Forum Series has announced the presenters and their topics for the 1998-99 school year. The forum, which meets six times during the academic year, provides University of Northern Iowa faculty the opportunity to present their research to the local UNI community. The forum that she helped to create is now in its ninth year. Reineke says this proves that the general category of gender studies is intriguing to persons from all academic disciplines. Lynch's anthropologically based research focuses on two ethnic groups and the coming of age ceremonies that celebrate their transition from adolescents to adulthood.
Many people think of ritual as an expression of age-old traditions.
She points out that these rituals use the past to make sense of the future through constructing positive gender roles and honoring the future leaders of the community. Paul, Minnesota area. The final session for the academic year will be on April 5. The hour long forum is generally half presentation and half discussion, and is held in Maucker Union's Embassy Room from noon to 1 p.m. The CROW Forum Series is sponsored by the Graduate Program in Women's Studies.