FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- ---- From: UK Women's Studies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Program Draft -- 3RD ANNUAL WOMEN'S STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY GENDERED VIOLENCE: EPISTEMOLOGIES AND PRACTICES MARCH 30-31, 2001 For Information: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/WomenStudies/GradStudentConf3.html Sponsors-- UK: Sociology Psychology Anthropology Classics Geography Student Government Association Women's Studies Feminist Alliance Conference Organizers: Kristi Branham Leslie Butler Melissa Cunningham Mary E. Curran Michelle Del Toro Tonya Griffith Joy Hayes Jenny Hoobler Jeorg Ellen Hornsby Kasi Jackson JoBeth Jordan Sara Sahni Seetha Veeraghanta FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2001 9:30-11:00 a.m. Registration and Reception, Commonwealth House at Gaines Center OPENING SESSION AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS 12:00-2:00 p.m., 230 New Student Center WELCOME: Joan Callahan, Director, Women's Studies and Professor of Philosophy Howard Grotch, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Introduction: Paola Bacchetta, Department of Geography and Women's Studies Program Dr. Geeta Patel, Women's Studies, Wellesley College Marking "The Quilt": Veil, Harem/Home, and Sexual Subversion Within Them RECEPTION: 2:00-2:45 (location TBA) SESSION 2: 2:45-4:15 P.M. Session 2A. Dangerous Women: Witches, Masochists, and Lesbian "Killer Males" 230 New Student Center M. Michael Schiff, Social and Political Thought, York University "Smooth Impenetrables: Inscriptions of Violence and Horror on Gendered Bodies of Knowledge" Jessica Venning-Datema, Comparative Literature, Binghamton University "Sadomasochistic Fantasies, Submerging Subjectivities, and Wanda von Sacher-Masoch's 'Supplemental' Writing" Erin Abner, English, University of Kentucky "LaFonda Fay Foster: The Death Penalty and Fear of the Un-Feminine" Session 2B. Problematizing Praxis: Contextualizing Gender, Ethnicity, Race, and Sexuality Bingham Davis House at Gaines Center Oliver Leaman, Philosophy, University of Kentucky "Violent Death as a Spur to Sophistication in Talking About Death: Some Anglo-American Comparisons" Phillis H. Ramsby, Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center/African-American Student Affairs, University of Kentucky "Bag Lady(s) Packing Light: Hermeneutics and Healing" Tara O'Dowd, Economics, Michigan State University "Confession, Resistance, and Domination: The Complexities of Discourses on Female Genital Mutilation, 1975-1985" DINNER BREAK SESSION 3 7:00-9:00 p.m. Center Theater, Old Student Center Showing of the film "Earth," followed by a Roundtable Discussion University of Kentucky Feminist Alliance SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2001 7:45-8:30 Continental Breakfast, 211 New Student Center SESSION 4: 8:30-10 A.M. Session 4A. Normalizing Practices: Symbolism, Schoolboys, and Jokes 228 New Student Center Kimberly Star, Sociology, Western Michigan University "Uncovering Violence Against Women: Problematizing the 'Doxa'" Marcus Hightower, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Symbolic Violence: The School vs. Boys" Joann Toth and Michelle Bemiller, Sociology, The University of Akron "'What do you do if your dishwasher breaks down? Slap her': The Perpetuation of Gendered Violence Through Sexist Jokes" Session 4B. Facilitating Rape: Rock and Roll, Silence, and the State 206 New Student Center Erin Kenny, Anthropology, University of Kentucky "Woodstock's Stock: Big Business, the Outdoor Music Festival, and Sexual Assault" Robin Barrow, English, University of Iowa "The 'draught and glow' of Sexual Violence in Jane Eyre" Tara Hefferan, Anthropology, Michigan State University "Politics of Terror: State-Sponsored Rape in Haiti, 1991-1994" SESSION 5: 10:15-11:45 A.M. Session 5A. Consumption: Tobacco and Food 228 New Student Center Shireen Lalla, Women's Studies, Florida Atlantic University "Rebellion or Oppression: The Targeting of Women by the Tobacco Industry" Margaret Marquis, English, University of Kentucky "'When de Notion Strikes Me': Body image, Food, and Desire in 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'" Session 5B. Poverty and Patriarchy Across the Globe: Azerbaijan, the U.S., and India 230 New Student Center Ruziya Ramazanova, Women's Rights Defense Organization, Azerbaijan "Poverty as Gendered Violence" Garen Murray, Interdisciplinary Studies and Ethics, Graduate Theological Union/University of California, Berkeley "Disciplining the Welfare Mother: Public Assistance as Violence Against Women" Dr. Ratna K. Bandila, Centre for Women's Studies, Andhra University "Poverty as Gendered Violence" LUNCH BREAK SESSION 6: 1-2:30 P.M. Session 6A. Workshop: Creating a Coordinated Campus-Community Response to Men's Violence, 230 New Student Center Rus Ervin Funk, Founder, Men for Gender Justice "Social Work, National Catholic School of Social Service " Session 6B. Colonial Violence: Tribal erasures and homosocial utopias 206 New Student Center Seetha Veeraghanta, Sociology, University of Kentucky "Silenced Voices: Reclaiming the Histories of Adivasi Women" Rebecca Weaver, English, University of Kentucky "Colonial Island Narratives and the Masculine Violence Of/Towards Men" Session 6C. Representing Violence: Lynching and Gothic Splits, 211 New Student Center Chad Barbour, English, University of Kentucky "Gothic Violence: Gender and Whiteness in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig" David Magill, English, University of Kentucky "The Politics of Lynching: Walter White, Ernest Hemingway, and 1920s Racial Violence" SESSION 7: 2:45-4:15 P.M. Session 7A. Embodied Perversions: Actual, Imagined, and Sadomasochistic, 228 New Student Center Dr. Ann Dowd, English "SoulSearch: Incest, Memory, and the Power of the Maternal Voice" Ann M. Ciasullo, English, University of Kentucky "Deviance and Desire: The Lesbian in/and the Women's Prison in Popular Culture" Gioia Marie Kerlin, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder "Pleasure-Bound: Structures of Sadomasochistic Power Exchange Between Ana Ozores and Ferm�n de Pas in Clar�n's La regenta" Session 7B. Violent States: Rwanda, the U.S., and Indonesia, 230 New Student Center Victoria Thur, History, Florida Atlantic University "Killer Women: The Active Participation of Women in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide" Christine Metzo, Philosophy and Geography, University of Kentucky "Masculinity, Violence, and the Rallying of a Democratic National Identity" Sari Faizah, Women's Studies, University of Alabama "Rape of the Nation: An analysis of Gender, Race and Class in the Case Study of Chinese-Indonesian Women" PLENARY SESSION 8: 5:00-7:00 p.m. Phillis Wheatley Center, 647 Chestnut Street (Shuttle vans will be available to transport participants to and from the Center.) "Voices of Protest, Voices for Change; Transforming the Discourse on African-American Youth Violence" Rosalind Harris, Rural Sociology, University of Kentucky Aminata Baruti, Community Advocate, East End Empowerment Project George Moorman, Director, East End Empowerment Project Denise Brown, Poet and Community Activist Hendrick Floyd, Poet and Scholar Activist ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
