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ATTENTION ...... Metro, Feature and Broadcast editors: Disability, human diversity focus of Women’s Studies Conference Disability as a category of human diversity is the theme of the University of South Carolina’s 21st annual Women’s Studies Conference, set for Feb. 28 – 29. The conference will begin at 2:30 p.m. Thursday with the Helen Hill Memorial Screening of “Liebe Perla” at Nickelodeon Theatre on Main Street. At 5 p.m. Thursday, Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will deliver the keynote lecture in Lumpkin Auditorium, located on the eighth floor of the Moore School of Business. A scholar from Emory University, Garland-Thomson will discuss how images can dismantle and create barriers that keep people with disabilities from full participation in society.
Call Peggy Binette or Margaret Lamb at 803-777-5400 to coordinate coverage.
ATTENTION ...... Metro, Science and Broadcast editors: Google maps and more topic of annual Minghi Lecture Feb. 28 Google Earth and other innovative map features on the web will be the topic of the second annual University of South Carolina Julian V. Minghi Lecture Thursday, Feb. 28. California geographer Dr. Michael F. Goodchild will speak at 5 p.m. in Callcott, Room 011. His talk is titled “Citizens as Sensors: Web 2.0 and the World of Volunteered Geography.” Goodchild will discuss Internet map features, including Wikimapia, OpenStreetMag and Google Earth and how accurate they are and whether they threaten individual privacy. To coordinate coverage, call Peggy Binette at 803-777-5400. Archives |
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