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The Kirkland Project's 2001-02 series,"The Body in Question," will continue on Thursday, Oct. 25, with a lecture by Vivyan Adair, assistant professor of women's studies. The lecture, titled "Branded with Infamy: Bodily Inscriptions of Poverty," will begin at 4:15 p.m. in KJ Red Pit. Refreshments by Cafe Opus available before the talk.  The lecture is free and open to the public.

Vivyan Adair came to Hamilton College in 1998. She earned a Ph.D. and master's from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests are studying representations of women on welfare, and analyzing the impact of welfare reform. Adair is co-director of the ACCESS Project, a pilot project that assists disadvantaged women in Oneida and Herkimer Counties in obtaining a higher education.

She is the author of From Good Ma to Welfare Queen, A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature, Photography and Culture, a study that explores literary, photographic and cultural representations of poor American women and offers a view of the interlocking systems of race, gender and class oppression (2000). Adair is also co-editor of Women, Poverty and the Promise of Education in America, (2001). For more information, please contact the Kirkland Project office at (315) 859-4288.

 

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