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Mission Statement:

Other(ed) Voices: Who's Listening? emerged from a series of readings and conversations in the course, Postcolonial Feminist Theory in a Transnational Age, which explored the issue of power relations as shaped by colonialism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, racism, sexism, and classism. Utilizing feminist theory to address such postcolonial phenomena as cultural hybridity and fusion, multiculturalism, and globalization, student papers question the role of marginalized subjects and how their voices are often “othered” and, thus, rendered silent. They seek to break this silence by provocatively calling for new ways that listeners can “hear” these distant voices.

Schedule of Events:

Friday, November 22, 2002

Opening Event: Film Screenings & Installation Art
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Humanities 354

Roundtable Discussion:
Diana Gibaldi, M.A. student in Women's Studies, University at Albany, SUNY
Katsuhiko Suganuma, M.A. student in Women's Studies, University at Albany, SUNY
Renae Applegate, M.A. student in English, University at Albany, SUNY
Melissa Tacke, Senior majoring in Women's Studies and Africana Studies, University at Albany, SUNY
Raymond Wood, PhD student in English, University at Albany, SUNY

Saturday, November 23, 2002

Place: Humanities 354

• Keiko Iida, "Where is Japan? Orientalism and the East/West Divide."
• Diana Gibaldi, "First World and Third World Feminism: the Case of Afghanistan."
• Jennifer Best, “A Post-Colonial Feminist Perspective of Rape as a Weapon of War: Genocide in the Late Twentieth Century and the Role the International War Crimes Tribunal Played.”

• Serena Howard, "Separation of a Race: Light Skin vs. Dark skin."
• Lindsay Cigal, “Eye of the Beholder: A comparison of cultural ideals of beauty.”
• AmyRose Scott, "A History of the 'Orientalist' woman: Contributions, Reinforcements and Outcomes."
• Kumiko Sakaguchi, "The Feminization of Japan."

• Christine Scofield, "Seen but not Heard: The Importance of the Gaze in Children’s Literature."
• Jessica Murray, "Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea: The perspectives of the Colonizer and the Colonized."
• Akiko Buyo, "Madame Butterfly: The Orientalism of Japanese Women."
• Raymond Wood, "Reframing Art: Adrian Piper and the Marginalization of Gender and Race."

• Hui-Yin Chen, "Is There any Postcolonial Feminism in Taiwan?"
• Michelle Secore, "Blame an Immigrant."
• Menoukha Case, "The Praxis of Postcolonial Feminist Theory in Local Women's Art Projects and Lifeways."

• Renae Applegate, "Cultural Convergence: Literary Influence of the Borderlands."
• Melissa Tacke, “Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and the Globalization of LGBT Rights/Liberation Movements.”
• Katsuhiko Suganuma, "Global Sexual Politics in a Post-colonial Era: the Case of Japan."

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