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4TH ANNUAL WOMEN’S STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

ACTING LOCALLY GLOBALLY

MARCH 1-2, 2002

All events are FREE AND OPEN to the public.

Friday, March 1
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM Opening Address  Worsham Theater
Welcome: Joan Callahan, Director, Women’s Studies and Professor of Philosophy
                Howard Grotch, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
DANCE PERFORMANCE BY SABI DIRI
Aminata Baruti, Anthropology, University of Kentucky
Blessing: A ceremonial piece dedicated to opening, clearing, and blessing the space, drawing from
African and Native American traditions.
SESSION 1: 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
Panel 1A. Pedagogical Subjectivities: Outside the Classroom, Inside the Curriculum  Room 231
Moderator: Elaine Drew, Anthropology, University of Kentucky
Libbie Morley, English, University of Kentucky
“Field Experience in College Classrooms: Research in Action, a Roundtable Discussion”
Michelle Finley and Jill Posta, Foundations of Education, University of Toledo
“Transforming School Culture: A Critical Approach to Addressing Sexual Harassment in
        Schools”
Sabina Vaught, Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
presenting with Corrie Cecil, Joy Chaisua, and Jhuamia Dial
“I Am Actually a Little Uncomfortable with the Word Subject”
Mihoko Ogawa, Foundations of Education, University of Toledo,
and Uzma Shah, Educational Leadership, University of Toledo
“The Voices of Asian Women in Education: Making the Exchange”
Panel 1B. Gender, Power and Subjectivities: Disciplining Bodies through Political Spaces  Room 228
Moderator: Baishahki Banerjee, Women’s Studies, University of Northern Iowa

Janet Tinsley, Third World Development Support, University of Iowa
“Re-examining Gender Issues in Kenya: From the Political Arena to Lived Realities”

Elise LoBue, Women’s Studies, University of Iowa
“Government Responses to Violence against Women in Kazakhstan”

Cynthia Estep, Women’s Studies, University of Iowa
“Stabilizing the Nation? Fetishizing Heterosexual Female Orgasm in the U.S.”

Vidya Kalaramadam, Women’s Studies, University of Iowa
“Spaces of Hope: Women and Local Politics in India”

SESSION 2: 10:45-12:15 PM
Panel 2A. Narrative Subjectivities of Positioning Identities and the Third Wave  Room 231
Moderator: Sherrie Bennett, Sociology, University of Kentucky

Ritu Radhakrishnan, University of Georgia
“The Southeast Asian-American Women: Searching for Identity”

Krista Longtin, Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University
“Toward a New Narrative: Third Wave Feminists’ Use of Narrative in Building a Movement”

M. Catherine Jonet, English, Purdue University
“SOUND WAVE: Acting Globally Locally in the Third Wave, a Sound Art Piece”

Panel 2B. Making My Sense Out of Science  Room 228
Moderator: Raeal Moore, Educational Policy and Leadership, Ohio State University

Joanie Sheehan, Education, Capital University
“Anne Sayre Reveals the Truth about Rosalind Franklin and DNA”

Natasha Plumly, Psychology, Capital University
 “Women in the Military, and How Biologically and Physiologically Women Are Capable of Performing Duties in the Military”

Brooke Robbins, Psychology, Capital University
“Laura Smith: A Woman in Science”

12:15-1:30 PM LUNCH BREAK






SESSION 3: 1:45-3:15 PM
Panel 3A. Transnational Subjectivities: Creating Coalitions Across Borders  Room 231
Moderator: Abbey Poffenberger, Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky

Jeanette Heinrichs, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
 “Coalition Politics and Transnational Feminism in the Philippine Feminist Movement Against the Trafficking in Women”

Katharine L. Krall, International Relations, De Universiteit van Amsterdam
“Intersecting Knowledges: Incorporating Local Strategies in United Nations Domestic Violence Activism”

Pamela Galbraith, Anthropology, Michigan State University
“Competing Funding Strategies of Gender-focused NGOs in Bulgaria, and their Impact on the Development of a Unified Women’s Agenda”

Panel 3B. Interrogations of Purity and Privilege: Ecofeminism, Feminist Theory, and Disability  Room 228
Moderator: Angela Wadsworth, Sociology, University of Kentucky

 Cecilia Herles, Philosophy, University of Georgia
“Ecological Feminist Activism in Local and Global Contexts: Questioning the Ideal of Purity”

Heather M. Greene, Social Welfare, University of Kansas
“Naming Our Relationship with Privilege and Oppression: An Ecofeminist Perspective”

Kristina Knoll, Women’s Studies, University of Washington
“Able-Bodied Privilegism in Feminist Theory and Practice”

3:15-3:45 PM BREAK

3:45-4:15 PM DANCE PERFORMANCE BY SABI DIRI  Worsham Theater
Aminata Baruti, Anthropology, University of Kentucky
Balancing Act: A performance piece inspired by the September 11 events.
Biopsy: A performance piece based on the poem “Biopsy” by Crystal Wilkinson.

