The William Smith

Women’s Collective

 

Searching for the Sunlight:

From the Roots to the Future,

Building an Inclusive Feminist Movement

October 26th—30th

William Smith and Hobart Colleges

Geneva, NY
Text Box: Schedule Text Box: Registration Form Text Box: Conference Home Text Box: List of Topics to be Covered Text Box: Main Page Text Box: Flyer Text Box: Contact Us Text Box: Directions Text Box: Workshop/Speaker Descriptions Saturday Lunch Speaker: Susan Lloyd Yolen "The War on Women" This talk will cover the erosions of choice since 2000, the stakes ahead with the Courts and of course review options for action, however most of them are long-range going to involve changing the faces in Congress. Susan is the Vice President for Public Affairs and Communication Planned Parenthood of Connecticut. She currently serves as the Chair of the Connecticut Coalition for Choice, and is a member of the national board of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. She chairs the nominating committee of the New Haven Mayor’s Task Force on AIDS. She is a former trustee and of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, and is Vice President of the William Smith College Alumnae Council. Susan received the 2005 Elizabeth Blackwell Award from the Connecticut National Organization for Women. . Her short story, “God Bless the New York Times” was published in 2003 in New York Stories Magazine. She is the mother of two children. Saturday Speakers and Workshops: Kris & Heidi Ward What’s love got to do with it: The implications of gender, sexuality and marriage in the 21st century?   What exactly does it mean to identify as transgender?  How do transgendered and gender queer people fit into the current debate over same sex marriage?  What are the implications of a partner’s gender identity and sexuality on a relationship or marriage?  Now is your chance to find out!  Come engage in a dialogue with a former William Smith alumna and her partner, one of whom identifies and transgender/gender queer and the other identifies as a lesbian.  Recently married amidst the firestorm debate in Massachusetts, they are here to answer all of your questions, both academic and personal.  This is your chance to put a face to the issues you are learning in class and ask all those questions you never thought were appropriate.  Come prepared for a casual, open dialogue and some basic education on the issues! Dr. Sandra A. Rivera Speak with Confidence! Workshop on public speaking and presentation skills. Participants will come away with concrete ways to improve their public speaking, especially on how to introduce a speaker and elevator speeches. Invest in yourself today! For over 10 years, Dr. Sandra A. Rivera has worked as an International Economist and later, Project Leader, in the Research Division of the U.S. International Trade Commission's (USITC) Office of Economics. In 2001, Dr. Rivera was honored as a National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI) Class Fellow. Selected NHLI. Her NHLI project involved sharing public speaking and leadership skills with inner-city, disadvantaged Latinas and their parents. Just after participating in the International Career Advancement Program (ICAP) at the Aspen Institute as a 1998 fellow, Dr. Rivera was invited to work as the Deputy Director, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Affairs at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). Dr. Norma J. Burgess How Big, Bad and Bold Do You Want to Be? It’s Your Life! This workshop examines strategies for women’s empowerment. The responsibility for success is often spread around to many who may not have your interest at heart, including the goals that you set, the choices that you make, and the decisions, which will always confront you. We discuss strategies that enhance your self-image, self-esteem and self-empowerment and help you to define and determine who you are, will become and want to be! Dr. Norma J. Burgess lectures and conducts workshops nationally and internationally on leadership, self-management, success, goal setting, conflict management, professional image and self-esteem. Her workshops focus on self-knowledge, integrating and maintaining wholeness in life, family, and career using basic principles that work. Her methods and techniques are applicable to academia, corporations, and community organizations. Burgess holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Tennessee- Martin; a Master of Public Administration and Ph.D. in Sociology from North Carolina State University. She has also completed advanced leadership seminars at Bryn Mawr College, Cornell University and Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute: A National Forum for Diversity and Women of Color. She is Professor of Child and Family Studies in the College of Human Services and Health Professions at Syracuse University; Burgess is also Academic Co-Chair for the Bachelor of Professional Studies Program at University College of Syracuse University. A successful businesswoman, Burgess has been recognized nationally for her work. She is also a powerful motivational speaker with a sense of humor committed to sharing strategies for integrating work, family and success. Angela Krueger “Exercise Your Writes" This workshop session will provide participants an opportunity to envision, center, and focus personal energy through self-expression. Emphasis will be placed on recognizing the "scripted life" one may have accepted as life itself and re- visioning one's personal presence through the active dynamic of writing. This workshop will exercise your latent ability to manifest your rights: to stretch out and breathe in harmony with life's creative principle.  Bring your journal, sketchbook and favorite writing or sketching utensils or use those provided. Angela Krueger is a teacher, writer, mother and businesswoman. Her creative business, Inkblotz Studio & Gallery, provides creative writing workshops, personal development seminars and creative retreats, as well as events such as the showing of fine art and the introduction of artists and writers, to the regional community. Sarah Daniels Roncolato Revisiting THE GIVING TREE: "Are we really supposed to be stumps?" This workshop will look at the Shel Silverstein classic THE GIVING TREE for what it teaches us about service, sacrifice, and gender. Sarah Roncolato is a United Methodist Clergy, a professor of feminist theologies at Allegheny College, a writer/activist, mother of 4 (one who attends William Smith) and the baker of some very good chocolate chip cookies. Eric Patterson, Richard Salter and Gregory Tull Men in the Women’s Movement This workshop will involve discussion lead by a panel of HWS professors as well as a Hobart student. Eric Patterson, Professor of English, will contribute a discussion of how homophobia is related to traditional patriarchal and misogynist cultural constructions which empower men and disempower women in our society.  