01. From CGS: May 2005 Archives

"Current trend in Gender Studies in the USA"

(Lecture in English)

Dr. Mary S. Hartman
University Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Director, Institute for Women's Leadership at Douglass College, Rutgers University
"Mary S. Hartman has been a pioneering historian, a founder of women's history...." -- Catharine R. Stimpson, New York University
Mary S. Hartman is university professor and director of the Institute for Women's Leadership, a consortium of six units based on the Douglass campus. From the early seventies, she joined in creating one of the nation's first Women's Studies programs at Douglass, and in 1973 co-organized the first Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, which has since become the largest inter-disciplinary forum for scholarship in the field.

The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies (PGSS) at ICU started in the Spring Term of 2005. Also starting this term is the new foundation class, "Approach to Gender Studies", in which 15 scholars lecture on the possibilities of gender and sexuality studies in a diverse range of fields, including natural science.

Moreover, on Friday, May 27, CGS will commemorate the establishment of PGSS with a guest lecture, "What Can Gender and Sexuality Studies Do?" by Chizuko Ueno, a professor of Tokyo University and a recognized authority on gender studies.