Dr. Cynthia Enloe

Research Professor of International

Development and Social Change

Clark University

Dr. Enloe, research professor in women’s studies and international development at

Clark University, is recognized around the world for her books, articles, and public lectures on gender, politics, and economics.  Her work brings a “feminist curiosity” to the subjects of globalization and militarism.  She explores how concepts of gender impact world political and economic policies and, in turn, affect our ordinary lives as women and men.  Some of her books include Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link, The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in the Age of Empire, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, Does Khaki Become You? The Militarization of Women’s Lives, and The Comparative Politics of Pollution.  Dr. Enloe has spoken around the world, including at Cambridge University in England and Harvard University in Massachusetts.  She has appeared on National Public Radio and the BBC.

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Wednesday, October 22 (Pre-Event)
1:15 p.m. Large Lecture Hall— Western Iowa Tech Community College

Film showing and discussion: The PBS Documentary The Soldier’s Heart, on mental health issues

faced by soldiers returning from the Iraq War. Discussion leader: Dr. Leslie Erickson.
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Monday, October 27 (Pre-Event)
7:00 p.m. Hickman-Johnson Furrow Learning Center—1601 Morningside Ave.

Morningside Reads: An informal book discussion of Chapter 1 of Cynthia Enloe’s Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link, on developing feminist curiosity. This chapter is posted on the Morningside Reads Blackboard Site. To gain access to this online site, contact Karen Johnson at 712-274-5195 or johnsonka@morningside.edu.
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Wednesday, October 29
Noon Roadman Formal Lounge—Roadman Hall—3600 Peters Ave.

Friday is Writing Day reading and informal discussion: “The Sneaker Story.” Dr. Enloe will read from a chapter of

Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link and discuss how tracing the recent historyof sneaker

manufacturing reveals the linkage between globalization and militarism. You are welcome to bring a lunch to this event.

3:00-5:00 p.m. Yockey Room—Olsen Student Center—3609 Peters Ave.
Participatory Workshop: “Bringing Feminist Curiosity to the Curriculum and the Workplace.” Dr. Enloe will discuss the challenges of developing “feminist curiosity” and applying it to topics in classrooms and the public arena. She will also suggest a rationale and strategies for doing so. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please contact Marcie Ponder at 712-274-5126 or at ponder@morningside.edu. Participants can also register right before the workshop.

5:30-6:30 p.m. Yockey Room—Olsen Student Center—3609 Peters Ave.
Dinner with Dr. Enloe: Anyone interested in informal conversation with Dr. Enloe may join us. If you choose, you may purchase a meal at the main cafeteria next door to the Yockey Room or at the snack bar in the basement of the Olsen Student Center—and then bring your tray into the Yockey Room.

7:30 p.m. UPS Auditorium—Lincoln Center—3627 Peters Ave.
Lecture: “Exploring the Iraqi War with a Feminist Curiosity” (An ACAS Event). Dr. Enloe will look at the war in Iraq as it relates to “ordinary women” in the United States and Iraq: how their governments rely on them to help wage the war, even if they are not in the military, and how they cope with the stresses of wartime.

8:45 p.m. Outside UPS Auditorium—Lincoln Center
Book Signing: Some of Dr. Enloe’s books will be available for purchase after the lecture. She will be available to sign the books.