Looking Back, Moving Forward
Celebrating 35 Years of Women's Studies

Thursday, November 30 - University Art Museum (Fine Arts Building)

4:30 pm
Opening Reception.

5:45 pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks.

6:00 pm
Evening Performance: Words of the Prophets.

Friday, December 1 - Standish Room (Science Library)

Session I | Session II | Session III | Session IV | Roundtable Discussion

8:15-8:45 am
Breakfast.

8:45-10:00 am
Session I - Barriers, Borders, Crossings: (Re)locating Access

- Orpha K. Ongiti, PhD candidate in Educational Administration and Policy Studies, UAlbany, "Women in Mathematics: Dismantling Barriers to Graduate Education."
- Meghan Ochal, David Axelrod Fellowship Recipient, School of Public Health, UAlbany, "Increasing Immigrant Women's Access to Reproductive Health Care: Strengthening Cultural Competency among Family Planning Providers."
- Minjeong Kim, PhD candidate in Sociology, UAlbany, "Beyond 'Mail Order Brides': A Feminist Analysis of Filipina Marriage Migrants around the Globe."

Moderator: Jeanine Hanna, MA student in Women's Studies, UAlbany. [Top]

Break

10:15-11:30 am
Session II - Waste/lands: Material Worlds and Environmental Spaces

- Amy Scott, MA student in Women's Studies, UAlbany, "Sale! Identity, Values, and the Cult of Consumerism."
- Shell Majury, MA student in Women's Studies, UAlbany, "Looking Back and Moving Forward with Nuclear Energy: Silkwood Revisited."
- Menoukha Case, PhD candidate in English, UAlbany, "Tidal River Cycle."

Moderator: Stacie Kryger, MA student in Women's Studies, UAlbany. [Top]

11:30 am
LUNCHEON

12 noon
Nadya Lawson, Keynote Speaker

Minoring in Women's Studies, Majoring in Community
Keynote Address

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Session III - Placing Agency: Body, Politics, and Woman-as-Nation

- Mallory A. Brown, undergraduate student, Le Moyne College, "Traditional Politics of Female Sexuality: Ancient Beliefs and Modern Values."
- Cassandra Carter, PhD student in Sociology, UAlbany, "'Woman, Thou Art Loosed!' Women's Roles in the Black Church."
- Yuan Zhang, graduate student in Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University, "Women Hold Up Half the Sky!"

Moderator: Victoria Russo, MA student in Women's Studies, UAlbany. [Top]

Break

2:30 - 3:45 pm
Session IV - Pleasure and Pain: Romance, Pornography, and Violence

- Rochelle Bilow, undergraduate student, Le Moyne College, "Amatory Games: The Connection between Ovidian and Modern Female Sensual Tactics."
- Melissa A. Murphy, undergraduate student, Le Moyne College, "The New Feminism: Why We Went from Bra Burners to Porn Stars."
- Ilona Flores, graduate student in Cultural Anthropology, UAlbany, "Targets of Violence: Women in Ciudad Juarez."

Moderator: leigh vandebogart, MA student in Women's Studies, UAlbany. [Top]

4:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion - War, Terror, and Rape: Looking Back and Moving Forward
(A Women's Studies Roundtable in Response to Sexual Violence)

Sponsors for this event include the Departments of Women's Studies, Art, Africana Studies, English, History, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies, Sociology, the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society, University Auxiliary Services, Multicultural Affirmative Action, and Women's Studies GSO group, CATALYST.