PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2007
1:00pm
Registration Opens
Women’s Fair Opens
2:00-3:30pm
Welcome and Opening Plenary
“Art as a Critical Tool for Women’s Studies”
 Imna Arroyo, artist and Professor of Visual Arts, Eastern Connecticut State University
 Howardena Pindell, Artist, Professor, and Director of M.F.A., StonyBrook University
 Karen Frostig, Associate Professor of Art Education, Lesley University
 Jessie Whitehead, Assistant Professor of Art, SCSU
3:30-4:00pm
Beverage Break at the Women’s Fair
4:00-7:00pm
Film Screenings
“5 Girls” (Running time: 113 minutes)
“A Litany for Survival” (Running time: 60 minutes)
4:00-5:15pm
Concurrent Session A
A1 Body Image: Different Perspectives
 Meredith Miller, Photographer, “Challenging Our Perceptions of Obesity”
 Laura Sanchez “Connections: Sexuality and Body Image”
 Kate Stephenson, “Teen Girls: Challenges in Creating a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit”
 Crystal Uliano, “Embracing Our Unique Selves”
A2 A Curriculum of Her Own: Intergenerational Perceptions of Women’s Studies at Sacred Heart
University
 Marian Calabrese, Associate Professor of English and Communications, Emerita, Sacred Heart
University
 Heather McKillop, BA ’07, Sacred Heart University
 Christina Taylor, Associate Professor of Psychology, Sacred Heart University
A3 Gamba Adisa: Life and Works of Audre Lorde
 Sherisse Alvarez, “Warrior Poetry”
 Diane Harriford, “The Erotic in a Time of War”
 Andrée-Nicola McLaughlin, “Audre Lorde – Gamba Adisa: Black Woman Internationalist”
 Christan Moran, “Comrades and Foes: Lorde and Her Contemporaries”
 Jessica Warner, “Silence as a Tool of Empowerment”
 Eric Maroney, MFA ’09, Sarah Lawrence College
 Jessica York, Coordinator of Sexuality and Gender Equality (SAGE) & Adjunct Professor of Women’s
Studies, SCSU

5:15-5:45pm
Beverage Break at the Women’s Fair
5:45-7:00pm
Concurrent Session B
(Fair closes at 5:30pm)
B1 NWSA & the Fields: Feminist Association
 Allison Kimmich, Executive Director, NWSA
 Colette Morrow, Past President NWSA, Senior Fulbright Scholar, & Associate Professor of English,
Purdue University Calumet
 Vivien Ng, Past President NWSA & Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, University at Albany
 Judith Roy, Past President NWSA & Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies Program, Century
College
B2 A Workshop with AquaMoon: Dismantling the Culture of Silences
 Veronica Bohanan, Poet, Author, and Co-founder of SpokenExistence, Inc.
 Camil Williams, Poet, Artist, and Co-founder of SpokenExistence, Inc.
B3 Sisterhood Considered: Women’s Centers and Women’s Studies
 Cathy Christy, “Southern Connecticut State University”
 Kathleen Holgerson, “University of Connecticut”
 Marcia McGowan, “A Long Way Home: 30 Years of Synergy Between Women’s Studies and the
Women’s Center at Eastern Connecticut State University”
 Rosalyn Amenta, “Southern Connecticut State University”
B4 Reading Black Feminist Literature: Between Gender, Race, and Class
Moderator: Brandon Hutchinson, Associate Professor of English, SCSU
 Kristen Pavlik, “Resistance Writing: Creating a New Space for the Third World Woman as Illustrated in
Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!”
 Australia Tarver, “The Village Radical: (En)Gendering a Black Feminist Consciousness in Sarah
Wright’s This Child’s Gonna Live”
7:00-9:00pm
Dinner & Town Meeting
“Future of Women’s Studies: Forty Years from Now, or 2050”
 Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies, Spelman College
 Sheila Tobias, Author & Consultant
 Diane Harriford, Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of Women’s Studies, Vassr College
 Allison Kimmich, Executive Director, NWSA

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2007
8:45am
Registration Opens
Women’s Fair Opens
8:45-10:00am
Breakfast and Plenary Session I
“Women’s Studies & Our Institutions, a Glance Backward and Forward: Tensions,
Antagonisms, Collaborations”
 Rosalyn Baxandall, Distinguished Teaching Professor & Chair, American Studies, Media &
Communication, SUNY, Old Westbury
 Ann Froines, Emerita Professor of Women’s Studies and History, UMASS Boston
 Amy Kesselman, Professor of Women’s Studies, SUNY New Paltz
 Vivien Ng, Past President NWSA & Professor of Women’s Studies, University at Albany
 Judith Roy, Past President NWSA & Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies Program, Century
College
10:15am-12:45pm
Film Screenings
“The Unapologetic Life of Margaret Randall” (Running time: 60 minutes)
“NO!” (Running time: 94 minutes)
10:15am-11:30am
Concurrent Session C
C1 Learning from African Women: Transnational Solidarity in Action
Moderator: Sintia Molina, Associate Professor of Spanish & Latin American Literature, St. Francis College
 Nuola Akinde, “Feminine Seductions: Mami Wata as Goddess, Siren, and Whore in Contemporary
African Cultures”
 Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, “Learning From African Women”
 Pauline Dongala, “African Women: Drawing on the Wisdom of the Past to Heal the Present and Seed the Future”
C2 Intersectional Approaches to Violence Against Women: A Dialogue
 Anne Bubriski, “Battered Women’s Vulnerability in a Racist-Hetero-Patriarchy”
 Tania Carrasquillo and Noralís Rodriguez, “Articulation in the Silence of Domestic Violence in Puerto
Rico”
 Stacy Missari, “Becoming a ‘Real’ Battered Woman: The Subversion of Race, Class and Sexuality in a
Domestic Violence Shelter”
 Ingrid Semaan, “Race, Class and the U. S. Battered Women’s Movement”
 Nathalie Vaughn, “Words Are Wind but Blows Are Unkind: Interpretations of Domestic Violence”
C3 What’s in a Name? Naming and Re-Naming of Women’s Studies
 Catherine Hoyser, Associate Professor of English & Director of Women’s Studies, Saint Joseph College
 Leslie Lindenauer, Assistant Professor of History, Western Connecticut State University

