January 26, 2012 5:00 pm
Location: Michigan Union Pond Room
Speaker: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of English, Spelman College

Professor Guy-Sheftall is founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College. Her lecture will focus on Coretta Scott King’s vision of “the beloved community” which Martin Luther King Jr. articulated so eloquently as a civil rights icon. Repositioning Coretta Scott King, mostly known as Dr. King’s widow, as a warrior for social justice, this talk will provide a fuller portrait of her extraordinary and largely invisible life, especially her political activism around a broad range of social issues: peace, racism, gay and lesbian rights, sexism, and militarism.

Sponsored By: The Women’s Studies Department & Institute for Research on Women and Gender

For more information visit the website at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/women

January 26, 2012 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Location: Rackham Auditorium
Speaker: Pettra Kuppers and Neil Marcus

Petra Kuppers is a community artist and disability culture activist, Artistic Director of The Olimpias Performance Research Series, and Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She also teaches on the low residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College.

Neil Marcus is a performance and visual artist, and poet. “Disability is an art – an ingenious way to live.” This award-winning playwright, actor, poet, and performance artist earned national acclaim when he crafted his experiences as a man living with dystonia, into a powerful staged work. Since then, Marcus’ passionate stance toward life has infused his artistic choices. Believing that “life is a performance,” he has cast his creative net wide, participating in a range of diverse projects.