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The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture announced events for the spring 2004 semester around its theme "Technology, Science and Democracy: What's at Stake." All are free and open to the public.

Alex Matthiessen                                                                                                                     The Truth About Our Nuclear Neighbor: Indian Point and the Hudson River           Tuesday, January 27, 7:30 p.m., Fillius Events Barn

Alex Matthiessen is the executive director of the environmentalist group Riverkeeper, whose mission is to safeguard the ecological integrity of the Hudson River and the watershed of New York City. Since 1983, Riverkeeper has investigated and brought to justice over 300 lawbreakers. Co-sponsors: Biology, Environmental Studies.

Film, Through the Wire (1990)                                                                                  Thursday, February 19, 4:15 p.m.,K-J Auditorium (Room 144)

A documentary on the United States penal system's mistreatment of political activists, especially in the Female High Security Unit at Lexington, Kentucky. Directed by Nina Rosenblum and featuring Susan Rosenberg.

Joy James and Susan Rosenberg
Democracy and Captivity: Human Rights,  Technology and the "Science of Incarceration"                                                                                                                  Thursday, February 19, 7:30 p.m., Fillius Events Barn 

Joy James, activist and writer, is a political theorist and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. The 2002 recipient of a Bellagio Grant (Rockefeller Foundation), James has published numerous books and articles including Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture and the forthcoming The New Abolitionists: Prison Writing and Neo-Slave Narratives.

Susan Rosenberg, a human and prisoner rights activist, teaches at CUNY's John Jay School of Criminal Justice. An activist in the Black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, anti-war, and women's movements, she was targeted by the FBI for her political work and arrested for weapons possession in 1984. Rosenberg earned her masters in creative writing in 2000; she was pardoned by President Clinton in 2001. Co-sponsors: Faculty for Women's Concerns, Africana Studies.

Sandra Harding
Science and Technology Studies in a Postcolonial World: Recent Issues
Tuesday, March 2, 7:30 p.m., Fillius Events Barn

Sandra Harding, professor of education and women's studies at UCLA, is a prominent philosopher of science and is the author and editor of more than 10 books, including Whose Science? Whose  Knowledge? and Is Science Multicultural? Co-sponsors: Faculty for Women's Concerns, Women's Studies, Philosophy.

Suzanne Anker
Gallery Talk: Origins and Futures
Tuesday, March 30, 4 p.m., Emerson Gallery 

The work of Suzanne Anker, a visual artist and theoretician working with genetic imagery, has been shown nationally and internationally, at the Smithsonian Institute, the J. P. Getty Museum, the Stadtkunst in Koln, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. She is the co-author of The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age (2003). Co-sponsors: Dean of Faculty, Emerson Gallery.

Nalo Hopkinson
Science Fiction with a Difference                                                                                      Friday, April 16, 7 p.m., Red Pit (K-J 109)

Nalo Hopkinson's award-winning science fiction is written from a feminist perspective and informed by the author's Afro-Caribbean roots. Her novels include Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, and The Salt Roads.  Co-sponsors: English; Comparative Literature, and Faculty for Women's Concerns.

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