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women and leadership: taking a look at power and position Sumru
Erkut, senior research scientist with the Wellesley
Centers for Women, will present findings of a recent
study of women leaders in the U.S. followed by an open
discussion titled "Women Leaders" Wednesday, Oct. 16, at
6 pm at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Presented
in conjunction the Davis Museum's Women Who Ruled
exhibit, the event will focus on how more women can
attain positions of public power in the 21st century. clothes cupboard holds bargains and benefits It's
hard to beat great deals and good deeds. The Wellesley
Clothes Cupboard, now in its 51st year, combines both. It
offers recycled items from tuxedos to skis at bargain
prices, and all proceeds go to a scholarship fund to
benefit Wellesley students. But that's not all. Sadia Abbas, a member of the Wellesley class of 1992 and visiting lecturer in the English Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will present a lecture, "History and the Limits of Authenticity: The Case of Aijaz Ahmad and Salman Rushdie" Thursday, Oct. 17, from 4:30-6:30 pm in Slater House. Abbas graduated from Wellesley with a concentration in English literature and completed a Ph.D. at Brown University in May 2002. Her focus is on early modern and postcolonial literature, and her research interests include poetic form in early modern literature. She is currently working on the effects of the rhetoric of cultural politics and theory upon literary method and political discourse. The lecture is sponsored by History, English and Political Science departments. For more information, call x2603. inside the world of the cinema With
the excitement of the filming of "Mona Lisa Smile" on
campus recently, many of us have become fascinated and
involved in the world of cinema. The Cinema and Media
Studies Program addresses this burgeoning interest with
an alumnae panel presentation titled "Careers in Media,"
which will take place Friday, Oct. 18, at 4:15 pm in
Founders 120. what influence does tv have on teen behavior? The Wellesley Centers for Women will present a seminar, "Parental Guidance Suggested: An Evaluation of Measures of Television Consumption," with Lynn Sorsoli, Ed.M., Michelle Porche, Ed.D., and Deborah Tolman, Ed.D., Thursday, Oct. 17, from 12:30-1:30 pm in Cheever House Library, 828 Washington St. "This presentation reports findings from the pilot and first wave of a longitudinal study examining the connections between television consumption and adolescent sexuality," Sorsoli said. "As a part of our study, we investigate past ways of exploring the effects of television programming and evaluate new, innovative methods of investigating and understanding these effects. We will present the range of sexual experiences among the adolescent boys and girls in our sample, some of their television viewing habits, and the results of our recent explorations of the possible connections between their viewing habits and sexual behaviors. For illustrative purposes, clips of television programs popular with the adolescents in our sample will be shown." Sorsoli and her fellow speakers all work on the Gender and Sexuality Project at the Wellesley Center for Research on Women. "Our belief is that the importance of gender and gender ideologies has been overlooked in the past and that including these constructs in our study may help us to understand both the direct and indirect effects of television consumption on adolescent sexual behaviors," Sorsoli said. "Thus, the question we investigate here is twofold: One, is there a relationship between adolescents" television consumption and their sexual behaviors; and two, do gender and/or gender ideologies play a role in this relationship? Television is a large part of the adolescent world. In fact, it is such a large part of all of our worlds, that it can be difficult to step back and study its effects on human behaviors. However, it is essential to bring a critical questioning eye to its familiar presence and to ask demanding questions about how it may affect our ways of moving, acting and understanding our worlds." Bring your lunch to the seminar; coffee is provided. For more information, call x2483. colleagues in the news jerold auerbach, history, has written a book, Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel (Rutgers University Press, 2001). A reviewer for Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service called the book the story of a people separating from biblically rooted distinctiveness to heed what Auerbach calls "the siren song of assimilation and normalization." The writer noted that "(Auerbach) intends not so much to encourage a return as to provide understanding of the departure." christopher candland, political science, was interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor for a story titled "Exhausted by War, Sri Lanka Ponders Peace." Candland told the Monitor, "There's evidence of a real change of heart among the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka to find a settlement (among rival factions). This really is a different kind of peace initiative." elizabeth desombre, environmental studies, has been interviewed about non-governmental organizations on Odyssey, a public affairs program on WBEZ, Chicago's public radio station. She also served as an expert for a Los Angeles Times story, "Sobering Up After an Environmental Binge," on the United Nations summit on how to sustain the Earth. Desombre attended the summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, in September. "Almost all countries have had to do studies on what they've done since 1992 and have filed reports," she told the Times. "The mere fact of gathering the information mobilizes people to do things." thomas nolden, German, led a seminar on contemporary Jewish writing in Europe as part of a program that he co-organized with the European Institute for Jewish Studies at Sweden's annual book fair in Goeteborg. columbus
day.
Holiday. dassehra.
Hindu tradition. alana
open campus.
Board of Admission overnight program for prospective
students of color. 11:30 am- 8:30 pm. Info: x2270. alana
open campus.
Board of Admission event for prospective students of
color. 7:30-11:30 am. Info: x2270. wellesley
clothes cupboard.
10 am-7 pm, Alumnae Ballroom. (See story, page 1.) Info:
jpco1@aol.com. wellesley
clothes cupboard.
10 am-noon, Alumnae Ballroom. (See story, page 1.) Info:
jpco1@aol.com. worship
service.
Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. 11:15 am-12:15 pm,
Houghton Memorial Chapel. Companionship time, 12:30 pm,
Little Chapel. Info: x2655. cws
workshop.
"Resumes." Preregister. 12:30 pm, GRH 330. Info:
x2352. exhibit.
Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons 1500-1650.
Sponsor: DMCC. Through Dec. 8. Info: x2051.
don't miss...outstanding chinese musician offers rare pipa concert Her performance at the White House with cellist Yo-Yo Ma is just one of the many landmark events for Chinese musician Wu Man. Possessed with "awesome virtuosity" according to The San Francisco Chronicle and "phenomenal agility" by The New York Times, Wu Man is a master performer on the pipa, an instrument similar to a lute. She has worked with ensembles such as the Boston Symphony, Kronos Quartet and Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group and has performed in concert venues from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York to the Royal Albert and Royal Festival halls in London and the Opera House in Moscow. On Saturday, Oct. 19, at 8 pm in Jewett Auditorium, Wu Man will be joined by Ann Yao, who performs on the zheng, for a concert of traditional and contemporary works. The event is co-sponsored by the Music and Chinese departments. The pipa, which dates back more than 2000 years, has a long, straight neck and round resonators and is played with forward and backward plucking motions that sounded like "pi" and "pa" to fanciful ears. Traced back to the third century B.C., the zheng has remained one of the most popular of Chinese musical instruments. Its half-tube shaped body is constructed of wood and often ornamented with graphics or symbols. For more information, call x2028. Click Here to View Previous Issues Return to the Office of Public Information's Homepage Created
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