September 24, 2007 (Vol. 6, No. 3)

Women's Studies Program Announces Lecture Series

This fall, the Women's Studies Program has scheduled a series of daytime lectures designed to highlight studies in women's and gender topics. All of the lectures will be held in Room 221 of Carman Hall and will begin at 12:30 p.m. These lectures are free and open to the public.

"The Women's Studies Brown Bag Luncheon Series offers faculty from all departments opportunities to share their research," says Professor and Women's Studies Director Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum.

Starting things off is Prof. Daniel Fernandez of the Department of Languages and Literatures. He will deliver a talk titled "Desire and Voyeurism in Mexican Border Narrative" on Thursday, October 4.

On Thursday, November 1, Prof. Alyshia Galvez of the Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies will give a talk titled "Gendered Citizenship: Sexual Violence, Women's Roles and the Problem with the Immigration Debate."Prof. Galvez is currently conducting a two-year study examining the interaction between Mexican immigrants and the public health system in New York City during pregnancy and childbirth. Her first major research project, now a book manuscript under review at the University of Arizona Press, studied the intersection of religion, politics, and citizenship in Mexican immigrant organizations, called Guadalupan Committees, in New York City parishes.

Finally, Prof. Tammy Brown of the African and African American Studies Department will present her paper "Soully-gal, Talk Yuh Talk: Black Immigrant Women's Voices in Paule Marshall's Fiction" on Thursday, November 29.

For more information on any of these events, call 718-960-1160.

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