Stereotypes of lesbians and gay men function to intimidate people who might challenge traditional definitions of gender, and confine women and men within traditional definitions of gender.  Women who are seen as "too" assertive or independent are threatened with the term "lesbian" used as a hate label, and men who are "too" emotional or compassionate are threatened with the term "gay" used as a hate label.  The Hobart Student, Gregory Tull will discuss his involvement in Hobart Acquaintance Rape Workshops as he contributes to efforts to end violence against women. Finally, Richard Salter, Professor of Religious Studies will bring up questions, such as “Why would a man be a feminist?” He will furthermore raise the issue that for him, sometimes his contribution to the women’s movement is in fact to refrain from speaking, and listen instead.   Arethea Brown Domestic Violence 101 This workshop will address the dynamics and intervention of domestic violence and the role of power and control in relationships.  It will also cover the barriers to actually reporting domestic violence and getting help and the patterns and indicators of abuse Arethea is the Co-Coordinator and Advocate, Syracuse Area Domestic Violence Coalition and Vera House, a shelter for abused women in Syracuse, New York. Vera House includes a wide range of domestic violence services including outreach and advocacy services, domestic violence education programming, children's counseling services, the Syracuse Area Domestic Violence Coalition, and a domestic violence education program for male perpetrators of violence. Yvonne Zimmerman Sex Trafficking Human trafficking has to do with INNOCENT women & children who are KIDNAPPED from their homes, covertly SMUGGLED cross international borders and are FORCED into the BRUTAL world of the SEX INDUSTRY. It’s exploitation, and it’s bad… Right? The media and legislative policy create perceptions about what human trafficking is and why it’s a problem. These images of trafficked women don’t just benignly reflect reality; they create it, and they create it with a specific agenda. This workshop uses a feminist analysis to examine how human trafficking discourses take advantage of and channel the fears about sexual exploitation in American culture in ways that reify worn cultural stereotypes of women as helpless and passive. Yvonne Zimmerman is the 2005-2006 Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Fisher Center, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Religion and Social Change concentration of the Joint PhD Program in Religious and Theological Studies at the Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver in Denver, CO. This workshop draws on a portion of her dissertation research on how religion shapes contemporary U.S. anti- trafficking discourses. Minnie Muzquiz and Gala Mukomolova Creativity as the Antidote An exploration of expression and reaction through the poetic arts. This workshop will include riveting and radical pieces of poetry by Michelle Tea, Alix Olson, Marty McConnell, and Staceyann Chin.  We will look at how these writers use the medium of words and art to explore issues of politics, activism, and sexuality.  Come join us on this journey of self-discovery and self-expression to see where poetry and activism intersect. Alison Redick Racism and White Privilege Alison Redick, Laura Free (professor of History), Courtney Betts (William Smith ‘07) and Dionne Fabiatto (William Smith ‘06) will offer a workshop on White Privilege. Alison Redick, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at HWS, will briefly discuss her research on the history of the medical treatment of intersex conditions in the first half of the 20th century. She will discuss the way in which the term gender, which is now widely used in the humanities and social sciences to distinguish social from biological attributes of sex, was brought into circulation during the formation of the intersex management protocols at John Hopkins University in 1955. Rosa Rivera Farm Worker Women Unite This workshop will involve discussion of issues pertinent to women farm workers. Rosa Rivera is the executive director of Centro Independiente de Trabajadores Agricolas/Independent Farmworkers Center, or CITA. CITA is dedicated to petitioning for farm workers rights in New York state. Rivera was born in Traverse City, Michigan of Mexican-American parents, and began her involvement with the workers’ rights as a rural farm worker. Her work now includes various methods of protest and debate, including May’s “100 Miles for Justice March” from Albion to Geneva. She and her husband are parents of six children. Other Speakers and Performers: Monique Peeler ‘05 William Smith Graduate and former president of the Sankofa (the Black student union on campus). She will speak about the factors that inhibit solidarity between women of color and white women. Dilcia Gonzalez ‘06 Singing performance The Hypnotiqs Team Dance performance Tatiana Bruno ‘05 William Smith Grad, Tatiana is a teacher, social justice activist, poet and artist. Ernest and Alice Muzquiz The marimba and piano duo of from Syracuse, NY, present concerts of light classical and pop music.  Featuring the marimba, an instrument very closely related to the xylophone and the vibraphone, the duo performs regularly throughout central New York for schools, colleges, and libraries. ADDITIONAL WORKSHOPS (descriptions will be posted soon): Candance Whittier: Bodies Speak: The Collective Voice of Movement Craig Rimmerman: Creating an LGTBQ Supportive Campus Faustenia Morrow: Environmental issues Laura, Sandra and, Lind: Midwifery, Doulas and the Alternative Birth Movement Johnnie Mallery, Facing multifaceted oppression and the Relation Between our Colleges and the Geneva Community Text Box: Take Back the Night 2005 Text Box: Check out Tuesday’s Finger Lakes Times for an article about the conference !