The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at UNL is excited to host a lecture by Tomi-Ann Roberts titled “Objects in Mirror are Closer than They Appear.” This lecture will be held in the Ubuntu Room of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center on September 26 at 3:30 p.m. A reception with light refreshments will precede the lecture, starting at 2:30. This event is free and open to the public.
In her lecture, Tomi-Ann Roberts will frame the #MeToo Movement within the feminist scholarly frame of the psychology of sexual objectification. In a book Roberts co-authored in 1997, she argues that objectification is sexism and is harmful to women and girls by treating them as mere collections of body parts. In this lecture Roberts will speak about the ways this objectification theory has influenced work in academics and public policy over the past two decades.
Tomi-Ann Roberts is a professor of psychology at Colorado College. Her research is focused on the emotional, physical, and cognitive repercussions of sexual objectification and self-objectification of women and girls. Her article “Objectification Theory” is the most cited source from the Psychology of Women Quarterly throughout the history of the magazine.
This lecture is co-sponsored by The Convocations Committee; The College of Nursing; The Nebraska Center for Children, Youth, Families and Schools; and the Departments of Psychology; Educational Psychology; and Sociology.
For more information about this lecture, please contact Rose Holz at rholz2@unl.edu.
