Author bell hooks to speak at Purdue
October 14, 2014
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Feminist author, scholar and social activist bell hooks will speak at Purdue University on Oct. 28.
Her talk is 5-6:30 p.m. in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. The event, which is free and open to the public, is the 2014 Cummings-Perrucci Lecture.
In addition to the evening talk, hooks will speak to the WGSS 280: Introduction to Women's Studies course as part its Dream Team lecture series. This is a question-and-answer session with students from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. Members of the public interested in attending the class session must contact program coordinator Teasha McKinley in advance for tickets.
hooks' work focuses on contemporary popular culture and politics, and she examines the multiple networks that connect gender, race and class. She has held professorships at Yale University, Oberlin College and the City College of New York, where she held the position of distinguished lecturer of English literature.
This year's Cummings-Perrucci Lecture is hosted by the Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies program. The Cummings- Perruci lecture series rotates between Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, African American Studies, and Sociology, and the series focuses on class, race and gender inequality.
This event is also co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity & Inclusion, Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, The Center for Research on Diversity & Inclusion, Office of the Dean of Students, Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence, Black Cultural Center, and the LGBTQ Center.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, 765-494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Source: Teasha McKinley, program coordinator for Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, teasha@purdue.edu
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Note to Journalists: The accurate spelling of the speaker's name is bell hooks, all lowercase.
