Why We Write: The Politics and History of Writing for Social Change Columbia University, March 28-29, 2003.
The conference is free and open to the public. Why We Write: The Politics and History of Writing for Social Change Columbia University, March 28-29, 2003.
The conference is free and open to the public.
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Keynote Address by novelist Dorothy Allison, and presentations by Susan Brownmiller, John D'Emilio, Robin Kelley, Alice Kessler-Harris, Jill Lepore, Deb Margolin, Eve Sedgwick, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Gayatri Spivak, Christine Stansell, and many more! Panels on War, Feminist Print Culture, Violence, Publishing, Activism, Memory, HIV/AIDS, Prisons,-Teaching and Postructuralism in U.S History.
Why We Write The Politics and History of Writing for Social Change
Columbia University, New York, March 28-29, 2003 Sponsored by the Columbia University History Department Cosponsored by French House, English Department, IRWAG, Center for Race and Ethnicity,Barnard Womenâ??s Center, Graduate Student Advisory Council, Institute for Research in African American Studies.
Friday March 28, 2003
9:00-9:30am Coffee and bagels Lobby, Buell Hall
9:30-10:00am Welcome 301 Philosophy
Jim Downs, Columbia University (History)
Opening Keynote Address
Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina, Trash, and Cavedweller
10:15-11:45am
Roundtable: Slavery and Early American Print Culture East Gallery, Buell Hall
Thea Hunter, Columbia University (History)
Jill Lepore, Bostorn University (History and American Studies)
Jennifer Morgan, Rutgers University (History)
Ashli White, Columbia University (History) and McNeil Center
Roundtable: Contemporary Feminist Print Culture Philosophy Hall 301
Chair: Lisa Ramos, Columbia University (History)
Vinita Srivastava, "The Making of BrownSugar Magazine (or Whatâ??s a Guerilla Girl Journalist to do? )
Meredith Tax, President of Womenâ??s World
Nicole Moore, Freelance Writer and Editor, African Womenâ??s Diaspora Publications, London
Michael D. Burch, Brown University, "Playing Like a Girl:" Gender Segregation and the Complicity of the University
Tizzy Asher, Little Hidden Voices: Using Zines, Fiction, and Third Wave Feminism in Service to the Adolescent Female Voice
Writersâ?? Responses: Crisis, Nationalism, and Marginality Fayerweather
Chair: Laura Hornbake, Columbia University (History)
Erika Dreifus, Harvard University (Creative Writing) "Keeping Silent?" The Dilemma of the American Fiction Writer After September 11"
Channette M. Romero, Rutgers University (English) Ethnic American Literature and Resistance Politics
Beerendra Pandey, SUNY at Stony Brook (English) "Politics of Language of Partition Violence in Chaman Nahalâ??s Azadi and Bapsi Sidhwaâ??s Cracking India"
Aureliano Maria DeSoto, Bard College (Multi-Ethnic Studies) "The Volatility of the (Anti) Authoritative Voice: "Oppositional" Literature and Hegemony in the case of Cherrie Moraga"
11:45- 1:15pm
Panel Two: Historical Meditations on Violence Philosophy 301
Chair: Samantha H. Reid, Rutgers University (English)
Jennifer Fronc, Columbia University (History) "Making Him Believe I Was of the Underworld": Undercover Investigators and the Reform of Sex in Progressive Era New York City
Rachel Hope-Cleves, University of California, Berkeley (History) "Articulating an Ethic of Non-Violence"
Maria J. Rice, Rutgers University (English) The Violence of Memory: The Oppressive Ancestral Narrative in Gayl Jonesâ?? Corregidora
Carolyn Quirke-Radja, City University of New York (History) "Stories They Never Told Me But Pictures I Couldnâ??t Help But See: Remembering The Chicago Memorial Day Massacre"
Panel Three: Historical and Literary Responses to HIV/AIDS Crisis East Gallery, Buell Hall
Chair: Jenny Brier, City University of New York
Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (History) "Consigning ACT-UP to History: Writing the History of a Movement Thatâ??s Over in a Crisis That Isnâ??t"
Kylie Thomas, University of Capetown in South Africa (Historical Studies) Writing for Your Life: HIV/AIDS Narratives in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Christopher Michael Bell, Independent Writer "Searching for Some Piece of Mind:" An Examination of Why I Write
1:15-2:45pm Lunch
Lunchtime Screening of "Brother/Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustn
Documentary on Civil Rights Leader who was the architect of the March on Washington. Rustinâ??s biography includes not only behind the scenes insights into the CRM but also powerful illustrations of gay life in the 1940s-1970s.
