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Tuesday,
March 6, 2007
8:30 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.
Coffee and reception to welcome the keynote speaker.
9:25 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.
Keynote Address: "Selu and Kenatu: The Female and
Male Principles," Dr. Rockey Robbins, Associate Professor of Education Psychology,
University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Robbins will discuss the female and male principles
in Cherokee culture. Dr. Robbins lectures nationally and internationally
on issues affecting Native Americans and on various aspects of Native American
culture. His primary interest concerns American Indian psychological issues
including grandparenting; assessment; treatment, academic motivation, and
group interventions. He is also interested in developing an American Indian
treatment model based on traditional American Indian ideas and practices.
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Film Screening: Louise Erdrich
and Michael Dorris (videorecording)/ a production of Public
Affairs Television, Inc.: produced and directed by Catherine Tatge.
These writers address
the use of Native American culture in their fiction.
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 7, 2007
8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
Film Screening: Heaven's
Crossroad, a film by Kimi Takesue (2002) 35 minutes.
Heaven's Crossroad traces an impressionistic
journey through Vietnam exploring the nuances and complexities of “looking”
cross-culturally. Structured in a series of observational yet stylized
vignettes, this visually driven experimental documentary investigates
shifting relationships of voyeurism and intimacy, while linking the observer
with the observed. Takesue’s mesmerizing cinematography captures sweeping
country landscapes and cities in motion, provoking questions about what
it means to truly see another culture.
9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Monologue Selections
from The Good Body
The San Antonio College Drama Club, sponsored
by Theater and Communications chairperson Jeff E. Hunt, will present monologue
selections from The Good Body, a play which presents women's perceptions
of self. Please note: this event will be held in McCreless
Theater.
10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
"Katherine
Tingley: From Autobiography to Biography," Bill Shute, Professor
of English, San Antonio College.
Shute, author of Point
Loma Purple, a new biography of spiritual leader and social reformer
Katherine Tingley (1847-1929), will discuss his use of autobiographical
passages from Tingley's own writings in his biographical work.
11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
"Mud, Mind & Myth:
Poetry and Various Realities," Cyra Dumitru, Instructor, St. Mary's
University, and creative consultant at Gemini Ink.
This local poet will discuss
her work and connect to the experiences of the audience.
12:00 p.m.
Film Screening: Buoyant,
a film by Julie Wyman, (2004) 28 minutes.
Julie Wyman’s ebullient experimental documentary
intertwines the story of the Padded Lilies, a troupe of fat synchronized
swimmers, Archimedes, the Greek mathematician obsessed with floating
bodies, and the inventor of the “Drystroke Swimulator” to investigate,
proclaim and celebrate the fact that fat floats! As the Padded Lillies
prepare for their appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", Buoyant
follows their rigorous training and strategizing as they promote their
message of body-acceptance, fat-empowerment, and fitness at any size. A
school-marmish voiceover moves on to tell the story of Archimedes, classical
Greek mathematician and discoverer of pi, as he tackles one of his more
difficult problems: how to measure the volume of an irregularly shaped object.
12:30 p.m.
Film Screening: I Wonder What You
Will Remember of September 11, a film by Cecilia Cornejo, US/Chile,
(2004). 27 minutes.
Cecilia Cornejo presents a haunting
personal response to the events of September 11, 2001, informed and complicated
by her status as a Chilean citizen living in the U.S. With evocative imagery
from both past and present, Cornejo weaves together her own fading childhood
memories, her parents’ vivid recollections of the September 11, 1973
coup in Chile that brought the notorious dictator Augusto Pinochet to
power; and post-9/11 conversations with her own young daughter. The resulting
montage thoughtfully explores how personal and collective histories intersect,
as well as how trauma is lived, supposedly erased, and passed on from
one generation to the next.
1:00 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.
“Love , Loss, Rage, Hope, and Poetry:
Words That Outlast Us.” Carol Coffee Reposa, poet and Professor
of English at San Antonio College.
Ms. Reposa will read from her work.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2007
8:00 a.m.
– 9:15 a.m.
Film Screening: Standing on my
Sisters' Shoulders, a film by Joan Sadoff, Dr. Robert Sadoff and
Laura J. Lipson, (2002), 61 minutes.
