ITINERARY FOR

DR. MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Please contact Dr. Dave Ramsaran, ramsaran@susqu.edu

(570) 372-4757 for any updates.

Wednesday February 18

Arrival at Susquehanna University campus

1:00-2:00P Informal Lunch–Degenstein Campus Center

Professor David Kaszuba, Assistant Professor of Communications, Dr. Simona Hill, Associate Professor of Sociology, Dr. Tracy Tyree, Dean of Students, Mrs. Anne Claus, Michell McIntyre, ‘05

3:00-4:05P Class: ”Communications Research” Apfelbaum Hall 322, Professor David Kaszuba

6:30P Honors Program Dinner,

A “Fireside Chat with Dr. Mary Catherine Bateson” –-

Apple Community Room

Dr. Karen Mura and Dr. Simona Hill, co-directors of the Susquehanna University Honors Program, Mrs. Wendy H. Davis, Dr. James D. Sodt, Degenstein Professor of Communications, Honors Students.

Thursday February 19

8:00-9:35A Class: “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” Steele 007

Dr. Shari Jacobson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

SU campus transport available between sessions today courtesy of Admissions.

10-10:45A Coffee Reception

Jane Apple Rare Book Room, Blough-Weis Library

Reverend Raymond Shaheen, Special Assistant to the President

Dr. Rebecca Wilson, Associate Director, Blough-Weis Library

Mr. James F. Black, Director of Tutorial Services

11:00-12:00 noon Meeting with High School Students From the SEED School of Washington DC

Meeting Rooms, Degenstein Campus Center

Mr. Chris Markle, Director of Admissions

Ms. LaVonne Clark, Admissions Counselor

Mr. Brian Johnson, Director of Multi-Cultural Affairs.

12:00-1:00P Lunch With Students from the SEED School

The SEED Foundation, Inc. (Schools for Educational Evolution and Development), is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) District of Columbia corporation, organized in March of 1997 to establish urban residential schools that will prepare students academically and socially for success in college and in the professional world. In 1998, the SEED Foundation opened the SEED Public Charter School of Washington, D.C. and became the first of its kind: a public boarding school built in the inner-city for grades 7 through 12. Susquehanna University welcomes these gifted students to our campus!

Meeting with local media 11-3P.

Contact Person: Victoria Kidd, News Services Manager, Susquehanna University, (570) 372-4757

6:30P Presidential Fellows Dinner—Pine Lawn

Full Circles, Overlapping Lives Discussion

Dr. L. Jay Lemons, President, Susquehanna University

Mrs. Marsha Lemons, Dr. Linda A. McMillin, Provost,

Dr. Phillip E. Winger, Executive Assistant to the President, Susquehanna University Faculty and Presidential Fellows

Bateson Introduction—Dr. Laura de Abruña, Dean of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Communications.

Each year, approximately 20 students are selected to be Presidential Fellows. In order to be considered, students must have earned a 3.4 minimum GPA. From this list, the Deans nominate students who they feel have the enthusiasm, ability, and interest in serious matters to benefit from the opportunity to interact with the President and with one another in discussions of literature, theatre, and current events.

Friday February 20

Tentative meetings with local media 1-3P

Contact Person: Victoria Kidd, News Services Manager, Susquehanna University, (570) 372-4757

11:15-12:15P Lunch with Dr. John Bodinger

12:30-1:35P Class: “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology”

Dr. John Bodinger, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology

6:00 P Geisinger Health Care System-Sunbury Community Hospital Appreciation Dinner— Susquehanna University Hosts: Dr. Lucien T. Winegar,

Dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences,

Dr. Dave Ramsaran, Assistant Professor of Sociology,

Dr. C. Cymone Fourshey, Assistant Professor of History.

MAWSA 2004 Pre-Conference Events

January 24 through March 5, 2004 at the Lore Degenstein Gallery, Degenstein Campus Center. Impossible to Forget: The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After. Photography by Michael Kenna

Gallery hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 1-4P.

Admission is free and open to the Public.

