A Two-Day Colloquium at Newcomb College Center for Research on Women

Sponsored by the Louisiana Women's Studies Consortium; Newcomb College Center for Research on Women; and the Committee on Academic Diversity, the Women's Studies Program, the Women's Center, and the English Department of the University of New Orleans.

Schedule of Events
All sessions will take place in the Anna E. Many Lounge, on the second floor of Caroline Richardson Hall on the Tulane University campus. Caroline Richardson Hall/Newcomb College Center for Research on Women is located just inside the Willow Street entrance to Newcomb College, between the Student Health Center and The Woldenberg Art Center. Free parking is available in front of the Center on weekends. Those of you unfamiliar with the Tulane campus may wish to access this helpful (if skewed) map.

Saturday, April 18th

10:00-11:00 am
Keynote Address
"Gender in the (Post) Colonial Imagination"
Gaurav Desai, Tulane University
Keynote speaker Gaurav Desai is Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University. His areas of scholarly interest include African and Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, and Literary Theory. He earned his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1997, and his work has been published in Genders, Cultural Critique, African Studies Review, and English Today

11:00-11:30
Coffee Break

11:30-1:00 pm
Panel 1: Gender and Race in Modern African-American Literature
Chair: John Cooke, University of New Orleans
Youshea A. Berry, Xavier University:
"Walker's World: An Introduction to Womanist Writing"
Natasha Hunte, University of New Orleans
"Fleeing the Domestic Realm: Male Desertion as a Means of Empowerment in The Outsider, Brown Girl, Brownstones, and A Raisins in the Sun"
James Perry, University of New Orleans
"Black Literature and the Sense of an Ending"

1:00-2:30
Lunch

2:30-4:00
Panel 2: Gender and Race in Science and Technology
Chair: Crystal Kile, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women
Joshua Kinzer, Louisiana State University
"Virtual Golems: Gender Fluidity in Portrayals of Artificial Intelligence"
Nancy Easterlin, University of New Orleans
"How Can Gender Studies Benefit from a Darwinian Perspective?"
Alcea Rogan, Louisiana State University
"Fabulating Sexuality: Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Series as a Revisionist Myth of Origin"

4:15-5:45
Panel 3: Community Development: Organizing Across Difference
Chair: Petrice Sams-Abiodun, Tulane University
Demetrius K. Williams, Tulane University
"The Bible, Gender, and Models of Liberation"
Gail Henry, Xavier University
"Interracial Sisterhood"
Kelly Caldwell, University of New Orleans
"Race, Gender, and Leadership: Promoting Community Development Across Differences"

6:00
Reception

Sunday, April 19th

9:00-10:30 am
Panel 4: Race, Gender, Class, and Popular Magazines
Chair: Susan Bryson, University of New Orleans Women's Center
Lynn Byrd, Southern University of New Orleans
"Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lord Byron"
Renee L. Leblanc, University of New Orleans
"The Image of the Celebrity in People
Danielle S. Rudes, University of New Orleans
"Portrayals and Representations of African-Americans in Advertisements in Black-Read Magazines"

10:45-12:15
Panel 5: Literary-Historical Constructions of Race, Gender, and Class
Chair: Miriam Youngerman Miller, University of New Orleans
Robert S. Sturges, University of New Orleans
"The Gendered and Ethnic Other in Tristan"
Catherine Loomis, University of New Orleans
"'I am us'd only for a property': Race and Gender on the Early Modern Stage"
Jessica Munns, University of New Orleans
"Aphra's Africans"

12:30-1:30
Panel 6: Subaltern Studies (The Year 2000 is Already Here)
Chair: Sally Mooney, Delgado Community College
Susannah Petersen
"Pregnant Politics"
Mary Sue Ply, Southeastern Louisiana University
"Wringing the Parrot's Neck: Vietnamese Women in Robert Olen Butler's A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"

1:30
Jazz Reception

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