Distinguished Lecture on Masculinity and Gender Equality set for January 11th

January 08, 2010---The Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs, will on Monday 11th January, 2010 host a Distinguished Lecture at the Ballroom, Crowne Plaza Hotel Wrightson Road, Port of Spain from 6:00 p.m.   An additional feature will be a Men’s Health and Wellness Caravan at the same location from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Professor Linden Lewis, Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, U.S.A. will deliver the Distinguished Lecture on the topic, “Abandoning old Shibboleths of Masculinity in the Struggle Against Violence”.

Professor Linden Lewis has taught at Bucknell University  since 1991.  He has also served as the co-Director of the then Race/Gender Resource Centre [now the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender] at Bucknell.  He is also the current President of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), and has been an active member of the CSA since 1990.  He has published widely on such subjects as race, masculinity, labor and globalization.

He has also served as a member of the Expert Group of United Nations for the Advancement of women on “The role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality”, a draft of which has been adopted by all United Nations Organizations, and as a member of the Expert Group for the UN on the subject of “Equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men”, including care giving in the context of HIV/AIDS. 

The media is invited to provide coverage.