Ella Shohat, film critic andprofessor of cultural studies and women's studies at the City University of NewYork, will be at Hamilton College to discuss "Globalization and the Nation:Toward a Multicultural Feminist Critique." The talk will take place onWednesday, Oct. 30, at 4:15 p.m. in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center.
Shohat is the author of Israeli Cinema: East/West and The Politicsof Representation. She co-authored Multiculturalism and the Media,which won the Katherine Kovacs Singer Book Award for "Best Film Book" in 1994.Her work has appeared in numerous feminist, postcolonial and cultural studiesjournals and anthologies.
The Shohat discussion is being sponsored by the Irwin Chair, Kirkland Project,Kirkland Endowment, Women's Studies, Office of Multicultural Affairs and otherHamilton organizations. For more information call Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz at859-4439.