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Table of Contents
Welcome
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Directors Welcome
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About the Women’s Studies program
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About the Conference
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General Information
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Acknowledgements & Committees
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Student Union Building Map
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Program at a Glance
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Pre-Conference Event
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Guest Speakers /Special Events
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Conference Chronological Program Description
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FAQ’s
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April 2, 2014
Dear Conference Attendees,
On behalf of Texas Tech University’s Gender Equity Council, I am delighted to welcome you to the
Women’s Studies Program’s 30th Annual Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education.
The Women’s Studies Annual Conference at TTU has a history of vibrant, groundbreaking keynote speakers
and presentations. The ensuing discussions offer conference attendees incisive and challenging questions to
engage with long after the conference ends.
Building on the stimulating conferences of the past, this year’s conference promises to further dialogue on
pressing issues Women’s Studies programs face in the academy. The conference theme, “Women’s Studies on
the Edge,” firmly situates the terms of the discussion, inviting serious dialogue about current conditions and
pointing to future possibilities. The conference keynote, esteemed scholar, Dr. Guy-Shafthell, will offer
thought-provoking remarks, underscoring and disrupting parameters and boundaries of the issues. Indeed, the
entire conference, including all the invited conference speakers and panelists, promises to deliver potent
debates. Moreover, the structure of the conference, including the pre-conference documentary, the art
performance, and the Saturday feedback roundtable lunch offers innovative ways for attendees to engage with
the issues. The feedback roundtable is an especially important medium in which to more deeply consider
ideas from the conference and to work towards putting the ideas into action.
I, along with several other Gender Equity Council members, will be attending the conference and we would
be happy to meet you and discuss gender equity issues at Texas Tech University.
Enjoy the conference!
All best wishes,
Elizabeth A. Sharp
Elizabeth Sharp, PhD
Chair, Gender Equity Council
Associate Professor, Human Development & Family Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Women’s Studies
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Directors Welcome
Dear Conference Guests,
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the All University Conference on the
Advancement of Women, which was held for the first time in 1984. First begun as a
small in-house conference it is now a conference that attracts participants from
TTU as well as universities and colleges in the region and the nation, with
nationally and internationally known keynote speakers such as Gloria Steinem,
Yanar Mohammed, Paula Gunn Allen, and Winona LaDuke.
In celebration of those 30 years we have created the theme of Women’s Studies on the Edge, in which
we hope to encourage debate and reflection on the future of Women’s Studies. We have a strong and
diverse group of speakers this year, all of whom will provide unique perspectives on the study of women
and gender. The conference will be opened with a talk from Robin Milstead, a Women’s Studies
alumnus who is the Managing Director of Accounting and Financial Services for Wayne Russell Search
Consultants based in Houston Texas. Among other things, she will certainly dispel the myth that there is
nothing you can do with a minor in women’s studies. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall,
the founder of Women’s Studies program at Spelman College, and a founding mother of women’s
studies in the U.S. Finally, we will have a panel of women’s studies directors from the region that will
speak about the challenges of directing women’s studies programs in red states.
We are also pleased to announce the introduction of new prizes that will be awarded at the conference
this April. Thanks to the generous donation of one of our supporters, we will be giving $100 prizes to
the best undergraduate and graduate paper presented at the conference. For the first time we will also be
giving a feminist activist award for the student who has shown leadership on behalf of women and
gender issues. We will also award three scholarships, so be sure and check the web site for further
information on how to nominate someone for or encourage them to apply for these awards.
Since this is a landmark year in which we are reflecting on the progress and future of the program, I want
to take some time to thank some of our own founding mothers whose direction and support have
sustained this program over the past 30 years. This includes former directors who got the program
established and kept it going for the past three decades, oftentimes with few resources. Without the dayto-day leadership and nurturing of our students provided by our coordinators, the program would not be
what it is today. It is important to recognize the faculty who, often without compensation or credit, has
given their counsel and time to make sure that this is a program of which we can be proud. And last but
not least I want to thank the many donors who have provided money toward endowing scholarships that
have supported our students and served as a vote of confidence to young promising scholars in our field.
