The guest lecturers will be Elaine Kim of the University of California at Berkeley, noted scholar of the Asian-American experience, and Ellen DuBois of the University of California at Los Angeles, a former longtime UB faculty member who has earned distinction for her study of the history of the American women's suffrage movement.

"One Woman, One Vote," the film on women's suffrage produced by the Educational Film Center, will be screened on March 6, 12 and 13. The discussion of feminism among several UB women scholars will take place on Friday, March 8.

All events are open to the public and free of charge.

Writer and film producer Elaine Kim, professor of Asian-American studies and chair of the Ethnic Studies Program at UC-Berkeley, will present UB's annual Gail Paradise Kelly Memorial Lecture at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, March 11, in 104 O'Brian Hall on the UB North Campus.

Her talk, titled "Pojagi (The Wrapping Cloth): Writing Korean-American Life Stories," will include a discussion of her oral history research on the Los Angeles riots. The lecture is presented by the Graduate School of Education and the Department of American Studies, with co-sponsorship by the UB Faculty of Arts and Letters and the Asian Studies Program.

A distinguished scholar in the field of Asian-American studies, Kim is noted in particular for her analysis of the experiences of Asian Americans and their representation in the American media.

She is widely published and has been the recipient of a number of awards, grants and fellowships, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts and a 1992 fellowship to the Asian/American Rockefeller Center at Queens College.

Among her noted books are "East to America: Korean American Life Stories," published this year. It is an important collection of oral histories in which 40 life stories form what one critic called "a linked memory that bursts any notion of "Korean American" as something containable or definable."

Kim is also the co-producer of the 1992 documentary, "Sa-i-gu: From Korean Women's Perspectives" and was associate producer of the 1988 film "Slaying the Dragon: Asian Women in U.S. Television and Film."

The Kim lecture is supported by an endowment fund in memory of Gail Paradise Kelly, a UB professor of comparative education who died in 1991. It was established by the Graduate School of Education to fund a lecture series on feminism and education, with particular reference to their international context.

Kelly was chair of the UB Department of Educa tional Organization, Administration and Policy in the UB Graduate School of Education and held an adjunct professorship in the Department of History. She was one of few female department chairs at UB during her tenure and during a 29-year career achieved international distinction for her pioneering work on the role of women in education and the impact of colonialism on education in developing countries.

She authored several texts that are among the most widely used books in the field of comparative education, as well as volumes on the education of women in the third world and a study of women in higher education.

Historian Ellen DuBois, a member of the UB history and American Studies faculties from 1972 to 1988 and now a professor of history at UCLA, will present a lecture at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 25, in 106 O'Brian Hall focusing on women's suffrage, her principal field of investigation and research. A public reception will follow the talk.

Her lecture, titled "What Difference Did Women's Suffrage Make Anyway?," will reconsider the first 15 years following the passage of the suffrage amendment in light of changes it precipitated in the fabric of American society, politics, economics and labor. It will be followed by short responses from two UB professors: Terry Miller, professor of law, and Laurie Rhodebeck, assistant professor of political science.

The lecture is presented by the UB Women's Studies Program, Department of History and Graduate Group in Feminist Studies. Co-sponsors are the UB Faculty of Arts and Letters, the Baldy Center, the American Studies Graduate Club, the Graduate Student Association and the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women - Women's Action Coalition.

DuBois, one of the most noted scholars of the American women's suffrage movement, has been the recipient of distinguished awards, grants and fellowships in recognition of the quality of her research and publications.

For her highly regarded research into the groundbreaking political activities of Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, DuBois received the prestigious Binkley-Stephenson Award from the Organization of American Historians. Her research on this subject was supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, among other sources.

Her book on Blatch's work, "Her Mother's Daughter: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage," will be published in 1997 by Yale University Press. DuBois is the author of several other books, including "Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe," with UB colleagues Elizabeth Kennedy, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Lillian Robinson and Gail Paradise Kelly.

In conjunction with the DuBois lecture, the Women's Studies Program and E.S. Express-Residential Life will sponsor screenings of "One Woman, One Vote," a 1995 film by the Educational Film Center that aired on PBS stations as part of the series "The American Experience." Screenings are at the following times and sites on the UB North Campus:

Wednesday, March 6, 3-5 p.m., 31 Capen Hall

Tuesday, March 12, 7-9 p.m., 31 Capen Hall

Wednesday, March 13, Noon to 2 p.m., 31 Capen Hall

Wednesday, March 13, 7-9 p.m., Red Jacket Lounge, Ellicott Complex.

"Generations of Feminism: A Dialogue Across UB Generations," will take place Friday, March 8 from 2-4 p.m. in 330 Student Union. Panelists will include Bernice Noble, professor of microbiology; Margarita Vargas, assistant professor of modern languages and literatures; Susan Cahn, assistant professor of history; Carrie Tirado Bremen, professor of English; Darcy Wakefield and Sayra Pinto, graduate students in the Program in Women's Studies, and undergraduate student Shannie Easterby.