REGISTRATION/ CHECK IN: First Floor, Plemmons Student Union
Session 1, 3:00-5:00 p.m. , Old Library Classroom Bldg #13 (note: not Plemmons Student Union)
WORKSHOP: Ecological Revolution: Visionary Thinking and Practice in our Personal Lives
Mary Anne Maier, Caldwell Community College, Boone, NC
Thursday 2 April, 3:30-4:45 p.m.
Session 2, “Gender and Religion” Old Library Classroom Bldg #16 13 (note: not Plemmons Student Union)
“Where Do You Go to Church?” and Other Tricky Questions of Feminism and Spiritual Beliefs
C.S. Geneva and K. C. Gott, East Tennessee State University
“Death by Fire: Sati in Contemporary India”
Kay K. Jordan, Radford University
“Converging on the Heterosexual Dyad: The Evolution of Mormon and Seventh-day Adventist Sexual Norms”
Laura Vance, Warren Wilson College
Session 3, “Women’s Well-Being Initiative : Creating Strong Environments for Women and Girls” PANEL, Old Library Classroom Bldg #17 13 (note: not Plemmons Student Union)
“Conceptual Approach and Overview: Integration of Community Outreach, Advocacy, Education, and Research in a Women’s and Gender Studies Program”
DeAnne Messias, University of South Carolina
“Community-Engagement through Outreach, Education, and Action Projects”
Sheri Hardee, University of South Carolina
“Incorporating Research into Community Engagement: The West Columbia
Assessment Initiative”
Beth Fadeley, student, Univ. of South Carolina
“Community/University Collaboration: The WWBI Juvenile Arbitration
Project”
Amanda Lambert, student, Univ. of South Carolina
As well as holding the Maxine and Arnold Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science, Elisabeth Lloyd is a Professor of Biology, and holds Adjunct positions in the Philosophy Department and the Center for the Integrated Study of Animal Behavior, and in addition is an Affiliated Faculty Scholar at the Kinsey Institute and Associated Faculty of the Cognitive Science Program, all at Indiana University.
Lloyd’s early research interests focused around models and confirmation in evolutionary biology, and her book on the topic, The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory, 1998/1994, was a finalist for the Lakatos Award. She also edited Keywords in Evolutionary Biology with Evelyn Fox Keller (1992). She pursued her theoretical ideas about natural selection with Stephen Jay Gould and published two articles with him. Her interests in philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science, and gender issues, are pursued in her book, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, given the Bonnie and Vern Bullough Award from the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Some of her essays are collected in her new book, Science, Evolution, and Politics, 2008.
Session 4, “Putting Women’s Studies to Work: A Classroom Story of Academics into Activists” PANEL, Watauga Room (102)
Kelly Finley, UNC-Charlotte
And 6 students, UNC-Charlotte
Session 5, “Women in the Book Arts: Community Building, the Environment, and an Attempt to Transcend” PANEL, Roan Mountain (120)
Amy Brock-Reed, University of Alabama
Others
Session 6, “Pop Culture and the Media” Calloway Peak (137A)
“The Minstrel Show: The ‘Blaxploitation’ of Lesbians and Media Culture”
Tatianna Hunt, student, USC-Upstate
“Blunt Sexuality: Sadomasochism, the Heterosexual Imaginary, and Neo-Imperialist Shakedowns in Showtime’s WEEDS”
Andrea Miller, student, USC-Upstate
“Gendered Concert Bands, Engendered Composers”
Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment, student, Univ. of Georgia
Chair: Patricia Napiorski, Appalachian State University
Session 7, “What do you mean, you don’t eat meat?” ROUNDTABLE, Attic Melanie DeMaeyer, student, University of Alabama
Jami Harris, student, Univ. of Alabama
Laura Page, student, Univ. of Alabama
Rachel Watts, student, Univ. of Alabama
FILM: “Up Close and Toxic” (45 min.) – Greenbriar Theater, Plemmons Student Union
Session 8, “Understanding Science as a Contextual Activity: Feminist Pedagogy and Science Studies” PANEL, New River (100)
Louise Temple, Emory University
Alysia Davis, student, Emory University
Session 9: “Families and Parenting,” Roan Mountain (120)
“Deconstructing Parenting: Parenting Ecologies and Liminal Be(ing) as Sites for Empowering Young Children”