As the saying goes, we stand on the shoulders of giants, which is certainly true of us. Wishing you peace
and equality,
Charlotte Dunham, PhD
Director, Women’s Studies
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About the Women’s Studies Program
Since 1981, the Women's Studies Program is an
interdisciplinary academic program that examines the
cultural and social construction of gender, explores the
history, experiences and contributions of women to
society, and studies the influences of gender on the lives
of women and men. The program emphasizes critical
thinking across disciplines vital to success during and
following formal education.
The University offers a minor in Women's Studies. Goals
of the minor include helping student's interpret concepts of gender and gendered identities in different
social, cultural and political contexts. We also participate in the Graduate Certificate Program. Graduate
certificates are intended to meet the supplemental post-baccalaureate education needs of professionals. A
graduate certificate program is a set of courses that provides in-depth knowledge in a subject matter. The
set of courses provides a coherent knowledge base. Contact the Women's Studies Coordinator to make an
appointment to be advised.
Women's Studies is also home to The Edna Maynard Gott Memorial Library founded in 1995 honoring
Dr. Edna Gott, first woman awarded tenure in the Department of Economics. Materials provided by the
College of Human Science and Preston F. Gott (1919-2002), Professor Emeritus of Physics.
Mission Statement
The Mission of the Women's Studies Program is to provide feminist-centered as well as gender- and
identity-aware education, to support and expand research in Women's Studies and related fields of
scholarship, to promote networking, advocacy, and support for women faculty, staff, and students and all
interested members of the University and surrounding communities, and to serve as a source of
information on and support for women's and gender-related scholarship, activities, and issues.
Vision Statement
The Program's vision is to ensure that the expansion of gender-aware educational opportunities and the
active support of feminist and related fields of research are essential parts of the Texas Tech University
academic agenda, and to promote all forms of gender equity in ways that reflect the needs and aspirations
of women's and minority communities at Texas Tech University and beyond.
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About the Conference
In 1984, The First All-University Conference on the Advancement of
Women in Academia was held on the campus of Texas Tech University.
This conference occurs each spring with a local, state and national call for
papers to help promote academic research. Over the year's the theme of the
conference has merged with present day discourse of examining the
cultural and social construction of gender, exploring the history,
experiences and contributions of women to society, and studying the
influences of gender on the lives of women and men.
Since 1984, when the First All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Academia was
held, over 40 guest scholars and activist have spoken on this campus as keynote speakers. Guest scholars
have included a Chief Nurse and Colonel in the US Army Reserves, Dr. Margarethe Cammermeyer, a
former Vice-Presidential candidate and an inductee to the National Women’s Hall of Fame, member
Winona LaDuke, as well as one of the founding members of the second wave of the women’s
movement and current recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award, Gloria Steinem.
2014 marks the 30th Anniversary that the Women's Studies Program at Texas Tech University has
hosted a conference on the advancement of women in higher education. The special theme this year is
Women’s Studies on the Edge, in which we will explore the present and future of women’s studies
programs, especially the challenges faced in red states.
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"The edge is defined as a place of indeterminacy, at once exciting and precarious. Exciting
because to be on this edge is to be on the verge of discovering new possibilities for a field that
may only seem to be exhausted and new ways to disrupt prevailing arrangements and
relationships of power. Precarious because in the quest for an as-yet-unimagined future, there are
never any guarantees." - Joan Wallace Scott, Editor, Women's Studies on the Edge, Duke Press,
2008
This year’s conference is sure to inspire, educate, and transform how global movements are local
movements.
As we celebrate our 33 years, as an academic program, we are proud to host 48 research presentations by
80 presenters from our nationwide call for proposals. Presenters come from members of Texas Tech
University and across Texas, with additional presenters from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, New
Mexico, and Georgia.
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General Information
• Registration & Check-In Hours
Thursday, April 17
Pre-Conference
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Friday, April 18
Saturday, April 19
Conference
Conference
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Student Union, Mesa Room,
Upper Level
Student Union, All Purpose Room
Student Union, All Purpose Room
• Social Media
#TTUWSC14 is ready for your tweets and Facebook posts
Twitter Account | @TTUWSP [Hashtag for the Event: #TTUWSC14]
Facebook Name | Texas Tech University Women’s Studies Program [Join the Group]
• Breakfast and Refreshments
Hot and cold beverages and snacks will be available during breaks in the Matador Room at the Student
Union Building. See Program for break times.
