Free Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in Women�s Studies begins on Thursday, October 20

Bergen Community College is hosting � free and open to the public � the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in Women�s Studies, featuring lectures and moderated seminars by prominent scholars during the fall 2005 and spring 2006 semesters. The first seminar in the series, History of the Women�s Movement in America with Rutgers University guest lecturer Dr. Beryl E. Satter, will take place on Thursday, October 20, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., followed by seminar discussion from 4:30 p.m. to approximately 6:00 p.m., in Room C-313, Pitkin Education Center, Bergen Community College, 400 Paramus Road, Paramus.

Dr. Satter is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and renowned historian of women�s cultural issues. In her critically acclaimed book �Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement,� Dr. Satter provocatively examines society during the New Thought Movement, an enormously popular late nineteenth-century spiritual movement led largely by and for women.

For the suggested reading lists for this session, please see the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series Web site at http://www.bergen.edu/issws, or contact the Project Coordinator, Associate Professor Maria Makowiecka, of the Bergen Community College English Department by e-mail at mmakowiecka@bergen.edu, or by telephone at 201-447-9281.

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