May 7-8, University of Illinois
Thursday, May 7
Levis Music Room
10:00 - 10:25 am: Coffee
10:25 am: Welcome
10:30 am - 12:00pm: Panel 1
Ranjana Khanna (Duke University)
“Hope, Demand, and the Perpetual”
Linda Martín Alcoff (CUNY)
“Sexual Violence in a Global Framework”
Chair: Dara Goldman (Spanish, Latina/Latino Studies)
12:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 - 3:30pm: Panel 2
Aimee Cox (Rutgers University, Newark)
“Redefining Resistance: Young Black Women and
New Trajectories in Feminist Research and Advocacy”
Mary L. Gray (Indiana University)
“You've got to fight for your right...to marry? A queer feminist
critique of same-sex marriage (or why I want to divorce the
gay and lesbian non-profit industrial complex)”
Chair: Stephanie Foote (English, Gender & Women’s Studies)
3:30 - 4:00 pm: Coffee
4:00 - 6:00 pm: Film Screening and Discussion (co-sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities)
"Who Does She Think She Is?" (2008)
Directed by Oscar-winning producer Pamela Tanner Boll
Krannert Art Museum, Room 62
Sarah Projansky (Gender & Women’s Studies, Institute of
Communications Research, Cinema Studies)
Angharad N. Valdivia (Gender & Women’s Studies, Institute of
Communications Research)
Terri Weissman (Art History)
Moderator: Christine Catanzarite (IPRH, Cinema Studies)
Friday, May 8
Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
10:00 - 10:30 am: Coffee
10:30 am- 12:00 pm: Panel 3
Diane Negra (University College Dublin)
“Failing Women: Hollywood and Its Chick
Flick Audience”
Nadine Naber (University of Michigan)
“De-Colonizing Arab-ness: Beyond Orientalist
and Anti-Orientalist Feminisms”
Chair: Sarah Projansky (Gender & Women’s Studies,
Institute of Communications Research, Cinema Studies)
12:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 pm: Keynote Lecture
Patricia J. Williams (Columbia University
and columnist, The Nation)
“The Feminist Genome”
Introduction: Francis Boyle (College of Law)
4:15 - 5:45 pm: Closing Roundtable
Ruth Nicole Brown (Gender & Women’s Studies,
Educational Policy Studies)
Jose B. Capino (English, Cinema Studies)
Mimi Nguyen (Gender & Women’s Studies, Asian
American Studies)
Shefali Chandra (Gender & Women’s Studies, History)
Chair: Anna Stenport (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
Co-sponsored by College of Law; Center for Advanced Study; Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society; Gender & Women's Studies; Unit for Cinema Studies; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics; Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese; Center for Global Studies; the Trowbridge Office on American Literature, Culture and Society; Department of Anthropology; Department of English; Department of History; Department of Philosophy; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program; School of Art and Design; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Department of French; Department of Political Science.
For more information, contact Lauren Goodlad (lgoodlad@illinois.edu) or consult the Unit for Criticism website: http://criticism.english.uiuc.edu
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