The Blanche, Edith and Irving Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women' s Studies at Douglass College

is pleased to announce its Global Focus in the appointments of the next two occupants of the Chair

1991-1992 Jacqueline Pitanguy, a Brazilian teacher, social scientist and activist; former President of Brazil's National Council for Women's Rights, the first federal organization to improve women's conditions, 1986-89; founder of CEPIA (Citizenship: Studies, Information, Action), a non-profit, non-governmental organization that researches public policies in relation to women. Her most recent publications are: Women and Politics: Positive Measures to Improve her Political Participation (1989); and Women and Citizenship (1989).

Spring 1992 Seminar: Women, Powerand Social Change

1992-1993 Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, Nigerian writer, poet, scholar and literary critic; founding member of the International Women for a Meaningful Summit and co-founder of Association of African Women Research and Development. She is the author of Women and Critical Transformation in Africa: Collected Essays (African World Press, 1991); and co-author (with Carole Boyce Davies), Crossing Boundaries: A Critical Anthology of Essays on Women's Writing in Africa, the Caribbean and the U.S.A. (Matatu. 1991).

Spring 1993 Seminar: Gender, Voice, Perspective: Women, Development and Peace

Applications are now being accepted from students, scholars, activists and practitioners who wish to participate in the Spring 1992 seminar. Deadline for submission of materials is October 15, 1991; notification of acceptance into the seminar is November 15,1991. To receive application form and seminar description contact: Ferris Olin, Executive Officer, Laurie NJ Chair in Women's Studies at Douglass College, 27 Clifton Avenue, Box 270, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-0270 or call (908) 9326948.

Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence Program Hunter College Gender and Feminism in Third World Contexts

The Women's Studies Program at Hunter College is pleased to announce its third year (1992-93) of Rockefeller Fellowships in the Humanities. Its special emphasis for 1992-93 will be "Third World Women, Western Women: Differences, Commonalities, and Cross-Currents of Experience."

Applicants for fellowships should currently be doing research related to women's cultures/feminist movements within any particular context (historical or contemporary) of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American or Middle Eastern societies. Their work should be informed by an interest in current issues of feminist theory and analysis, particularly the intersections between gender, class, race/ethnicity and nation. Work in or across any of the humanistic disciplines will be considered but should be grounded in the sharing of their work and ideas with a community of women's studies scholars and students from diverse cultural and multidisciplinary backgrounds. . ,

For further information,

write to: Professor Rosalind P. Petchesky

Women's Studies Program

Hunter College of The City University of New York

695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 100021 USA