Join Women and Gender Studies for a review of the famous Senate Hearings of Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas that put race, gender and sexual harassment at the forefront of a complicated National Dialogue.
The investigative film features women who were willing to testify against Judge Thomas at his confirmation hearings, but who were not called upon to do so. Film interviewer, Michel McQueen (Martin), host of NPR’s Tell Me More, speaks with these women, along with Anita Hill, former members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and authors of the book, Strange Justice.
The screening will be followed by a student and faculty panel discussion facilitated by Dr. Yevette Richards Jordan, an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and a specialist in African American history, US Women’s History, labor studies, and Pan-Africanism. She has published Maida Springer, Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000) and the oral history companion book entitled, Conversations with Maida Springer: A Personal History of Labor, Race, and International Relations (2004, University of Pittsburgh Press). Her current research explores the operations of the African Labor College in Uganda as a site for Cold War and transnational labor struggles in the 1950s and 1960s. She received an MA degree from the Department of African American Studies at Yale University and MA and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of American Studies at Yale University. She has received a Mathy Junior Faculty Award in the Arts and Humanities (2001), a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997-1998), and a Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy Fellowship from Carnegie-Mellon University (1997-1998).
When: Wednesday, February 16, 2011,
Where: George Mason's Johnson Center Cinema
Schedule: Film at 2 PM, Panel at 2:45 PM.
Panelists include:
Dr. Anita Taylor, Professor Emeritus, first chair of the Department of Communication, a founder of Women and Gender Studies, and past executive editor of the national journal, Women and Language.
Dr. Janette Muir, Associate Professor, New Century College. Research interest is in presidential campaigns and political activism.
Kaitlin Seeberger, Masters student in Applied History. Main area of focus is gender and cultural history in the United States during the late 19th through the 20th century.
Lowell Brooks, Undergraduate in Public Administration. Interests include public policy and social justice.
Brittany Bennett, Undergraduate in Government and International Politics with a focus in Constitutional Law and an interest in Gender Studies.
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