S. B. Schneider, Virginia Tech
“Fictions of Youth: Adolescent Bodies and the Cultural Construction of Adolescence”
Laura Boutwell, student, Virginia Tech
“Heather has Two Mommies and Other Children’s Books:
Queer(y)ing the Natural Family Unit”
Kaylee Rogers and Rachel Reinke, students, College of Charleston
Session 10: “The Novel, Gender, and the Environment” Calloway Peak (137)
“Darwinian Approaches to Marriage in H. Rider Haggard’s SHE”
Esther Godfrey, Univ. of South Carolina, Upstate
“The Ecological Fictions of Virginia Woolf”
Joanna Pierce, Mars Hill College
“THE SCARLET LETTER: Walking in Hester’s Wilderness”
Brandie Ashe, student, Georgia College & SU
Chair: Kristina Groover, Appalachian State University
Session 11: “The Concept of Home” Macrae Peak (137)
“Take Back the Kitchen: A New Agenda for Feminism’s Fourth Wave”
Peggy Rivage-Seul, Berea College
“Feminism, Embodiment, and the Architecture of Home”
Laura E. Prestwood, Texas Christian University
“What We Still Do Not Know about Intimate Partner Violence Among Same-Sex Partners: Strategies for IPV Research”
Janet Martin, student, Warren Wilson College
Session 12: Women and the Environment , Linville Falls (226)
“An Ecological Feminist Perspective on Radical Climate Change”
Cecilia Herles, University of Georgia
“Native Americans, Appalachians and Coal: Women’s Struggles to Preserve Environments”
Jennifer Cohen-Jordan, Appalachian State University
“Why Should Ecofeminists be Interested in Toxicology?”
Jessica Pack , student, Appalachian State University
Chair: Barbara Ellen Smith, Director, Women’s and Gender Studies, Virginia Tech
FILM: Greenbriar Theater, Plemmons Student Union
“Black Diamonds” (72 min)
Session 13: “Gender, Poetry, and the Environment” Watauga (102)
“The Transformations of the ‘Mother-Goddess, Daughter-Consort and Poet’ in Rita Dove’s Mother Love”
Susana M. Morris, Auburn University
“The Web of Gaia, the earth-life Goddess: An examination of Gary Snyder’s Vision of Eco-logos”
Leon Lewis, Appalachian State University
“Masculine/Feminine/Other: Rethinking Woman in Book I of THE FAERIE QUEENE”
Megan Stoner Morgan, student, Univ. of Georgia
Chair: Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Appalachian State University
Session 14: “Part of Nature: On the Philosophy of Val Plumwood” PANEL, Calloway (137A)
“Mad Cows, (Black) Man Monkeys, Aged Dinosaurs, and Lipsticked Pit
Bulls: Nature/Body Hate Messages in 2008 Campaign Commercial Paraphernalia”
Jane Caputi, Florida Atlantic University
“The Greedy, the Macabre and the Sick?: Thinking Dead Bodies that
Matter through the Work of Val Plumwood”
Suzanne Kelly, SUNY New Paltz
“When It Comes to Oil, Who Gets Drilled?: Val Plumwood and Oil Addiction Rhetoric”
Benjamin Tucker, student, Florida Atlantic University
Session 15: “Rethinking Women’s Studies” PANEL, Macrae (137 B)
“Sexuality”
Lisa Johnson, University of South Carolina, Upstate
“Community”
Martha McCaughey, Appalachian State University
“Besiegement”
Alison Piepmeier, College of Charleston
“Queer”
Jennifer Purvis, University of Alabama
Chair: Amber Kinser, East Tennessee State University
Session 16: “Gender, Women, and Millennial Ideas” Attic (137 C)
“The Politics of the Polluted Body in the Genomics Age”
Kelly Happe, University of Georgia
“What are Women’s Bodies Worth to Progress? An Analysis of the UN Millennium Development Goals”
Jessica Morgan, student, University of Cincinnati
“Microcredit Programs Support MDG’s: Women’s Empowerment in New Bakpa, Volta Region, Ghana”
Lonette M. Williams, student, Univ. of Alabama
Session 17: “Goddesses and Spirituality” Linville Falls (226)
“Multicultural-Ecofeminist Theorizing, Spirituality, and Activism: Instructional Resources and Pedagogical Principles for Course Development”
Claire L. Sahlin, Texas Woman’s University
“Reclaiming the Goddess by Reclaiming Sacred Sexuality”
Judy Combast, student, Florida Atlantic University
“Sheela-na-gigs: Women’s Bodies in Limited Space”
Georgia Rhoades, Appalachian State University
Chair: Beth Carroll, Appalachian State University
FILMS: Greenbriar Theater, Plemmons Student Union
“The Enviroment: Scientific Spin Doctors” (29 min)
“Sludge” (40 min)
Dr. Chris Cuomo, University of Georgia, “Climate Change, Ethics, and Local Knowledge.”
