Every year, Women's Studies sponsors a number of events featuring famous guest speakers, film showings, research conferences, and more. Please use the links below to explore the various programs and events we offer.

 

» Fall Semester 2008

Women's Studies Alumni Reunion
Saturday, October 18
9:30 am - 6:00 pm
Details to be announced

» Spring Semester 2008

Public Lecture
Thursday, February 28, 2008, 4:00-5:30 pm, Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
Presenting Faith Ringgold, artist, activist, author, teacher and parent
"Faith Ringgold: More than 50 Years"
Ms. Ringgold, best known for her painted story quilts -- art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling, has exhibited in major museums in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She has written and illustrated eleven children's books. She has received more than 75 awards, fellowships, citations and honors, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship for painting, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and seventeen honorary doctorates. Ms. Ringgold will be happy to sign her books which will be available for sale after the talk.

Co-Sponsored by: Art Conservation, Art History, Black American Studies, Center for Black Culture, College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office and Fashion and Apparel Studies.

 

Geis Student Research on Women Conference, Spring 2008

Program Schedule

8:30 a.m. Registration and Refreshments, Atrium
9:00 a.m. Welcome, Room 125
Wunyabari Maloba, Assistant Vice President for Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs and Associate Professor of Black American Studies and Women's Studies, University of Delaware

Undergraduate Division: Gender in Society, Room 125
Moderator: Carolyn Bitzer, University of Delaware

9:15     Establishing Authority in Academic Discourse: The Struggles of Women in the Disciplines
            Brian Reece, University of Delaware

9:35     The Socialization of Our Children: A Parental Perspective
            Esther Ruth Holland, University of Delaware

9:55     The (not so) Wonderful World of Disney: A Study of Gender and Race in Animated Disney Films
            Joseph Randall, University of Delaware

10:15   Coeducation at Delaware College: The Progressive Beginnings Come to an Abrupt End
            Jennifer Eichholz, University of Delaware

10:35    Domestic Violence and Race, Class and Gender
            Rebekah Kaplan, University of Delaware

10:55    Anorexia Nervosa: Society's Gendered Plague
            Breah Lynn Paciotti, Ursinus College

Undergraduate Division: Women's Writing and Identity, Room 126

Moderator: Rebecca Jaroff, Ursinus College

9:15     Fracture, Transition and Sexual Identity in Fun Home
            Melissa McCartney, Haverford College

9:35     The Splitting of a Heroine: The Use of Doubles in Jane Eyre and The Icarus Girl
            Elizabeth Kowell, University of Delaware

9:55     The Woman is Ugly: Independence and Femininity in Jane Eyre and The Women in White
            Cassandra Eros, University of Delaware

10:15    Sandra Goldbacher's Feminist Reconstruction of Jane Eyre in The Governess
            Jooyoung Lee, University of Delaware

10:35   The Shame Woman: A "Long Wail" for Appalachian Women
            Ivy McDaniels, Ursinus College

10:55   Late-Victorian "New Women" Spirituality and the Creation of a Sense of Community
            Cindy Wiegand, University of Delaware

Undergraduate Division: Textual and Gender Politics, Room 125
Moderator: Margaret Stetz, University of Delaware

11:15   Homoprejudice that Surrounds Lesbians
            Erin Hardiman, Villanova University

11:35   "My bloody resolutions… [My] womanish teares": The 'Genderlect' of Sex in   Phillip Massinger and Thomas Dekker's The Virgin Martyr
            Daniel Trucil, Villanova University

11:55    The Presence of the Semiotic in Andy Warhol's a: A Novel
            Kathryn Montalbano, Haverford College

12:15   An Oppressive Democracy: A Political Majority or Minority?
            Victoria Kleinman, Villanova University

Undergraduate Division: Women and Visuality, Room 126
Moderator: Richie Holland, University of Delaware

11:15    Home and Feminist Re-Visioning
            Stephanie Bilinsky, Temple University

11:35    A Thousand Pictures and One Word: Love
            Elizabeth Kowell, University of Delaware

11:55    Lorna Simpson's Figures
            Caitlin Quinn, Ursinus College

Keynote: Atrium Lobby

12:35    "In Search of Belva Lockwood: A Biographer's Tale of Time Travel," Jill Norgren, Professor Emerita of Government, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Lunch

Undergraduate Student Panel: Room 126
Moderator: Mary Ruth Warner, University of Delaware

1:45      Undergraduate Student Panel: Student Service and Research Projects, University of Delaware Women's Studies Research Award Winners, 2007-2008  

• Research Award for "Gender and Ballroom Dancing" - Stephanie Patterson

• Service Learning Award for ARC of Delaware, Providing Comprehensive Sexuality Services to Adolescents - Tahra Piser

Graduate Division: Theorizing Feminism, Room 125
Moderator: Alvina Quintana, University of Delaware

1:45     Islamic Feminism: Origins, Development, and Issues
            Sara-Jane Chehab, University of Delaware

2:05     Encourage Individual Merit: A Liberal Feminist's Approach to Condoning Collective Equality
            Margaret Allyson Hayes, Temple University

2:25     Reading and Writing the Body - Negotiating Queer Identity
            Alyssa Richman, Temple University

Graduate Division: Negotiating Gender in Context, Room 125
Moderator: Barbara Curry, University of Delaware

2:45     Sexy Spies and Mean, Manly Women: Mata Hari, Madeleine Albright, and the Role of Gender in National Security
            Ellen Meeker, Villanova University

3:05     Women and Disasters: The Effect of War on Violence against Women
            Laura Rapp and Deanna Button, University of Delaware

3:25     "I Now Pronounce You Husband and Wife": Performing and Negotiating Identities of Gender in Married Life
            Stephanie Melchiore, Villanova University

3:55     Policing Fallen Girls and Wayside Women: The United States' Female Incarceration Boom
            Erin Kerrison, Villanova University

Graduate Division: Women in the Arts: Poetics and Pragmatics, Room 126
Moderator: Monika Shafi, University of Delaware

2:45     The History of Feminist Appropriation Art: A Problem of (Re) Appropriation,
Theodoros Triandos, University of Delaware

3:05     The Character of Miranda in the Short Story Oh happy Eyes by Ingeborg Bachman
            Darina Stamova, University of Delaware

3:25      "Dear Female Heart": Melancholy Gender and the Poetry of Stevie Smith
            April Pelt, University of Delaware

3:55      A Reconsideration of Motherhood in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
            Sally Anne Groomes, Villanova University

4:15 Closing Remarks and Announcement of Awards, Room 126
Monika Shafi, Director of Women's Studies and Elias Ahuja Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Delaware

For entry rules and additional information, please see: http://www.udel.edu/WomensStudies/downloads/Geiscallforpapers.pdf

» Fall Semester 2008

Research on Women Lecture Series
Wednesdays beginning September 3 through December 10, 12:20 - 1:10 pm, in 103 Gore Hall.

Gender in International Film
Wednesdays beginning October 8 through November 5, 3:35 - 6:35 pm, 102 Gore Hall