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Horbal Lecture @ Augsburg College features Professor MarkAnthony Neal
The 2011 Anne Pederson Women's Resource Center Koryne Horballecture features Duke Universityprofessor and author Mark Anthony Nealspeaking on the topic: "What theHell is a Male Feminist?" The lecture is Thursday, November 3, at 11a.m. in the Hoversten chapel.
Mark AnthonyNeal is a professor of Black popular culture in the department of African andAfrican American studies at Duke University, author of Blues Nation (2003) and NewBlack Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). Neal is engaged ininterdisciplinary scholarly work in the fields of African-American, cultural,and gender studies that draws upon modes of inquiry informed by the fields ofliterary theory, urban sociology, social history, postmodern philosophy, Queertheory and most notably popular culture. His broad project is to interrogatepopular culture—music, television, film, and literature—produced within thecontext of Afro-diasporic expressive cultures. It is his belief that popularculture represents an arena of knowledge that has a profound impact on societaland cultural norms in the United States and globally, but one that has beenlargely underscrutinized as a "serious" site of scholarly andtheoretical study. He also believes that commercial popular culture representsa distinct site of ideological production; thus, his work aims to engage theideological undercurrents within commercial popular culture particularly withinthe context of race, gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity.
Introducing the Courageous Woman Awards
At the convocation, the Women's Resource Center will present the first CourageousWoman Awards. These awards  acknowledge and recognize women who seeinjustice or need, act on it, take risks in order to "do the rightthing," and raise their voices to champion women. Founded in 2011 byFriends of the Anne Pederson Women's Resource Center at Augsburg College, theawards program recognizes women who courageously strive for social justice andpeace on campus or in the wider community and whose efforts, be they small orlarge, make a difference to women. The 2011 awards are given in memory ofJessica Nathanson whose life exemplified what it means to be a courageous woman.