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3^rd FSG Feminist Pedagogy Conference

The Praxis of Feminist Pedagogy

November 6, 2009

NOTE: Program is subject to change.

 

REGISTRATION: 8:30-9:15a.m.
Room 5414
Registration table will be open all day. Please register upon arrival.

OPENING REMARKS: 9:15-10:00 a.m.
Skylight Room 9100
Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Associate Professor of Sociology and
Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center

SESSION I: 10:00-11:30a.m.

PANEL I:
Teaching for Social Justice and Educational Equity at a Community College: A Roundtable of Classroom Practices
“Teaching Brecht: Connections to the War in Iraq.”
Chris Alexander, LaGuardia Community College , CUNY

“New York and the Streets of Chicago: Teaching Martin Luther King.” Susan Naomi Bernstein, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

“Reading and Writing James Baldwin in English 101.”
Stephen Cormany, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

“Consensus in Large Groups: Mitigating 'The Tyranny of Structurelessness.'” Timothy Dalton, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

“Memorial Building In and Out of the Classroom.”
Kristen Gallagher, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

“Pedagogical Convergence of Religious and Secular Critiques: Possibilities, Implications, and Limitations.”
Irwin Leopando, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

“Teaching the Harlem Uprising of 1943.”
Victor Rosa, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

PANEL II:
Integrating Feminism in the Classroom: Ethics, Praxis and Possibilities- A Discussion among CUNY Adjuncts
Participants:
Terri Bennett, PhD Program in Geography
Kathleen Dunn, PhD Program in Sociology
Meechal Hoffman, PhD Program in English
Christina Nadler, PhD Program in Sociology
Erin Siodmak PhD Program in Sociology
Leah Souffrant, PhD Program in English

PANEL III:
Artists, Activism, and the Academy
Moderator: Pamela Burger

“Bridging Academy and Community: Feminist Pedagogy and Praxis in a Museum Setting.”
Sarah Giovanniello and Eleanor Whitney, Brooklyn Museum of Art

“Black Feminist Activism in Urban Education Settings.”
Pauline E. Bullen, Brooklyn College, CUNY

“A Declaration of Rights of Women Artists in Academia: The Feminist Canon and Syllabus.”
Jaime Weida, CUNY Graduate Center, PhD Program in English and Courtney Weida, Adelphi University

PANEL IV:
Post-Colonial Feminist Pedagogy
“The Politics of Teaching Gender and Islam in the West.”
Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, San Diego State University

“Brief Reflections on Body, Trauma, Text.”
Meena Alexander, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

“Teaching African Fiction: Shaping a Tribal-Feminist Pedagogy.” Elizabeth Toohey, Principia College

LUNCH 11:30-12:30 p.m.

SESSION II 12:30 -2:00 p.m.

PANEL I:
Soldiering On Otherwise, Critically and Collectively: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Student-Survivors of Military Violence, Sexual Abuse and War Trauma
Participants:
Katie Gentile, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Kyoo Lee, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Jean Mills, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

PANEL II:
Performance and Pedagogy

“Teaching, Preaching, & Performing Good Feminist Subjectivities: 'fessing up to the cloning impulse in Women's and Gender Studies.”
T.L. Cowan, University of Calgary

“Spectacularizing Scholarship, Queering Pedagogy: A Performance.” Mashinka Firunts, Columbia University

“Creating Citizens: Performing Utopia through Writing.”
Ken Nielsen, CUNY Graduate Center, PhD Program in Theater

PANEL III:
Overcoming Resistance in the Classroom
Moderator: Fiona Lee

“The Posture Of Oppression: Exposing and Eradicating A Precarious Pedagogy.”
Natalie Abell, Long Island University

“Teaching Women's Studies in Guam.”
Helen Thompson, University of Guam

“Where's the Feminist Pedagogy in THAT: A self balancing inquiry into praxis.” Georgann Cope Watson, Brock University

PANEL IV:
Feminist Research Methodologies
Moderator: Daisy Deomampo

“Sunflowers and Mushrooms: The Women of Butare, Rwanda Grow a Business; Students Learn about Feminist Organizing and Field Research."
Annie Balocating, CUNY Adult and Continuing Education Program Associate
Katerra Billy, CUNY
Sarah Ryan, University of Texas at El Paso

“Being Her: Embodied Historical Knowledge Building in the Feminist Classroom.” Jessica Kindred, PhD in Developmental Psychology

“Broadening Research on Families Headed by Gay and Lesbian Parents -
A Relational Cultural Lens.”
Mohan V. Krishna , CUNY Graduate Center, PhD Program in Social Welfare

COFFEE BREAK 2:00-2:30p.m. Room 5414

SESSION III 2:30-4:00p.m.

PANEL I:
Social Justice, Activism, and Transformative Politics: Bridging the Divide between Academia and Community
“Social Reproduction, Activism and the Political Uses of the Past”
Premilla Nadasen, Queens College, CUNY

“Feminist Ethnography and Activism at the Intersection of Neoliberal Policy in the U.S.”
Dana-Ain Davis, Queens College, CUNY

“Ethnography and Social Justice Approaches”
Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College, CUNY

PANEL II:
Roundtable: Beyond the Classroom, Beyond Bars: Service Learning as Quintessential Feminist Pedagogy
Participants:
Kendra Brewster, CUNY Graduate Center, Ph.D. Program in Psychology
Kathleen M. Cumiskey, College of Staten Island, Assistant Professor of Psychology & Women's Studies,
Catherine Granton, BA, CUNY Baccalaureate Program
Sonia Levine, College of Staten Island, Student

PANEL III:
Do We Need Another Hero?: Feminism and Individualism in the Classroom
Participants:
Amy Green, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Allison Pease, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Caroline Reitz, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

PANEL IV:
Pedagogy as Activism: Feminist Practices Across Borders in Lehman College Classrooms
"Addressing Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Lehman College Classroom and Community."
Anne Rice, Lehman College, CUNY

“Crossing Borders: Bridging the Classroom/Community Divide through Experiential Education.”
Robyn Spencer, Lehman College, CUNY

“'What's going on with whiteness?' Critical Race Narratives and Feminist Pedagogy."
Tyler Schmidt, Lehman College, CUNY

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4:00-5:30pm
Segal Theatre- Ground Floor
Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center
“Feminist Slants on Inquiry and Pedagogy”

RECEPTION 5:30 p.m.