• Lunch(s)
On Day 2 and 3 of the conference lunch will be available in the Matador Room in the Student Union
Building in order to provide participants the opportunity for informal networking. April 18, Day 2 of the
conference, the luncheon will feature welcome remarks and an awards ceremony for the best paper prize,
feminist activist prize and scholarship awards. April 19, Day 3 of the conference, will be a working lunch
will all special guest speakers and participants for the closing plenary “The Future of Women’s Studies”.
• Disability Access
The Texas Tech Student Union Building is fully wheelchair accessible. If accommodations are needed,
visit the #TTUWSC14 Registration Desk, Student Union Information Desk or ask a conference
attendant.
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Parking
For visitors without a TTU parking sticker on their vehicle, enter off of University and Broadway for
directions from the traffic kiosk to this area. Visitors unable to find parking in this area will be directed
to the closest available parking upon inquiry at the traffic kiosk,
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Acknowledgements & Committees
Thank you for your generous support
Conference Committee Members
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Tricia Earl, MFA, Unit Coordinator, Women’s Studies Program
Charlotte Dunham, Ph.D., Director, Women’s Studies Program
Mary Frances Agnello, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Education Curriculum Instruction
Karlos K. Hill, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
Toshia Humphries, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student, Women’s Studies Program
Women’s Studies Advisory Council Members 2013 - Present
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Mary Frances Agnello, Associate Professor, Education Curriculum Instruction
Allison Boye, Unit Coordinator, Teaching Learning & Professional Development
Donell Callendar, Associate Librarian, Library
Charlotte Dunham, Director, Women’s Studies Program
Tricia Earl, Coordinator, Women’s Studies Program
Lauren Gollahon, Associate Professor, Biology
Aretha Marbley, Professor, Educational Psychology
Luis Ramirez, Associate Professor, Sociology
Marjean Purinton, Professor and Associate Dean, Honors College
Elizabeth Sharp, Associate Professor, Human Development & Family Studies
Brian Steele, Associate Professor in Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Visual and
Performing Arts
Women’s Studies Staff
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Charlotte Dunham, Director
Tricia Earl, Unit Coordinator
Ebenezer Oke, Administrative Student Assistant
Volunteers
We would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance, without whom this
conference would not have been possible:
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Conference Volunteer Coordinator
Conference Volunteers (Session Monitors, Registration Monitors, Technical Monitors,
Greeters/Guides, and Ushers/Ticket Takers)
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Traditions
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Student Organization Cubicles
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Gathering Pavilion
Organization Resource Center
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Program At a Glance
Note: All events occur at the Student Union Building (SUB), Texas Tech University
Friday, April 18
Thursday, April 17
PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT
5:30 p.m. –
6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. –
8:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m. –
9:00 a.m.
Check In & Registration
INOCENTE (2012) Film Screening
2013 Oscar Winning Documentary Short Subject
Check In & Continental Breakfast
SUB, Upper Level
SUB, Mesa Room
SUB, Upper Level
MORNING SPEAKER
9:00 a.m. –
9:50 a.m.
+ "Driving Your Career from the Backseat: A Journey
from the Classroom to the Boardroom"
SUB, Matador Room
ROBIN MILSTEAD
Managing Director of Accounting and Financial Services
for Wayne Russell Search Consultants based in Houston
Texas.
CONCURRENT SESSION I
10:00 a.m. –
10:55 a.m.
Session I - 01
A. Mary Harvey: Composer, Royalist, and Cultural
Activist
B. Batons and Babies: A Qualitative
Phenomenological Study of Mothers Who Are
Band Directors
C. Gilman’s Rhetoric and the “Mommy Wars”
SUB, Brazos Room
Session I - 02
SUB, Canyon Room
Amazons Among Us: Exploring the Contributions of Women in the Fields of Global Feminism, Neurofemism, and Feminist Pop-­‐Culture Session I - 03
A. Accident of Birth: Teacher Identity Due to
SUB, Mesa Room
Gender Based Exclusion as Clergy
B. Multiple Assessment measures and Pre-service
Teachers’ Credentials
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11:00 a.m. –
11:55 a.m.
12:00 p.m. –
12:50 p.m.
1:00 p.m. 1:50 p.m.
