03/14 - Time: 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Symposium: Women of Color Scholarship and Activism

Please join us for a provocative panel discussion, a graduate student panel, and a reading with professors Layli Phillips (Georgia State University), Mel Lewis (University of Maryland), and Annette Madlock (SCSU). Breakfast and light lunch served.

Layli Phillips is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Georgia State University, where she teaches courses in Black feminism and womanism, the African American lesbian and gay experience, the psychology of women, and feminist methodology. Her research interests include womanist/ feminist-of-color theory, the development of identities (racial/ethnic, biracial/biethnic, lesbian/gay/bisexual, spiritual/religious, and feminist), and liberation psychology.  Editor of A Womanist Reader (2006), she is currently finishing a book on womanism.

Mel Lewis, a PhD candidate in Women's Studies at University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches courses on gender, art, and culture and holds an assistantship position in the LGBT Studies Program. She is also an adjunct professor in the Gender and Women?s Studies program at UMD, Baltimore County . Mel is a Member of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) and was a co-coordinator for NWSA's Women of Color Leadership Project (2005-2007). Currently, her research focuses on pedagogical practice/praxis at the intersections of Black Queer Theory and Black Feminist Thought.

Annette Madlock is Assistant Professor of  Communication at  Southern Connecticut State University, where she specializes in Intercultural Communication and Rhetoric. Before teaching at the college level and coming to Southern, Annette spent 20 years working in the corporate sector.  She is Director of  all the university required courses in public speaking and professional presentations . Her focus will be on women?s role in the  social justice movement.

 

 

For further information, please contact Women's Studies Program (203-392-6133).  This event is made possible with a Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee Grant.

Location: Engleman A 120

Contact Information: Women's Studies, (203) 392-6133