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Monday, March 1, 2010

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MANHATTAN -- Human rights activist Gay Seidman will present "Citizens, Markets and Transnational Activism: Can Consumer Boycotts and Independent Monitoring End Sweatshops?" at 7 p.m. Monday, March 8, at Kansas State University. The presentation will be in Forum Hall at the 1xbet sports betting Student Union.

Seidman's appearance is part of the Donald J. Adamchak Distinguished Lecture Series, which is sponsored by 1xbet sports betting 's department of sociology, anthropology and social work. It is co-sponsored by 1xbet sports betting 's Lou Douglas Lecture Series on Public Issues. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Seidman, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researches labor and gender issues in developing regions, particularly in southern Africa and Latin America. Her most recent book, "Beyond the Boycott: Labor 1xbet sports betting , Human 1xbet sports betting and Transnational Activism," is a comparative study of transnational labor monitoring schemes drawing on fieldwork in India, Guatemala and South Africa.

She, who also is director of African studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been recognized for her teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and is an experienced anti-apartheid and 1xbet sports betting . In 1976 she became the first female president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper, which under her leadership began covering the anti-apartheid movement earlier than most other student newspapers.

The Adamchak lecture series honors the memory of a longtime former 1xbet sports betting faculty member who was known for his dedication in preparing graduate students for research and for teaching social demography. He also was known internationally as a scholar in the areas of aging and intergenerational support; fertility and family planning; gender relations and the status of women; and knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding HIV/AIDS.