Reminder: Talk on Carla Lucero's Wuornos Opera at downtown SFSU Campus @ Mon Aug 30 6pm - 7:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Talk on Carla Lucero's Wuornos Opera at downtown SFSU Campus GENDER & SEXUALITY SEMINAR SERIES Tenth Muse Presents and The Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality are pleased to present: Carmen Cecilia Piñero Gil "Carla Lucero's Wuornos , the Force of Operatic Discourse and Social Censure of Women, Violence and Marginalization" and Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir "Blame and Understanding: Philosophical Reflections on Carla Lucero's Wuornos" Monday, August 30th 6:00PM - 7:30PM SFSU Downtown Campus, 835 Market Street, Suite 517 *talk is free of charge; light refreshments will be provided* Questions? Want more info? Email us crgs@sfsu.edu or visit us online http://crgs.sfsu.edu. About the presenters: Carmen Cecilia Piñero Gil is Director of the Spanish division of ComuArte (Women in Art/Spain) since 2000. She has a Ph.D. in Music History and Music Science from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is a Teacher of Music at the High School of Las Rozas and is Visiting Professor at the Universidad de La Rioja and teaches in the Doctoral Program in Music History and Music Science in the fields of Latin American Classical Music and in Gender Studies in Music, as a researcher, lecturer and writer. She is the author of The First List of Iberoamerican and Spanish Women Composers. She belongs to the Institute of Women's Studies and the Association of Women in Music, the Modern and Classical Association. Piñero is a founding member of Euterpe: Music and women. She is an editor with Eulalia Piñero Gil of Arts and Woman. Visions of social change and development. Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir is an Icelandic philosopher teaching in the Department of Philosophy at SFSU. She works mainly in metaphysics and feminist theory. In addition to articles in philosophical journals, Ásta's published writings include, among other things, a translation of an essay in philosophical logic, a travel journal from a math olympiad, poems, and a playbill article. Ásta has a BA in math and philosophy from Brandeis University, AM in philosophy from Harvard, and a PhD in philosophy from MIT. About the opera: In 2001, Wuornos, an opera by Bay Area composer, Carla Lucero, premiered in San Francisco. The opera is based on "lesbian serial killer', Aileen Wuornos, who was executed by the state of Florida in 2002. Wuornos addresses the cycle of child abuse, violence against women, prostitution and the unholy alliance between the media and the American justice system. When Mon Aug 30 6pm – 7:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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