Reporter Volume 26, No.22 March 30, 1995

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Bureau Staff
The UB Graduate Group in Marxist Studies will hold its 10th annual
conference March 31 and April 1 in the Center for the Arts Screening
Room and in 280 Park Hall on the North Campus. The events are free of
charge and open to the public. The conference promotes
interdisciplinary discussion of Marxist theory, critiques and
methodology, and their application to a broad range of scholarly
fields. 
	Two keynote speakers, Laura Kipnis and Meera Nanda, are
scheduled, in addition to several discussion sessions.
	Kipnis, an independent film/videomaker and cultural critic
from Northwestern University, will speak March 31 at 6:30 p.m. in the
Screening Room on "How to Look at Pornography, or A Response to the
Recent Culture Wars." Kipnis' collection of essays and video scripts,
"Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender and Aesthetics" (Minnesota
University Press, 1993), marked a decisive turn in the field of
Marxist and feminist studies. A 1993-94 Guggenheim Fellow, she is
currently a Rockefeller Fellow. 
	Second keynote speaker is biochemical engineer Meera Nanda of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who will speak on "History is What
Hurts: Historicizing Post-Colonial Feminist Critique of Science in
Development." at 6:30 p.m. April 1, in 280 Park Hall.  
	Nanda is the editor of "Planning the Future: A Resource Guide
to Sustainable Agriculture in the Third World," a book that records
efforts of Third-World farmers, environmental groups and voluntary
organizations to popularize less intense and more ecological farming
practices.