2:00 p.m. 2:55 p.m.
Session I - 04
Political Change, Backlash, and Women’s Power in
Mewat Villages
Session I- 05
Evil Women and Mean Girls: Lizzie Borden, Elsa Koch,
the Wicked Witch of the West, and Beyond
CONCURRENT SESSION II
Session II - 06
A. Organized Resistance and Domestic Service:
Cultural and Political Constructions of Gender in
the Antebellum South
B. I Do Not Live in a Janitor’s Closet: Women in
Higher Education and Elderly Caregiver Identity
Session II - 07
Evolution of a Student Activist: From Classroom to
Community and Community to Classroom
Session II - 08
The Empty Basket That We Fill and Fill – 3 Poets on
Discovery, Wonder, & Poetry’s Sustaining Power
Session II - 09
Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance: Culturally Diverse
Women Unraveling and Connecting Feminist Movements
to the Manifold Embodiments of Indigenous Movements
and Dances
Session II - 10
A. Gender Inequalities in Information and
Communication Technologies Sector in Armenia
B. Perceptions of Social Inequity and Self-Efficacy
Among Ethiopian Women in Higher Education
LUNCH & AWARDS
Conference Luncheon & Awards Ceremony
Ticketed Event
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
SUB, Playa Room
SUB, Traditions
Room
SUB, Brazos Room
SUB, Canyon Room
SUB, Mesa Room
SUB, Playa Room
SUB, Traditions
Room
SUB, Matador Room
SUB, Matador Room
+ DR. BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL
Founding director of the Women’s Research and
Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of
Women’s Studies. She is also adjunct professor at Emory
University’s Institute for Women’s Studies where she
teaches graduate courses.
CONCURRENT SESSION III
Session III - 11
SUB, Brazos Room
A. Safe from Misogyny and Safe to be Fully Human:
Dimensions of Safety in Women’s Only Space
B. The Problematic Objectification of the Male
Gaze: A Critical Analysis of Wes Craven’s “The
Last House on the Left”
Session III - 12
SUB, Canyon Room
Organizing, Connecting and Supporting Moms at TTU
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3:00 p.m. 3:55 p.m.
Session III - 13
Gender, Power, and the Academy: Whassup Plato?
SUB, Mesa Room
Session III - 14
A. Queer Viewings: A Look at LGBTQ
Representation and Commodification
B. Expanding Theories of Sociotechnical Change by
Reconfiguring the User as the Maker of
Technology through User Agency, User-Authored
Technical Communication, and Interpretive
Communities: The Case of Lesbian Home
Inseminationand YouTube
Session III - 15
A. Feminism and Women’s Movement in China:
The Reflection of Women in My Family
B. Finding the Puritan Legacy in Contemporary
America
C. Raza Unida Party Chairwoman: Biography of
Maria Elena Martinez
CONCURRENT SESSION IV
Session IV - 16
A. It’s Flexible, Self-Directed and In-Demand,
Right? So Why Not Online Classes as a Part of
All Tech University Colleges’ Pool of Course
Offerings?
B. Perceptions on Online Learning: Voice from
Both Online Learners and Instructor
Session IV - 17
She Said, she said: Feminist, Egalitarian, and NonFeminist Perspectives on Women’s Self-Sexualization
Session IV - 19
A. Displacement in Gothic Literature by Women
Writers
B. Being “the Second Sex” in the Francoist Spain:
“An Engagement” by Carmen Laforet
C. Of Love, Women’s Education, and Virtue:
Lessons on Early Modern Views of Love from
Catherine des Roche’s “Dialogue Between Love,
Beauty and Physis”
Session IV - 20
A. Women’s Studies on the Edge: TTU Women
Under the Glass Ceiling
B. Disciplining Gender and Sexuality: The Use of
Offensive Terms as Regulating Mechanisms
C. Women in Museums: Past, Present, Future
SUB, Playa Room
SUB, Traditions
Room
SUB, Brazos Room
SUB, Canyon Room
SUB, Playa Room
SUB, Traditions
Room
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4:00 p.m. –
4:55 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
CONCURRENT SESSION V
Session V – 21
A. What do Golf Magazine Covers Tell Us About
Female Golfers?
