UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 22, Page 4
February 29, 1996
Up and coming

Art history plans seminar series
     "Historic Landscapes of the Chesapeake and Delaware Valley" is
the subject of a talk by Anne Yentsch, scheduled for 4 today, in Room
201 of Old College.
     Yentsch, professor of history at Armstrong State College, opens
the spring Delaware Seminar Series.
     Other speakers and their topics include Jonathan Prown from the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, who will speak on "American
Furniture Connoisseurship Reconsidered" on Thursday, March 21; Carl
Lounsbury of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, who will discuss
"The Architectural Expression of Religious Belief in Early America" on
Thursday, April 11; and Jack Crowley, professor of history at
Dalhousie University, who will speak on "The Invention of the Cottage
as a Comfortable House" on Wednesday, May 1.
     The talks are sponsored by the Department of Art History and the
Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events.
Yentsch's talk also is sponsored by the Office of Women's Affairs.
     For information on any of the seminar offerings, call 831-8416.


Art by women in Clayton exhibit
     Twenty-one women artists will be featured in all-female exhibit,
"Celebrating Our Friendships," on display now through March 29, at
Clayton Hall, assembled in conjunction with the 1996 Delaware Women's
Conference, scheduled there this Saturday.
     A reception to meet the artists will be held from 6-8 tonight.
     During the free public reception, Kathleen Buckalew, photographer
and art exhibitor, will give a slide presentation about the women she
has captured on film during her travels throughout the United States.
     The exhibit consists of 81 pieces, some on display for the first
time, including paintings, photographs, textiles, prints, collages and
ceramics.
     Each piece will be accompanied by a photograph of the artist and
the woman who inspired her work. Essays about the artists and their
friends will be included in a catalog written and edited by Sally W.
Donatello and Marilyn Stevens.
     The Clayton Hall gallery is open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Mondays
through Fridays. Call 831-1259 for variable weekend hours. For more
information about the exhibit, call 831-3063.


Fair compensation is topic of talk
     "Equal Pay for Equal Work" will be the topic of the next program
in the Lavender Scholars lecture series.
     Speaking will be M. V. Lee Badgett, currently spending the year
as a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at Yale
University. Her free public talk will begin at 7 p.m., Thursday, March
7, in Room 130 of Smith Hall.
     The Lavender Scholars is a group of lesbian and gay male faculty,
staff and graduate students at UD.
     Badgett, who earned her doctorate at the University of California
at Berkeley, is currently involved in research on sexual orientation
discrimination in labor markets, family structure and family policy,
affirmative action and changing skill demands and the effect of
economic restructuring on race and gender groups.
     Coauthor and coeditor of Labor and the Economy, she has written
several book chapters and articles in professional journals, as well
as other publications.
     She is vice president of the Institute for Gay and Lesbian
Strategic Studies and a member of the American Economic Association,
the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the
Industrial Relations Research Association and the International
Association for Feminist Economics.
     For information, call 831-8703.


Naturalist will speak March 14
     "The Meaning of Wilderness and the Rights of Nature" is the topic
of a free public lecture scheduled at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 14, in
Room 529 of the Higher Education Building in Georgetown.
     Speaking will be Roderick F. Nash, professor emeritus of history
and founder of the environmental studies program at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Nash is author of Wilderness and the
American Mind, The Rights of Nature and numerous other books and
articles.
     Wilderness and the American Mind is listed by the Los Angeles
Times as one of the 100 most important books published since World War
II and ranked by McMillan Publishing Co. as the sixth most important
environmental book of all time, just behind Walden.
     A boatman and whitewater enthusiast who has run the Colorado
River through the Grand Canyon more than 50 times, Nash has traveled
most other American wild rivers as well. He also has received awards
for teaching excellence.
     Nash's Georgetown appearance is sponsored by the College of Arts
and Sciences Outreach Committee and the Faculty Senate Committee on
Cultural Activities and Public Events.
     For more information, call 855-1627.


Library & scholar series continues
     The next lecture in the Scholar and the Library: Recent Research
in the Humanities and Social Sciences series will be from noon -1
p.m., Friday, March 8, in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room of the Morris
Library.
     Svend Holsoe, anthropology, will speak on "Searching for the
Unsearchable: Identifying the African Origins of the African-American
Population of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands."
     The talk will address the slave trade to the Danish West Indies,
today's U.S. Virgin Islands. Particular emphasis will be placed on the
nature of the archival documentation available that allows for the
tracing of individual Africans from their homelands to particular
plantations on the island of St. Croix.
     Attendees may bring lunches.


College to mark week with events
     The Human Resources College Council will sponsor Human Resources
Week, with special programs offered at 7 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday, March
5-7, in the Alumni Room (202) of Alison Hall. Refreshments will be
served.
     The events are open to prospective students and students enrolled
in the college.
     College information night will take place March 5, with
information on each department in the college, on clubs and
organizations and majors. Faculty members and students will be on hand
to answer questions.
     A faculty forum will be held March 6, when faculty members will
discuss issues in their fields, related to the "real world."
     Professional night is scheduled on March 7, with Career Services
Center representatives discussing resumes, interviews and internships.