Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning

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“Engaging in dialogue is the key.  This is how we pass the torch.  
 Young women want to learn – and understand – where we’ve been and where we’re going.  We can help them find their own way to contribute to the continuing battle for equality.”
                                  - Diana Smith, Mayor, (Former) Village of Seneca Falls

Session I  9:00 - 10:30   (Select one session)

1. Representing Female Voices from the Margins:  University of Buffalo  and Rochester Institute of Technology Faculty Roundtable - Susan Cahn, Professor of History, Lakisha Simmons, Assistant Professor of Global Gender Studies and American Studies, Victoria Wolcott, Associate Professor of History, University of Buffalo; Tamar Carroll, Assistant Professor of History, Rebecca Edwards, Associate Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology  

2. Manuals for Civil Disobedience: Reading as Activism from Modernism to Post-colonialism, Lehigh/Kutztown PA Faculty/Student Roundtable - Colleen Lutz Clemens, Assistant Professor, Non-Western Literatures, Kutztown, PA - Colleen Martell, Adjunct Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Lehigh University; Students:   David Kalis; KJ Monro

3. Female Icons in Popular Culture:  Constructing and Contesting Gender Identity from Medusa to Madonna, Monroe Community College  Student/Faculty Roundtable  - Elizabeth Johnston, Associate Professor of English, Monroe Community College; Students: Amanda Hayslip, Anna Price, Keith Ingalls, Ashley Wallace

Session II   10:45 - 11:45

1.  Performing Womanifestas :Emerging Third Wave Feminist Voices,   St. John Fisher College Student Roundtable -  Lindsey Kocher, Melissa Guck, Elizabeth Vetter, Alexa Zeller, St, John Fisher College

2.  Feminist Disruptions: Politics of Identity and Place: Brockport Student Roundtable  - Lucienne Nicholson, Ashley McKay, Johnny Giliberti, Laura Clark; Barbara LeSavoy, Director, Women and Gender Studies, The College at Brockport

3. Troubling Leadership:  A Dialogue About Gendered Leadership and Strategies for  Change:  Ohio, Kent State /Faculty Roundtable  - Susan Iverson Associate Professor Higher Education Administration & Student Personnel, Kent State University

Session III  1:00- 2:30

1. If a Voice Falls in the Forest: A Dialogue Toward Reconsidering Silence,   University of Rochester, Warner School of Education,  Doctoral Student Roundtable - Courtney Hanny, Adrienne Morgan, Nahoko Kawakyu O'Connor, Julie White

2. Female Adolescents: Exposure Overload Conflicts with Self Identity, St. John Fisher Student Roundtable  - Marissa Petta, Gesley Randazzo, Samantha Davis

3. Feminist Theory Off the Page: Difference and Dialogue Hobart William Smith, University of Toronto, and University of Rochester Faculty/Student Roundtable - Emily Regan Wills, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Jessica Hayes-Conroy, Assistant Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Christina Samedy, Nora Burd, Smith College, Alykhan Alani, University of Rochester

Session IV  2:45 - 3:45

1.  Frances Barrier Williams: Teaching with Historic Markers  Brockport Faculty - Mary Corey, Associate Professor, Education and Human Development, The College at Brockport

2.  Sisterhood and Feminism: Engaging Women Studies Students in the Community,   University of Rochester Student Roundtable - Angela Clark Taylor, Program Manager, Susan B Anthony Institute, Erika Howard, Lecora Massmaba, Maggie Maxwell, University of Rochester

3.  What Would Alice Paul Do: Creating a "Take Back the Night Event:" A Student Perspective on Civic Engagement and Feminist Practice on a University Campus Wyoming Student Roundtable - Coleen Denney, Director and Professor in Gender and Women Studies, University of Wyoming; Samantha Fawcett, Sean, Miller, Alex Brink, Jennifer Cheddar, University of Wyoming

7:00        Dinner and Award Ceremony:  Dr, Nancy Hewitt:  Rutgers University,  "Race, Region and Rights: Re-casting the U.S. Women's Suffrage Movement."  Keynote/Women's Institute for Leadership and Learning Award Recipient

Sunday October 21st

10:00 - 12:00  Keynote Address - Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, Judy Richardson,  Betty Robinson, Dorothy Zellner

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