Southern Connecticut State University

Women’s Studies Program

Presents

The Fourteenth Annual Women’s Studies Conference

on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University

OCTOBER 22 AND 23, 2004

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SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS

FRIDAY OCT. 22

1:00                       Registration Opens
                              Women’s Fair Opens

2:00                      

Welcome and Featured Panel

                                      “Women, Power and Politics in the 21^st Century”

·      Vanessa Burns, Director, Connecticut African American Affairs Commission

·      Susan Bysiewicz, Secretary of the State, Connecticut

·      Toni Harp, Connecticut State Senator, 10^th District

·      Adrienne Houel, Executive Director, East End Partnership Fairfield County

·      Susan Voigt, Democratic Party Connecticut

·      Invited Remarks: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro

Moderated by Sheila Bell, Director of Community Services, City of New Haven

3:30 – 4:00             Reception
                              Women's Fair

4:00 – 5:15             CONCURRENT SESSIONS A

A1      Apocryphal, Canonical, Institutional: Christianity and Women’s Power

·      Women’s Power in the Church as seen through the Androgynous Jesus

·      She Said Yes:  A Working Attempt at Feminist Interpretation of Mary’s Reality

·      Woman of Authority in 17^th Century France: Marie de Maupeou Fouquet

A2      Taking Control: Women’s Health and Body Ownership

·      A Study of Women’s Roles in the Health Care System in a Rural Senegalese Village

·      Do Ancient Norms Defy Modern Values?

                              A3      Power at the Intersections: Poster Sessions

A4      The Politics of Creation and Collaboration:

Empowering Women through the Creation of a Women’s Center

5:15 – 5:45             Beverage Break
                              Women's Fair

5:45 – 7:00             CONCURRENT SESSIONS B

                               B1      Politicizing the Body Feminist

·      Sibilla Aleramo’s Una Donna: Transforming from Object to Subject in Early 20^th Century Italy

·      Good Wife and Wise Mother: A Case Study of a Japanese Feminist’s Opposition to the Pill

B2      Women, Power and Politics: Artists Respond...

          Gallery Reception and Art Talk

B3      Women Dancing for Peace: Sacred Dance as a Catalyst for Personal Empowerment, Spiritual Growth, and Social Change

7:00 – 8:00             Dinner               

8:00 – 9:00             Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Kathryn Kish Sklar, Professor
                              of History, Binghamton University

Distinguished Professor of History Dr. Katherine Sklar is well-known for her research examining women social reformers in the Progressive Era; her 1995 book, Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work, received international critical acclaim as well as the prestigious annual book prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Dr. Sklar's website, “Women and Social Movements in the United States,” is one of the premier website in U.S. women’s history, and faculty and students at more than a dozen universities across the country are active collaborators.

SATURDAY OCT. 23

 9:00                       Registration Opens

                              Continental Breakfast

                              Women’s Fair Opens

9:45 – 11:00           CONCURRENT SESSION C 

C1      Mis/Representations of Women

·      Sexual Politics in the Entertainment Industry: the Case of

          The Missing Mature Actress

·      Representations of Vietnamese Women During War in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam and Oliver Stone’s Heaven and Earth
         

C2      Women in “Man’s” World – Business and Technology

·      Discovering Lillie Langtry: Aestheticism and the Development of a TransAtlantic Market in Beauty, 1880 -1927

·      First World is Not for Women: the Case of Martha Stewart

·      Women, ICT and the Future

C3      Speaking Truth to Power

·      “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enough” – staged reading

·      Speaking Their Stories
 

C4       Human Rights Challenges for Women

·      Gender, the Politics of Mass Hate, and Human Rights Challenges

·      CEDAW: The Women’s Human Rights Treaty

·      Shaping the Same-Sex Marriage Debate: The Religious Right and the Social Construction of Homosexuality

C5       The First Woman President and the Electable Woman Candidate 

                              C6       FILM: The Kidnapping of Ingrid Bentancourt

11:00 – 11:30          
                              Beverage Break
                              Women’s Fair

11:30 – 12:45                   CONCURRENT SESSION D

D1      Quotas and Numbers: Equality under Construction?

·      The Road to Equal Political Representation: The Parity Law in France

·      Where are the Women?  On the 30^th Anniversary of Title IX, Women Coaches Still on the Sidelines

D2      Social/Political Inter/Textualities

·      Women, Literature, and the Politics of Housing

·      The Political Expression of the Traumatic-Gendered Discourse in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Todesarten and Theodor Adorno’s The Authoritarian Personality and The Dialectic of Englightenment

D3       Re/Empowering Women in Violent Relationships

·      Researching the Margaret Garner (“Beloved”) Story: Discovering Women’s Motivations for Self-Liberation

·      Victimized and Blamed for What They Endure:      Vulnerable Women and Domestic Violence – Making it Stop!

D4       Patriarchy and Transgendered Liberation

12:45 – 2:15           Luncheon Hafla

                                        featuring performances by:   Denise Letendre 
                                                                                     Venus Rising

                              Women’s Fair

2:15 – 3:15             Keynote: Cheri Honkala, Executive Director of the Kensington Welfare Reform Union

Executive Director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, Ms. Honkala has played a leading role in the Economic Human Rights Campaign, the March of the Americas, housing takeovers, and the first-ever summit of 100 anti-poverty organizations, as well as many international events to end global poverty.  She has served on the boards of many national organizations including the Urban-Rural Mission, the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, and the Alliance of Native Americans; Ms. Honkala, a formerly  homeless single mother, is also the playwright of "Taking it Back," a one-person play about her life pregnant and homeless.

3:15 – 3:45             Reception

3:45 – 5:00             CONCURRENT SESSION E

·      Lt. Col. Florence K. Murray: a Study of Women’s Leadership During World War II

·      The Populist March of Annie Diggs – Performance and Commentary

·      Dollie Madison Was No Cupcake: the Political Power of the First Lady

E2      Gendered/Institutionalized Power  

·      Feminist Negotiations: Contesting Narratives of the Anti-Acid Violence Campaign in Bangladesh

·      The Woman’s Movement in Japan: Cultural and Institutional Obstacles to Social Change

·      Islamic Women -- Power through Sexual Chaos

E3      Venus Rising: Middle Eastern Dance Workshop

E4      Gender and Post-Colonial Resistance

·      Political Impurity in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power

·      The New Barbarians: The Transformative Power of Migrant Women

E5      Clinical and Spiritual Interventions with Women Living
          in Violent Relationships

E6        FILM: Standing On My Sisters’ Shoulders 

5:00 – 5:30             Beverage Break
                              Women's Fair Closes

5:30 – 6:45             Keynote:  Wilma Mankiller, former Principal Chief of the
                              Cherokee Nation

Formally elected Principal Chief by the Cherokee People in 1987, Ms. Mankiller has spent literally decades working for the rights of Native Americans on local, tribal, and national levels.  Ms. Mankiller has been recognized and honored by various organizations for her distinguisheinsertingent of people at the local level. Through her commitment to service organizations, as well as her work and dedication to the improvement of the Cherokee people, Ms. Mankiller embodies in many ways the engagement of Power and Politics by women.

6:45 – 8:00             Closing Reception

SCSU’s Annual Women’s Studies Conference is self-supporting; it is understood that all presenters will also pre-register at the discounted Presenter fee not to exceed $90.00 for both days, $70.00 for one day.  This fee includes all supporting materials, entrance to keynote events, and all meals and beverage breaks.  Please contact us at the above email address if you have any questions. 

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