Women’s Studies 392 Colloquium Lecture Series

Fall 2007

Thursdays | 12:00 PM | 4186 JFSB

Available for Credit: WS 392R sec 001 index #5193

Carrie Scoresby 1063 JFSB

801.422.4605

Carrie_Scoresby@byu.edu

Course Description

The Women's Studies Colloquium is a scholarly forum for discussion, intellectual development, and scholarly collaboration among students, faculty, and others interested in participating in a community of Women's Studies scholars. It is a great opportunity for you to share ideas with other students and to interact with Women's Studies faculty.

Course Requirements

Attendance to every lecture is the only requirement for this course. We will meet a total of seven times during the semester. Since our meetings are so few, you will be required to attend every session, for the entire fifty minutes, if you desire a passing grade. The roll will be sent around the room at the beginning of each class. If you do not see the roll during class, you must see me immediately after the lecture is over to ensure your name has been marked for attendance. If your name is not recorded on the roll, it will be assumed that you were absent. If you miss a session as the result of a serious emergency, you will be expected to make-up the work by listening to the audio tape of the lecture and writing a paper analyzing the presentation. Please contact me (422-4605) at the Women's Research Institute immediately prior to, or following, the missed lecture to arrange any make-up work.

Course Schedule

Fall 2007

September 13 – Michelle James – "Sophie Critical Edition Series: Elisa Von Der Recke"

September 27 – Pamela Musil – "Love Songs"

October 11 – Valerie Hudson – "The WomenStats Database"

October 25 – WRI Distinguished Research Award Recipient – Cheryl Preston – “The Globe, the Web, and the Dollar: The Problem of Sexually Explicit Information on the Internet”

November 8 – Debra Sowell – “Splendor & Spectacular: Images of Dance from Court Ballet to Broadway ”

November 29th – Carolyn Strege Plocher – "Women in the Bible: An In-depth Study of the Hebrew Bible's Treatement of Women"

December 13 – Book Club Luncheon – “An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870 – 1920” by Carol Cornwall Madsen

Winter 2008

January 17 – Eric Dursteler – "Beatrice Muchiel or Fatima Hatun: Gender and Conversation in Early Modern Venice"

January 31 – Visiting Scholar – Jen Wahlquist

February 14 – Bonnie Ballif-Spanvil – "Witness and Nonwitness"

February 28 – Niwako Yamawaki – "The Effects of Ambivalent Sexism on College Students' Teacher Evaluations"

March 13 – TBA

March 27 – Yodit Solomon – "Learner-Centered Teaching as an Education Strategy in Mali"

April 10 – Book Club Luncheon – “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by Lisa See