Southern Connecticut State University Women’s Studies Program
Tentative Conference Schedule 2012
Friday, April 20
1:00 PM
Registration Opens
2:00 PM
Women and Girls’ Fair Opens
2:00-3:30 PM
The SCSU Step Drill Team
Welcome by SCSU President, Dr. Mary Papazian
Conference Opening Plenary: “The Work We Do: A Labor of Love and Necessity” (I):
Voices of NDN (American Indian) Women of Connecticut
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Beverage Break @ Women & Girls’ Fair
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Film Screenings
o Union maids (50 min, 1976)
The story of three women who were part of the Rank and File Labor Movement
during the tumultuous 1930s.
o
Maid in America (58 min, 2004)
An intimate look into the lives of three Latina immigrants working as nannies and
housekeepers in Los Angeles, three of nearly 100,000 domestic workers living in
that city today.
4:00-5:15 p.m.
Concurrent Session A
A1-“Pedagogies of Women’s Labor”
Moderator: Ilene Crawford, Southern Connecticut State University
o Beth Alexander, The Linden School, “Flattening Hierarchies of Power: Teaching
Learning from a Girl-Centered Perspective”
o Allison Horrocks, University of Connecticut, “Teaching Inequality and Subordination in
the Early Republic: Writing About the Benefit of American Female Domestic Servants,
1800-1845”
A2-“Labor, Service, and Care: Unsung Heroines and More”
Moderator: Tiara Willie, Southern Connecticut State University
o Yasmin Amico, “Women and Domestic Labor: Through the Lenses of the Unsung
Heroines of the Women's Labor Movement”
o Tamara Beaubouef, DePauw University, “Service Without Servitude: Lessons on Care
Work from Jane Addams and Maria Montessori”
A3-“At Home and Abroad: American Women, Health, & Labor”
Moderator: Virginia Metaxas, Southern Connecticut State University
o Jane Lancaster, Brown University
o Sarah Rizzuto, Southern Connecticut State University, “How to Make
Working With a Disability Work: Getting a Job, Keeping it and Living with It”
A4-“Something’s Happening: Unions and Women’s Centers Addressing Workplace
Civility”
Moderator: Catherine Christy, Southern Connecticut State University
o Kathleen Holgerson, University of Connecticut
o Carol Millette, AFSCME
o Leslie Maddocks, CEUI
A5: “Labor to Empower: Mobilizing Young Women in the Community”
Moderator: Katja Koehlein, Southern Connecticut State University
o Lytasha Marie Blackwell, The B.O.S.S. Program
5:15-5:30 PM
Beverage Break @ Women and Girls’ Fair
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Concurrent Session B
B1-“Public Social Reproduction, Precarious Work, and Labor Organizing in the Service
Sector”
Moderator: Dawn Blizzard, Southern Connecticut State University
o Adrie Naylor, York University, Canada
o Sune Sandbeck, York University, Canada
o Donya Ziaee, York University, Canada
B2- “Women’s Labor and Art”
Moderator: Jessie Whitehead, Southern Connecticut State Univeristy
o Valerie Garlick, University of Connecticut, “The Reclining Body in Labor”
o Martina Manfredi, Italy, “Female Artists as Entrepreneurs: Carlotta Amigoni, A Venetian
Paintress in Georgian London”
o Caitlin A. Smith, University of Connecticut, “Two Women on All Fours: Mierle
Laderman Ukeles and Janine Antoni at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art”
B3- “Labor of Fair Trade: Women and Artesanía”
Moderator: Resha Cardone, Southern Connecticut State University
o Jane D. Griffin, Bentley University, “Artesanía: Women and the Material Culture of Arts
and Crafts in Latin America”
o Priscilla Jeffery, CPASGhana
o Elizabeth Rider, Ten Thousand Villages, New Haven
B4-“Women and the Prison Industrial Complex: ‘Rise Up’ as Labor of Resistance”
Moderator: Brandon Hutchinson, Southern Connecticut State University
o Tina Reynolds and WORTH Representatives
o Dinah Ortiz
o Mercedes Smith
o Barbara Barron
B5- “Women’s Labor History: Forgotten Chapters”
Moderator: Troy Rondinone, Southern Connecticut State University
o Max Fraser, Yale University, “Rank and File Women, Gender Roles, and Radical Labor
Movements: Sophie Melvin and the American Communist Party, 1920-1933”
o Vivien Ng, University at Albany, “The Queen’s Mission: Maryknoll Sisters and
Integration of Health Care in Kansas City”
B6-“Women of Color in Leadership: Struggles and Barriers Within the Workplace”
Moderator: Annette Madlock Gatison, Southern Connecticut State University
o Renee Dorn and Shanetta Robinson, Pepperdine University, “African American Female
Leaders: Their Perceptions, Barriers, Style Characteristics…”
7:00 PM
Women and Girls’ Fair Closes
7:00-9:15 PM
Keynote (Lilly Ledbetter), Dinner, and Performance (Lytasha Blackwell)
Saturday, April 21
8:45 – 9:30 a.m.
