QUOTE (melech @ Feb 5 2008, 12:49 AM)

what about for a shiur or a wedding feast or a curriculum night at beis yaakov?
A wedding is different because it is 1. A social event, and 2. there is a genuine risk of "licentiousness" and "frivolity".
But would anyone say that there MUST be a mechitza at the chuppah (or Lo aleinu a leviyah)??? Even in Mea Shearim they don't have that, the men and women just stand separately....
A shiur could go either way. On one hand it is "Holy" so it may not be "appropriate" for men and women to sit together, but it would be hard pressed to declare that the HALACHA. I have been to MANY mixed shiurim.
As for other events, again it depends. We are NOHEG to have separate seating, but I hardly think that is mikker hadin....
"Inappropriate" doesn't always translate to ASSUR. And all 3 examples are not yechidim, but a cohesive GROUP activity....