2:28 p.m., Feb. 12, 2008--The Women Studies Program's lecture series, “Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Culture,” which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 12:20-1:10 p.m., Wednesdays, in 116 Gore Hall. The series, which is slated to begin Feb. 13, also serves as a one-credit pass/fail course for UD students. The course is listed as WOMS298-010.

The lecture series includes:

• "The Education Achievement Gap: Our Nation's Greatest Racial and Socio-Economic Injustice," by Thomas Clark, Teach For America, Feb. 13;
• "Exploring Cultural Diversity in Families," by Bahira Sharif Trask, Department of Individual and Family Studies, Feb. 20;
• "They Are, No Doubt, Lurking About the City: Enslaved Women Runaways in Antebellum Charleston," Amani Marshall, Black American Studies Program, Feb. 27;
• "After the Revolution: Challenges to Women's Liberation in Africa," by Wunybari Maloba, associate professor of Black American Studies, history and women's studies and assistant vice president for affirmative action and multicultural programs, March 5;
• "Reflections on Water and Culture: Engineers Without Borders in High Plateau Region of Cameroon," by Steven Dentel, professor of civil and environmental engineering, March 12;
• "Modesty and Sexuality: Cultural Norms and Understanding Among Women," by Suzanne Cherrin, assistant professor of women's studies and of Latin American Studies, March 19;
• "Coming Together: Building Inclusion and Access in the Battered Women's Movement," by Carol Post and Paulette Sullivan Moore, Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence, March 26;
• No lecture because of spring break, April 2;
• "Shop and Save the World: A Primer on Fair Trade," by Carol Boncelet, Village Imports, April 9;
• "U.S. Policy on Sex Work Abroad: The Limits of NGO's 'Rescuing' Vietnamese Sex Workers in Cambodian Brothels," by Anastasia Hudgins, Department of Anthropology, Temple University, April 16;
• "Radical Praxis: A Subaltern Philosophy of Gender," by Hayat-Un Nessa, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, April 23;
• "American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust," by Laura Levitt, Jewish Studies, Temple University, April 30;
• "Before Obama: Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Racial Transcendence," by Mary Ellen Curtain, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, May 7;
• Social Responsibility in the Apparel Industry Marsha Dickson, Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies, May 14; and
• Final exam for enrolled students only, May 21.

For more information, contact Kathy Turkel at [kturkel@udel.edu] or (302) 831-6140.