Not Drowning But Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts Conference

University of Alberta
October 12-14, 2006

Programme (Finalized)

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Thursday, 12 October 2006

2:00-5:00 Registration

3:30 Welcome from University of Alberta President Indira Samarasekera

Chair: Heather Zwicker

3:45-4:15: Opening address: Aritha van Herk, "Drowning in Bathtubs: Feminist Submergences"

4:15-5:30 Opening Plenary Session: Making a Splash: Feminists in Literature, History and the Academy

  • Patricia Demers (U of Alberta; President, Royal Society of Canada) - "Laying the Mosaic Floor: The Tessera of Hilda Neatby, Jill Ker Conway and Patricia Clements"
  • Noreen Golfman (Memorial U; President-Elect, CFHSS) - "Swimming To Utopia: Feminist Academics at Work"

5:30-7:00 Reception, Lobby of the Rutherford South Library

Launch of the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library exhibit The Blue Sky Their Horizon: Alberta Women Making History, curated by Mridula Nath Chakraborty (U of Alberta)

Introduction by Robert Desmarais, Bruce Peel Special Collections Library. Brief address by Mridula Nath Chakraborty, exhibit curator

*Thursday night reception generously provided by the Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta

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Friday, 13 October 2006

8:00 Coffee and Muffins

8:00-4:00 Registration

8:45 Welcome from Daniel Woolf, Dean (Faculty of Arts) [5-04 West Conference Room]

9:00-10:30 Plenary 2: Women in/as Suits [5-04 West Conference Room]

Chair: Susan Brown

  • Isobel Grundy (U of Alberta) - "Pre-Professional Women"
  • Christine Overall (Queen's U) - "What I Learned in Deanland, or The Adventures of a (Female) Associate Dean"
  • Donna Palmateer Pennee (U of Guelph) - "'I Forgot the Attachment' and Other Casualties of Academic Labour at the Present Time"

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00-12:30Parallel Sessions

Session A: Teaching Feminists [5-04 West Conference Room]

Chair: Sharon Rosenberg

  • Catherine Caufield (Nursing, U of Alberta), "From Feminist Theory to Nursing Practice"
  • Beth Pentney (Simon Fraser U), "Oh My Femagogy: Feminist Pedagogy in Practice"

Session B: Technologies [5-13 Eric Geddes Lab]

Chair: Julie Rak

  • Kathryn Carter (Wilfred Laurier, Brantford) - "Autobiography and the Academic Woman, or Blogging and the Profgrrl"
  • Tedra Osell (U of Guelph) - "Networking with Nobody"
  • Elan Paulson (U of Western Ontario) - "Feminist Theory, Editorial Methodology, and the Hypertext Edition"

Session C: Refeminizing the University [5-06 West Boardroom]

Chair: Claudine Potvin

  • Cecily Devereux (U of Alberta) - "Postpartum. Academic. Depression."
  • Mary Lynn Broe (Rochester Institute of Technology) - "Biting Off Too Much Sky? Or Metabolizing Women's Studies? Over 35 Years Working in 'The Life'"

12:30-1:30LUNCH (provided) and Demonstration of the Orlando Textbase [5-13 Eric Geddes Lab]

1:30-3:00 Plenary 3: Artist/Feminist [5-04 West Conference Room]

Chair: Anne Whitelaw

  • Jane Ash Poitras (Edmonton, independent artist) - Feminism Menism Menopause Womenpause

3:00-3:30Coffee

3:30-5:00: Parallel Sessions

Session D: Feminisms, Pedagogies, Embodiments [5-04 West Conference Room]

Chair: Lynne Van Luven

Round table discussion with six University of Alberta teachers: Judy Davidson (Physical Education and Recreation), Cressida Heyes (Philosophy), David Kahane (Philosophy), Catherine Kellogg (Political Science), Michael O'Driscoll (English and Film Studies), and Sharon Rosenberg (Sociology)

Session E: Community and Academy [5-13 Eric Geddes Lab]

Chair: Lisa Gotell

  • Rosalind Kerr (U of Alberta) - "The Feminist-Lesbian Spectator as Queer Canadian Theatre Critic"
  • Ann Wilson (U of Guelph) - "Feminism and the University: Negotiating Community"
  • Simone Gareau (Faculté St-Jean, U of Alberta) - "Stolen Moments: Feminist Work Ethic"

Session F: Generations of Vindication: History in/of Feminisms [5-04 West Boardroom]

Chair: Cecily Devereux

  • Ann B. Shteir (York U) - "Vindicating whom? Waving at Mary Wollstonecraft, Enlightenment philosophe"
  • Katherine Binhammer (U of Alberta) - "Did 'Liberal Feminism' Drown Vindication?: Reviving Wollstonecraft for Future Histories of Feminism"
  • Mridula Nath Chakraborty - (U of Alberta) "Invocations of a Past, Intimations of a Future: archival projects"

7:00-10:00 Muttart Conservatory: Reception, Buffet Dinner, and music by the Syzygy String Quartet (University of Alberta students). And guerrilla feminist performance art!

