Sunday, November 18, 2007
Community of Scholars lecture: "Individual Rights and
Reproductive Obligations”
 Dr. Elisa Camiscioli, assistant professor of history at the State University of New York, Binghamton, will present the 2007 College of Liberal Arts Community of Scholars lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 29, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. The title of her presentation is "Individual Rights and Reproductive Obligations: Independent Nationality for Married Women in Early Twentieth-Century France."Camiscioli serves as director of undergraduate studies at SUNY Binghamton. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and she is a specialist in modern French history with emphases on race and gender history and theory, as well as colonial culture. She is the author of several articles and the book Embodying the French Race: Immigration, Reproduction, and National Identity in the Early Twentieth Century (forthcoming, Duke University Press). She has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships. Currently she is working on a book-length study of the French colonial presence in Pondicherry, South India, in which she focuses on the European appropriation of Eastern spiritual practices. The College of Liberal Arts engages a speaker for the Community of Scholars presentation each fall. The History Department hosts the 2007 program. For more information, contact Dr. Michael Dixon, assistant professor of history, at 812/465-1093. Wendy Knipe Bredhold News and Information Services 812/461-5259 wkbredhold@usi.edu |
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