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 The
7th Annual Lecture on Multiculturalism
Wednesday, February 7, 2001
Edwards Auditorium 7 PM
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The University of Rhode Island
Multicultural Center is pleased to announce that
the University's Seventh
Annual Lecture on Multiculturalism will be presented
by Patricia J. Williams of Columbia (NY) University
Law School on Wednesday, February 7, 2001 at 7:30
pm in Edwards Auditorium.
Williams, who teaches courses on commercial law,
contracts and jurisprudence, has been a visiting
professor and scholar of women's studies and law
at several
topflight universities. A columnist with The Nation, Williams has published widely
in both scholarly journals and the press (The New York Times, The Village Voice,
The New Yorker among them) in the areas of race, gender and law, and on other
issues of legal theory and legal writing. Her books include:
- "The
Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law
Professor" (Harvard University Press,
1991),
- "The
Rooster's Egg" (Harvard University
Press 1995)
- "On
Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of
Race" (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux,
1998).
These imaginative,
energetic books, often with new takes on old
issues, deal with
issues of representation,
and critical theory, and challenge America's reliance
on hurtful stereotypes and hysterical rhetoric.
Williams maintains an active speaking schedule
and appears frequently on programs like "All
Things Considered" and "Fresh Air with
Terri Gross" (NPR), "The Lehrer Newshour" (PBS), "The
Today Show" (NBC), as well as foreign radio
and TV programs. She has appeared in a number of
documentary films, including "That Rush!",
which she wrote and narrated.
The great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer, Williams
also has engaged in social activism. She joined Harvard University professor
Cornel West and other prominent academics in calling for a new trial for Mumia
Abu-Jamal, the Philadelphia radio journalist on death row for a murder conviction.
A Boston native, Williams received her bachelor's
degree from Wellesley College and her law degree
from Harvard. She has published widely penning
opinion columns and writing books on subjects that
include healing the spirit of the law. Previously,
she held faculty appointments at the University
of Wisconsin School of Law, the City University
of New York Law School at Queens College and Golden
Gate University School of Law.
Williams' talk is free and open to the public.
No tickets are needed for admission. For more information,
call (401) 874-2851.
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