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Frank Wu to Speak on Racism in US Asian Context at BMC
Frank Wu will be coming to Thomas Great Hall this evening at 7:30 to discuss his book, Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. Wu, an authority on both civil-rights law through history, and the Asian-American experience, will use his talk to engage questions of the Asian immigrant experience, monolithic representations of the Asian experience, the “model minorty stereotype,” and the importance of coalition building in the fight to identify and dispel racist sentiment.
William Coleman ‘07 to Give HC Lecture
William Coleman ‘07, curator of the current exhibition in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, “The Pennsylvania Landscape: Colonial to Contemporary,” will be giving a talk on March 6th at 4:30 in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery in the Whitehead Campus Center at HC. He will be discussing Pennsylvania’s place within the history of American landscape painting and photography, with reference to the works comprising his exhbition, which will remain at Haverford through March. William Coleman is the first Haverford student to serve as curator of a Cantor Fitzgerald exhibition.
Dr. Raquel E. Gur, MD, PhD to come
The HC Psych Club will host a talk by Dr. Raquel Gur, the Karl and Linda Rickels Professor and Vice Chair for Research Development in the Department of Psychiatry, Neurology and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. The talk will take place this Wednesday at 4:30 in Chase Auditorium. Dr. Gur will be speaking about her years of work with schizophrenics and how this work is being applied to clinical practice. In the past, Dr. Gur has directed the Neuropsychiatry Section.
BMC International Women’s Day Opens with Saskia Sassen
University of Chicago Sociologist Saskia Sassen will kick off International Women’s Day, and the “Women and the New Global Economy” lecture series, with a Thursday evening talk in Dalton 300. The 7:30 p.m. talk, titled “Strategic Gendering and the Feminizing of Survival,” will discuss the changing role of women in a world characterized by globalization and and immigration
Among the specific conversations to be introduced in the lecture are the dynamics of women as workers in global cities, trafficking of women for use in both the sex industry and for labor, and women as, in Sassen’s words, “new types of political subjects in a context where globalization and immigration have meant that the national state can no longer presume to represent all its people.”
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