2:45-4:15pm
Panel Four: Writing Theories of Gender and Sexuality Philosophy 301
Chair: Barbara Balliet, Rutgers University (Womenâ??s Studies)
Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland (History) Thomas Foster, Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Science Research Council Michelle Mitchell, University of Michigan (History) Eve K. Sedgwick, City University of New York (English)
Panel Five: Negotiating the Poetics of Reform, Redefining the Politics of Memory East Gallery, Buell Hall
Chair: Janice Traflet, Columbia University (History)
Catherine Siemann, Columbia University (English) "Chanceryâ??s Orphans: Dickensâ?? Ambivalent Attitude Towards Social Reform in Bleak House
Pavitha Narayanan, Miami University (Womenâ??s Studies) The Politics of Writing
Chad L. Williams, Princeton University (History) "No Ordinary Sacrifice:" W.E.B. Du Bois, The First World War, and the Politics of Historical Memory
Steve Edwin, State University of New York at Stony Brook (Comparative Literature) " â??Impossibleâ?? Professions: Sarah Kofman, Audre Lorde, and the Politics of Witnessing"
4:15 pm-5:30 pm
Roundtable:
How Do We Write American History?: A Postructuralist and Postcolonial Perspective
Chair: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University (History)
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, University of Michigan (History and American Culture)
Ann Fabian, Rutgers University (American Studies)
Sandiyia Shukla, Columbia University (Anthropology)
The Uses and Abuses of Rhetoric: Community, Labor, and Gender
Jennifer Boots-Marshall, University of Oklahoma (English) "The Transformation of Laborers Into Hands: The Dehumanizing Rhetoric of the Industrial Revolution"
Karen Jackson Weaver, Columbia University (History) "A case study of black womenâ??s activism and leadership during the civil rights movement"
Tracey A. Briggs, University of Toledo (History) "Building a 'House of Theory"
Kate White, University of Oklahoma (English) "The Search for Political Existence and Self -Expression: Examining the Rhetorical Strategies of Oklahoma Womenâ??s Clubs in the 19th Century"
5:30-7:00
Roundtable: Writing Outside the Academy: The Arts Philosophy Hall 301
Chair: Lisa Ford, Columbia University (History)
Susan Brownmiller, Writer
Mridu Chandra and Bennett Singer, Producers and Directors of the film Brother/Outsider
Deb Margolin, Playwright, Actor, and Author
7:00-8:00pm Social Hour East Gallery, Buell Hall
Saturday March 29, 2003
9:30-10:00 Coffee and Bagels Lobby, Buell Hall
10:00-11:30am
Roundtable: Documenting Life in Prisons 301 Philosophy
Chair: Rebecca McLennan, Harvard University (History)
Eleanor M. Novek, Monmouth University (Communications) and Rebecca Sanford, Temple University (Communication Sciences)
Elizabeth Spackman, University of Iowa (Writerâ??s Workshop)
Kathy Adams, Union Institute and University (Creative Writing) , William E. Waters, author, and Judith Tannenbaum, teacher and poet
C.Morgan-Grafe, Brown University (American Civilizaion) The Text of Sites/Sites as Text
Panel Eight: "I Write the Songs": Memoir, Identity, and Place East Gallery,Buell Hall
Chair: Caitlin Love Crowell, Yale University (History)
Rebekah Collins, University of Michigan (Southeast Asian Studies) Homesick
Eureka Shabazz, Why I Write: A Caribbean Paradigm
Sarah Shey, Columbia University (School of the Arts) A Rural Life
Dawn Walsh, Sarah Lawrence College (Womenâ??s History) Identity Formation of the Lesbian Avengers
11:30 â?? 1:00pm
Roundtable: Teahcing 301 Philosophy Chair: Jennifer Tammi, Columbia University (History)
Phyllis Marie Jeffers, Montgomery Communicty College (Literature) Oprah Ainâ??t Got Nothinâ?? on Me
Chris Stern, City University of New York and New York University (History) The Best of the Past (and Present): Using Primary Sources to Create a Passion for the Written Word
Tom Deans, Haverford College (Rhetoric and Composition) Possibilities for Writing as Community Action in College Composition
Panel Nine: Public Intellectuals Writing Resistance East Gallery, Buell Hall