In 1965, when three women walked into
the US House of Representatives in Washington D.C., they had come a very
long way. Neither lawyers nor politicians, they were ordinary women from
Mississippi, and descendants of African slaves. They had come to their
country’s capitol seeking civil rights, the first black women to be allowed
in the senate chambers in nearly 100 years. A missing chapter in our nation’s
record of the Civil Rights movement, this powerful documentary reveals the
movement in Mississippi in the 1950’s and 60’s from the point of view of
the courageous women who lived it – and emerged as its grassroots leaders.
Their living testimony offers a window into a unique moment when the founders’
promise of freedom and justice passed from rhetoric to reality for all Americans.
Through moving interviews and powerful archival footage, Standing
on My Sisters' Shoulders weaves a story of commitment, passion and perseverance
and tells the story of the women fought for change in Mississippi and altered
the course of American history forever.
9:25 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.
"Memoir: Reflections by Patricia Portales
and Melinda Zepeda," Patricia Portales, Assistant Professor of English,
San Antonio College, and Melinda Zepeda, Assistant Professor of English
at Northwest Vista College.
These professors will present their perspectives on
Mexican-American female childhood and adolescence.
11:00 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
“Trust Your Parents: Arranged Marriages
in Indian Culture.” Kalpana Iyengar, adjunct faculty member
in the English Department, San Antonio College.
Ms. Iyengar will discuss the still contemporary
practice of arranged marriages in India. Ms. Iyengar holds a B.S. in Chemistry,
Botany, and Zoology from Mysore Univesity in India, an M.A. in linguistics
from Bangalore University in India, and an M.A. in Ehglish from Kutztown
Unviersity in Pennsylvania, where her thesis focused on Nathanial Hawthorne's
lesser known stories.
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Film
screening: Sentenced to Marriage: A film by Anat Zuria, Produced
by Amit Breuer, Israel, (2004), 65 minutes.
Nominated
for a Silver Wolf at IDFA, this shocking documentary exposes the Kafkaesque
process of divorce for women in Israel where secular law does not exist,
and divorce is dealt with according to archaic and fundamentalist orthodox
Jewish law. Filmmaker Anat Zuria, maker of the award-winning Purity,
gained rare access to the rabbinical courts to follow two women caught in
the demoralizing legal labyrinth. Though husbands can live with other women
and even withhold child support, wives are forbidden contact with other
men. In some cases, these very modern, independent and well-educated women
are forced to buy a divorce from their husbands for huge sums. As a result,
thousands of Jewish women have lived in limbo indefinitely, both in Israel
and in other communities around the world.
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2007
8:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Film Screening: Queen of the Mountain,
A film by Martha Goell Lubell, (2005), 56 minutes.
Theresa
Goell started her career as an archaeologist with four strikes against
her: she was a female, divorced, a Jew working with Muslims and hearing
impaired. But with unshakeable determination, Goell abandoned the comfortable
yet restricted lifestyle of her conservative Jewish family in 1933 to pursue
her passion at Nemrud Dagh, an isolated mountaintop in Southwestern Turkey
that had been shrouded in mystery until Goell’s pioneering excavations. Struggling
with a hearing disability, her work at the site was nothing short of extraordinary,
bringing roads, tourists and employment to the impoverished local population.
After living most of her life as an outsider, Goell became “queen of the
mountain,” gaining worldwide attention for her work and finding a new home
among the Kurdish community there.
9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
“When Women Create Women: Hollywood
Screenwriters and Reel Women in Film,” Denise Stallins, Instructor
of English San Antonio College.
Ms. Stallins
will discuss the differences between screenwriters’ and female screenwriters’
portrayals of women. Ms.
Stallins is an Instructor of English at San Antonio College. She
earned her B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 in English
with honors and a concentration in creative writing. She earned an
M.A. in Profeesional Writing at the University of Southern California in
1990 (concentrating in Screen and Television writing). She studied
film in the Unviersity of Texas at Augustin Graduate Film Productions Program
from 1993-1995. She is interested in the effective use of technology
in education.
10:00 a.m. - 10:50
a.m.
The San Antonio College Women’s Center:
Presentation of Scholarships and Screening of Gloria Steinem’s Fall 2006
presentation at SAC to honor the 25th year anniversary of the Women’s Center.
11:00 a.m. - 11:50
a.m.
“Woman, Muslim, my last name is Husain
and I live in the United States of America," Sarwat Husain, President
of Council on American Islamic Relations-San Antonio.
Ms. Husain
is invited nationally to give talks on Ethnic Media, Women, Islam/Muslim
culture. She gives regular sensitivity and diversity trainings regarding
Islam/Muslims to organizations including law enforcement, educational
institutions, churches and other groups.
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