 Heather Prescott, Coordinator, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, & Professor of History, Central
Connecticut State University

C4 Gaps & Bridges: Women and Women’s Studies Between Worlds
Moderator: Colette Morrow, Associate Professor of English, Purdue University Calumet
 Nancy Alexander, “Mind the Gap: Border Crossings and Spaces Between”
 Ilene Crawford, “A Multi-Media Exploration of ‘First-World’ Feminists Views of ‘Third-World’
Women”
 Laurie Mengel, “Beyond Picture Brides: Japanese Women, Migration, Marriage and Divorce 1880-1930”
11:00am-11:30am
Beverage Break at the Women’s Fair
11:45am-1:00pm
Concurrent Session D
D1 Gender & Science: Past, Present and Future
 Shelia Tobias, “Gender Equity in Science, Recent Reflections”
 Terri Bennett, “A Brief History of Women in Science”
 Lynn Westling, “Feminist Critiques of Science”
D2 Three Generations Teaching & Learning in Women’s Studies
Moderator: Rosalyn Amenta, Director of Women’s Programs, SCSU
 Rosalyn Baxandall, Distinguished Teaching Professor & Chair, American Studies, Media &
Communication, SUNY, Old Westbury
 Virginia Metaxas, Professor of History & Women’s Studies, SCSU
 Jessica York, Coordinator, Sexuality and Gender Equality (SAGE); Adjunct Professor, Women’s
Studies, SCSU
D3 Foremothers and Histories: Balkans, Britain, and the U.S.
Moderator/Respondent: Polly Beals, Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies, SCSU
 Anne Onyekwuluje, “Living Out Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s Feminist Thinking: The Future of Georgia
Powers Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Feminism”
 Ana Savic, “Victorian Ideology of Domesticity and British Imperialism:Mackenzie and Irby’s
Educational Efforts in the Balkans”
D4 Young Women & Feminism: A Roundtable
 Jennifer Guarino, Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies, SCSU
 Melinda Fiedler, High School Senior, & SCSU Students
1:15-2:30pm
Luncheon with Performance: AquaMoon Performs Feminist Hip-Hop
2:30-3:30pm
Plenary Session II
Margaret Randall: Forty Years of Revolutionary Feminist Activism
 Margaret Randall, poet, writer, photographer
 Introduced by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies, Bard
College at Simon’s Rock
3:45-5:30pm
Film Screening

“Sisters of ‘77” Film by Allen Mondell & Cynthia Salzman Mondell, website: www.mediaprojects.org
3:30-3:45pm
Beverage Break at the Women’s Fair
3:45-5:00pm
Concurrent Sessions E
E1 Waves and Movements: Some Feminist Interventions
Moderator: Dorothy Vazquez-Levy, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, SCSU
 Medora Barnes, “White Wedding Rituals: Meanings, Modifications, and the Role of Feminism”
 Shanta Evans, “The Evolution of Story within a Movement: Universal Story of Feminism v. The New
Story of the Self”
 Erin McKinney, “Blogging: A Third Wave Feminist Method”
E2 Politics of Black Women’s Studies: From the Local to the Global (A Roundtable)
 Bahati M. Kuumba, Associate Director, Women’s Research & Resource Center, & Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Spelman College
 Andrée-Nicola McLaughlin, Distinguished Chair in Social Justice; Professor of Cross-Cultural Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies, Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York
 Trimiko Melancon, Assistant Professor of English, Auburn University
 Leticia Thomas Brereton
E3 Why Women’s Studies? An SCSU Women’s Studies Alumnae Roundtable
 Karina Danvers, Director, CT AIDS Education & Training Center
 Randa Eason, Teacher, West Haven High School
 Cathy Gennert, Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies, SCSU & U of Connecticut, Waterbury
 Barbara Gurr, Doctoral student, Anthropology, University of Connecticut
 Linda Maloney, Investigator, Fraud & Recoveries, Department of Social Sciences, CT
 Nathalie Vaughn, Home Visitor, Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
 Katherine Wiltshire, Executive Director, Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame
 Jessica York, Coordinator of Sexuality and Gender Equality (SAGE) & Adjunct Professor of Women’s
Studies, SCSU
 Ellen Zitani, Doctoral Student, Modern European History, The City University of New York
5:00-6:45pm
Dinner & Plenary Session III
Beyond Imperialism: An Archaeology of Transnational Women’s Studies
 Shahrzad Mojab, Professor of Counseling Psychology and Director of Women and Gender Studies,
University of Toronto
 Janet Bauer, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, Trinity College
 Delia Aguilar, Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Connecticut
 Cristina Alsina Rísguez, Associate Professor of U.S. Literature and Culture, University of Barcelona
7:00-8:15pm
Keynote Session with Beverly Guy-Sheftall
8:20pm-9:00pm
Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa Award Ceremony and Reception
Jennifer Kreisberg, of Ulali, Performs