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Celebrating Men Saint John's 1st Annual Men's Lives Series1995-1996
September 13, 1995
Featuring: Three generations of the Hughes family, Fr. Dan Durken, and Fr. J.P.Earls | October 3, 1995 Acclaim for The Things They Carried: And for In the Lake of the Woods: Sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation, Office of Cultural Programming, and Honors Program |
October 18, 1995
Relationships & Love & Sex & Power Battle of the Sexes?!
Sponsored by: The Kellogg Leadership Project, CSB Counseling Services, Student Activities, and the JEC | November 9, 1995 Lecturer in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, Center for Gender Relations, Wellesley College; author (pen name Samuel Shem) The House of God and Bill W. and Dr. Bob (co-written with Janet Surrey) Sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation |
December 6, 1995 "I have rarely read anything as powerful as Winter Birds. I wanted to steal it and pretend it was mine, or go on tour reading it out loud so people could hear how getting it right makes you both hurt and happy, makes you cry out loud and sing praises simply that we are human. This man got it right, he got it perfectly right." -Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina "In his stunning first novel, Winter Birds, Jim Grimsley created an entirely convincing family in the grips of an insane hatred from which the imagination of one brave boy is hte only escape. In his new novel, Dream Boy, Grimsley works an even more astonishing escape -- a literal and credible resurrection. Two young men commit their lives to one another and are assualted for it; but through the force of the passion they feel -- and with a confirming grace of love that comes fromt he universe itself -- they and their hope are miraculously saved. I've never read a novel remotely like Dream Boy; and my admiration for Jim Grimsley's power is widened and deepened." -Reynolds Price Jim Grimsley's first novel, Winter Birds, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation | February 19, 1996 Mahmoud El-Kati is a lecturer and writer on the African-American experience. He teaches several courses on the history of blacks in the US and related courses such as American Social Movement, the Social History of Jazz, African-American Folklore and Blacks in Urban America Since World War II. He is presently a lecturer in the History Department at Macalester College. Sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation |
March 21, 1996 Robert Brannon is a social psychologist and professor of psychology, men't studies, and women's studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He has been researching and publishing articles about the effects of "pornography" on its subjects and viewers for several years. Dr. Brannon is currently the co-chair of the Task Force on Pornography for the National Organization of Men Against Sexism and has lectured extensively throughout the country on this topic. He will be presenting an objective, academic viewpoint on the effects of "pornography" and its relationship to sexual violence. Presented by Student Advocates Against Sexual Violence & Kellogg Leadership Foundation Funding provided by the Kellogg Leadership Foundation, CSB/SJU Student Development, Counseling Offices, Campus Life, Residential Life, and the Saint Ben's Senate | April 10-11, 1996 Public Lecture: Sports and Masculinity Informal Discussion: Gender Equity in Sports (Title IX) and Men's Health & Sports Don Sabo (with Michael Messner), co-author of Sex, Violence, and Power in Sports: Rethinking Masculinity "This is a book by men for men who wonder about their involvement in sports. It's brave, intimate, thought-provoking, and ultimately very reaffirming, because it offers a much more honest, humane and attainable view of 'masculinity' than we usually get." -Bruce Kidd, Ph.D., Director, School of Physical and Health Education, University of Toronto Sponsored by the Project AWARE and the Kellogg Foundation |
April 29, 1996 Monks of Saint John's Abbey Fr. J.P. Earls, OSB Sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation |
