Date Speaker/Title Sponsor(s) Location Time

9/25/00 Teodolinda Barolini "Beyond Courtly Dualism: Thinking About Gender in Dante's Lyrics" Institute for Research on Women and Gender 501 Schermerhorn Hall 8:00pm 9/29/00 Kai Fikentscher Disco as Church - Larry Levan and the Paradise Garage Institute for Research in African American Studies 758 Schermerhorn Extension  4:00pm 10/18/00 Lunch/Seminar: Robert Smith There are Too Damn Many Mexicans in this School:  Gender, School Context, and Downwardly Mobile Segmented Assimilation Among Mexicans in New York City Center for race and Ethnicity 420 Hamilton Hall 12:00pm 10/20/00 Thomas Glave Stories connected by threads of the African American and gay experience,as well as Caribbean and Caribbean American culture and history  Institute for Research in African American Studies 758 Schermerhorn Extension 4:00pm 10/30/00 Asian-American Women Writers: Jessica Hagedorn, Mei Ng, Cathy Park Hong Institute for Research on Women and Gender & The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Davis Auditorium, 412 Shapiro Center