Bingham Center celebrates Roe v. Wade
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture will hold a three-day symposium on abortion research, ethics and activism at the University beginning Oct. 30 to mark the 30th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade case of the U.S. Supreme Court and the 15th anniversary of the center's founding.
The center is holding the symposium to raise awareness of the importance of primary source materials to scholarship and activism on abortion and to explore the ways in which the history of abortion affects its future.
Merle Hoffman, founder and director of Choices Women's Medical Center in New York City, will give the keynote address at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31, in the Perkins Library Rare Book Room.
Natural Lovins: CEO to speak
Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Amory Lovins, whose work focuses on energy, resource productivity and the environment, will speak on natural capitalism Oct. 27 at noon in the Von Canon rooms of the Bryan Center.
The speech is sponsored by the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Graduate and Professional Student Council, Save Our State and the Greening Initiative.
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