Women's Studies at SCSU

Past Conference Schedule:

2001:
All Women of Red Nations: Weaving Connections
The 11th Annual Women's Studies Conference
Friday, October 12 - Saturday, October 13, 2001

Friday, October 12

Welcome & Featured Speaker-- Melissa Fawcett, 1:00pm-2:00pm

Concurrent Sessions A----2:00pm-3:30pm> A1 Empowerment Through the Literary Self
A2 Cultural Appropriation & Resistance
A3 Writing Our Wor(l)ds: Native American Women in Academe
A4 Women's Voices: Telling Our Story
A5 Reclaiming Our Relations: Indigenous Women Leaders of the Northeast

Hors D'Oeuvres--3:30pm-4:00pm

Featured Speaker: Paula Gunn Allen, 4:00pm-5:00pm

Beverage Break--5:00pm-5:15pm

Featured Panel:5:15pm-6:15pm
Squaw: Algonkian Linguistics and Colonial Politics
Trudie Lamb Richmond, Jessie Little Doe Fermino, Marge Bruchac

Dinner--6:15pm-8:00pm

Featured Speaker: Anne Waters, 8:00pm-9:00pm

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

Saturday, October 13

Welcome--9:00am-9:15am

Beverage Break--9:00am-6:00pm

Featured Speaker: Ines Talamantez, 9:15pm-10:15pm

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

Concurrent Sessions B--10:30am-12:00am B1 Reciprocity, Balance & Wholeness: Native American Worldview & the Women's Traditions
B2 Privilege, Politics & Identity in Education
B3 Remembrance & the Spirit of Survival
B4 History of Resistance
B5 The Poetics of Weaving

Luncheon--12:00pm-1:30pm

Featured Speaker: Mariana Jaimes-Guerro, 1:30pm-2:30pm

Concurrent Sessions C--2:30pm-4:00pm C1 Literature, Testimony & Earth Consciousness
C2 Spirituality & Healing
C3 Women of the Pacific Rim
C4 Contesting Colonized Identity
C5 When Red is Black: The Art of African-Native American Women
C6 Telling Tales: Searching for the Truth

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

Featured Speaker: Lori Arviso Alvord, 4:30pm-5:30pm

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

Featured Panel: Heather Kendall-Miller, Maria Barrera, 5:45pm-6:45pm

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

Entertainment/Celebration--8:00pm
ULALI: Pura Fe, Soni Moreno & Jennifer Elizabeth Kreisberg