Chris Cuomo is a theorist, activist, and artist, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, and Director of the Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. Her work is in ethics and political theory, feminist philosophy, critical race theory, environmental philosophy, science studies, and performance. She is the author of The Philosopher Queen: Feminist Essays on War, Love & Knowledge, which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and an American Philosophical Association Book Award, and Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing, and co-editor of The Feminist Philosophy Reader. She is currently working on a project on indigenous knowledge concerning climate change in Northern Alaska.
12:00-1:15: Linville Falls (226): Marilou Awiakta meets with selected students
Session 18: “Weeding the Garden: Restructuring the Feminine in Nature’s Space” PANEL, New River (100)
“Exhausted Gardens and Fallen Women: Carceral Systems of Great Expectations and Urania Cottage”
Suzanne Samples, student, Auburn University
“The Green Mythology of the “Golden Afternoon”: Alice’s Deployment of
“Queenly Power” in the Wonderland Eco-system”
Adriane Smith, student, Auburn University
“Leaning Against the Wind: Self-Redemption in Marilynne Robinson’s
Housekeeping”
Steele Campbell, student, Auburn University
Session 18A: “Gender, Ecofeminism, and the Novel” Roan (120)
“The Spiritual Ecofeminism of Charles Frazier’s COLD MOUNTAIN”
Monica Miller, student, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Dirt, Dominance, and Dis/obedience in Julia Alvarez’s IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES”
Angela LaGrotteri, student, Emory University
Session 19: “Reconsidering the Beats as a Feminist/Green Model” PANEL, Watauga (102)
Lori Horvitz, UNC-Asheville
Michelle Barbeau, student, UNC-Asheville
Sarah Erickson, student, UNC-Asheville
Jenna Nickerson, student, UNC-Asheville
Rachel Poole, student, UNC-Asheville
Session 20: “A Pedagogical Discussion on Teaching Ecofeminism” PANEL, Calloway (137 A)
Lisa Thomson Ross, moderator, College of Charleston
Helen Delfeld, College of Charleston
Claire Curtis, College of Charleston
Jennifer Wright, College of Charleston
Session 21: “Gender, Well-Being, and the Body” Macrae (137 B)
“’Girl Power’, Feminism, and Mandates: Strategies Utilized by Merck & Co. in Distributing HPV Vaccine GARDASIL”
Malika Redmond, student, Georgia State University
“Leveling the Playing Field . . . with a Wrecking Ball: Physical Disability and Psychological Well-Being”
Amy Sorensen, student, Virginia Tech
“Title IX and Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: Beyond Athletics”
Rachael Stimpson, student, Virginia Tech
Chair: Elaine O’Quinn, Appalachian State University
Session 22: “Gendered Visualities” Linville Falls (226)
“Leaving Venus Behind: The New Intersections of Disability, Women, and Sculpture”
Ann Fox, Davidson College
“Images and Imagined Lives of Women from Prehistory to Today”
Mary Magoulick, Georgia College and SU
“Depiction of Women in Cosmopolitan Perfume Advertisements”
Tina Mazzotta and Naila Malik, students, USC-Upstate
Chair: Jill Ehnenn, Appalachian State University
FILM: Greenbriar Theater, Plemmons Student Union
“The Shape of Water” (70 min)
Session 23: “Women’s History” Roan (120)
“Gender, Race & Social Class in the North Carolina Populist Movement”
Laura R. Woliver, University of South Carolina
“Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961): Feminist Pacifist, Internationalist,
Environmentalist”
Maggie McFadden, Appalachian State University
“Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, and the Impact of Home Economics at Cornell University in the Rural Environment”
Lynne Benson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“Women and the Christian Democratic Union in Germany since 1982: A Three-Dimensional Analysis”
Katrin Deil, student, Appalachian State University
Chair: Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State University
