Sociologist Mary Jackman, a UC Davis professor and author, will speak on violence and inequality Thursday, Feb. 11, at the University Club, located on Old Davis Road. Her talk, to begin at 4:15 p.m., is titled "Getting Away with Murder: The Practice of Violence in Long-Term Relations of Inequality." She is the second of four speakers participating in the campus's "Profiling the Social Sciences." Other lecture topics will include child victims and and witnesses, and historical memory and the founding of New England. Jackman's research focuses on the belief systems that accompany inequality. She examines race, class and gender inequality in the United States. She is the author of "Class Awareness in the United States" and "The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class and Race Relations." Jackman holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin. The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Chancellor's Forum on the Future, the Division of Social Sciences, the Institute of Governmental Affairs and the Center for History, Society and Culture.