THU | 1 NOV Bodies (Groups) of Women
238 HRCB (Conference Room)
1:00 PM Sister Cecelia Cavanaugh, Chestnut Hill College
“The Sisters of St. Joseph: Living and Working as a ‘Body without a Body’ so that All May Be One”
2:00 PM Lisa Olsen Tait, LDS Church Historian’s Office
“Women Know the Importance of This Work: Relief Society’s Maternal Health Movement of the 1920s”
3:00 PM Sherine Hafez, University of California–Riverside
“Gender and Corporeality in the Egyptian Uprising”
4:00 PM Discussion Groups
We will divide into three groups for all participants, faculty, and students.
Discussion Question: How do women effectively organize to improve society?
FRI | 2 NOV Physical Bodies of Women
B192 JFSB (Education in Zion Theatre)
10:00 AM Joan Chrisler, Connecticut College
“Pride or Shame? Menstruation and Women’s Embodied Self”
11:00 AM Kirsten Pullen, University of Illinois at Champaign–Urbana
“Watching Women: The Body of the Performer, the Performing Body, and the Body of the Audience”
NOON Elizabeth Daniels, University of Colorado–Colorado Springs
“Powerful Women: How Media Images of Female Athletes Affect Girls’ and Young Women’s Body Image”
2:00 PM | 238 HRCB Discussion Groups: Conversation with the conference speakers.