Midwest SWIP Annual Conference Program

Miami University, Oxford Ohio

November 9-11

 

Friday

6pm-7pm

Welcome and Refreshments

 

7pm-8pm

“Agency, History, and the Politics of Juxtaposition in the Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois”

Andrea J. Pitts

 

8:10pm-9:10pm

“Adrienne Rich: Resistance and Aesthetics”

Ruth Porritt

 

Saturday

9am-10am

Coffee & Discussion 

 

10:10am-11:10pm

“Foucault, Feminism, and Fat: Developing New Feminine Subjectivities”

Ellen Cox

 

11:20am-12:20pm

“Citizenship, Reciprocity, and the Gendered Division of Labor”

Gina Schouten

Lunch

2pm-3pm

“On Flesh and Touching in The Second Sex”

Elisabeth Paquette

 

3:10pm-4:10 pm

“Tracing the Margins of Invisibility: Simone de Beauvoir and the Woman of Color”

Stephanie Rivera Berruz

 

4:20pm-5:20pm

“Untitled”

Jessica Otto

 

5:30pm Business Meeting

Sunday

10am-11am

“Creativity, Procreation and Power: Childbirth as Metaphor”

Jessica Patella Konig

 

11:10-12:10pm

“2spirit Feminism: Embracing Impure Connections: Abrazando Las Conexiónes Impuras”

Nik de Leon

 

Print version: Midwest SWIP Program 2012–revised