Fall 2005

Women and Science Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies certificate program, the Social Science Interest Group, the School of Education, the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences, and the Department of Sociology's Emily Mumford lecture


Tuesday, September 13:
"Diversity Among Science and Engineering Faculty at Research Universities"
 Dr. Donna Nelson
Associate Professor of Chemistry
University of Oklahoma


Monday, September 26, 7 p.m.:
"Female-Friendly Science"
Dr. Sue Rosser
Dean of Liberal Arts, and Professor of History, Science and Technology 
Georgia Institute of Technology


Thursday, October 20th:
"Gender and the Technological Imagination"
Dr. Anne Balsamo
Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy
Professor Interactive Media and Gender Studies 
University of Southern California


Monday, November 14:
"The Girl Gap in Elementary Science Education"
Dr. Dale McCreedy
Director of Programs in Gender and Family Learning
The Franklin Institute Science Museum

 

Art Department Lecture
Thursday, December 1
Coco Fusco has performed, lectured, exhibited and been a curator throughout North and South America, Europe, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Korea and Japan. She is the author of English is Broken Here, (The New Press, 1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings (Routledge/inIVA, 2001) and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (Routledge, 1999). Her writings have appeared in a wide variety of publications and anthologies. Fusco's performances and videos have been included in The Whitney Biennial, The Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The London International Theatre Festival, and the National Review of Live Art. Her latest video installation, Els Segadors, premiered at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen as part of the Unpacking Europe exhibition sponsored by Rotterdam European Cultural Capital 2001. She is currently curating a comprehensive exhibition on racial taxonomy in American photography for the International Center for Photography that will open at the end of next year. She is Director of Graduate Studies for the Visual Arts Program at Columbia University, New York.


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