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Endowed Lectures
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is proud to sponsor or cosponsor three specially endowed lectures with themes of great interest to students, faculty, and the general public.
Coming next:
The Motorola Lecture
The 2012 Motorola Lecturer is Bothaina Kamel, an Egyptian TV news anchor, prodemocracy activist, and presidential candidate.
Bothaina Kamel is a well-known television news anchor, longtime prodemocracy activist, and the only female presidential candidate in Egypt. Since the late 1980s Kamel has addressed issues of women's rights, human rights, and corruption in her high-profile position. She is deeply connected to the solidarity and human rights campaigns of peaceful protest and organizing in Egypt. Despite harassment and beatings by government and military authorities in the last decade, Kamel continues her brave work for human rights and real democracy.
Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 PM, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Stern Auditorium.
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The Motorola Lecture
The Motorola Lecture, cosponsored with the Women’s Studies Department, is presented annually by an outstanding journalist who routinely addresses issues concerning women and gender in his or her reporting. Established in 2001, with support from the Motorola Foundation, the Motorola Lecture aims to expose U-M students to the work of exceptional journalists and to inform students about ways the media can reframe public understanding of complex issues. Recent Motorola lecturers have included: Melissa Harris-Perry, associate professor of politics and African American studies, Princeton University; Meenakshi Gigi Durham, associate professor of journalism and mass communication, University of Iowa; and Gina Kolata, New York Times senior writer.
The Vivian R. Shaw Lecture
Ellen S. Agress endowed the Vivian R. Shaw Lecture to honor her mother’s memory.
The Vivian R. Shaw Lecture, cosponsored with the Women’s Studies Department, is presented annually. Guest speakers address “real world” issues affecting women and/or gender. The Shaw Lecture was established in 1997, by Ellen S. Agress (U-M, 1968), to honor the memory of her mother, who passed away, at age 50, of breast cancer. Ellen Agress is the senior vice president and deputy general counsel in communications at News America Incorporated in New York City. Not only does her contribution promote the study of women and gender in an interdisciplinary and collaborative way, it also provides an example of the power of philanthropy to advance causes of concern to women. Recent Shaw lecturers have included: Robin Givhan, Washington Post fashion editor; Faye Wattleton, cofounder and president of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and former president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America; and Jane Evelyn Atwood, a photojournalist.
The Joan Schafer Visionary Lecture
At the most recent Schafer Lecture, Prof. Deborah Dash Moore spoke on “Those Passionate Girls” Jewish Women and Social Justice. October 27, 2011, at UM-Flint.
The Joan Schafer Visionary Lecture is presented periodically by a person who upholds the values of inclusion and equity through his or her community work. Joan Schafer (1937–2007) was a leading citizen of Flint, Mich. Though legally blind, she lived a full life, undaunted by her personal challenges. She brought positive change to both her state and her community, and inspired the people around her to do their very best. Joan was an energetic volunteer, an unstoppable political activist, and a forceful advocate for the disabled.
The Joan Schafer Visionary Lecture was established in 2009 by her husband, Nathan, along with close family members and friends. It is to be presented regularly by a truly outstanding leader who embodies Joan Schafer’s positive, can-do spirit in person and in deed.
Because Flint was so important to Joan, the site of the lecture alternates between Flint and Ann Arbor. The first Joan Schafer Visionary Lecture, "Sustaining Women: Health Messages that Motivate Lasting Change," was given by Michelle Segar, an IRWG research investigator. The second lecture was presented by Prof. Deborah Dash Moore, the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Prof. Dash Moore's lecture was “Those Passionate Girls”: Jewish Women and Social Justice. To contribute to the Joan Schafer Visionary Lecture, click here.