WomenSpeak will take place on Tuesday, February 26, from 10:00 a.m. to noon and from 1:00 to 4:00 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 '08, Art, "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 '09, Anthropology/Politics, "A Tale of Dead Cells," an autobiographical reflection on hair and how it has been read in the U.S. and in Bangladesh
2:15 p.m.: Vivian Conger, History/Women's Studies, with students from her Herstory class: reading from the 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 Nineteenth-century Theater"
3:15 p.m.: Jess Dayton '08, Cinema and Photography: "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.
