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March 17, 2000 Women's Studies celebrates 20th anniversary WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Women's Studies Program at Purdue University will celebrate its first two decades of existence with activities March 24 and 25. The first event will be a lecture, "Black Women's History at the Intersection of Culture and Power," at 4 p.m. Friday, March 24, at the Black Cultural Center. The speaker will be Darlene Clark Hine, the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University. Hine has edited and written widely on African-American history, particularly on black women. She is co-author, with Stanley Harrold and William Hine, of an African-American history textbook, "The African-American Odyssey" (2000). Hine also has published more than 50 research articles on black history and is a co-editor of "More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas" (1996), "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible.– A Reader in Black Women's History" (1995), and of the award winning, two-volume set, "Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia" (1993). Hine was vice provost at Purdue during the early years of the Women's Studies program and her leadership role in the field of Black Women's history was launched with her ground-breaking project on African American women in the Midwest while here at Purdue. The next event in the 20th anniversary celebration will be a banquet in the West Faculty Lounge of the Purdue Memorial Union at 7 p.m. March 24. The evening's activities also will include a Founder Panel titled "A Kaleidoscope of Women's Studies at Purdue." For ticket information, contact the Women's Studies office, (765) 494-6295. The program will sponsor a daylong conference, "Revisioning the Future: Generations of Women's Studies at Purdue," starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 25, in Room 202, Stewart Center. The conference will feature a lecture by Lee Quinby, Caroline Werner Gannett Professor of the Humanities at Rochester Institute of Technology. Quinby was a participant in the first years of the Women's Studies program while a graduate student at Purdue. Her lecture, which will start at 3:45 p.m., is entitled "What Do Wired Women Want?" Another highlight will be a screening of "When You're Smiling," a video that examines the effects of World War II internment camps on Asian-American families. The discussion will be led by the film's director, Janice Tanaka, assistant professor of telecommunications at the University of Florida. CONTACT: Berenice Carroll, professor of political science and director of women's studies, (765) 494-8762; carroll@polsci.purdue.edu To the Purdue News and Photos Page