Gender and Women's Studies

March 30th - Cram Alumni House


8:30 – 9:15 Coffee


9:15 – 9:30 Welcome and opening remarks


9:30 – 11:30 PANEL 1: EMERGING FIELDS AND VOICES IN GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES

LORI FLORES – CFD Fellow in History at Bowdoin College, Border Crossers in a Border-Obsessed World: Mexican American Women's Lives in Post-World War II Agricultural California

LAUREN JADE MARTIN – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Penn State – Berks, Fertility on Ice and Crossing Borders

DENISE NEPVEUX, Fellow, Syracuse University, Building Community Through Caring and Accountability: Deaf Women's and Urban Elder Organizing in Accra and Syracuse

CINDY CRUZ – Assistant Professor of Education, UC Santa Cruz, The Role of the Resistance Scholar: Centering Women of Color Thought in Educational Research

SAMAA ABDURRAQIB – Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College – Moderator


11:30 – 12:45 Lunch on your own






12:45 – 2:45 PANEL 2: ACTIVISM IN THE ACADEMY

ERICA CAPLE JAMES - Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT, Engendering Violence, Trauma, and Humanitarianism in Haiti

JUDITH PEREZ - Catholic University, Middle Class Journeys" - Contemporary Issues in Urban Sociology and the Study of Urban Middle Class Women of Color

PAULA JOHNSON - Professor of Law, Syracuse University, Bridging Academia, Aid and Activism

JENNIFER SCANLON - William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities in Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College – Moderator


2:45 – 3:00 Coffee


3:00 – 5:00 PANEL 3: WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY

DELLA FENSTER –Professor of Mathematics, University of Richmond, Infinite Calculations

RACHEL CONNELLY – Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College, Mothers in the Academy

RACHEL ADAMS – Professor of English, Columbia University, On Disability: Women and Work in the Academy

KRISTEN GHODSEE - John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender Women’s Studies Program and Program Director of Gender and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College – Moderator

The award-winning play is based on V-Day Founder/playwright Eve Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace the piece celebrates women?s sexuality and strength. Through this play and the liberation of this one word, countless women throughout the world have taken control of their bodies and their lives. For more than twelve years, The Vagina Monologues has given voice to experiences and feelings not previously exposed in public. Tickets are $6.00 and the show is open to the public. Tickets will go one sale at the Smith Union Info Desk on Monday, March 26th.

The award-winning play is based on V-Day Founder/playwright Eve Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace the piece celebrates women?s sexuality and strength. Through this play and the liberation of this one word, countless women throughout the world have taken control of their bodies and their lives. For more than twelve years, The Vagina Monologues has given voice to experiences and feelings not previously exposed in public. Tickets are $6.00 and the show is open to the public. Tickets will go one sale at the Smith Union Info Desk on Monday, March 26th.

A Symposium to examine the role of family and parenthood in the nation's current atmosphere of extreme social inequality and extreme political partisanship.

June Carbone is the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at UMKC. She previously served as associate dean for development and presidential professor of ethics and the common good at Santa Clara University School of Law. June Carbone is co-author with Naomi Cahn of 'Red Families v Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (Oxford 2010).

For more information on this symposium, please see the webpage:
http://www.bowdoin.edu/coastal-studies-center/symposia/the-new-politics-of-parenthood-2012/family-and-the-reproduction-of-class.shtml

Producer Mitchell Block comes to Bowdoin for a screening and discussion of his 2010 documentary short film, “Poster Girl.” Nominated for an Academy Award in 2011, and cited by The New York Times as “intimate, unflinching ,“ it is the story of a former cheerleader turned tough-as-nails gunner in the Iraq war who is used as a poster girl for military recruitment.

The film is both disturbing and uplifting, following the young vet as she faces the trauma of physical and spiritual wounds and documenting her journey to healing through participation in a community arts project.

Block’s work often addresses controversial topics such as homelessness, abortion, and war and he is currently producing “Liz: Her Fight” about a woman who overcomes despair and homelessness to become an Olympic boxing champion. He is executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary series, “Carrier.”

Block is president of Direct Cinema Limited, and has distributed and marketed hundreds of documentary, live action, and animated short and feature films. He has taught independent film producing at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts as an adjunct since 1979, has been a consultant for HBO and Cinemax, and his “Guide to Documentary Film Distribution” is considered a classic resource in the field.

Sponsored by Department of Film Studies, The Kurtz Fund, Office of Student Activities, The Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund, Women’s Resource Center, and Gender and Women’s Studies Program.