Trifles a play by Susan Glaspell—at 7:30P in Isaacs Auditorium

Written in 1916, it deals with the lives of women in rural Nebraska; it's still poignant and relevant. Directed this year by Dr. W. Douglas Powers, Department of Communication and Theatre Arts.

Film Festival—8:30 P until shortly after midnight in Isaacs Auditorium

Hosted by Ms. Mary Bannon, Dr. C. Cymone Fourshey, and

Dr. Alissa Packer.

Screening some dynamic independent films courtesy of The Blough-Weis Library.

Whale Rider. In a small New Zealand coastal village, Maori claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. In every generation for more than 1000 years, a male heir born to the Chief succeeds to the title. The time is now. The Chief's eldest son, Porourangi, fathers twins - a boy and a girl. But the boy and his mother die in childbirth. The surviving girl is named Pai. Grief-stricken, her father leaves her to be raised by her grandparents. Koro, her grandfather who is the Chief, refuses to acknowledge Pai as the inheritor of the tradition and claims she is of no use to him.

Salt of the Earth. A controversial drama about the struggles of striking mineworkers in a small New Mexico town whose views are socialistic and surprisingly feminist.

and if time…

Dadi’s Family. An intimate portrait of several generations of women in a village family in India.

Saturday, February 21

MAWSA 2004 Overview

8:00 - 9:00A	Registration: Degenstein Campus Center (DCC), Meeting Room 5 (will continue until 12 noon). Coffee in Mellon Lounge, DCC.
All-day Events
9:00 - 10:15A	Session I—Apfelbaum Hall Rooms 217, 239, 318, and 319
10:30 - 11:45A	Session II—Apfelbaum Hall Rooms 217, 239, 318, and 319
10:30 - 11:45A	MAWSA Business Meeting—Meeting Rooms 3 & 4 DCC.
9:00-11:45A	Feminist Majority Foundation—informal discussions and information. Meeting Room 1 DCC.
9:00-11:45A	Two Films—continuous screenings. Antonia’s Line and Daughters of the Dust Meeting Room 2, DCC.

11:50 - 1:15P	Luncheon, Student Awards—Shearer Dining Rooms, Degenstein Campus Center
1:30-2:30P	Keynote Address: “Women as Pioneers of Lifelong Learning” The Degenstein Campus Theatre, Degenstein Campus Center
2:30-3:30P	Book Signing and Chat with Dr. Bateson. Meeting Rooms 3 & 4 Degenstein Campus Center. Host: Tara Yutzy, ’04. Selected titles of Bateson’s books are available for purchase in the Campus Bookstore, Lower Level DCC.
2:30-5:30P	Open Forums and Breakout Sessions—These rooms are available for informal discussions. Topics TBA. Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 Degenstein Campus Center.
2:45-4:00P	Session III—Apfelbaum Hall Rooms 217, 239, 318, and 319
4:15-5:30P	Session IV—Apfelbaum Hall Rooms 217, 239, 318, and 319
Registration forms and current information about the conference are available on the Web site. Please check http://www.susqu.edu/mawsa/

6:30P—Private Dinner, Lewisburg, PA

Sunday, February 22, 2004

Departure from Susquehanna University campus.

About Dr. Mary Catherine Bateson

T

he eminent writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson has focused most of her work on the lives of women. She has written or co-authored eight books, including Composing a Life, which viewed life as a work of improvisational art, and With a Daughter’s Eye; a Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, which was named one of the best books of 1984 by The New York Times. In her most recent book, Full Circles, Overlapping Lives, Bateson argues that no one is completely knowable and explores the strangeness of others through her own family history and the stories of her students. Currently teaching for three years as a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she was Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Anthropology and English at George Mason University for ten years. Susquehanna University welcomes Dr. Mary Catherine Bateson to campus as a Visiting Scholar-in-Residence. Her visit is supported by the collaborative efforts of the Office of the President and our new Susquehanna Valley partners: Geisinger Health Care Systems and Sunbury Community Hospital.