The Fourth Annual Korenman Lecture will take place on Wednesday, March 16 at 4 p.m. in the Library Gallery. Dr. Farhana Sultana, Assistant Professor of Geography, at the Syracuse University, will give a lecture entitled “Negotiating Contaminated Identities: Gender, Water, and Development in Altered Waterscapes.” Sultana will discuss her current research investigating the impact of water management in Bangladesh on the poor (particularly women).
All students, faculty and staff and the outside community are invited to the event, which is part of the Social Science Forum and sponsored by the department of Gender and Women’s Studies. It is cosponsored by the office of the Provost, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, American Studies, Geography and Environmental Systems, Interdisciplinary Studies, Language, Literacy and Culture Program, Political Science, and Sociology and Anthropology. Click here for more information.
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