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The
Miami University Symposium on "Gendered
Resistance: Women Opposing Sexual
and Economic Subjugation in Global,
Historical and Contemporary Contexts"
will take place on October 6-8, 2005.
Organized in conjunction with the
National Underground Railroad Freedom
Center, the Gendered Resistance Symposium,
through the lenses of visual art,
performance and research presentations,
will give students and faculty new
perspectives on women-centered resistance
to enslavement, rape and other forms
of sexual violation and exploitation.
The Gendered Resistance
Symposium breaks new academic ground.
The interdisciplinary group of fifteen
scholars coming together at Miami
University and the National Underground
Railroad Freedom Center will offer
innovative comparative perspectives
on women-centered resistance to oppression
that transcend time and place. Scholars
and activists together will examine
gender-specific opposition strategies
from historical, cultural, economic,
and psychological perspectives, as
they frame their research within a
global context.
During the Gendered
Resistance Symposium, art, storytelling,
dance, and film will enable students
and faculty in History, Anthropology,
English, American Studies, Black World
Studies, International Studies, Latin
American Studies, Spanish and Portuguese,
Women's Studies and Education, as
well as other departments and programs,
to engaged in multimedia learning
about resistance strategies used by
women throughout the world.
Please join us for the
Gendered Resistance Symposium on October
6-8th. A vibrant series of events
and discussions will address issues
that are as relevant today as they
were centuries ago.
Registration Information
and the Schedule of Events are outlined
in detail below. Check back in the
weeks leading up to the Symposium
for any changes and additional information
will be posted on the website.
Prof. Mary E. Frederickson
Symposium Co-Organizer
Miami University
Department of History
Oxford, Ohio 45056
frederme@muohio.edu
Prof. Delores
M. Walters
Symposium Co-Organizer
Northern Kentucky University
and the National Underground
Railroad Freedom Center
Highland Heights, KY 41099
waltersd@nku.edu
Please click here
for the symposium's registration form.
Gendered Resistance
Symposium
Schedule of Events
Thursday, October
6
4 PM ~ Dr. Carolyn
Mazloomi, Presentation in Hiestand
Gallery
"A Piece of My Mind"
5 PM ~ Reception in
lobby outside Hiestand Gallery, sponsored
by Department of Art
7:30
PM ~ Keynote Address by Dr.
Irma McClaurin, Ford Foundation
Heritage Room, Shriver Center
Friday, October 7
Opening Remarks and
Introductions, 8:30 AM
Heritage Room, Shriver Center
Panel I ~ 9:00AM
- 11:00AM
Historical Perspectives on Sex, Race
and Resistance
"Secret Weapons:
Black Women Insurgents on Abolitionist
Battlegrounds"
Dr.
Veta Tucker
"Sexual Abuse of
Enslaved Women in the Americas, 1619-1865"
Tynisa
Compton
"Differential Effects
of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual
Abuse on African American Women"
Dr.
Cathy McDaniels-Wilson
"Re(dis)covering
& Recreating the Cultural Milieu
of Margaret Garner"
Dr.
Delores M. Walters
"Coerced But Not
Subdued: Gendered Resistance of Women
Escaping Slavery"
Dr.
Cheryl La Roche
11:15-12 noon
Vanessa
Johnson, Storyteller
Heritage Room, Shriver Center
12:15-1:15PM ~ Buffet
Lunch, Heritage Room, Shriver Center
Panel II ~ 1:30PM
- 3:00PM
Reading Resistance: Literature, Art
and the Strategy of Opposition
"Women's Cultural
Survival Strategies in the Frances
E.W. Harper's 'The Slave Mother:
A Tale of the Ohio' and Toni Morrison's
Beloved"
Dr.
Kristine Yohe
"African American
Fictions of Resistance: Frances E.W.
Harper and Her Readers"
Dr.
Leslie Lewis
"Beloved and Beyond:
Resistance as Cultural Strategy in
the Novels of Toni Morrison"
Tiffany
Hinton
"Women in Bondage
as a 19th century Cultural Icon"
Dr.
Kimberly Allen-Kattus
Panel III ~ 3:30-5:00PM
Constructing Families: The Relationship
between Enslaved and Enslaver
"What's Love Got
to Do with It: The Dynamics of Desire,
Race, and Murder in the Slave South"
Dr.
Carolyn Powell
"A Mother's Arithmetic:
Elizabeth Clark Gaines's Journey from
Slavery to Freedom"
Dr.
Mary E. Frederickson
"'Consensual' Relations
and American Freedom: Revisioning
the Quadroon Balls"
Diana
Irene Williams
"Historicizing
Afro-Trinidadian (M)otherhood: Tracing
Pre-Anthropological Sightings"
Dr.
Michele Rowley
8 PM Dancing Beloved
~ Nailah Randall-Bellinger and Roots
Uprising
Leonard Theatre in Peabody Hall, Western
College Campus
Saturday, October
8
8:30 a.m. ~ Continental
Breakfast, Gallery, Leonard Theatre
9:00 a.m. - noon ~ Symposium
continues in Leonard Theatre
Opening Remarks
Panel IV ~ 9:15AM-11:30AM
Contemporary Resistance to Slavery
"Contemporary Slavery:
Criss-crossing Cultural Boundaries"
Naomi
Nelson
"Constructing and
Deconstructing: The Struggles Against
Racial and Gender Oppression in Brazil"
Raquel de Souza, Doctoral Candidate
"Domination and
Allegories of Resentment in a Southern
Yemeni Context"
Dr.
Huda Seif
"Speaking with
Violence and Oppression: Intersecting
Experiences between Margaret Garner
and Women in the Tamil Nationalist
Movement"
Dr.Yamuna
Sangarasivam
1:30
PM ~ Travel to National Underground
Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati,
Ohio
3-5
PM Self-guided tours of the
Freedom Center
5
PM ~ Viewing of “The Healing
Passage,” a film by S. Pearl Sharp
Post-film discussion by Dr. Olivia
Cousins
7
PM ~ Reception in the Great
Hall of the Freedom Center, sponsored
by Miami University, the National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center,
Northern Kentucky University, University
of Cincinnati, Xavier University and
the College of Mount St. Joseph
MUSE, the Cincinnati
Women's Choir will perform at the
Reception
AMS
105 Film Series, Wednesdays at
7:00 p.m.
September 7-October 19
Post-Symposium roundtable discussion
on November 11, 2005
Organized by Dr. Mary
E. Frederickson, Miami University,
Department of History
and Dr. Delores M. Walters, Northern
Kentucky University and the National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center
For more information, please contact:
Dorothy
Falke ~ 529-8309.
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