Registration Opens
Women’s and Girl’s Fair Opens
Breakfast Reception
9:30 a.m.-12:15p.m.
Film Screenings
o Waging a Living (85 min, 2004)
More than 30 million Americans are stuck in jobs that pay less than the federal poverty
level for a family of four. Shot over a three year period, this documentary chronicles the
day-to-day struggles of four low-wage earners to support their families.
o A World Without Fathers or Husbands (52 min, 2000)
In this documentary, filmed in Musuo Province near the Tibetan border, we learn about
a matriarchal society where there are no fathers, husbands, or marriages. The women do
all the work, including physical labor and are the bread-winners in their families.
9:30-10:45 a.m.
Concurrent Session C
C1 –“Politics and Labor of Art”
Moderator: Vivien Ng, University of Albany
o Soraya Marcano, Visual Artist, “Mobility and Art”
o Christine Goncharuk, Independent Artist, “Working Women and Childcare”
C2-“Labor, Strategies, Survival”
Moderator: Jane McGinn, Southern Connecticut State University
o Regina Cardaci, City University of New York, Graduate Center, “Reentry Issues Facing
Formerly Incarcerated Women”
o Nikita Carney, “Dirt and the Myth of Disposability”
C3-“Re-Examining Women’s Labor: The Home, the Farm, and the Street”
Moderator: Rosalyn Amenta, Southern Connecticut State University
o Amanda Strauss, Simmons College, “A Surprising Sisterhood: The Feminist Alliance of
Housewives and Prostitutes, 1973-1983”
o Kim McKeage, Hamline University, “Doin’ It Herself: Forays into ‘Radical Home
Economics’”
C4-“Engaging African Motherhood and Labor”
Moderator: Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Lehman College, CUNY
o Abosede George, Barnard College, Columbia University, “Working Well: Gender, Status,
and Social Reform among Educated Elite Women in Colonial Lagos, 1860-1920”
o Kimberly Foulds, Teachers College, Columbia University, “The Production of the
Mother: The Intersection of Student Perceptions and National Ideals of Motherhood in
Kenya”
C5: “Labor for Women’s Business Development: Creating Terrains and Charting Paths”
Moderator: Ellen Durnin, Southern Connecticut State University
o Fran Pastore and Representatives, Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC),
CT
11:00-12:15 p.m.
Concurrent Session D
D1-“STEM, Home and Abroad”
Moderator: Lynn Westling, Wesleyan University
o Michael Kwet, Southern Connecticut State University, “Looking Forward: Feminism in
the Digital Revolution”
o Dara Medes, Southern Connecticut State University, “Winning Formula: What Patterns
Account for the Dichotomy between Global Nobel Prize Competition Equality Standards
and the Lack of U.S. Women in Modern Scientific Careers?”
D2-“Feminist Observations on Globalization”
Moderator: Shirley Jackson, Southern Connecticut State University
o Ozge Sensoy Bahar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Low-Income Kurdish
Women’s Employment and Child Labor in a Low-Income Kurdish Migrant Community
in Turkey”
o Jan Louise Jones, Southern Connecticut State University, “People Here Think that All
Blondes are Russian Prostitutes: Challenges and Observations from Conducting Research
in a Predominantly Muslim Culture about the Development of a Predominately Female
Industry”
o Sanjukta Mukherjee, DePaul University, “Women: The Best Men for the Job?
