Summer Special Events
UAF Summer Sessions Presents
Mars and Venus or Planet Earth
Women and Men in a New Millennium
A lecture by noted author and scholar
Michael Kimmel
Tuesday, June 24 at 7:00 PM
Davis Concert Hall
FREE
Michael Kimmel, Ph.D., is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today. The author or editor of more than twenty volumes, he has just completed his newest book, Guyland: The Inner Lives of Young Men, 18–26 which will be published by HarperCollins.
Kimmel, a well-known educator in gender issues, is a Professor of Sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook. He teaches Sociology of Masculinity, one of the few courses in the nation that examines men's lives from a pro-feminist perspective. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, and People. He has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, Smithsonian World, Crossfire, and numerous radio shows including NPR. His co-edited college textbook, Men's Lives, has been adopted in virtually every course on men and masculinity in the country. Kimmel's book, The Gendered Society, and its companion volume of readings, has become one of the nation's best-selling texts in social science courses in Gender Studies.
His written work has appeared in dozens of magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals, including The New York Times Book Review, The Harvard Business Review, The Nation, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, and Psychology Today, where he was a contributing editor and columnist on male-female relationships. On the basis of his expertise, Kimmel served as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Virginia Military Institute and Citadel cases.
Kimmel is National Spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS), has lectured at over 200 colleges and universities, and runs workshops for organizations on preventing sexual harassment and implementing gender equity, and for campus groups on date and acquaintance rape, sexual assault, pornography, and the changing relations between women and men.
Bio: http://www.sunysb.edu/sociology/faculty/Kimmel/BIOkimmel.htm