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Thursday, October 12th, 2017

Sue Ellen Henry & Abe Feuerstein: “The Hidden Language of Social Class: How Teachers Read Students’ Bodies ” – October 17, 2017

Social class is an embedded feature of social life; rather than being isolated and self-contained, social class positions are highly interdependent on one another. For first generation college students at Bucknell, most of whom are from working class backgrounds, university life is an exercise in enormous social class diversity, often for the first time. How does the experience of becoming a member of Bucknell influence these students’ social class identity? The present study probed this question deeply with three first generation college students, with particular emphasis on how working in service learning situations that mirrored their home environments shaped their […]

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Thursday, October 12th, 2017

Coralynn Davis: “Women’s Traditional Storytelling and Contemporary Painting in Mithila: Intergenerational and Cross-genre Conversations” – September 12, 2017

Professor Davis examines the interfaces among women’s evolving expressive arts, young women’s empowerment, and cultural preservation in Mithila, a cultural and linguistic region on the border between Nepal’s eastern terai and the adjacent region of the state of Bihar in India. She reflects on her current collaborative research project, which involves co-production of a participatory documentary film as well as the creation of a digital archive of women’s tales.

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Thursday, April 27th, 2017

Patricia de Santana Pinho: “African American Roots Tourism in Brazil: Encounters in Sameness, Difference, and Inequality” – April 5, 2012

International tourism has often been criticized for promoting unequal encounters between privileged inhabitants of the World’s centers and their disadvantaged peripheral “Others.” However, recently, new forms of travel have emerged where tourists have sought to employ their privilege, knowledge, resources, and even the status of their nationality for the benefit of the “tourees.” Aware of their power as US citizens and affluent consumers, African American “roots tourists” in Brazil have actively employed their national identity as well as their purchasing power to benefit Afro-Brazilians. The lobbying made by African Americans on behalf of Afro- Brazilians is certainly well intended, and […]

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Thursday, April 27th, 2017

Misty Bastian: “Witches and “Cheap Christians” Confessions of Diabolic Temptation Among Nigerian Pentecostals” – November 28, 2006

Throughout the 1990s and the early years of the twenty-first century, Nigerian Pentecostal Christians began to produce a number of pamphlets and novellas about the ongoing battle between Pentecostals and demonic members of the undersea or underworld “kingdoms”. Professor Bastian will discuss a particularly rich Pentecostal novella, Abali O. Abali’s Rescued by Christ: The Witch (2000), which offers its readers a fictionalized, “insider” account of contemporary Nigerian witchcraft, focusing on how witches attack and subvert the faith of Pentecostal Christians. Echoing, perhaps, the education and social experience of its author, the novella describes a spiritual world that partakes of features […]

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Thursday, April 6th, 2017

Kety Silva ’14: “A Home Away From Home” – April 18, 2013

The NGO, Verdefam, receives grants to offset the costs of gynecological exams, ultrasounds, STI exams, contraceptive methods, pregnancy tests, and family planning options. This presentation will focus on healthcare policy, legislation, and how a new sovereign state like Cape Verde tackles political and sociological issues surrounding healthcare access. Kety Silva ‘14, a Sociology and Spanish Major, Women’s and Gender Studies Minor, was born on the Cape Verdean islands off the West Coast of Africa. Her parents immigrated to the United States when Kety was just two years old. Thanks to a grant from BPIP for providing funding to attend a […]

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