4:30-6:00 PM KEYNOTE SPEAKER  Worsham Theater
Dr. Maria Lugones, Comparative Literature, Binghamton University
 “Forming Collective Subjectivities” (Introduction: JoBeth Jordan)
6:00-7:00 Reception following keynote address -- Room 206
Dinner and Poetry Reading at Natasha’s beginning at 7:30 PM



Saturday, March 2

7:45-8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

SESSION 4: 8:30-10:00 AM
Panel 4A. Subjectivities of the Locale: Local Resistance into Women’s Empowerment  Room 231
Moderator: Christine Luft, English, University of Kentucky

Kathy Lay, Social Work, University of Louisville
“Seeing Agency as Empowerment”

Jane Simurdiak Groeper, English, Illinois State University
“Mary Winston Newson: A Woman among Men”

Ashley D. Smith, History, Miami University
 “Uplifting the Race: NACW Support for Woman Suffrage”

Andrew G. Kourvetaris, Sociology, Columbia University
“Sheroes From, not Above, the Community”

Panel 4B. Subjectivities of the Middle East: Women Connecting Women  Room 228
Moderator: Abbey Poffenberger, Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky

Uzma Shah, Educational Leadership, University of Toledo
“Towards Understanding the Culture of the Veil (Hijab)”

Sabah Uddin, Women’s Studies, University of South Florida
“The Limitations of Transnational Human-Rights Oriented Activism in Opposing Honor Killings”

Molly Sturdevant, Philosophy, DePaul University
“Speaking Secretly, Publicly: Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the Possibility of Peace”

Azza Basarudin, Women’s and Gender Studies, Roosevelt University
“Dismantling Bridges, Building Solidarity: Reconciling Arab and Western Feminisms”

10:15-11:45 AM SPEAKER  Center Theater
Dr. Riffat Hassan, Religious Studies and Humanities, University of Louisville
(Introduction: Preeti Aroon)

12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH BREAK











SESSION 5: 1:15-2:45 PM

Panel 5A. Reproductive Choice: Biology Is Not Our Destiny  Room 231
Moderator: Amanda Ross, English, University of Kentucky

Pat Whitlow, Sociology, University of Kentucky
“Womb Rebels”

Rosie Moosnick, Sociology, University of Kentucky
“Challenged Mothers: Women who Adopt Transracially and/or Transnationally”

Gina Rose, Philosophy, University of Kansas
“The Ethical Thorns of International Adoption”

Panel 5B. Feminist Theory In/Action  Room 228
Moderator: Muriel Yeboah, Geography, Miami University

Walter Bower, Sociology, University of Kentucky
 “Analyzing the Resistance to the Integration of Feminist Theory into Sociological Theory”

D. Gregg Doyle, Urban Planning, UCLA
“The Women in Traffic: Clearing the Jam in Gender and Travel Research”

Tammy L. Werner, Sociology, University of Kentucky
“Reforming Welfare or Women: A Socialist Feminist Analysis of the 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation”

SESSION 6: 3:00-4:30 PM

Panel 6A. Individuals Transcending Boundaries Globally  Room 231
Moderator: Vanessa Hudson, Geography, University of Kentucky

Aimee Krall-Lanoue, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Action and Reaction: Ursula Brangwen, The Rainbow, and Local/Global Politics”

Brandon Hartley, History, University of Arizona
“La Mission Civilisatrice: Women, Saint-Simonianism, and Ismayl Urbain in French Colonial Africa”

Annaliese Bratcher, Communications, University of Kentucky
“From Indigenous to International: Winona LaDuke’s Rhetoric”

Panel 6B. Engendering Subjectivities of Performance  Room 228
Moderator: Christine Metzo, Philosophy, University of Kentucky

Carol Bliss, Applied Women’s Studies, Claremont Graduate University
“The Irresistible Allure of Juicy Red Apples”

Nancy Kennedy, Theatre, Bowling Green State University
“Performance, Performativity and Difference: Transgressing the Boundaries in The Vagina Monologues”



4:45-6:00PM CLOSING SESSION  Center Theater
Robin Deisher, Women’s Studies, University of Cincinnati
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2002 Women’s Studies Graduate Student Collective
JoBeth Jordan
Abbey Poffenberger
Sallie Powell
Leah Thomas
Pat Whitlow

Thanks to: Preeti Aroon, Rachel Clark, Mary Curran, Tammy Reedy-Strother, Alysia Robben, and Amanda Ross.

Special thanks to: Joan Callahan, Rhonda King, Christine Levitt, Betty Pasley, Ellen Riggle, and Selena Stevens.

This conference is offered by the Amnesty International, Campus Cuisine, Department of English, Department of Geography, Department of Hispanic Studies, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Feminist Alliance, Student Government Association, and Women’s Studies Program.

For additional information, please call the Women’s Studies Program at 859.257.1388 or email Betty Pasley at [log in to unmask]

http://www.uky.edu/AS/WomenStudies/GradStudentConf4.htm