Session 24: “Food and Feminism(s): Eco-enlightened Nurturing” PANEL, Calloway (137 A)
Alice Weldon, UNC-Asheville
Patience Harrison Perry, Appalachian State University
Holly Roark, Appalachian State University
Amy Lanou, UNC-Asheville
Session 25: “Animals, Spirituality, and Food” Macrae (137 B)
“Seeing the Animals We Would Destroy”
Janet Mason Ellerby, Univ. of North Carolina, Wilmington
“Flesh of My Flesh: Embodied Magic in Mayan Spirituality as a Response to the Ethical Treatment of Animals”
Elizabeth Clift, Duke Univ. Divinity School
“Feeding Spirituality, (E)racing Borders: African American Sunni Muslim Women (Re)Defining the Politics of Food” (cancelled)
Lisa Frazier, Georgia State University
Chair: Kathy Rudy, Duke University
Session 26: “Thinking, Feeling, and Acting” Attic (137 C)
“Mathematics: A Vehicle for Rational Change”
Nathaniel Chandler, student, New College of Florida
“Tea and Empathy: The Gendered Commodification of Tea”
Millie Coleman, student, Georgia State University
“When Women Act: The Gendered Nature of Political Participation”
Meredith Katz, student, Virginia Tech
Session 27: “Reproduction” Linville Falls (226)
“Environmental Racism and Infant Mortality in the U.S.”
Susan Logsdon-Conradsen, Berry College
“Precocious Puberty: An Evolutionary Cost of Not Breastfeeding”
Taylor Livingston, student, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Racial(izing) Reproductive Rights: Black Women, Poverty, and Birth Control”
Kathryn M. Smith, student, Florida Atlantic University
“A Pregnant Language: The Hidden Discourse of Patriarchy and Power in Prepared Birth Practices”
Marissa Tappy, student, UNC-Charlotte
Chair: Allison Carr Holmes, Davidson County Community College
FILM: Greenbriar Theater, Plemmons Student Union
“Crude Impact” (98 min)
Marilou Awiakta was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and brought up in Oak Ridge, a nuclear research center. She is well known for her writing, which creates a unique weaving of her Cherokee-Appalachian heritages with science to express her basic theme: respect for the web of life. Blending stories, essays, and poetry, Awiakta's writings have received numerous awards. Her books include Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet (1978), Rising Fawn and the Fire Mystery: A Child's Christmas in Memphis (1983), and Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom (1993). She graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1958 with a B.A. in both English and French, and recently received an honorary doctorate in "Humane Letters" from Albion College in Michigan.
Black Sheep Theatre and Appalachian State University’s Women’s Studies Program present Witchwork, written by Appalachian State University professor Georgia Rhoades and directed by Mary Anne Maier, on Friday, April 3, and Saturday, April 4. Admission is $5.00 at the door.
Witchwork tells the stories of women accused of witchcraft in the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries in England and Ireland. Based on court transcripts, histories, and oral tradition, Witchwork allows the survivors to tell their stories of escaping torture and death.
The main storyteller is Mother Shipton of Knaresborough in Yorkshire, England, who lived in the 16th century and was accused of witchcraft by Cardinal Wolsey. Grace O’Malley, the Pirate Queen of the Connemara and a contemporary of Elizabeth I, defied convention and led forays into her 70’s. Two Irish women who did not escape were the mother of the Gingerbread Woman, Petronilla of Meath, the first Irish woman to be burned as a witch in Kilkenny in the 14th century, and Florence Newton, of Youghal in southeast Ireland, killed because she could not remember “The Lord’s Prayer.”
Through dance, music, slides, and dialogue, we tell their stories as well as those of women from Yorkshire, Essex, Cumbria, and Massachusetts, some who claimed to have the power to see the future and some who never even knew what they were accused of.
