Women's Studies at SCSU















  


Past Conference Schedule:

2002:
Ecofeminist Ethics & Activism: Re-Envisioning the Future
The 12th Annual Women's Studies Conference
Friday, October 4 - Saturday, October 5, 2002


Friday, October 4

Welcome & Featured Speaker--3:00pm-4:15pm
Wendy Gordon Rockefeller

Concurrent Sessions A--4:45pm-6:15pm
A1 Gyn-Ecologies
A2 Ecofeminist Literary Explorations
A3 Potential Role of Visual Arts: Participation in Enhancing Awareness of Global Bio-Energy Research
A4 Activism in the Academy: Building Campus Coalitions Around Women and Science at the University of Rhode Island
A5 Political Ecofeminisms
A6 Grandmothers' Circle
A7 Resisting the Symbolic Order: An Ecofeminist Look at Patriarchal Imagery

Dinner--6:15pm-7:30pm

Featured Panel--7:30pm-8:30pm
Julie Belaga, Sandy Breslin, Karen Burnaska

Reception & Entertainment--8:30pm-9:30pm
Margot Dilmaghani


Saturday, October 5

Welcome--10:00am

Featured Speaker--10:00am-11:00am
Carol J. Adams

Beverage Break--11:00am-11:30am

Concurrent Sessions B--11:30am-1:00pm
B1 Global Ecofeminism
B2 British Literary Ecofeminism
B3 Ecofeminist Art & Performance
B4 Earthsong
B5 Resistance, Reproduction & the Ecology of Health
B6 Earth Wisdom
B7 Composting as Spiritual Practice & Social Praxis

Luncheon----1:00pm-2:30pm

Concurrent Sessions C----2:30pm-4:00pm
C1 We Heal Ourselves: We Are One With the Earth
C2 Reading Ecofeminist Texts
C3 Politics of Weaving
C4 Ecofeminism, Sexism and Housework
C5 Ecofeminism, Marxism & Capitalism
C6 Female Archetypes: Circles, Symbols & Lakota Spirituality
C7 Nature As Healer

Beverage Break----4:00pm-4:30pm

Featured Speaker--4:30pm-5:30pm
Helen Caldicott