Colloquium Series Fall 1995 Levis Faculty Center Monday 8.00 pm 11 September Leigh Star Library and Information Science and Women's Studies Ambiguity of Things and the Multiplicity of People: Feminism, Experience, and Information Technology Respondents: Nicholas Burbules, Educational Policy Studies Patricia Jones, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Background Reading: Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera, chapter 7 Kathryn Henderson, "Flexible Sketches and Inflexible Data Bases" Susan Leigh Star and James Griesemer, "Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects" 9 October Simon Joyce English : "The Limits of Panopticism: Foucault and the Crime Wars" Respondents: Liz Bohls English and Women's Studies Eliza Steelwater Urban and Regional Planning Background Reading: Phil Cohen, "Policing the Working-Class City" Charles Dickens, "On Duty with Inspector Field" Michel Foucault, "On Attica: An Interview" 9 October Amanda Anderson English and Women's Studies: Dabatable Performances: The Staging of Contemporary Feminist Theory Respondents: Natasha Levinson Educational Policy Studies Joseph Valente English Background Reading: Seula Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornel, and Nancy Frazer, Feminist Contentions: a Philosophical Exchange (selections) 4 Decenber Cheshire Calhoun Philosophy, Colby College: "Family Out-Laws: Rethinking the Connection between Feminism, Lesbianism, and the Family" (Cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy, College of Law, Humanities Council, and Women's Studies) Respondents: Andrea Rundell Philosophy David Hirsch English Background Reading: Chashire Calhoun, "Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory Nancy D. Polikoff, "We Will Get What We Ask For" Kath Weston, "Exiles from Kinship"