Space is limited to the first 100 registrants. If your conference package does not include a ticket and you would like to attend, check with the registration desk for availability. If you have a ticket but do not plan to attend, please make your ticket available at the registration desk.

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Saturday, 14 October 2006

8:00 Coffee and Muffins

8:00-12:30Registration

8:00-4:00Book Fair

9:00-10:30 Plenary 4: Feminism and Social Justice [5-04 West Conference Room]

Chair: Jeanne Perreault

  • M. Jacqui Alexander (U of Toronto) - "Teaching for Justice"
  • Len Findlay (U of Saskatchewan) - "Western Feminism and the Multicultural University: Lessons for Libertarians Now"

10:30-11:00Coffee

11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions

Session G: Waves [5-13 Eric Geddes Lab]

Chair: Heather Murray

Session B: Poetics in Action [5-04 West Conference Room]

Chair: Michael O'Driscoll

  • Barbara Bickel (U of British Columbia), "Crossing the Waterline: An A/R/tographic Ritual Inquiry"
  • Danielle Sinnette (U of Alberta), "Spoken Word Poetry"
  • Christine Bold (U of Guelph), "Activism and the Academy: Reflections on Remembering Women Murdered by Men"

Session I: Other Voices [5-40a Northeast Conference Room]

Chair: Cressida Hayes

  • Lise Gotell (U of Alberta), "Not/Drowning in Nixon: Sexual Violence, Women-Only Space and Trans Inclusion/Exclusion"
  • Terry Goldie (York U), "Confessions of a Male Feminist"

Session J: Recovering Writers [5-40b Southeast Conference Room]

Chair: Nora Stovel

  • Vivien Bosley (U of Alberta) - "A Pre-Wave Ripple: The Sound of Other Voices"
  • Kathryn Holland (U of Oxford) - "Strachey Feminisms"
  • Heather Murray (U of Toronto) - "Florence Valentine Keys: First Wave Feminism and the Work of English Studies"

Session K: Workshop [5-06 West Boardroom]

Lynne van Luven (U of Victoria) - "Changes in Teaching: Occasions When the Personal Becomes Pedagogical"

12:30-1:30 LUNCH (provided) and Launch of M. Jacqui AlexanderÕs Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred

1:30-3:00 Parallel Sessions

Session L: Workshop [5-04 West Boardroom]

T.L. Cowan, "Narrating/Navigating Third Wave Politics Through Contemporary Feminist Poetics and Performance"

Session M: Body and Pop Culture [5-13 Eric Geddes Lab]

Chair: Amber Dean

  • Carolyn Ives (Thompson Rivers University), "Brains, Brawn, and Beauty: The Place for Feminist Academics in Aesthetic Body Sports"
  • Ila Crawford (U of British Columbia, Okanagan), "Medieval Scenes of Rape and Myth: Popular Culture and Resistance in 21st Century Pedagogy"
  • Margrit Talpalaru (U of Alberta), "Feminism in Corporate Popular Culture"
  • Dorothy Woodman (U of Alberta), "Masectomy Narratives"

Session N: Spirituality [5-40 West Conference Room]

Chair: Mridula Nath Chakraborty

  • Nora Foster Stovel (U of Alberta), "Feminist Christianity in Margaret Laurence's Memoir and Manawaka Cycle"
  • Doris Kieser (U of Alberta), "Christian Theology: Waving From the Margins"
  • Jacqueline Murray (U of Guelph), "Are Women Human? A Question Across the Centuries"

Session O: Administration [5-40a Northeast Conference Room]

Chair: Katherine Binhammer

  • Susan Rudy (U of Calgary), "Still 'Too Far Out'? A Feminist (Department) Head in a Woman's Body"
  • Rosalind Sydie (U of Alberta), "Pick Your Time and Place: Administration and Feminist Presence"
  • Wendy Robbins (U New Brunswick), "Traditions of Academic Women's Activism"

Session P: Interdisciplinarity [5-40b Southeast Conference Room]

Chair: Terry Goldie

  • Marlene Kadar (York U) - "Feminism and Interdisciplinarity"
  • Claudine Potvin (U of Alberta) - "The Professor Had a Political Agenda: Teaching Literature, Feminism, and Cultural Studies"
  • Phyllis Frus (Hawai'i Pacific U) - "What's in a Name? Women's Studies/Gender Studies"

3:00-3:30Coffee

3:30-5:00 Plenary 5: Which Way? [5-04 West Conference Room]

Chair: Jo-Ann Wallace

  • Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie U), "Sex Trafficking in the 19th and 21st Centuries: Feminism, Social Justice, and the Liberal Arts"
  • Asha Varadharajan (Queen's U), "Thinking the Universal Singular: Femininity in the Next World Order"

5:00-6:00 Closing Roundtable: Five Women Look Ahead:

Amber Dean (U of Alberta); Louise Forsyth (Emerita, U of Saskatchewan); Barb McLean (U of Alberta); Aruna Srivastava (U of Calgary); Malinda Smith (U of Alberta).

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