As part of Women's History Month, the UNI Women's and Gender Studies Program, with the assistance of others, including the UNI College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the UNI Graduate College, and the UNI Center for Multicultural Education, are hosting Professor AnaLouise Keating.

Keating is a dynamic and inspiring speaker committed to meaningful and thoroughgoing transformation of academia and culture. One of her recent books, Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues , as the dustjacket says, “takes critical pedagogy, feminist theory, and multiculturalism in new directions.” Keating's book is particularly appealing because she not only addresses the pedagogy of teaching race, class, gender, and sexuality in the classroom, she also gives examples of syllabi and classroom exercises that focus on these issues.

In anticipation of Keating's visit at the end of March, we are organizing an informal reading and discussion group. Karen Mitchell and Cate Palczewski are facilitating the group sessions, with Jesse Swan and Chelsea Delucenay handling the logistics.

It is for this reading group that we write you today. We are hoping that you will be interested in joining it. Both faculty and graduate students who are interested in pedagogy are welcome to join the group. Each group member will receive a copy of Keating's book in exchange for attendance at group meetings and a workshop to be held during Keating's visit in March 2008. We anticipate holding two or three group meetings in January, February, and the beginning of March, dates and times to be determined.

If you would like to join us, please e-mail Chelsea : chelseadel@gmail.com . BY DECEMBER 1, 2007, so that we can get organized!

Thanks!

For more information on Keating's book: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278737

More information on Dr. Keating can be found at: http://www.twu.edu/as/ws/Vitas/Vitas/Keating%20CV%202007.pdf

Questions: e-mail Jesse Swan: Jesse.Swan@uni.edu

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