7:00 pm,
Tuesday,
April 12, 2005
Church-Chapel
Jackson Katz: My Gun's Bigger Than Yours: Images of Manhood and Violence in the Media
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Free and open to the public!
Sponsored by the Plowshares Project and the Goshen College Campus Health and Wellness Committee
Jackson Katz will join the Goshen College community for an evening conversation about Manhood and Violence in the Media. This slide-lecture is regularly updated with images from popular culture and is presented in an interactive style where the audience has the opportunity to participate in dialogue about the images presented. Subjects covered include professional wrestling, sports, Hollywood film, advertising, and music videos.
Jackson Katz is the founder and director of MVP Strategies, an organization that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to U.S. colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies, the U.S. military services, community organizations and small and large corporations.
He is the creator of an award-winning video titled Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity. The video is available with versions for college and high school students and is a production of the Media Education Foundation, creators of the acclaimed videos Dreamworlds II and Killing Us Softly 3.
Contact: Dean Johnson, phone (574) 535-7728, email deanjj@goshen.edu
See also: Plowshares Peace Studies Collaborative