Oct. 23 lecture to focus on November election

A lecture scheduled for this Thursday afternoon will highlight issues in the 2008 presidential campaign.

The lecture, “Bitch is the New Black: Feminism and the Failure to Think Intersectionally about the Obama Campaign,” will be delivered by Michaele Ferguson, assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 2:45 p.m. in Spiro 4. Ferguson is co-editor of the book, “W Stands for Women: How the George W. Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender” (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007).

The lecture is sponsored by Project Pericles, the Department of Government and Politics, and the Gender Studies Program.