[280] Music, Poetry, History Topics of MTSU Spring Lectures

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 25, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

MUSIC, POETRY, HISTORY TOPICS OF MTSU SPRING LECTURES
Women and Gender Studies Program Presents Faculty Research Topics

(MURFREESBORO) – The MTSU Women’s and Gender Studies Program will present three lectures in its spring 2011 series, beginning with “The Privileges and Perils of Ethnography: Learning ‘Divine Wisdom’ from the ‘Earths’ of the Five Per Cent Nation” from 3-4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, in Room 100 of the James Union Building.
Dr. Felicia Miyakawa, assistant professor of musicology, will deliver the address. Miyakawa is the author of Five Percenter Rap: God Hop’s Music, Message and Black Muslim Mission. Her research areas include hip-hop music and culture, Black Nationalism, American popular music, African American music and literature, gender and pedagogy and queer studies.
In addition, Dr. Rebecca King, associate professor of English, will speak on “Anne Bradstreet: Colonial Poet from 3-4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17, in Room 227 of the Todd Building, and Dr. Nancy Rupprecht, professor of history, will deliver “When Civil War is Waged by Women: The Militant British Women’s Suffrage Movement” from 3-4 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in Room 100 of the James Union Building.
All lectures in the Women’s and Gender Studies Research Series are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Pat Bradley, associate professor of English, at 615-904-8128 or pbradley@mtsu.edu.


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