Gender Studies Department

Maxwell Ciardullo, from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), an organization dedicated to comprehensive education about sexuality and sexual rights, will speak Saturday, April 12 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall 102 on "Lesson Plans for Homophobia: Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs, Anti-Gay Harassment, and HIV Stigma in Schools." Maxwell will talk about what kind of "lessons" abstinence-only-until-marriage programs use, the content of those programs, research on gay kids in schools, and trends in sexuality education.

On Wednesday 23 April at 7 PM in the Wriston Auditorium, the Edward F. Mielke Lecture Series in Biomedical Ethics will present Robert C. Bailey, University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Public Health, lecturing on "Male Circumcision: Genital Mutilation or Sound Public Health."

"The Dragon Cart: The Femme Fatale in Seventeenth-Century French Opera"
Wednesday, April 16th
6:00 p.m.
Harper Hall

The William A. Chaney Lecture in the Humanities will be presented by
Susan McClary, Professor of Musicology at UCLA. McClary's
feminist-based work has had a dramatic impact on the musicological
world, challenging conventional approaches to music and opening new
paths of interpretation.

McClary has delivered the Bloch Lectures at Berkeley, the Grout Lecture
at Cornell, the Hooker Lectures at McMaster, the Rayson Huang Lecture in
Hong Kong, the Alfred Hook Lecture at University of Sydney, the Centre
CATH Lectures in Leeds, and the Faculty Research Lecture at UCLA; she
held residencies throughout the United States as a Phi Beta Kappa
Visiting Scholar in 1999-2000, and she served as UCLA's Clark Professor
in 2005. She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1995. Her
work has been translated into at least twelve languages.

GLOW meets at 8pm on Wednesdays at the GLOW house and all are welcome.

2008-2009 Lawrence University Campus Organizer Internship

NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin Foundation is the political leader of the pro-choice movement. Our political advocacy ensures women the full range of reproductive health care services, including preventing unintended pregnancies, bearing healthy children and choosing safe, legal abortions.

NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin Foundation is looking for a responsible, dedicated, resolutely pro-choice student to fill the position of NPCW Campus Organizer. Campus organizers act as the leader of a pro-choice student organization on their campus. They organize pro-choice events, educate the public and help build NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin's presence on campus.

Applicants must be a registered student at Lawrence University

Length: The academic year (begins September 2008 and ends May 2009)

Hours: Average 10-15 hours a week, with flexible scheduling

Location: On your college campus

Responsibilities:
* Begin and lead Students for Choice, a pro-choice student group on campus
* Work with NPCW staff to develop and implement a nine-month grassroots organizing plan
* Develop and implement effective recruitment strategies for Students for Choice
* Plan and implement campus-based events
* Conduct educational outreach activities about choice issues on campus
* Work with students, faculty, staff and appropriate student and community groups to generate interest in reproductive rights and establish a pro-choice presence on campus
* Serve as the representative of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin on campus

Qualifications:
* Strong commitment to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin's mission and goals

* Interest in grassroots organizing or campus activism
* Reasonable flexibility in work/school schedule
* Ability to prioritize and handle a variety of projects simultaneously
* Leadership skills and the ability to manage others
* Ability to work independently and in groups
* Strong written and verbal communication skills

* Comfort working independently with regular but long distance supervision

The Campus Organizer will be provided with organizing materials, a day long training in August and support through weekly phone or email correspondence with NPCW staff along with a monthly monetary stipend. Internships with NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin allow students to build their resume while gaining valuable experience. NPCW will work with your school to ensure academic credit where available.

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, one-page resume, and at least two references to Carmen Marg-Patton, Political & Programs Director at Carmen@prochoicewisconsin.org. For more information, contact Carmen at 608-287-0016.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will be Lawrence's guest on Thursday, May 1 and Friday, May 2, as the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. She will give a public lecture entitled, "The First, Second, and Last Scenes of Mortality: An Eighteenth-Century Textile Mystery" on Thursday, May 1 at 7 pm in Youngchild Hall, room 121, on the Lawrence campus. A short reception will follow. She will also be available to discuss her work more informally at a question and answer session on Friday, May 2, at 10 am in the John Strange Commons in Lawrence's Main Hall. Both events are free.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is the 300th Anniversary Professor at Harvard University, where she teaches early American history and women's history. Her books include Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Early New England, 1650-1750 (1982) and A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990); this latter book won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 and was made into a documentary for PBS. Professor Ulrich's recent books include The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Making of an American Myth (2001) and Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History (2007). She has been the recipient of a Macarthur Foundation "genius" grant and is President-elect of the American Historical Association.

Monica Rico
Assistant Professor of History