Thank you to all those who helped make this year’s event a success! We’ll see you next year!
If you have pictures from this year’s event that you are willing to share, please post them to the group photo pool here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/woccuw2011
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First I Dream, May 25, 26, & 27 2011
Keynotes: Walker Ames Lecturer Dr. Valerie Smith and Drs. Régine Jean-Charles and Michelle Habell-Pallán
Women of Color Collective
University of Washington, Seattle
Sponsored by the UW Diversity Research Institute.
Additional support has been provided by: American Ethnic Studies, Communication, Ethnomusicology, GO-MAP, GPSS, Herring-Phelps Endowment in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW-Bothell, Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Conference Schedule
Wednesday May 25, 2011 – Ethnic Cultural Center Theater
4:00-6:30 Reception and Keynote
Keynote by Walker Ames Lecturer, Valerie Smith
Performance by Faviola Romero
Film Screening
The Women of Color Collective: Creating Spaces for Women of Color in Academia by Monica De La Torre and Noralis Rodríguez
& Proclamation by Clementine Bordeaux
Thursday May 26, 2011
12:00-1:30 Brown Bag Discussion- Communication 321
Gender, Race, Religion, and Social Justice with Nina Kim and Manoucheka Celeste
2:00-3:15 Coffee with Vince Diaz and Joanne Barker – Roosevelt Common Building, Rm 416
Enjoy afternoon coffee and good conversation with Professors Diaz and Barker and your fellow Indigenous and activist UW grad students and faculty. Also, after the conversation, join us in attending the 4 pm talk “Navigating the Politics of Indigeneity, Authenticity, and Gender” in the Allen Auditorium.
Friday May 27, 2011 – William H. Gates Hall
8:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Welcome/Convocation – Rm. 138
9:30-10:30 Session A
Theorizing the Dream, Respondent: Sara Díaz – Rm. 115
v Miriam Valdovinos, “Dreaming Because We Can!”
v Erika Abad, “Women’s Bridges and Borders Between the Academy and the Nonprofit Sector”
v Emilia Muller-Ginorio, “‘I Have a Dream’ and Other Impossibilities”
Dreaming of Transnational Collectivity among Women of Color – Rm. 212
vCoco Magallanes, Theres Clark, Irene Sánchez
Dreaming from the Ashes – Rm. 117
v Jeanette Bushnell, “Performing Words in the Academy: Indigenous Feminist Methodology”
v Clementine Bordeaux
10:40-11:45 Session B
Speaking to the Silence: Re-Dreaming Feminist Narratives, Respondent: Rick Bonus-Rm. 117
v Neena Goswamy, “Flames to Fuel the Fire: The Imagined Militarization of Hindu Women”
v Tabassum Ruby, “Hegemonies and the Question of Muslim Women’s Rights: Reimagining Feminist Theory and Praxis”
v Hajer Al-Faham, “Walking While Muslim: the Legal Stigmatization of Muslim American Women”
Survival Through Sisterhood: Developing the Graduate Women of Color Collective at UW Bothell, Respondent: Susan Harewood – Rm. 115
v Amanda Martin Sandino, Priya Frank, Mona Halcomb, Theryn B Kigvamasud’Vashti
Creative Workshop - Rm. 212
With Rachel Chapman and Martha González
12:00-1:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:15 – 3:15 Keynote – Rm. 133
With Michelle Habell-Pallán and Régine Jean-Charles
With Poetry read by Sara Díaz and Noralis Rodríguez
Performance by JusMoni
3:30-5:00 Session C
Imagining Interventions: Challenging Representations, Respondent: Stephanie Smallwood – Rm. 115
v Jodi Thompson, “Demystifying Moynihan’s Myth: A Black Feminist Analysis of The Color Purple.”
v Leanne Day, ““Tyler Perry’s Film Silences Ntozake’s Rainbow-Colored Collective Voice.”
v Chieko Phillips, “Mixed Race on Display: A Call for Imagination in Public Identity Exploration”
v Barbie-Daneille DeCarlo and Angela Macklin, “I Saw You on the Radio! Women Who Rock Build Solidarity Through Participatory Community Media”
Sister Share Round Table - Rm. 117
5:00 – 6:00 Reception and Debriefing
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