UW Women of Color Collective
Dialoguing Difference Conference

© José Ramírez

© José Ramírez

DIALOGUING DIFFERENCE – 1st Annual Conference
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Ralina Joseph, Dr. Chela Sandoval, and Dr. Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano

Sponsored by the UW Diversity Research Institute

Additional support provided by ASUW, Communication, Communication Diversity Committee, ComGSA, GO-MAP, GPSS, Latin American Studies, and Women Studies.

When: June 5th 9 am – 5:00 pm

Where: Keynote addresses will be at the Ethic Cultural Center Theatre (click for directions), Conference sessions will be in the Ethnic Cultural Center (click for directions), University of Washington, Seattle

Conference Schedule

9:00-9:30 Welcome/Convocation, Angela Ginorio and Manoucheka Celeste
Location: ECC Black Room

Session A, 9:30-10:30

  • Locating Black Women in Media – Respondent: Habiba Ibrahim – Location: ECC Chicano Room
    • He’s Just Not That into Female Empowerment: Sexual and Social Politics in Black Male-Female Relationships as Represented by Black Male-Authored Relationship Advice Literature, Jennifer Becker
    • Media Interpretation of the “Obama Effect” and Michelle Obama, Sara Schriefer
    • He Said, She Said: The Intersectionality of the Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas Hearings, Johannah Wergin
  • Colonies, Empires, and the Gendered Subject – Respondent: Francisco Benitez – Location: ECC Asian/Pacific Islander Room
    • Écriture Féminine and Récriture Féminine: Trinh’s Redefinition of a Literary Style, Ara Chi Jung
    • “The Rendezvous of the Diseased”: Contact Zones and Cultural Contamination in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker, Maria DeBlassie
    • Desiring Subjects: Race, Pathology, and Salvation through Fanon, Foucault, and Larsen, Balbir K. Singh
  • Women of Color Feminism and the University Apparatus – Respondent: Rick Bonus – Location: ECC Native American Room
    • Sisters in the Struggle: Individual and Institutional Factors Affecting the Persistence of Black Female Doctoral Students at Predominantly White Institutions, Mounira Morris, Clark University *Invited Speaker*
    • Women of Color and Feminist Approaches to Pedagogy and Epistemology, Carol Bradley
    • Teaching the Self: Using Rhetorical Theory as a Means of Penetrating Cultural Boundaries in the First-Year Composition Classroom, Jennifer LeMesurier

Session B, 10:45-11:45

  • Sister Share: Surviving Academia Round Table Discussion – Facilitator: Joy Williamson – Location: ECC Chicano Room
    • Alexes Harris, Marisol Berrios-Miranda, Mounira Morris, Naomi Murakawa, LeiLani Nishime, Wadiya Udell, Manoucheka Celeste

    This will be a space to hear and share stories and strategies for survival in the academy as well as make connections.

  • From the Practice to the Process: Women of Color in Libraries and the Discipline of Information Science, Amelia Abreu, Marisa Duarte, Allyson Carlyle, Cynthia Del Rosario – Location: ECC Asian/Pacific Islander Room
  • Alternative Languages – Respondent: Laura Chrisman – Location: ECC Native American Room
    • Transmuting Grammars of Whiteness: Third Wave Feminism, Chicana Feminism and Questions of Difference, Rebecca Clark
    • Visual Language and a Methodology of Difference, Jessica Guidry

11:45-1, Lunch (on your own)

1:15-2:15, Keynote, Ralina Joseph
Location: Ethnic Cultural Center Theater

2:15-3:15, Keynote Conversation with Chela Sandoval and Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, moderated by Michelle Habell-Pallan
Location: Ethnic Cultural Center Theater

Session C, 3:30-4:30

  • Reimagining Histories – Respondent: Stephanie Smallwood – Location: ECC Asian/Pacific Islander Room
    • Toward a Feminista Science Studies, Sara Diaz
    • From Women to Gender: Making Women Matter in Asian American Studies, Symbol Lai
    • “Bravely Pushing On For California”: African American Women and the Making of Black Los Angeles, 1890-1929, Casey Nichols
  • Marketing Multiculturalism – Respondent: Ileana Rodríguez-Silva – Location: ECC Chicano Room
    • (De)constructing the Tourist “Bubble”: Cultural Ambassadors and the Production of Hawai’i in Tourism Discourse, Kristine Mroczek
    • The Use of Hazardous Materials and Nanoparticles in U.S. Cosmetics, Maria Victoria Peeler, Deborah Bassett
    • “A Delicious Way to Help Save Lives:” Racing Product (RED), Kate Bell
  • AutonomousResistances – Respondent: Chandan Reddy – Location: ECC Native American Room
    • My Day of Fame on Digg.com: Race, Resistance, and Public Discourse, Vanessa Au
    • A la Brava! : Autonomous Art in the Age of Neo-liberalism, Martha Gonzalez
    • Institutionalizing Antiracism: Racialization in the INTER Program, Farah Nousheen

4:30 – 5:00, Debriefing Session: Dialoguing the Process, Brainstorming the Future – moderated by Angela Ginorio
Location: ECC Native American Room

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