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Gender Across Borders III: Research Transformations complete schedule

Gender Across Borders III: Research Transformations

Complete Conference Schedule

April 4-5, 2008

University at Buffalo Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

CLEMENS HALL AND CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Registration 8:30am-1pm in Clemens Hall 1004

8:30am-9am, Clemens Hall 120

Breakfast and welcome

9am-1pm, Clemens Hall 120

SPECIAL SESSION: CREATING A SPACE FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE

9am: Creating a Space for Women in Science panel

Laura Abdi, Environmental Specialist, the Leader Group

Gail Willsky, Associate Professor, UB Biochemistry

Joseph Gardella, Professor, UB Chemistry

11am: SCIENCES KEYNOTE, TANYA FURMAN

Pennsylvania State University-University Park, Professor of Geosciences; Assistant Vice President & Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

12pm-1pm Lunch and discussion

Gender Across Borders III Sciences Keynote Speaker Tanya Furman

TANYA FURMAN

Friday, April 4, 10:45am
Clemens Hall 120, UB North Campus

Tanya Furman of Pennsylvania State University-University Park, Professor of Geosciences and Assistant Vice President & Associate Deanfor Undergraduate Education, has worked to identify best practices for organizations wishing to develop mentoring programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). She has developed an innovative series of programs that promise a substantial effect on increasing underrepresented students considering STEM-based career opportunities, and has built collaborative relationships at other academic institutions that now use her programs.

Gender Across Borders III Humanities Keynote Speaker Layli Phillips

Layli Phillips, humanities keynote speaker Layli Phillips, "What's Up on Planet Earth??: A New Age Ecowomanist Statement"

Friday, April 4, 5pm

Center for the Arts Screening Room, North Campus

We live in times of accelerating crisis, transition, and transformation on environmental, social, and spiritual fronts. Mainline accounts of these situations, inside and outside academia, strain to maintain "business as usual" by forcing accumulating anomalies into comfortable yet obsolescent explanatory frames. What if we took a dramatically different approach, embracing the radical possibility latent within these deeply unsettling conditions of our own creation? Utilizing womanist, ecological, and new age perspectives on humanity's current crossroads and drawing from thinkers as diverse as Gloria Anzaldua, AnaLouise Keating, Alice Walker, M. Jacqui Alexander, Paul Hawken, David R. Hawkins, Masaru Emoto, and others, this presentation will ultimately offer its suggestions for social change within the emerging framework of spiritual activism.

Graduate Works in Progress, Spring 2007

The final event in the Gender Institute's Spring Graduate Seminar featured presentations from three Gender Institute-affiliated graduate students. Abstracts are below.

Panelists and Paper Abstracts:

Susannah Bartlow, English
“Poetic Justice: Women Writers and Feminist Community”

Paola M. Kersch, Romance Languages and Literatures
"Corporeal (Dis)unity in the Vanguard Poem"

Hope Russell, Women’s Studies
"Reimagining The Color Purple: American Schools and the Discourse of Censorship"

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