Student
Conference on Gender, Diversity, and Identity An International and Interdisciplinary Women's Forum |
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Free and Open to the Public! |
Conference
Program |
| Friday,
March 5, University
Union Saltair Room - 9:00 a.m. -- 5:30 p.m. |
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| 9:00
a.m.--9:10 a.m. Welcome |
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Barbara
Snyder, Vice
President for Student Affairs, University of Utah |
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9:10
a.m.--9:20 a.m. Introduction |
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Deen
Chatterjee (University
of Utah) |
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9:20
a.m.--10:15 a.m. Keynote Address |
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Chair
: Rachel Meurer (Utah
Valley State College) |
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Michele
Moody-Adams (Cornell
University) |
"Gender, Culture, and Agency" |
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10:30
a.m.--12:15 p.m. |
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Panel
I: Borders and Boundaries: Negotiating Identities |
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Chair
: Ines Campoverde (University
of Utah) |
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Kaija
Rossi (University
of Turku, Finland) |
"The
Multicultural Challenge: Discussing Difference in Scandinavia" |
K.B.
Hom (University
of Utah) |
"How
Chinese Do You Need Me to Be?" |
Sarah
Alexander (Yale
University) |
"Straddling
the Boundaries of Identities: Algerian Immigrants in Paris" |
Hiba
Al-Zahawi (University
of Utah) |
"A
Look on Life From Behind the Veil" |
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12:15
p.m.--1:30 p.m. LUNCH |
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1:30p.m.--3:15
p.m. |
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Panel
II: Servility, Oppression, and Empowerment |
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Chair
: Aarti Sahney (University
of Utah) |
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Jennifer
Yip (Princeton
University) |
"Servility and Self-Respect Reconsidered" |
Laura
Duzett (Utah
Valley State College) |
"Women: Educated, Marketed, Bought, and Sold As Man-Made Tools for Mediation" |
Souad
Ali (University
of Utah) |
"Emergence of Egyptian Feminism" |
Keerthi
Arani (University
of Washington) |
"Identity and Empowerment in the Age of the Gene" |
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3:30
p.m.--5:30 p.m. |
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Panel
III: Culture, Conflict, and Globalization |
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Chair
: Poloko Mmonadibe (University
of Utah) |
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Evelyn
Carter (Grant
Macewan College, Alberta, Canada) |
"Homogeneity, Globalization,
and First Nation Canadians: New Challenges to Cultural Identity" |
Angela
Mazer (UCLA) |
"Women
and Democratization: Dynamics of Identity and Gender in the Balkans" |
Rose
Montoya (University
of Utah) |
"How
International Law Legitimizes Gender Hierarchy in 'Developing Countries'" |
Tala
Manassah (University
of Chicago) |
"On
the Imperative of Cosmopolitanism for Human Rights" |
Hye-ryoung
Kang (University
of Colorado) |
"Beyond
Cosmopolitanism and Nation-Statism: Towards a Trans-National Feminist
Justice Perspective" |