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Phi Theta Kappa Satellite Seminar Series: "Sexing the Sale," Sept. 27


Phi Theta Kappa presents a series of internationally televised Satellite Seminars on the organization’s Honors Study Topic of Popular Culture: Shaping and Reflecting Who We Are.  Speakers are noted professors from across the nation.  Anyone interested is invited to the Forum (3-130) to watch the presentation and discussion afterwards, and might be given the chance to ask a question directly via satellite.  Each series begins at 7:15 pm and refreshments will be provided.

The First Satellite Seminar is:
Sexing the Sale: Pornographication of the Popular
Speakers: Dr. Barb Brents and Dr. Kate Hausbeck.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
7:15 pm
R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Forum, 3-130
(Program is approximately an hour and a half depending on the speakers and the discussion.)

Sex certainly sells.  Dr. Barb Brents and Dr. Kate Hausbeck will discuss the sexualization of everyday life and the increasing use of bodies and sex in a commercial setting to sell non sex related products and services.

Dr. Brents and Dr. Hausbeck serve as associate pProfessors of sociology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.  They co-founded the Sex and Body Industry Research Project and are currently co-authoring a book titled, The State of Sex: The Nevada Brothel Industry.  In the course of their research, Brents and Hausbeck have studied the organization and expansion of the sex industry in the United States and documented what has been called ‘the pornographication of everyday life.’

Sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa.
                               
                                  


 

Michelle Macirella
Campus Center
09/19/2005