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Tuesday, October 15, 2002
4:00pm
Main Library, Room W449
"Sexuality and Salvation: Protestant Evangelical Sex Manuals from 1972 to 2002."
Amy DeRogatis, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Dept., Michigan State University
Professor DeRogatis has been researching the Protestant evangelical sex manuals housed in Special Collections at Michigan State. In this talk she will provide a survey of popular evangelical sex manuals and describe how the construction of Protestant male and female sexuality has changed over the past thirty years. Protestant evangelical sex manuals, she argues, shape evangelical male and female bodies by determining what are "natural" sexual behaviors and scripturally-sound desires. The sex manuals also instruct believers in the limits and possibilities of sexual practices as expressions of faith. This talk is part of a larger book project on Protestantism and Sexuality.
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October 29, 2002
Main Library, Room W449
Kessler Lecture
Information about this event will
be forthcoming.
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Thursday, November 14, 2002
7:00pm
Main Library, Room W449
WORDCRAFT CIRCLE of Native Writers & Storytellers
Poet Mark Turcotte
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, Poet Mark Turcotte will join us for a reading and book signing.
Turcotte spent his earliest years on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation and in the migrant camps of the western United States. Later, he grew up in and around Lansing. After leaving school, Turcotte traveled the country, working and living on the road for nearly fifteen years. In 1993, he settled in Chicago and quickly established himself in the city’s thriving poetry scene.
Turcotte is author of The Feathered Heart (Michigan State University Press, revised, 1998), Songs of Our Ancestors (Children's Press, 1995), a chapbook, Road Noise (Mesilla Press, 1998) and Le Chant de la Route (bilingual, La Vague Verte, 2001), each illustrated by his wife, artist Kathleen S. Presnell. His newest collection, Exploding Chippewas, with cover art by Chicago's Tony Fitzpatrick, was published in April 2002, by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press. His work, three times nominated for Pushcart Prizes, has appeared in POETRY, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals.
Among his awards are the first Gwendolyn Brooks Open-mic Poetry Award (1993), the Josephine Gates Kelly Memorial Fellowship from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers (1997), a Literary Fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board (1999), and a Lannan Foundation Literary Completion Grant (2001-2002).
For more information, see http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/turcotte/
MSU’s American Indian Studies
Program is generously co-sponsoring this event.
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