Feminization of Hi-Tech Work in India”
D3-“Maternal Labor: Perceptions and Struggles”
Moderator: Astrid Eich-Krohm, Southern Connecticut State University
o Matthew Ray Stewart, Simmons College, “Maternal Labors: Motherhood,
Intersubjectivity, and Caring ‘for-the-other’”
o Jacqueline Martone, Southern Connecticut State University, “The Other Labor”
o Maria Boeke Mongillo, Norwalk Community College, “The Juggling Act: Single
Mothers Balancing Work, Family, and School”
D4-“Getting Your Hands Dirty: Domesticias, Labor, and Resistance”
Moderator: Kathleen Skoczen, Southern Connecticut State University
o Brenda Gonzalez, Claremont Graduate University
o Nancy Perez, Arizona State University
o Maria Soldatenko, Pitzer College
D5-“Wangari Maathai’s Life Labor of Love: Working Locally, Networking Globally”
Moderator: Kim McKeage, Hamline University
o Dziffa Akua Ametam, City University of New York, Lehman College
o Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, City University of New York, Lehman College
o Anne Patricia Rice, City University of New York, Lehman College
12:30-1:45 PM
Lunch with Performance (Elaine Kolb)
1:45-3:00 PM
Round Table Plenary
“The Work We Do: A Labor of Love and Necessity” (II):
Plenary Speakers: Ananda Amritmahal (Fulbright Scholar at Loyola University Chicago,
Chair of English at Sophia College for Women, Mumbai, and Coordinator of the Sophia
Centre for Women‘s Studies and Development, Mumbai, India); Esmeralda Brown
(Human Rights and Indigenous Rights Activist, formerly of United Methodist Women);
Fran Pastore (Women’s Business Development Council); Teresa Younger (E.D.,
Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, CT); and Lula Mae White (Freedom
Rider, 1961)
3:15-5:00 p.m.
Film Screenings
o SEWA: Self-employed Women’s Association (55 min, 1999)
A portrait of the women’s organization in India, called SEWA, that holds to the
Simple yet radical belief that poor women need organizing, not welfare.
o All Different, All Equal (24 min, 2000)
Part 11 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people.
Looks at progress in achieving greater equality for women — five years after the
Beijing Conference on Women where government delegations pledged themselves
To tackle increasing violence against women.
Concurrent Session E
3:15-4:30 p.m.
E1-“Women’s Art on Labor”
Moderator: Estela Lopez, Southern Connecticut State University
o Hwa Young Caruso, Molloy College, “The Labor of Love”
o Cate Bourke, Installation Artist, “Crewel Linen: Unfinished Business”
E2 “Women’s Labor and Sister Arts”
Moderator: Catherin Hoyser, Saint Joseph College
o Ananda Amritmahal, Loyola University – Chicago and Sophia College for Women –
Mumbai, India, “Women's Bodies Reified: an examination of women's work in some
of Mahasweta Devi's writings”
o Resha Cardone, Southern Connecticut State University, “Michelle Bachelet’s Sisters: the
Literary ‘Work’ of Art and Chile’s ‘Femocracy’”
o Margaret Shaw and Jacqueline Shaw “Demystifing the Angel in the House: Examining
Women’s Choices and Identities…”
E3- “Feminist Labor, Protests, and Policies”
Moderator: Kate McDonald, Southern Connecticut State University
o Alana Clark, Simmons College, “Women and Work: Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in
the United States”
o Carmen M. Cusak, Nova Southeastern University, “Art and Activism: Feminists
Laboring to Abolish the Sexual Enslavement of Female Animals”
E4 - “Women, Immigration, and Labor: The Invisible Lives of Migrant Farm Workers”
Moderator: Alice Warren, Southern Connecticut State University
o Nancy G. Ghertner, Wayne County Migrant Support Services and Wayne Action for
Racial Equality
o Barbara Kasper, The College of Brockport
5:00 PM
Women and Girls’ Fair Closes
5:30-8:30 PM
Dinner, Performance (Jazzmeia Horn), and Keynote with Dolores Huerta
Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa Service Award