B. Deceiving the Cultural Identity: Women’s
Images in Saudi Television Commercials
C. The Movie Portrayals of Mothers Raising
Children with Disabilities in the US and South
Korea
Session V - 22
Women Became Symbol of Protests in Turkey
Session V - 23
The Extension of the Vietnam War Legacy: Depicting
Vietnamese Bodies Through American Eyes
Session V - 24
A. The Influence of Researchers on Their Research:
A Feminist Reflection on How a Researcher
Affects her Research Concerning Queer Theory,
Transgender Theory, and Drag Culture in
Lubbock, Texas
B. Capes in the Closet: Perceptions of LGBT
Identities in North American and Japanese
Comics
C. State Demographics and Social Change
Session V – 25
Female Bodies, Transnational Feminism and Social
Change
DINNER - On Your Own
Multiple options are located down 19th street from the
campus going East and West, as well as, at Broadway
and University. For more details go to: Visit Lubbock
(http://www.visitlubbock.org/index.php)
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE
Performance / Art / Performance
+ Three Eleanors
Dr. Dorothy Chansky, Associate Professor, Theatre,
Texas Tech University
+ I Became an Image by Yasaman Moussavi, MFA
Candidate, Texas Tech University
+ De Cadence by Hannah Dean, MFA Candidate, Texas
Tech University
+ Slip of Memory by Leah Brown, BFA Candidate,
Texas Tech University
+ Declaration of Sentiments by Carol Flueckiger,
Associate Professor Art, Texas Tech University
SUB, Brazos Room
SUB, Canyon Room
SUB, Mesa Room
SUB, Playa Room
SUB, Traditions
Room
+19TH STREET
+BROADWAY
+UNIVERSITY
SUB, Matador Room
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8:30 a.m. –
9:00 a.m.
Saturday April 19
9:00 a.m. –
10:20 a.m.
SATRUDAY, APRIL 19
SUB, Upper Level
Check In & Continental Breakfast
Texas Tech University, Women's Studies Affiliated
Faculty Panel
SUB, Matador Room
Moderator: Mary Frances Agnello, Ph.D., Associate
Professor, Education Curriculum Instruction
Panelist:
+ Lahib Jaddo, MFA, Associate Professor,
Architecture
+ Jennifer Rojas-McWhinney, Doctoral Student,
Human Development & Family Studies
+ Aretha Marbley, PhD, Professor, Educational
Psychology
+ Collette Taylor, PhD, Assistant Professor,
Education
+ Sara Peso White, Doctoral Student, School of Art,
Women’s Studies Program
REGIONAL W&GS DIRECTORS PANEL
10:30 a.m. –
11:50 a.m.
+ Jill Irvine, PhD, Director of the Women's and Gender
Studies Program and the Center for Social Justice at the
University of Oklahoma.
+ Claire Sahlin, PhD, Department Chair and Professor
of Women's Studies, Texas Women's University.
+ Sandra Spencer, PhD, Program Director, University
of North Texas (UNT)
SUB, Matador Room
CLOSING PLENARY – FINAL WRAP UP
12:00 p.m. –
1:20 p.m.
+ The Future of Women's Studies
Roundtable Discussion with All Guest and Participants
SUB, Matador Room
Lunch Provided
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Pre-Conference Event
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Film Screening
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Student Union Bldg. | Mesa Room
Inocente (2012)
2013 Oscar Award Winner
Best Documentary Short Subject
Directed and Produced by Sean Fine and
Andrea Nix Fine
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In San Diego, a young teenage girl’s eyes stare into a compact mirror. She paints a dramatic black
swirl around her eye. She never knows what her day will bring, but she knows at least it will
always begin with paint.
INOCENTE is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age documentary about a young
artist’s fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings.
INOCENTE is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot
of the new face of homelessness in America, children. Neither sentimental nor sensational,
INOCENTE will immerse you in the very real, day-to-day existence of a young girl who is
battling a war that we rarely see. The challenges are staggering, but the hope in Inocente’s story
proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams do.