Melvin Butler (University of Chicago)
Dangerous Dancehalls: Performing Worldliness and Womanhood in Pentecostal Jamaica
Judith Casselberry (Bowdoin College)
"Living in the Beauty of Holiness": The Aesthetics of "Agreeable Contradictions" in African American Apostolic Pentecostalism
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes - Discussant (Colby College)

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Pentecostalism is the fastest growing sector of contemporary Christianity, with over 523 million followers- an estimated nine million conversions annually. Overwhelmingly, growth is evidenced outside of the West with women comprising seventy-five percent of the membership. Join us for this two-day symposium as leading scholars across disciplines will unpack its appeal, its intersections with gender, race, and class, and its impact in the global south and among populations of color in the global north.

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs, the Africana Studies Program, the Edith Lansing Koon Sills Fund, and the departments of Religion and History.

For more information and the complete schedule of events, please go to Black Women and Pentecostalism in Diaspora or call 207-725-3433.

Paula Aymer (Tufts University)
Women Evangelists and Intercessors: Caribbean Pentecostal and West African Wailing Women Engaged in Mission
Deidre Crumbley (North Carolina State University)
Saved, Sanctified, and Covered: Gender, Race, Diaspora, and the Body in a Storefront Church
Yolanda Pierce (Princeton Theological Seminary)
The Holy Spirit as Muse: Black Women, Poetry, and Prophecy
David Gordan - Discussant (Bowdoin College)

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Pentecostalism is the fastest growing sector of contemporary Christianity, with over 523 million followers- an estimated nine million conversions annually. Overwhelmingly, growth is evidenced outside of the West with women comprising seventy-five percent of the membership. Join us for this two-day symposium as leading scholars across disciplines will unpack its appeal, its intersections with gender, race, and class, and its impact in the global south and among populations of color in the global north.

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs, the Africana Studies Program, the Edith Lansing Koon Sills Fund, and the departments of Religion and History.

For more information and the complete schedule of events, please go to Black Women and Pentecostalism in Diaspora or call 207-725-3433.

Elizabeth McAlister (Wesleyan University)
Native Sons of the Soil and the Jezebel Spirit: Race, Nation, and Gender in the Neo-Pentecostal Movement in Haiti
Linda Van De Kamp (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
The Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal War among Women in Maputo, Mozambique
Alexandre Dauge-Roth - Discussant (Bates College)

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Pentecostalism is the fastest growing sector of contemporary Christianity, with over 523 million followers- an estimated nine million conversions annually. Overwhelmingly, growth is evidenced outside of the West with women comprising seventy-five percent of the membership. Join us for this two-day symposium as leading scholars across disciplines will unpack its appeal, its intersections with gender, race, and class, and its impact in the global south and among populations of color in the global north.

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs, the Africana Studies Program, the Edith Lansing Koon Sills Fund, and the departments of Religion and History.

For more information and the complete schedule of events, please go to Black Women and Pentecostalism in Diaspora or call 207-725-3433.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Pentecostalism is the fastest growing sector of contemporary Christianity, with over 523 million followers- an estimated nine million conversions annually. Overwhelmingly, growth is evidenced outside of the West with women comprising seventy-five percent of the membership. Join us for this two-day symposium as leading scholars across disciplines will unpack its appeal, its intersections with gender, race, and class, and its impact in the global south and among populations of color in the global north.

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs, the Africana Studies Program, the Edith Lansing Koon Sills Fund, and the departments of Religion and History.

For more information and the complete schedule of events, please go to Black Women and Pentecostalism in Diaspora or call 207-725-3433.

Jane Soothill (The School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
A Critical Approach to Concepts of 'Power' and 'Agency' in Ghana's Charismatic (or neo-Pentecostal) Churches
John Burdick (Maxwell School of Syracuse University)
Voices of God: Race and Gender in Black Gospel Music in Brazil
Laura Premack (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
From Osun to Jesus: Fertility, Maternity Centers and Nigerian Pentecostalism in the 1950s and 60s
Elizabeth Pritchard - Discussant (Bowdoin College)

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Pentecostalism is the fastest growing sector of contemporary Christianity, with over 523 million followers- an estimated nine million conversions annually. Overwhelmingly, growth is evidenced outside of the West with women comprising seventy-five percent of the membership. Join us for this two-day symposium as leading scholars across disciplines will unpack its appeal, its intersections with gender, race, and class, and its impact in the global south and among populations of color in the global north.

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs, the Africana Studies Program, the Edith Lansing Koon Sills Fund, and the departments of Religion and History.

For more information and the complete schedule of events, please go to Black Women and Pentecostalism in Diaspora or call 207-725-3433.

Please join the Gender and Women's Studies Program, the Women's Resource Center, and the Queer/Trans Resource Center for our annual Last Day of Classes Picnic. Students, Faculty, Staff, and their families are welcome.