{"id":29180,"date":"2026-03-04T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=29180"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:15:17","slug":"marshall-university-to-host-charlotte-schmidlapp-lecture-featuring-dr-bernadette-barton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/marshall-university-to-host-charlotte-schmidlapp-lecture-featuring-dr-bernadette-barton\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall University to host Charlotte Schmidlapp Lecture featuring Dr. Bernadette Barton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marshall University will host the annual Charlotte Schmidlapp Lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, in the Shawkey Dining Room of the Memorial Student Center.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Dr. Bernadette Barton, professor of Sociology and the director of Gender Studies at Morehead State University, will present a talk titled, \u201cThe Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture is Ruining Society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Barton\u2019s research and teaching explore issues of gender, sexuality, religion, culture, happiness and the sex industry. Barton is co-editor of Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the 21st Century, and author of The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture is Ruining Our Society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hilary Brewster is the Director of the Women\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so grateful to one of Dr. Barton\u2019s former students, Alissa Rookard, who is the coordinator for the Women\u2019s Center here on campus, for putting Dr. Barton on my radar as a speaker,\u201d Brewster said. \u201cHosting Dr. Barton is a testament to the interesting feminist scholarship and activism that is centered here, in Appalachia, at one of our peer institutions. I\u2019m thrilled to be making these connections!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow.<\/p>\n<p>The Charlotte Schmidlapp Lecture Series, sponsored by the Schmidlapp family and Fifth Third Bank, is dedicated to amplifying women\u2019s voices in academia and beyond. It brings distinguished scholars and speakers to Marshall University to engage the community in meaningful discussions on gender, history, and culture.\u00a0 For more information, please contact Dr. Hilary Brewster at <a href=\"mailto:brewsterh@marshall.edu\">brewsterh@marshall.edu<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University will host the annual Charlotte Schmidlapp Lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, in the Shawkey Dining Room of the Memorial Student Center. This year, Dr. Bernadette Barton, professor of Sociology and the director of Gender Studies at Morehead State University, will present a talk titled, \u201cThe Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-cola","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29181,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29180\/revisions\/29181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}