Policy Studies Institute At Colorado State Presents Spring Lecture Series
Wednesday, February 4, 1998
FORT COLLINS--The Policy Studies Institute at Colorado State
University announced the schedule for its spring colloquium
series, called "Race, Gender and Public Policy."
The series will include four talks which are free and open
to the community. The first talk will be by Professor Sandra
Harding, a renowned feminist from University of California at Los
Angeles who specializes in multiculturalism in research and
education. Harding will speak at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 5 in the Cherokee
Park Room in the Lory Student Center on campus. Harding's lecture
will be based on her new book, "Is Science Multicultural?
Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies." The book
explores the relationships between race, gender, and the study of
science.
Other speakers will include James Lester and David Allen,
authors of "Environmental Racism in the U.S.: Myths and
Realities;" Mary Lefkowitz, author of "Not Out of Africa;" and
Christina Hoff Sommers, author of "Who Stole Feminism?"
"All of the authors will provide insight into how we develop
knowledge about important public policy problems," said James
Lester, political science professor at Colorado State. "The
series will explore how this knowledge can be used by decision
makers to improve public policy."
The Policy Studies Institute is a bipartisan research center
housed in the College of Liberal Arts. The institute acts as a
clearinghouse for disseminating results of public policy studies
and provides decision makers with the information, techniques,
and processes to solve public policy problems effectively and
fairly.
The calendar for the spring colloquium series follows. All
talks begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Lory Student Center.
Feb. 5 - Sandra Harding, Cherokee Park Room.
March 5 - Christina Hoff Sommers, Room 230.
April 16 - James Lester and David Allen, Room 203-205.
May 7 - Mary Lefkowitz, Cherokee Park Room.
The colloquium series is sponsored by the Associated
Students of Colorado State University, Pi Sigma Alpha, the
College of Liberal Arts, and the Policy Studies Institute. For
more information about the lecture series or the Policy Studies
Institute, call Lester in the department of political science at
(970) 491-5156.
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