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Fall, 2006
Thursday 19 October, 2006 Michelle Nickerson Assistant Professor of Historical Studies The University of Texas at Dallas  "Women, Anti-Communism and the Politics of Family Values"   5:15 – 6:45 p.m.   This lecture will analyze conservative female protest against the federal government, the mental health field, ivy league universities, and the United Nations.  Conservatives attacked these institutions as threats to the private world of the home and to parental influence over children.  In literature and speeches, right-wing women often wrote about communism as amateur-expert housewives.  Deeply engrossed in anti-communist study, these middle- and upper-class women positioned themselves as besieged mother-homemakers fighting off government and intellectual elites in a populist-style struggle between the family-church-community nexus and the state.  The political tools they developed in the early Cold War era would later serve religious conservatives in fights against sex education, evolution, secularism and other battles of the cultural wars		Monday, October 30, 2006 Alan D. ABBEY Abbey Content Enterprises "New Media, New Messengers, New Messages: How Women And The Internet Are Providing A New Look At The Middle East" Alan D. Abbey, Founder, President and CEO. Alan founded Abbey Content Enterprises after a career as an award-winning journalist and content entrepreneur in the U.S. and Israel. He has covered everything from the White House to the Intifada, from small town school board meetings to the Texas Sesquicentennial. He is an Internet content pioneer, and has developed several major news Web sites. 5:00  - 6:00 p.m. In the UTD Conference Center Room 1.304
Spring, 2007
Monday, February 6, 2007 Kimberley KEMPF-LEONARD, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology, Crime & Justice Studies, & Political Economy                                             The University of Texas at Dallas Title to come!

 

 

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