grill

Baltimore-area Hens invited to meet Ravens QB Joe Flacco

New Graduate Student Convocation set Wednesday

Center for Disabilities Studies' Artfest set Sept. 6

New Student Convocation to kick off fall semester Tuesday

Latino students networking program meets Tuesday

Fall Student Activities Night set Monday

SNL alumni Kevin Nealon, Jim Breuer to perform at Parents Weekend Sept. 26

Soledad O'Brien to keynote Latino Heritage event Sept. 18

UD Library Associates exhibition now on view

Childhood cancer symposium registrations due Sept. 5

UD choral ensembles announce auditions

Child care provider training courses slated

Late bloomers focus of Sept. 6 UDBG plant sale

Chicago Blue Hens invited to Aug. 30 Donna Summer concert

All fans invited to Aug. 30 UD vs. Maryland tailgate, game

'U.S. Space Vehicles' exhibit on display at library

Families of all students will reunite on campus Sept. 26-28

More news on UDaily

Subscribe to UDaily's e-mail services


UDaily is produced by the Office of Public Relations
150 South College Ave.
Newark, DE 19716-2701
(302) 831-2791

Spring lectures on race, ethnicity, culture set

11:09 a.m., Feb. 12, 2004--UD’s Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Program’s “Research on Race, Ethnicity and Culture” spring lecture series is under way. The series, open to the public and also offered as a one-credit pass/fail course, will be held from 12:20-1:10 p.m., Wednesdays, in 116 Gore Hall.

The lecture series includes:

  • “Cross-cultural Gender Communication,” by Larry Purnell, professor of nursing, Feb. 18;
  • “The TRIOS Model of Coping with Racism,” by James Jones, professor of psychology, Feb. 25;
  • “Ethnicity and Gender in Sri Lanka: Observations of a Discovery Abroad Research Expedition,” by Sally Bould, professor of sociology, and seniors Leigh Snyder, Julissa Gutierrez and Stella Ilel, March 3;
  • “Race and Production of Culture: African-American Responses to Television Work,” by Greg Adamo, Department of Communication, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, March 10;
  • “That Contested Sky: Global Warming and the Quest for Eco-Equity,” by Leigh Glover, researcher, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, March 17;
  • “Temples, Tombs, Traffic and Trash: The Culture of Maya Tourism,” by Lena Mortensen, Center for Heritage Resource Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, March 31;
  • “Echoes of Harlem, Echoes of Jazz: Improvising History in Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz’,” by Tim Spaulding, assistant professor of English, April 7;
  • “Where is Home? Conversations with Mayan Migrants in Southern Delaware and Their Families in the Western Highlands of Guatemala,” by April Rene Veness, associate professor of geography, April 14;
  • “Gay or Straight? Sexuality in Visual Art in the West,” by Hilton Brown, Harriet T. Baily Professor of Museum Studies, April 21;
  • “Aesop and His Fables in Early Modern Japan: 1593-1843,” by Lawrence Marceau, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, April 28;
  • “Negotiating Korean Motherhood: Korean Immigrant Women’s Mothering Experience,” by Seongeun Kim, Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, May 5; and
  • “Style from the Street: Reading Visual Identity in Youth Culture,” by Janet Hethorn, associate professor of consumer studies, May 12.

For more information, contact Miranda Wilson at [mwwilson@udel.edu] or 456-0918.

Article by Sue Moncure

  E-mail this article

To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here.