Archaeological challenges in contemporary Greece

Center for the Study of Social Change Speaker Series:

Kim Shelton, Professor of Political Science and former director of Women's Studies, University of Nevada, Reno

"Girls can't play baseball!" and America has the folklore to prove it. From the taunt "You throw like a girl" to the assumption that every girl with a bat in her hand is a softball player, American culture has excluded half the nation from the sport historically associated with American national identity. Racial exclusion in baseball has been acknowledged, if not entirely rectified, but no injustice is perceived in giving American girls and women a "separate but equal" version of the national pastime. Jennifer Ring explores the historical and sociological rationales for women's exclusion from baseball in her book, Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball (University of Illinois Press, 2009) and discovers that contrary to her own assumptions, as well as those of American popular culture, American girls and women do play the game, and have done so since the mid-nineteenth century. Her lecture explores the misconceptions about women's baseball, and includes interviews with the U.S. Women's National Baseball Team upon their return from the Women's World Cup Baseball Tournament, (summer of 2010) in Venezuela. Professor Ring's book, Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball, will be available for sale and signing at this event.

Sponsored By Center for the Study of Social Change

2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
12 to 1 p.m.

to be determined two weeks prior to talk ...

Ian Morris

Sponsored By AHMA Noon Colloquium

Dwinelle Hall
12 to 1 p.m.

Philosophical Training Grounds

Professor Joshua Landy

Sponsored By Department of Classics, Department of Rhetoric

Dwinelle Hall
5 p.m.