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Race and the University"
A public lecture by Nancy Abelmann (Associate Vice Chancellor for Research -- Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields and the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Professor Nancy Abelmann (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1990; B.A. Harvard University) is one of the most respected scholars in the field of Korean Studies in the United States. She is an anthropologist specializing on the Koreas and Asian America, interested particularly in class, mobility, education, family, migration, mental health, and gender. The lecture will address issues around race and class in U.S. academic institutions and how the landscape of 21st century academic institutions are changing as a result of various internationalization processes (including the increasing number of international students especially from Asia, the growth of diasporic communities, efforts to internationalize the curriculum, etc.)
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The American University Meets the Pacific Century: Notes from the University of Illinois
A public lecture by Nancy Abelmann (Associate Vice Chancellor for Research -- Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields and the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Professor Nancy Abelmann (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1990; B.A. Harvard University) is one of the most respected scholars in the field of Korean Studies in the United States. She is an anthropologist specializing on the Koreas and Asian America, interested particular! ly in class, mobility, education, family, migration, mental health, and gender. The lecture will address issues around race and class in U.S. academic institutions and how the landscape of 21st century academic institutions are changing as a result of various internationalization processes (including the increasing number of international students especially from Asia, the growth of diasporic communities, efforts to internationalize the curriculum, etc.)
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Breaking Feminist Stereotypes
Breaking Feminist Stereotypes is a panel presentation and Q&A that will focus on breaking certain stereotypes around feminism. Panelists include Anti-Sexists and Feminists United Collective from Hampshire College to discuss feminist identity for men and Kat Dunn, who works at the Center for Psychological & Family Services in Springfield, and as a counselor at the Hampshire Interfaith Cot Shelter, to discuss feminism in lower socio-economic communities.
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