WINNER Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject
WINNER Best Documentary Short – San Antonio Film Festival
WINNER Special Jury Prize – Arizona International Film Festival
WINNER Spirit Award – Awareness Fest
WINNER UNICEF Special Award – EBS International Documentary Festival
WINNER Festival Award Winner – Heartland Film Festival
WINNER Short Film – Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival
WINNER Audience Award Best Documentary – Women + Film VOICES Festival
“Dreaming of a Life as Vivid as Her Art” – Robin Pogrebin, New York Times
“Insanely inspiring” – Kate Kennedy, Glamour
“The inspirational tale of a teenager whose father was deported for domestic abuse, and after moving
from one homeless shelter to the next, finds “revolution,” as she says, in color” - Eriq Gardner, The
Hollywood Reporter
“(Inocente) isn’t just a number – she’s a vibrant young artist who’s putting a face on the issues of
immigration and homelessness” – Sierra Tishgart, Teen Vogue
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Morning Speaker
Friday, April 18, 2014
9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. | Student Union Bldg. | Matador Room
"Driving Your Career from the Backseat: A Journey from the Classroom to the
Boardroom"
Morning Speaker | Robin Milstead
Managing Director of Accounting and Financial Services for Wayne Russell Search
Consultants based in Houston Texas. Robin is also the founder of
boardoombombshell.com, a site and community designed to increase the business
networks and careers of women internationally.
In 2001 Robin began college at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, PA. Within a year,
Robin transferred to Texas Tech and is a 2005 graduate with degree in English Literature and a minor in
Women’s Studies.
While at Tech, Robin was highly involved in student groups and national activist events. During her
tenure at Tech, Robin was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance,
Young Democrats, Producer of the Vagina Monologues, Take Back the Night coordinator, and a spirited
columnist for the Daily Toreador.
In her junior year at Tech, Robin was featured in GLAMOUR magazine for her work with sexual
education programs and testified in front of the state board of education. She was also awarded with an
activist award by NARAL Texas and in her senior year an activist award by the TTU Women’s Studies
Department.
Since graduation, Robin has been proudly building her career in corporate America. Based in Houston,
Texas, Robin has acted as a business advisor to CFO’s, CEO’s and heads of Human Resource
departments on attracting, retaining, and growing top talent to increase revenue within their companies.
Her projects have taken her on international business assignments and she is renowned in the field of
Accounting, Finance and Tax executive search.
While business is her focus, at 23 Robin was the youngest board member elected to the League of Women
Voters in Texas. She has also been featured in Houston magazines and highlighted in her industry news
wires as a voice of expertise to her clients on human capital and diversity issues. Robin continues to stay
active in her community and nationally to inspire and collaborate with other top women leaders in
business.
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Keynote Speaker
Friday, April 18, 2014
1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. | Student Union Bldg. | Matador Room
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Founding Director of the Women’s Research and Resource
Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s
Studies at Spelman College
Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., is the
founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and
the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman
College. She is also adjunct professor at Emory University’s Institute
for Women’s Studies where she teaches graduate courses.
At the age of 16, she entered Spelman College where she majored in English and minored in secondary
education. After graduation with honors, she attended Wellesley College for a fifth year of study in
English. In 1968, she entered Atlanta University to pursue a master’s degree in English; her thesis was
titled, “Faulkner’s Treatment of Women in His Major Novels.” A year later she began her first teaching
job in the department of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Ala. In 1971, she returned
to her alma mater Spelman College and joined the English department.
She has published a number of texts within African-American and women’s studies, which have been
noted as seminal works by other scholars, including the first anthology on Black women’s literature,
Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1980), which she co-edited
with Roseanne P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith; her dissertation, Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward
Black Women, 1880-1920 (Carlson, 1991); Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist
Thought (New Press, 1995); and an anthology she co-edited with Rudolph Byrd titled Traps: African
American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana University Press, 2001).
Her most recent publication is a book coauthored with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, "Gender Talk: The
Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities" (Random House, 2003). In 1983, she
became founding co-editor of Sage: A Scholarly Journal of Black Women that was devoted exclusively
to the experiences of women of African descent.
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Performance / Art / Performance
Friday, April 18, 2014
7:00 p.m. | Student Union Bldg. | Matador Room
Special Presentation
Performance / Art / Performance
Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production
Devised as an integration of art and performance, the play was co-written by Dr. Dorothy Chansky and
Karen Wurl in collaboration with visual artist Carol Flueckiger. Dr. Chansky also directs.
