Tuesday, October 24, 2006

UGA’s Institute for Women’s Studies to present lecture on “The Modern Colonial Gender System”

Writer/contact: Molly Moreland Myers, 706/542-0066, momolly@uga.edu

Athens, Ga. – The Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia will present a lecture by Maria Lugones, professor of philosophy, interpretation, and culture and comparative literature at Binghamton University. Lugones’ lecture, titled “The Modern Colonial Gender System,” will be held on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 5:30 p.m. in room 248 of the Student Learning Center; a reception in the north tower of the SLC will immediately follow the lecture.  Both events are free and open to the public.

In addition to Binghamton University, Lugones teaches at Escuela Popular Norte, a center for popular education that she co-founded.  Her most recent book is Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions. She is also the author of “Playfulness, ‘World’-Traveling and Loving Perception” and “Enticements and Dangers of Community for a Radical Politics.”

The lecture and reception are sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies, UGA’s department of philosophy (through a contribution through the Kleiner Funds), Triota (the women’s studies student honor society), Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, and the Hispanic Student Association.

For more information or for a photo of Lugones, contact Molly Moreland Myers at 706/542-0066 or momolly@uga.edu.

The Institute for Women’s Studies is a unit of UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences that brings together multidisciplinary perspectives on women and gender from across all schools and colleges at UGA.  Visit the institute at www.uga.edu/iws.

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