Application Deadline

Applications to the Women's History program are accepted on a rolling basis.

Schedule of Events

Friday, March 2, 2012

4-8 p.m.
Registration
Heimbold Lobby

6 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Dayo Gore, Author of Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War
Heimbold 202

8 p.m.
Networking Reception
Slonim Living Room

Saturday March 3, 2012

8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Registration
Heimbold Lobby

8:30 a.m.-11 a.m.
Breakfast Reception
Heimbold Lobby

10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Plenary Panel
Women film makers and Hollywood: A discussion of filmmakers working in and around Hollywood today.
Moderator: Kathryn Hearst
Panelists: Robin Starbuck, Rona Mark, Maggie Greenwald, Heather Winters, and Angela Tucker

1-2:30 p.m.
Break Out Panels and Performances

Resistance

Dr. Nilgün Anadolu-Okur
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Abolitionist Activism: Fundraising and Julia W. Griffiths

Nina Rolland
University of Kent & Sorbonne (UK & France)
Women Musicians in Nineteenth-Century European Literature

Cookie Woolner
New York Public Library and University of Michigan
Strategies of Space, Place and Resistance in Black Women’s Music

Feminism

Ariel Dougherty
Media Equity Collaborative
Not A Pretty Picture: The Economics of Feminist Culture

Sara Lampert
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
The Actress as Heroine: Female Celebrity and Cultural Feminism in the 1850’s

Brianna Leone
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Feminism in I Love Lucy

Arts and Identity

Sharron Greaves
Nyack College, Nyack, NY
Of Girth and Guts: Interrogating the Revivification of the “Big Mama” Caricature on Contemporary Stages and Screens

Bria Berger
Michigan University, East Lansing, MI
Intersectionality : Themes of Identity Transformation in British Jewish Women Artists

Ope Sarah Lori
CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts, London
The Black Female Body as a Contested Site

Amy Washburn
Kingsborough Community College CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
“Our Only Weapon Was Our Pen:” Irish Dehumanization & Resistance in the Politics and Prose of Ella O’Dwyer and Martina Anderson

Performance: Are You My Mother??

Janet Werther – Independent Artist, Brooklyn, New York

Opera Yoko: Live Drawing Performance

Heather Saunders & Erin Finley – Independent Artists Toronto, ON Canada

2:45-4:15 p.m.

Everyday Acts of Resistance (Reading and Performance)

Kendra Ware
Independent Artist
Trying to get back to Africa

Virginia Grise
Independent Artist
Blu

Biography

Lauren Northup
Hermitage Museum and Gardens Norfolk, VA
Florence K. Sloane and the Origins of Culture in Coastal Virginia, 1893-1953

Maureen Thompson
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Mother of Invention: Lizzie Magie and the Creation of Monopoly

Movement Block Party (Music & Activism)
A workshop led by artists Jean Grae, Invincible, and Tamar-Kali from the Born In Flames Tour

Participants will leave the workshop with tools to make artistic work relevant to their communities and to use music and art as tools in social justice organizing.

Performance

Kristin Moriah
The Graduate Center CUNY, New York, NY
Performing Race and Gender Onstage: Nineteenth Century African American Women’s Performance and Literature

Christine Mudarri
StarNews, Wilmington, NC
Equalizing and Exploding: Hallie Flanagan’s Shaping of the FTP Living Newspapers

Laura Katz Rizzo
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
The Sleeping Beauty Speaks: Aurora as Empowered Agent

Wielding the Pen

Kitamura Sae
King’s College London
Feminism and the Canonization of Drama in Seventeenth-Century England: Judith Drake’s ‘An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex’

Marcia Carlson
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Testifying to Transgenerational Trauma: Patterns in the Activist Fiction of Five Caribbean-Oriented Women Writers

Reading Performance
Greta Minsky & Jamie Agnello
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Reading of "Mixed Relief"

4:30-6 p.m.

Visual Arts

Andrea Harms
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA
Professionalizing "Accomplishment" Painting in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Gabrielle Nickas
Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey
Rosie the Riveter and Barbara Kruger: Visual Rhetoric in Revisionist (Hi)story

Jessica Ziegenfuss
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
The Changing Landscape of Art Institutions Through Feminist New Media Art

Activist Art

Giulia Lamoni
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisbon (Portugal)
Instituto de Historia de Arte, Centro de Estudos de Arte Contemporânea
Speaking in silence: Women artists and political oppression in Portugal and Brazil: 1960-1980

Andrea Dougan
SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
"A Voice Of Their Own:” Lesbian Feminist Literature of the 1960's and 1970's

Barbara Dudás
Independent Scholar, Budapest, Hungary
"Blurry Feminism:” Hungarian Women's Activism and Art behind the Curtain

Supporting the Scene: Creating and Curating A Feminist Safer Space

Kate Wadkins
Lauren Denitzio
Sarah Hanks
Roz Hunter

These Warrior Bones Ache for Revolution
Film Screening and Q&A

Born In Flames Workshop

What would change if women of color and queer voices were more central and visible? How could various art forms be used to grow power responsibly for communities of color and queer communities? What are ways to use music/art to reclaim and redefine our power?

7 p.m.