WomenSpeak will take place on Tuesday, February 26, from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Klingenstein Lounge of the Campus Center. Join us for an exciting day of lectures, readings, music, photography, and much more--all on the theme of "Telling the Truth."
Here's the schedule for the day:
10:00 a.m.: Katharyn Howd Machan, Writing: “Truth Beauty (All Ye Need to Know): Poems NOT by John Keats”
10:20 a.m.: Pat Spencer, Writing: “Are You Being Productive?”
10:30 a.m.: Sally Parr, Writing, with students from her Women and Writing class: “Coming of Age Stories”
11:00 a.m.: Kimberly Gazzo, Library Acquisitions Specialist: “One in Ten”, a short story reading
11:15 a.m.: Amanda Vella, Art, ‘08, “Autobiography of a young-
woman-writer-painter-seeker who’s just trying to breathe”
11:30 a.m.: Christine Davie, Information Systems and Services, “In God’s Image: A Feminist View of Creation”
(During the noon hour, WomenSpeak will adjourn for lunch)
1:00 p.m.: Barbara Audet, Journalism, “Lens, Truth, and Women’s View”, a lecture on the “feminine” eye
1:30 p.m.: Bianca Fonseca, Belisa González, Kyra Hickman,
Taqunda Hughes, and Amelia Kearney: “Speaking Truths as Women of Color”
2:00 p.m.: Lendy Krantz, Anthropology/Politics, ‘09, “A Tale of
Dead Cells”, an autobiographical reflection on hair and how it has been read in the US and in Bangladesh 2:15 p.m.: Vivian Conger, History/Women’s Studies, with students from her Herstory class: reading from “A Declaration of Sentiments”
2:30 p.m.: Katharine Kittredge, English, and students from her
2008 First Year Seminar: “FYS, PCS, and Becoming an Ex-Hockey
Player”
3:00 p.m.: Susan Adams, Writing: “The Naked Lady of 19th
Century Theatre”
3:15 p.m.: Jess Dayton, Cinema and Photography, ’08: “Memories Remembered and Forgotten”, an autobiographical reading
3:30 p.m.: Louise Mygatt, Music Theory, History, and Composition: “Hip Hop Women Speaking Out”
Members of the public as well as the Ithaca College community are welcome to attend all or part of WomenSpeak. We encourage attendance by whole classes.
