Women's Studies at SCSU















  
Past Conference Schedule:

2000:
Women of African Descent: Reaching Across the Diaspora
The 10th Annual Women's Studies Conference
Friday, October 6 - Saturday, October 7, 2000

Friday, October 6
Welcome & Featured Panel--2:00pm-4:00pm
Mother Africa & Diaspora: Telling of Memory & Resistance

Hors D'oeuvres--4:00pm-4:15pm

Concurrent Sessions A, 4:15pm-5:30pm
A1 Growing Up Female: Cultures of Learning
A2 Healing the Body, Nurturing the Soul
A3 Afra-Latina Discourse
A4 Old World Ancestors, New World Identity: Diasporic Connections in Black Women's Fiction

Cheese & Fruit--5:30pm-5:45pm

Featured Speaker: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, 5:45pm-6:45pm

Dinner--6:45pm-7:45pm

Featured Speaker: Tonea Stewart, 8:00pm-9:00pm

Reception & Entertainment--9:00pm-10:30pm


Saturday, October 7

Welcome & Featured Panels--9:00am-10:15am
Women of African Descent & the Media, Mal Johnson
African Women & Artistic Expression, Tess Onwueme

Beverage Break--10:15am-10:30am

Concurrent Sessions B, 10:30am-12:00am
B1 Social Constructions of the "Good Mother"
B2 Possessing the Spirit: Black Women and Religion
B3 Doubly Muted Voices
B4 Patterns That Connect: American-American Women as Artists, Performers and Readers
B5 Making a Home in the World: African-American Women in 19th & 20th Century America
B6 Oral Tradition Usurped by the Written Word Throughout the Diaspora
B7 Ritual Female Genital Surgery: A Social Work Challenge
B8 Reconstructing Literary Representations of Women Writers

Luncheon--12:00pm-1:45pm

Keynote--1:45pm-2:45pm Barbara Smith

Concurrent Sessions C, 2:45pm-4:15pm
C1 Uncovering Our Stories: A New Framework for Recovery
C2 Violence & Community: Negotiating and Redefining Race, Home and Spirituality
C3 A Sense of Woveness: African Literature & African Women Writers
C4 American Blues: A Tradition of Resistance in African-American Women's Writings
C5 Migrating Identities and Explorations of Self in Caribbean Literature
C6 Images, Icons & Stereotypes: Black Women in the Mediated Eye
C7 The Personal and the Collective: Playing With Island Memories

Cheese & Fruit--4:15pm-4:30pm

Featured Panels--4:30pm-5:30pm
Women of African Descent & Economic Empowerment Bernell Grier
AIDS & African Women---Rumbi Mabuwa

Beverage Break--5:30pm-5:45pm

Featured Panel--5:45pm-6:45pm
Multiple Oppressions/Multiple Resistances: Comparative African Women's Activism Studies

Dinner--6:45pm-7:45pm

Entertainment/Celebration--8:00pm
JUCA: Judith Casselberry, Lovejoy & Debra Kenya McGee