Jackson Katz, one of the key architects of the bystander approach for gender violence prevention, will deliver a lecture at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
His lecture, “More Than a Few Good Men: A Lecture on American Manhood and Violence Against Women,” will be held on Friday, April 17 at 2 p.m. in Emerson Recital Hall.
Katz is the co-founder of the multiracial, mixed-gender Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program at Northeastern University. Founded in 1993, MVP was one of the first programs to use a bystander model for gender violence prevention. Today that model is the most widely utilized sexual and domestic violence prevention program in college and professional athletics.
He is the author of an influential book, “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help.” His films include “Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity,” “Wrestling With Manhood” with Sut Jhally, and “Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol” with Jean Kilbourne. Since 1990, he has lectured at over 1,400 colleges, schools, professional conferences and military installations in 49 U.S. states, six Canadian provinces and several countries across the world.
Katz’s Nebraska Wesleyan lecture is free and open to the public. Emerson Recital Hall is located on the lower level of the Rogers Center for Fine Arts, 50th Street and Huntington Ave.