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February 16, 1999
Oberlin to Celebrate Women's History Month with Residency by Famed Feminist Scholar
Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli
I. Thur., Feb. 25, 7
p.m.,Room 306 King Building
Lecture: "Is Identity a Problem? The Pathologizing of
Identity in Contemporary Political Discourses"
II. Fri., Feb. 26,
12:15 p.m., Room 112 Wilder
Hall
Faculty/student brown-bag lunch--limit: 25--a discussion of
Alcoff's current work-in-progress: "Towards a Phenomenology
of Racial Embodiment"
III. Sat., Feb., 27,
10 a.m.-noon. Room 112 Wilder Hall Workshop--limit: 25--"The
question of experience in feminist theory."
Sponsored by the College's Women's Studies Program with
support from the Nellie R. Heldt Lectureship.
For further
information
contact Phyllis Gorfain
or Anna Agathangelou (440/775-8907).
Second Floor
Carnegie Building
52 W. Lorain St.
Free & open to the public
Funded in part by a grant from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation: "Common Ground: Education for Democracy"
For further
information, contact Oberlin College News Services
440/775-8474
OBERLIN--Oberlin College--the first college in the U.S. to grant women B.A. degrees--will celebrate women's history month this year with a three-day residency by leading feminist philosopher Linda Martin Alcoff.
Alcoff's visit will initiate Oberlin's observance of Women's History Month, which formally begins in March. During Alcoff's residency, she will present a lecture titled "Is Identity a Problem?" as well as take part in a brown-bag lunch discussion and present a workshop.
A specialist in the postcolonial feminist theory and continental philosophy, Alcoff is a professor of philosophy at Syracuse University and current chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Hispanics.
The scholar's primary focus is on continental philosophy, epistemology, feminist theory and philosophy of race. Her books include two co-edited works, Feminist Epistemologies (Routledge, 1993) and the forthcoming Epistemology: The Big Questions (Basil Blackwell, 1999), and Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (Cornell, 1996).
Alcoff's many articles on topics concerning Foucault, sexual violence, the politics of knowledge, and gender and race identity also form the basis for another book-in-progress, Visible Identities.
Pre-registration for the brown-bag lunch on Friday and the workshop on Saturday is required; each session is limited to 25. Registration will be held on a first-come, first-serve basis in Room 116 of Rice Hall, the office of the Women's Studies program.
Also available in the office will be copies of a paper by Alcoff to be discussed at the lunch and questions for the workshop.
The Syracuse professor received an ACLS Fellowship for 1990-1991 and a fellowship from the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University for 1994-1995.
In recognition of her outstanding undergraduate teaching, Professor Alcoff was awarded a Laura J. and Douglas Meredith Professorship at Syracuse. She was one of three professors at the University named in the first year of these awards. From 1997-1999 she served as a co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
