Schedule of Events
Friday, April 1, 2022, 10:15 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Register for the Conference on Women and Gender
Session I: 10:15 - 11:30 a.m.
1a) Art+Feminism
Stafford 109
Presenters:
- Brooke Duffy, Assistant Professor, Seton Hall Libraries
- Sarah Ponichtera, Assistant Dean for Special Collections and the Gallery at Seton Hall Libraries
1b) Women's Rights, Human Rights
Stafford 110
Presenters
- Leslie Bunnage, "Women in White Nationalist Movements"
- C. Lynn Carr, "Human Rights Activism in the Jewish Reconstructionist Community and the American Liberal Religious Tradition."
- Anne GiblinGedacht, "Beyond Balancing the Narrative: Gender in East Asian History Classes."
- Denise Vigani, "Relational Remembering and Human Dignity"
- Angela Weisl, "What does 'Feminist' mean in the Fourteenth-Century?"
1c) The Enduring Influence of bell hooks:
Stafford 111
Presenters:
- Mary Balkun, Professor, English Department
- Kelly Harris, Director of Africana Studies
- Cecilia Marzabadi, Professor, Chemistry Department
- King Mott, Associate Professor, Political Science Department
- Fredline M'Cormack-Hale, Associate Professor, Diplomacy and International Relations
- Rev. Dr. Forrest Pritchett, Director of Special Projects in Freshman Studies and Director of the MLK
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. - Lunch Break
Session II: 1 - 2:15 p.m.
2a) Women Breaking Boundaries
Stafford 109
Presenters:
- Elizabeth Redwine, Lecturer, English Department, Virginia Woolf’s Freshwater: A Comedy and Performing Women Artists
- Charles Carter, Professor, Religion Department, Huldah Among the Prophets:(En)gendered and Social Science Approaches
- Karen Gevirtz, Professor, English Department, An Act of Parliament and the £500 Bet: Gender, Quackery, and the Making of Modern Medicine
2b) Gender, Human Rights, and Dignities: Academic Research speaks to Real Issues
Stafford 110
Presenters:
Chair, Angela Weisl
- Tehyah Carver, Graduate Student, English Department, "Medieval Women and Monstrosity"
- Daniel Cymbala, Graduate Student, English Department, "La Doncella Que Fue a La Guerra."
- Kyle Gaydo, Graduate Student, English Department, "Linguistic Instability and Queerness in Yde et Olive"
- Frank Hunter, Graduate Student, English Department, "Boethius andLady Philosophy"
- George Rodriguez, Graduate Student, English Department, "Women, Gender, and the End of Game of Thrones"
2c) Encountering Queer Theory
Stafford 111
Chair: King Mott, Associate Professor, Political Science
Seton Hall Undergraduate Presenters:
- Grant Garcia
- Massarath Fatima
- Oluwafunmilayo E. Fatolu
- Max Dempsey
- Safa Shaikh
- Shannon Moran
Session III: 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
3a) Global Gender Justice (a panel co-sponsored by United Nation's Association Seton Hall Chapter (UNA-SHU)
Stafford 109
- Benjamin Goldfrank, Professor, Diplomacy and International Relations
- Fredline M'Cormack-Hale, Associate Professor, Diplomacy and International Relations
- Rajaa Altalli, Sergio Vieira de Mello Endowed Visiting Chair, Diplomacy and International Relations
- Connie Sensor, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University School of Nursing.
3b) Women Writers in Early America
Stafford 110
- Russell Sbriglia, Assistant Professor, English Department, "Beyond Gender Trouble: Sex and Subjectivity in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette"
- Mary Balkun, Professor English Department, "A Jewish Wife and Mother in Colonial New York: The Letters of Abigail Franks"
- Kaitlin Tonti, Lecturer, English Department, "Protest at Trinity Church: Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin and British Occupied New York"
3c) Intersectional Exclusions
Stafford 111
- Roseanne Mirabella, Professor, Political Science Department, "Neo-Colonialism’s Perpetuation of Institutional Life of Disabled Individuals through the Rhetoric of Philanthropy and Charity"
- Widian Nicola, Assistant Professor of Social Work, "Motherhood in Gaza: On a Phenomenology of Living in War and Peace"
- King Mott, Associate Professor of History, "The Evolution of LGBTQ+ Politics Upon Church, State, and Political Party"
Keynote Address: 4 p.m.
McNulty Auditorium
Dr. Robyn Spencer, Associate Professor of History, Lehman College, "Keeping House: Patricia Murphy Robinson and the Archives of Black Women’s Radicalism"
Keynote Speaker
Robyn C. Spencer is an Associate Professor at Lehman College. She is the author of The Revolution has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party (Duke University Press, 2016). She is a historian who specializes in the history of social protest after World War II, urban and working-class radicalism, and gender, as well as the history of the Black freedom movement in the United States. Her keynote address is titled "Keeping House: Patricia Murphy Robinson and the Archives of Black Women's Radicalism."
Attendees are requested to mask during this event.
About the Conference
Each year, the Seton Hall’s Conference on Women and Gender offers a collection of exciting sessions that reflect the diversity of perspectives and approaches that characterizes scholarship on women and gender. The conference's primary goal is consistent with the ideals of a liberal arts institution such as those articulated by Cardinal Newman in The Idea of a University: to provide an interface between the academic and the experiential in order to enrich lived life.
Our conference includes presenters exploring all aspects of scholarship on women and gender from all fields—including the humanities, diplomacy, social sciences, mathematics, experimental sciences and the professions. The Conference’s panels are designed to be accessible to all members of the Seton Hall and South Orange Community and we hope you will join us for a series of exciting events.
Questions?
Please contact the conference organizer Vanessa May, Ph.D.