The Sixteenth Annual Women's Studies Conference
"Women's Health: Colonized, Resisted, Reclaimed"
To be held on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University Friday and Saturday, October 27 and 28, 2006
To learn about the following speakers click on their names:
- Cherrie Moraga - Nabila El-Bassel - Katsi Cook - Carolyn Mazure
The 16th Annual Women's Studies Program Conference: "Women's Health: Colonized, Resisted, Reclaimed"
The 16th Annual Women's Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State University explores various dimensions of women's health: physical, emotional, cultural, psychological, political, spiritual, socio-economical, and more. Examinations of the representations of women's health across different regions on the globe will be a primary focus. How is women's health defined and by whom? How are disease, medicine, and healing defined differently for women? In our sixteenth annual conference, we hope to explore the full complexity of women's health in the age of globalization.
A Tentative Schedule:
Friday, October 27, 2006
1:00 p.m. Registration opens, Women's Fair opens
2:00-3:30 p.m. Welcome and Plenary session
Women of Color, Health, and Decolonization
3:30-4:00 p.m. Beverage Break at the Women's Fair
4:00-7:00 p.m. Film Screenings
4:00-5:15 p.m. Concurrent Session A
• A1 Personal Medical Narratives
• A2 Giving Voice to the Silent Symptoms of Intimate Partner Violence
• A3 Microbicides
• A4 The Midwife and the Surgeon
• A5 Cross-Cultural Analyses of Women's Health: Indigenous Encounters
5:15-5:45 Beverage Break at the Women's Fair
5:45-7:00 p.m. Concurrent Session B
• B1 Maternal and Child Health in the International Context
• B2 Implications of Abuse on Women's Health
• B3 Female Sexuality in a Post-Roe World
• B4 Policy and Politics on Women's Health: Local and Global (I)
• B5 South African Mother-Daughter Narrative
7:00-9:00 p.m. Dinner
Indigenous Eco-feminist Performance Keynote by Carolyn Mazure
Saturday, October 28, 2006
9:00 a.m. Registration opens, Women's Fair opens, Continental Breakfast
9:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Film Screenings
9:45-11:00 a.m. Concurrent Session C
• C1 Yoga Workshop or Physical Therapy Workshop
• C2 Poetry Workshop
• C3 Cross-Cultural Analyses of Women's Health: International Perspectives
• C4 Issues in Mental Health Nursing
• C5 Resistance to the Medical Construction of Women's Health
• C6 Native American Talking Circle
11:00 -11:30 a.m. Beverage Break at the Women's Fair
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Concurrent Session D
• D1 Immigration and Women's Health
• D2 National Healthcare for Women?
• D3 Cultural Representations and Women's Health
• D4 Healing Through Theater and Spoken Word
• D5 Policy and Politics on Women's Health: Local and Global (II)
12:45-2:15 p.m. Lunch Poetry/literature reading
2:15-3:30 p.m. Plenary session Globalization and Women's Health
3:30-5:30 p.m. Film Screenings
3:30-3:45 p.m. Beverage Break at the Women's Fair
3:45-5:00 p.m. Concurrent Session E
• E1 Questioning Reproductive Technologies
• E2 Women's Health Through the Lens of Art and Healing
• E3 Comparative Historical Approaches to Women's Health
• E4 Feminist Interventions and Women's Health
• E5 Recovery of Women's Health in the Prison Industry Complex: WORTH
5:00-5:30 p.m. Beverage Break at the Women's Fair
5:30-6:45 p.m. Plenary Session Taiwanese Plenary
7:00-8:15 p.m. Keynote Session Cherrie Moraga
8:15-9:15 p.m. Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa Award Ceremony and Reception
For more information, please contact the Women's Studies Office:
Women's Studies Office
Women's Studies Program, EN B229
501 Crescent Street
New Haven CT 06515
(203) 392-6133
Womenstudies@southernct.edu: Attention Conference Committee
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