Michal Shapira, Rutgers University (History) "The End of This War!": The Political Writings of British Pacifists 1918-1945
Ada Norris, Duke University (English) "A Few Pages of Indignation: An Aboriginal Uncle Tomâ??s Cabin"
Brian Norman, Rutgers University (English)
"The â??Failureâ?? of Political Writing: The Case of Helen Hunt Jackson sand the
Status of the Public Intellectual"
Felipe Gomez, University of Michigan (Romance Languages) "Write Fast, Die Young: The Self-Creation and Destruction of a Columbian Writer
12:30 â?? 2:00 Lunch
War Roundtable East Gallery, Buell Hall
Chair: Volker Berghen, Columbia University (History)
Marilyn Young, New York University (History)
Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University (History)
Christopher Vaughn, Rutgers University (Journalism)
Barbara Garson, author
2:00-4:00 Panel Twelve: Writing Across Borders: Identity and Diaspora East Gallery, Buell Hall
Chair: Nancy Kwak, Columbia University (History)
Elisa Joy White, University of California, Berkeley (Sociology) "A Spy on the Emerald Isle: Writing the New Irish Identity from the Outside"
Manu Samriti Chander, Brown University (English) "Judgement and Alterity: Writing the Beautiful Other"
Hwa Shin Lee, Binghamton University (Philosophy) "Re-Writing History Between Nation: What to Re-Write and How?"
Sasha Parmasad, Columbia University (School of the Arts) "Writing, Activism, and Contestation: A Young Trinidadian Writer Contemplates
Panel Eleven: Getting the Word Out! Publishing. Public History, and the Expert in Public Debates East Gallery, Buell Hall
Chair: Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University (History)
Ellen James, African American Research Committee of New Paltz (Public History)
Terry E. Johnson, Publisher of Real News
Rickie Solinger, Independent Historian and Author
Lundy Braun, Brown University (Pathology, Africana Studies, and Environmental Studies) and John Trimbur, (Worcester Polytechnic Institute ) "Prompt Language and Asbestos Activism in South Africa"
4:00-5:30pm
Put Your Pencils Down! Being Radical On Campus 301 Philosophy
Chair: Susan Sturn, Columbia University (School of Law)
Jodi Bromberg, Temple University School of Law "The Gender Crisis at Temple Law"
Tamara K. Nopper, Temple University (Sociology) "An Unanswerable Demand? Avoiding Racial Antagonism in Asian American Studies and Politics
Chris Robe, Lehigh University (English) "The Silent Majority: Encouraging Graduate Students to Speak Out
Holly A. Piscopo University of California Santa Cruz (History) Writing About Class Struggles: How to Write and Teach about Class in a Society that Prefers to Deny Its Existence
Workshop: History Slam! 301 Philosophy
Elaine Lewinnek, Yale University (American Studies) Karene Grad, Yale University (American Studies)
*In the spirit of poetry slams, bring a paragraph of your writing to present. Everyone will have a chance to read their work, and then a discussion will follow.
5:30-7:00pm
Closing Faculty Panel East Gallery, Buell Hall
Chair: Alan Brinkley, Columbia University (History)
John Dâ??Emillio, University of Illinois (History) Carol Gluck, Columbia University (History) Robin D.G. Kelley, New York University (History and African American Studies) Gayatri C. Spivak, Columbia University (English and Comparative Literature) Christine Stansell, Princeton University (History)
7:00-8:00pm Social Hour East Gallery, Buell Hall
Conference Location:
The conference activities will take place in Buell Hall (printed on the map as Maison Francaise) and Faywerweather Hall, home of the Columbia History Department. Both are located North of 116th , between Broadway and Amsterdam, in the heart of campus. The conference will only use one room in Buell Hall â?? the East Gallery. Several rooms on the third floor of Fayerweather will be used. Check in will be in the Lobby of Buell Hall. The map below can also be found at www.columbia.edu/cu/french/maison/
www.columiba.edu/cu/history
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