Celebrating Men Saint John's 5th Annual Men's Lives Series1999-2000

Exploring Masculinities In a Diverse World"

Tuesday March 28, 2000
SJU, Quad 264  6:30pm

Deryl-Davis Harrison, Assistant Dean at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Gregory T. Ware, Director of the Multicultural Information Center for the University of Wisconsin System will lead a roundtable discussion of students and Theresa McNutt, Academic Advisor, Diversity; Mikki Davis, International/Minority Student Advisor, International Students.  The goal of the roundtable is to help us build community by understanding and celebrating that many definitions of masculinity exist in our diverse world.

Fathers, Sons, Work

Thursday April 13, 2000
7:45 pm  Quad 264
 

Sutter will read and comment on his poems and fiction on the themes of Fathers, Sons, and Work.

Comments

"Sutter produces as good an example of straightforward, unpretentious, and altogether accessible contemporary verse as one could hope to find. . . .  The verse is so natural and unforced, so colloquial in tone, that the underlying artistry might be overlooked. . . .   His use of assonantal and exact rhyme is both masterful and witty, but it seems nonchalant, almost unstudied.  The imagery from nature is quite as sharp as Frost's." 
--Choice

"Barton Sutter's stories sneak up on you.  But then, they seem to take by surprise even their tellers, laconic Midwesterners stunned by the fire of their own lives.   The landscapes are the classic male testing grounds of north woods, of camping and hunting, and most tellingly, of war.  But with a difference:  in the masterful title of the story, history itself, with all its griefs and reconciliations, is given voice as a World War II father tells his story to his Vietnam-era peacenik sons.  His tale casts a benediction --and a claim-- on us all." 
--Patricia Hampl

See Sutter's poems and fiction:

"The Snowman"

"Shoe Shop"

"Tools"

My Father's War:   Stories of Midwestern Men

Sponsored by the SJU senate and the Bush Foundation

Dr. Chip Capraro

Senior Associate Dean & Assistant Professor of History
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

"Why College Men Drink: Alcohol, Adventure,
and the Paradox of Masculinity"

Thursday, April 27, 2000
7:45 p.m. Quad 264
St. John’s University

Dr. Capraro is the founding director of the Men and Masculinity program at Hobart College, and the founding coordinator of the men's studies minor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in upstate New York, the first colleges in the country to offer a degree with a men's studies minor.

Dr. Capraro publishes and designs/develops curricula in the field of men's studies. He is the director of the nationally recognized Hobart College Rape Prevention Education Workshops for Men and consults and speaks on gender issues/men's studies in academic and student affairs.

He is also a frequently cited source for national media stories on men.