2:40 p.m., Aug. 30, 2010----The University of Delaware Department of Women's Studies has announced a fall lecture series, which has at its theme “Research on Women.”

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The lectures, which are part of the course Research on Women (WOMS 299-010), are open to the public. The course meets each Wednesday from 12:20-1:10 p.m. in Room 103 Gore Hall.

Sept. 1 -- Orientation, required of all enrolled students. Mary Ruth Warner, UD Department of Women's Studies, lecture series coordinator, will lead the orientation.

Sept. 8 - “Constructing the Body of Evidence: How Sexual Assault Forensic Exams Change Rape Case Processing,” Rose Corrigan, director, Women's Studies Program, Drexel University, Philadelphia.

Sept. 15 - “Making Sense of Change: Sexuality Transformation at Midlife,” Jude Hand, graduate student, Department of Sociology, Temple University.

Sept. 22 - “Still Alive: Korean Comfort Women of World War II through the Lens of Documentary Film,” Joo Young Lee, McNair Scholars Program, University of Delaware.

Sept. 29 - “Revisiting the Struggle for U.S. Women's Suffrage Before (and After) 1920,” Anne Boylan, Department of History, University of Delaware.

Oct. 6 -“Sotomayor's First Year,” Leslie Goldstein, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware.

Oct. 13 - “Leading Through Change,” Lillian M. Lowery, Secretary of Education, state of Delaware.

Oct. 20 - “Sex, Marriage, Ritual: Reimagining Black Women's Subjectivity in Brent's Incidents and Barbara Chase-Riboud's Hottentot Venus,” Carol Henderson Belton, Department of Black American Studies and Department of English, University of Delaware.

Oct. 27 - “Performing the Sculpture: Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker and the Statuesque in the Body of Modernist Dance,” Jane Tippett, graduate student, Department of Art History, University of Delaware.

Nov. 3 - “Sara Parker Redmond and Transatlantic Antislavery Activism,” Katrina Anderson, graduate student, Department of History, University of Delaware.

Nov. 10 - “Pass It On: Women and Heritage Transmission,” Marlene Milunsky, director, Individualized Learning Strategies (ILS), Wilmington, Del.

Nov. 17 - “May I Have This Dance? Women and Ballroom Dancing,” Suzanne J. Cherrin, Department of Women's Studies, University of Delaware.

Nov. 25 - No lecture, Thanksgiving Day recess.

Dec. 1 - “In Our Own Best Interest: Women's Rights, Women's Choices, and the Rise in Rate of Birth by Caesarian Section,” Elizabeth Letts, University of Maryland Medical Center.

Dec. 8 - Final exam for enrolled students only.

For information, call 831-8474 or send email to [harriet@udel.edu].