Included in the cast with Rhoades are Sarah Carpenter, Erin Zimmerman, Kirstin Schreiber (these three ASU Women’s Studies alumnae), Anna Ward, Kirsten Tiedemann, and Dennis Bohr, co-founder of Black Sheep.
Black Sheep Theatre, founded in 1992 by Rhoades, Bohr and Maier, is dedicated to writing and performing original political work. Contact Bohr at bohrdj@appstate.edu for more information about Black Sheep Theatre.
FILM: Greenbriar Theater, Plemmons Student Union
“Toxic Bust” (41 min)
Session 28: “The Role of Gender on Environmental Decision-Making” PANEL New River (100)
“Gender Influence on Weatherization and Household Energy Conservation Decision-making in Northwestern North Carolina.”
Lisa Redman, student, Appalachian State University
Christopher A. Badurek, SUNY-Buffalo
“The Social Aspects and Consequences of Forest Conservation and the Role
of Women as an Alternative to the Displacement of Forest Dwellers”
Kelly Ann Renwick, Appalachian State University
“Gender, Migration, and Education in North Carolina”
Maria S. Lew, SUNY-Buffalo
Session 29: “There’s Ecofeminism in Them Thar Hills”: Women as Environmental Advocates through Spirituality, PANEL, Watauga (102)
Discussant: Heather Casey, Brenau University
“Christian practice and Ecofeminism: A Case Study of the Newtown Florist
Club”
Laura Bolling, student, Brenau University
“Divergent religious views and Ecofeminism:
A Case Study of Georgia
Interfaith Power and Light”
Jessica Maynard, student, Brenau University
““Ecofeminism – News At 11 Eastern, 8 Pacific”; A Comparative Analysis of Media Representations of Ecofeminism”
Maggie Renfro, student, Brenau University
“Ecofeminist Judeo-Christianity: A review of existing literature”
Leigh Richards, student, Brenau University
“Cedar Hill: Spirituality, Ecofeminism and
Earth Education in the North Georgia Mountains”
Theresa Rinderknecht, student, Brenau University
Session 30: “Rural Women and Herbology” Linville Falls (226)
“Healthy Women and Healthy Forests: Prospects for Sustainable Management of an Ethnobotanical Herb, Black Cohosh, in Western Maryland”
Sunshine L. Brosi, Frostburg State University
“Conserving Women’s Herbal Healing Wisdom: Protecting Black Cohosh in Eastern Forests”
Natalie A. Walsh, student, Frostburg State University
Session 31: “The Environment of Biography: Comparing Women’s Lives in the Context of Place” PANEL, Mountain Laurel (229)
“Of Deserts and Desolation: Trading Post Wives on the Navajo Reservation”
Lynne M. Getz, Appalachian State University
“Bertha Cone: Matron of the Cone Manor”
Neva Specht, Appalachian State University
"Writing Family Stories: Across America"
Pat Beaver, Appalachian State University
FILMS: Greenbriar Theater, Plemmons Student Union
“The Story of Stuff” (20 min)
“The 11th Hour” (93 min)
To remake the world, to challenge the structures of power that create inequality and injustice, we need courage and vision. In this workshop, Starhawk helps us find the inner tools that can free our imaginations to envision a society that serves life and honors diversity. The processes of birth, growth, death, decay, and regeneration that occur in the seasons, the plants, and the soil are models for our own growth and for human community. Starhawk draws on her experience with earth-based spirituality, feminism, permaculture, and nonviolent direct action to teach tools and skills that can help us be effective agents of change. This workshop will include writing.
The workshop will be within walking distance of the Appalachian State Student Union, at the Agricultural Conference Center (see map in packet).
2. Bus trip to Ripshin Dairy Goat Farm (cancelled)
A bus will depart on Sat, April 4 at 2:30pm from College Street; you should get there by 3:00. You’ll spend two hours on the tour and be back in Boone by approximately 5:30pm. You can buy goat cheese while you’re at the farm assuming it’s available. The farm accepts cash and personal checks only. Wear “farm clothes”--or at least comfortable shoes--if possible so you can pet the goats and see the kids who will be only 2 months old.
Ripshin Goat Dairy is located at 1865 Highway 268 Lenoir, North Carolina.