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Women's Center announces programs

SOUTH HADLEY The following events will be held at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, 83 College Street, on the Mount Holyoke College campus unless otherwise noted. All events are free, open to the public and fully handicapped accessible.

On Feb. 12 at 4 p.m., Kristine Newhall, Research Associate from the University of Iowa, will give a talk titled "Whither Sports Feminism?" Newhall will examine the intersections of feminism/feminist activism and sport in 20th century America. On Feb. 15 at 4 p.m. Dayo Gore, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will give a talk titled "The Revolt of Rosa Lee Ingram: Black Women Radicals' Reframing of Civil Rights Politics, 1948-1956." Gore details the leadership of CP-affiliated black women radicals in the campaigns to free black sharecropper Rosa Lee Ingram and her two sons, who were sentenced to execution in 1948 for killing a white man in self-defense.

On Feb. 22 at 4 p.m., Ksanna Mazhurina, Research Associate from Moscow Sate University, will give a talk titled "The Quest for Selfhood: Contemporary Russian and Chinese Women Writers." This talk explores the major trends and developments in contemporary women's writing of Russia and China. Mazhurina will analyze the essays and novels of influential women writers, whose works are considered as the most representative writing with a distinctive "female voice."

On Feb. 26 at 4 p.m., Karen Remmler, Research Associate from Mount Holyoke College, will give a talk titled "Recovering the Dead in the Wake of Violence." What does the treatment of the dead and their remains tell us about the formation of nationalized and/or collectivized cultures of memory? In what ways do transnational poetic representations of proper and improper burials in the aftermath of atrocity and other forms of violence resemble symbolic and politicized gestures of mourning in contemporary controversies about the rights of the dead? Remmler will expand upon these questions through a reading of seemingly disparate enactments of proper burial in cases involving mummified remains, plastinated and obliterated corpses, and imaginary acts of proper burial in the work of the late German writer W.G. Sebald, the Canadian writer, Ann Michaels, and the British playwright, Simon McBurney.

On March 1 at 4 p.m., Nancy Whittier, Professor of Sociology at Smith College, will give a talk titled "The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Activism, the State, and Social Change." Attitudes, cultural practices, and public policy related to child sexual abuse have changed dramatically over the past 30 years. Feminists in diverse groups played a crucial role in these changes, but the impact of their efforts was shaped by larger political and cultural contexts.

For more information call our event line at 538-2527.