Nazym Shedenova (Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan) Monday, March 7 / 12:30 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Prof. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women in the Kazakhstan labor force. She...
Monday, March 7, 2011 Multi-Cultural Center Queer theorists Lisa Duggan, Macarena Gomez-Barris, J. Jack Halberstam, and Dean Spade presented queer critiques of same-sex marriage and the fight for “marriage equality.” Instead of attempting to merely transform existing, oppressive institutions, panelists insisted on the necessity of moving...
Michael D. Dixon (History, University of Southern Indiana) Monday, March 7 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 Corinth, like many Greek poleis ("city-states"), did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Corinth was almost continuously...