Dr. Chansky conceived of the initial project as a way to investigate celebrity. Her questions — who gets
to have celebrity, and how does it circulate — are brought forth as she spotlights three iconic women
who shared the same first name: Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor of Aquitaine and actress Eleonora Duse.
Along with the historic Eleanors, the piece also includes fictional fans, students and employees who
“swirl around the heroines, offering responses that range from rapture to resentment.” Chansky asks,
“How is it that Eleonora Duse — one of the most famous actresses of her day and the first woman to
grace the cover of Time magazine — is now nearly forgotten, while Eleanor of Aquitaine is an iconic
fixture of textbook history?”
Working with several graduate students as an independent study, Chansky said Wurl, a doctoral
candidate with an emphasis in playwriting, is “largely responsible for scenes involving the famous
women. The event’s cast includes Courtney Brown, Elaine Bromka, Leticia Delgado, Nikole Irion,
Elizabeth Parks, and Teresa Stranahan. The stage manager is Ben Slate, with technical direction and
sound design by Emmett Buhmann.
Surrounding the Three Eleanors performance will be short presentations by artists from The School of
Art who present studio activities on the stage. Through video clips, artist statements, drawing and active
looking these artworks consider portrait of woman as still life or environment.
Slip of Memory
Leah Brown, BFA candidate, Texas Tech University
De Cadence
Hannah Dean, MFA candidate, Texas Tech University
Declaration of Sentiments
Carol Flueckiger, Associate Professor Art, Texas Tech
University
I Became an Image
Yasaman Moussavi, MFA candidate, Texas Tech University
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Special Presentation
Saturday, April 19, 2014
9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. | Student Union Bldg. | Matador Room
Special Presentation
Texas Tech University Women's Studies Affiliated Faculty Panel
This panel discussion will address the theme of the conference, women’s studies on the
edge, by taking into consideration issues surrounding women of color and feminisms’
goals and objectives into the next decade. This panel will speak to the issues faced when
teaching about women and gender in the current climate from the perspective of women of
color, addressing the promises and challenges from their own perspectives.
Moderator: Mary Frances Agnello, Ph.D., Associate
Professor, Education Curriculum Instruction
Panelist:
+ Lahib Jaddo, MFA, Associate Professor, Architecture
+ Jennifer Rojas-McWhinney, Doctoral Student,
Human Development & Family Studies
+ Aretha Marbley, PhD, Professor, Educational
Psychology
+ Collette Taylor, PhD, Assistant Professor, Education
+ Sara Peso White, Doctoral Student, School of Art,
Women’s Studies Program
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Special Presentation
Saturday, April 19, 2014
10:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. | Student Union Bldg. | Matador Room
Special Presentation
Women's & Gender Studies Regional Directors Panel
Dr. Jill Irvine, Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Center for
Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma
Dr. Irvine was named a President's Associates Presidential Professor in Spring
2010. The Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center, American Council of
Learned Societies, The U.S. Fulbright Program, the National Council for Eurasian
and East European Research, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the
Fulbright-Hays Program, the University of Oklahoma, and Harvard University,
have supported her research among others.
Dr. Claire Sahlin’s, Department Chair and Professor of Women's Studies, Texas
Woman's University
Dr. Sahlin’s is the Chair of the Women’s Studies Department at Texas Woman’s
University, where she has served since 2000. Her areas of research and teaching
specialization include women’s studies in religion, ecofeminism, women’s
spirituality in later medieval Europe, and the institutional development of the field
of women’s studies. Her doctoral degree is in religious studies from Harvard
University.
Dr. Sandra Spencer, Ph.D., Program Director, University of North Texas (UNT).
Upon graduating with her Ph.D. in British Literature in 1996, Sandra Spencer joined
the English Faculty at the University of North Texas. In August 2002, she was
appointed Director of the Women’s Studies Program at UNT. She frequently leads
students on Study Abroad programs for both English and Women’s Studies. One
Women’s Studies group was based in London and Glasgow; another was based in
Tunis, Tunisia. She has spent time in Amman, Jordan, attending an International
Faculty Development Seminar on Arab women, and she is an affiliated faculty
member in UNT’s Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute. These
affiliations have shaped the global focus of the Women’s Studies Program at UNT.
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