Colloquium Series Spring 1996 Levis Faculty Center Monday 8.00 pm 29 January Panel "Victim, Agent, Voice: Intersection in Pornography, Sexuality, and Transnational Feminism" Jane Juffer English Cris Mayo Educational Policy Studies Radhika Mongia Speech Communication Background Reading: Wendy Brown, "Freedom and the Plastic Cage" Benita Parry, Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory (selections) Chris Straayer "The Seduction of Boundaries" 26 February Andrea Press Communications Research : "Television and the Cultural Politics of Abortion" Respondents: Leslie Reagan Medicine and History Ivy Glennon Speech Communication, Eastern Illinois U. Background Reading: Celeste Condit, Decoding Abortion Rhetoric (selections) William Gamson, Talking Politics (selections) Sherry Ortner, "Reading America: Preliminary Notes on Class and Culture" 25 March Cheryl Cole Kinesiology: Verifying Gender in Cold War America: Dangerous Bodies and National Identity Respondents: Kathryn Oberdeck History Paula Treichler Medicine, Communications Research, and Women's Studies Background Reading: Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter (selections) Fred Dolan, Allegories of America (selections) Michael Feher, "Of Bodies and Technologies" 29 April Joel Weinsheimer English, U. of Minnesota: "Charity Militant: Toward a Post-Critical Hermeneutics" Respondents: Nicholas BurbulesEducational Policy Studies Allen HancePhilosophy Background Reading: Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (selections) Paul Ricoer, Freud and Philosophy (selections)