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As part of Lafayette’s celebration of Women’s History Month, James Lennertz, associate professor of government and law, will present “Engendering Democracy: Women in Pursuit of High Office” noon Monday, March 19 in Farinon College Center, Marlo Room West.
His lecture will look at the different gender patterns that contribute to understanding politics and what influences gender has on character and democratic leadership. He will pay special attention to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign in the 2008 Presidential Race and try to put it in a historical context.
“I hope to begin with a concrete strategic focus but to get people to think more broadly and deeply about how human differences and similarities – especially but not exclusively gender-based – facilitate and hinder democratic discourse,” says Lennertz
Women’s History Month events are sponsored by the Women’s Studies program, Office of Intercultural Development, Lafayette Activities Forum, Office of Student Life, Association of Lafayette Feminists, Dean of Studies, American studies department, anthropology and sociology department, College Writing Program, English department, economics and business department, Policy Studies program, and Counseling Center.
For more information about Lafayette’s Women’s History Month celebration, contact Carolynn Van Dyke, March Professor of English and coordinator of Women’s Studies.