Dr. Jackson Katz, internationally known for his groundbreaking work in gender violence prevention education in schools, the sports culture, and the military, will deliver the 2012 Moe Lecture in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14 in Alumni Hall. Katz’s lecture is titled “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help.” You can watch tonight’s Moe Lecture by going online to Gustavus’s Live Streaming Portal.
Katz is perhaps best known for co-founding the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program at Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society in 1993. The multi-racial, mixed gender MVP program was the first large-scale attempt to enlist high school, collegiate, and professional athletes in the fight against all forms of men’s violence against women. Today, MVP is the most widely utilized gender violence prevention program in college and professional athletics.
Katz is also the founder and director of MVP Strategies, an organization that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to U.S. colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies, the U.S. military services, community organizations, and corporations. He has worked with tens of thousands of high school students, as well as thousands of student-athletes and other student leaders at hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide. Since 1990, Katz has lectured at more than 1,100 colleges, prep schools, high schools, middle schools, professional conferences, and military installations in 47 states
Katz is also the author of a 2006 book titled The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All men Can Help. He is also the creator and co-creator of award-winning educational videos for college and high school students, including “Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity,” “Wrestling with Manhood,” and “Spin the Bottle: Six, Lies, and Alcohol.”
Katz is a former football player himself, who became the first man at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to earn a minor in women’s studies. In addition to his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Katz holds a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. in cultural studies and education from UCLA.
In addition to giving this year’s Moe Lecture, Katz will also hold two workshops titled “Silence and Violence” (9 a.m.) and “Drink Like a Man” (10:30 a.m.) on Thursday, March 15 in Alumni Hall. Katz’s lecture and workshops are all free and open to the public.
The Moe Visiting Lectureship is endowed by Robert and Karin Moe in honor of their daughter, Kris Burke Moe, class of 1984. Since its inaugural year in 1997, the Moe Lectureship has afforded Gustavus the opportunity to bring top feminist scholars to campus from the fields of biology, English, nursing, philosophy, history, and theatre.
In addition to their generous support of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies lecture, the Moe Family made a $1 million commitment in the fall of 2007 to the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning, which is dedicated to advancing active and interdisciplinary learning across the campus.
For more information about this year’s Moe Lecture, contact Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program Jill Locke at jlocke@gustavus.edu or 507-933-6226.
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