All symposium events are free and open to the public. All events are held in Templeton Student Center, Agnes Flanagan Chapel, or the Black Box in Fir Acres Theatre.
Sign language interpreter provided for keynote addresses.
All symposium events are free and open to the public. All events are held in Templeton Student Center, Agnes Flanagan Chapel, or the Black Box in Fir Acres Theatre.
Sign language interpreter provided for keynote addresses.
9-10:15 A.M., STAMM
Panel: Women on the Rise: The Growing Numbers of Women in U.S. Prisons as Staff and Inmates.
10:30-11:45 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Visual Images of Culture and Class.
10:30-11:45 A.M., THAYER
Panel: Women's Community Partnerships: Letting Knowledge Serve the City.
10:30-11:45 A.M., STAMM
Roundtable: Gender, Race, and Religion in Zimbabwe.
NOON-1 P.M., STAMM
Live Out Loud: A Public Reading of Synergia.
1:15-2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: The Power of Mediated Images.
1:15-2:45 P.M., THAYER
Featured Presentation: Homophobia and Racism in the '90s.
Suzanne Pharr, author of Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism.
3-4:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Film and Discussion: Still Ready: Three Women From the Moroccan Resistance.
3-4:30 P.M., THAYER
Panel: Literary Representations of Class and Gender.
7:30 P.M., AGNES FLANAGAN CHAPEL
RECEPTION FOLLOWS IN STAMM
Keynote address: No Hiding Place: Writing Working-Class Fiction at the Millenium. Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of Carolina.
9-10:15 A.M., THAYER
Panel: Breaking out of the Wallpaper: Women Writers Experimenting With Language and Form.
10:30-11:45 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Cross-Cultural Gender Roles in Contemporary Film.
10:30-11:45 A.M., THAYER
Panel: Gender Trouble.
10:30-11:45 A.M., STAMM
Informal conversation with Madhu Kishwar.
NOON-1 P.M., STAMM
Poetry reading and "Slam": Women Writers Workshop.
1:15-2:45 P.M., STAMM
Informal discussion with Dorothy Allison.
3-4:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Gendered Identities in Contemporary Film.
3-4:15 P.M., THAYER
Panel: Social Constructions of Pregnancy and Motherhood.
3-4:15 P.M., STAMM
Panel: Gender and Class in the Classroom.
4:30-5:30 P.M., BLACK BOX
Performance: One-act play, Pathological Venus, and dance, Women Using Dance as a Means of Resistance.
4:30-5:45 P.M., STAMM
Multigenre reading: Annie Dawid, Maxine Scates, Marjorie Sandor.
7:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
RECEPTION FOLLOWS IN FOYER
Keynote address: Queer Storytelling Across the Class Divide. Allan Berube, oral historian, MacArthur Fellow.
9-10:15 A.M., STAMM
Panel: Gendered Movements.
10:30-NOON, COUNCIL CHAMBER
Documentary film and discussion: Coming Out Under Fire with Allan Berube.
10:30-NOON, THAYER
Panel: The Future of Women and Minority Workers.
10:30-11:45 A.M., STAMM
Writing workshop: From Literary Text to Life Text: Reading and Writing Gender, Class, and Culture.
NOON-1 P.M., STAMM
Roundtable: What Is Feminism?
12:15-1 P.M., BLACK BOX
Performance: One-act play and discussion: One Hundred Women.
1:15-2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Seduced to Labor by the Impossible Allure: Parties, Prosthetics, Consumption, Cosmetics.
1:15-2:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel: Examining Violence: Education and Practice.
1:15-2:45 P.M., STAMM
Roundtable: Gender and Race Issues in Poland.
3-4:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Ring Around the Collar: Class and Transsexual Politics.
3-4:30 P.M., THAYER
Panel: Women's Stories Across Cultures.
3-4:30 P.M., STAMM
Poetry reading and discussion: Blooming in the Shade.
4:45-6 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Animated film and discussion: Rose Bond, creator of The Celtic Trilogy.
7:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
RECEPTION FOLLOWS IN FOYER
Keynote address: Struggle for Rural Women's Land Rights: Strategies That Work and Those That Don't. Madhu Kishwar, editor of Manushi, A Journal About Women and Society.