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Spring 2004 Lecture Series
Equity and Opportunities for Women:
Initiatives in Law and Public Policy
Women's Studies, with a grant from The Haines Morris Foundation, is sponsoring a spring lecture series. Talks will focus on the connections of law and public policy, social climate, and the quality of women's lives. Additional support comes from the Colleges of Communication and of Law and the departments of Psychology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sport & Leisure, as well as the Interdisciplinary Programs of African American Studies, American Studies, and Judaic Studies. All events are free and open to the public. Pay parking is available in the parking garage adjacent to the University Center on Cumberland & Phillip Fulmer Way.
March 18 - Thursday - 4:00 pm - room 132 Law School (reception to follow)
"The Sexual Economy of American Slavery"
Adrienne Davis - School of Law, UNC Chapel Hill
The dynamics of slavery have had an enduring impact on contemporary patterns of sex, law and power. Yet scholars of slavery and scholars of sexuality rarely communicate. This talk proposes an analytic structure to invite a conversation between these two fields of study, from Freud to Foucault, to clarify the dynamics of domestic violence, the erotics of power, incest, adultery, same-sex practices, and fantasy. These diverse and often contradictory frameworks illuminate sex under slavery and are themselves transformed in the ever-present wake of slavery. |
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April 1 - Thursday - 4:00 pm - room 132 Law School (reception to follow)
"Reform or Retrenchment? Single Sex Education and the Construction of Race & Gender"
Verna Williams - College of Law U. Cincinnati
In the debate about school reform, single sex education emerges time and again as a promising answer to the problems confronting our nation's elementary and secondary schools, particularly those in urban settings. Most recently, the Bush Administration has signaled its intention to relax regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., to facilitate the creation of sex segregated schools and classes. Dr. Williams considers race and sex in light of the history of sex segregation in education, and argues that when viewed in the context of racial segregation, single-sex schooling has supported the construction of race and gender hierarchies. |
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April 22 - Thursday - 4:00 pm - room 132 Law School (reception to follow)
"Diversity, Equality and Social Justice in Higher Education: New Cultural Meanings"
Martha Chamallas, Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University
The important public dialogue surrounding the Michigan affirmative action cases decided by the Supreme Court last term has begun to affect the way we think about broader issues of equity and social justice in higher education. Professor Chamallas will discuss the impact of the Michigan cases and the legal definition of discrimination on a wide range of issues affecting outsider groups in the university setting, including the persistent failure to promote women faculty to the highest ranks in the university and the marginalization of feminist studies in the curriculum. She will assess the prospects for establishing new cultural meanings of diversity that go beyond admission and access to elite institutions.
Read a chapter by Dr. Chamallas (PDF, 2,028 KB) |
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