Press Release

February 26, 1996

SPRING LECTURE SERIES KICKS OFF

Gender, sexuality and migration will be the topic of a lecture by Dr. Maria de Lourdes Arguelles, a professor at Claremont Graduate School, Thursday, March 14 in the Thousand Oaks Room of the University Student Union at Cal State Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge.

"Genders, Sexualities and Transnational Migration: Hidden Narratives from California" is sponsored by the university's Institute for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies and is the first of the Spring lecture series.

Arguelles is a licensed marriage, family and child therapist and has done extensive research on political economy, ecology, border studies, gender/gay/bisexual/transgender studies, and immigration, refugee and transnational migration studies.

She held the MacArthur Chair in Women's Studies at Pitzer College from 1989 to 1995, where she taught Gender and Feminist Studies and Chicano/Latino Studies.

Arguelles' publication work include "Violence, Gender and Migration, "Gender/Sexual Orientation Violence and Transnational Migration: Conversations with Some Latinas We Think We Know," and "Guatemalan and Salvadoran Existence in Los Angeles: A Study of the Aftermath of Proposition 187."

The lecture is open to the public and free. For more information call (818) 885-2011.

Media Contact: Stacy Peterson, assistant to the director of news and information, (818) 885-2130.