Tuesday, March 21
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Dunlop Auditorium
3450 Hamilton Walk
(off 36th Street,
½ block south of
Spruce Street)
The new evolutionary psychologists, among them Steven
Pinker who spoke last fall as part of the
Penn Humanities Forum's year-long exploration of "Human
Nature," are reviving theories about the innate differences between
men and women. In her controversial new book, Woman:
An Intimate Geography, Ms. Angier takes on Pinker & Co. Her ambitious
and beautifully
written work draws on evolutionary theory and Darwin, science and
literature, medicine and history to conclude that when it comes to human
nature, the so-called "universal laws" are meant to be broken.
Friends Meeting
1515 Cherry Street
RSVP required
Reception and Public Discussion
Featuring Natalie Angier in conversation
with Jeanne Marecek,
Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore
College; Wendy
Steiner, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English
and Director, Penn Humanities Forum; and Ingrid
Waldron, Professor and Undergraduate Chair of Biology
and Donna and Larry Shelley Term Chair in Women's
Studies at Penn.
RSVP required by Monday, March 13th; 215.573.8280 or humanities@sas.upenn.edu.
Known for pushing the bounds of science writing in
stories that range from the exotic to the sometimes whimsical to the occasionally
icky, from the Human Genome Project, to what female bugs want, to the
octopus as an object of affection, Natalie Angier is the Pulitzer Prize-winning
science writer for the New York Times, and author of several books,
including Woman: An Intimate Geography, The Beauty of the Beastly,
and Natural Obsessions.
Cosponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum, the Lief Lectureship in English, and the Women's Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania.
Recommended Links:
"The
Real Truth About The Female Body," by Barbara Ehrenreich
Cover Story, Time Magazine, March 8, 1999
"Women:
The Shadow Story of the Millennium"
Second of Six New York Times Special Millennium Issues
March is Women's History Month!
Notable Links:
National Women's History Project
Library of
Congress
Amnesty International
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