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Setting the 'Long Table' for Women's Studies issues.(experimental public forum )
Lois Weaver, a lecturer at Queen Mary University in London and an independent performance artist, merges live art and feminist and lesbian theater to advance human rights.
Her performance installation piece "Long Table" places participants at cloth-covered banquet tables set out in an open space. In this public forum, participants from various backgrounds converse informally with one another about a serious topic, for example, Women and Prisons.
Using Weaver's Long Table as a model, Dr. Beatrice Jacobson, director of the Women's Studies program at St. Ambrose University in Iowa, is trying to develop a new strategy for her program that continues its current international emphasis.
She discussed the program's evolution and possible changes at the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE) conference held at St. John's University in New York City in June.
Women's Studies 'scattered'
A former all-male school that went co-ed during the mid-1970s, St. Ambrose initiated a certificate in Women's Studies in 1979, which failed due to "lack of leadership." During the mid-1990s, new staff and funding created an interdisciplinary minor. Jacobson is currently seeking approval for a major.
Much of the program's evolution over the past 14 years was the result of its focus on international issues and its attempts to access the voices of women around the world while helping students understand their relationship with these women. Stressing Catholic social justice teachings and respect for differences has limited confrontation on controversial issues.
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