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NCA 94th Annual Convention 2008, San Diego

Combined Programs

Women’s Caucus

Feminist & Women Studies Division

 

Friday November, 21

8:00am to 9:15am

The Personal is Political is Personal: Unconventional Organizing,

Embodied Activism and the New Aesthetics of Political Engagement in

Third Wave Feminist Praxis

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: America's Cup A

            

Opportunities for Unity: A Dialogue across Womanist and Feminist

Standpoints

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle D

             

FWSD Competitive Papers: Telling Our Stories

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle E

            

9:30am to 10:45am

Unconventional Women Pioneer Change: Vaudeville Stars May Irwin,

Marie Dressler, Sophie Tucker, and Eva Tanguay in the Dawn of the

Entertainment Industry

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Elizabeth DE

            

unCONVENTIONal Narrative Truths: Storytelling as Feminist, Social,

and Political Praxis

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle D

            

FWSD Competitive Papers: Feminist Health Files

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle E

            

12:30pm to 1:45pm

Unconventional publications: Can they increase the visibility and

status of female faculty?

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Parlor Room 705

            

Unconventional Definitions of Gender: Transcending the Binary in

Intersex and Transgender Politics

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle E

            

2:00pm to 3:15pm

Unconventional Timing: Exploring Temporal Solutions to Work-Life

Wellness

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: America's Cup A

            

Feminist perspectives on media reform: The activists’ voices

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Parlor Room 806

            

Trans-gressing Differences, Embodying Research: A Feminist

Roundtable Discussion on Theorizing Unconventional Embodiments in

the Field

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle E

            

3:30pm to 4:45pm

Women’s Political Voices in 2008: Analyses of Influence,

Persuasion, Leadership, and Change

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: America's Cup A

            

Sound Subjects: Music as a means to Re/position Gender

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Parlor Room 806

            

FWSD Competitive Papers: UnConventional Work & Women in Combat

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle E

 

Saturday November, 22

8:00am to 9:15am

FWSD Competitive Papers: Families, DV & Assault in Different

Contexts

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester I

        

Debating the Gender/Sexual Revolution: The Unconventional

Representation of Femininity in the Public Sphere

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle B

            

9:30am to 10:45am

FWSD Competitive Papers: Globalization/Nationalism/Cyberspace

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester I

            

Women of Color in the Academy: Utilizing (Wo)mentoring in Career

Development

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle A

            

UnCONVENTIONal Perspectives on Service in the Academy:

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle B

            

12:30pm to 1:45pm

FWS Division SPOTLIGHT Panel: Book Release Discussion of 'Power

Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester I

             

Unconventional Theory and Practice in the Gender and Communication

Course

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Parlor Room 706

            

Spitzack & Carter 20 Years Out: Has ‘Woman’ Become Conventional?

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle B

            

2:00pm to 3:15pm

TOP THREE PAPERS in the Feminist and Women's Studies Division

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester I

            

FWSD Competitive Papers: Feminists in Political & Academic Arenas

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Mohsen B

            

3:30pm to 4:45pm

FWSD Competitive Papers: UnConventional Women at Play: Technology &

Sports

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Molly A

            

Hillary '08: Feminist Opportunities and Challenges

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle B

            

3:30pm to 5pm

Combined Business Meetings:

Women’s Caucus and Feminist & Women Studies Division

Location: Salvatore’s Cucina Restaurant, 750 Front St.

             

5:00pm to 6:15pm

Reception: Francine Merritt Award and Bonnie Ritter Book Award

Location: Salvatore’s Cucina Restaurant, 750 Front St.

             

Sunday November, 23

8:00am to 9:15am

FWSD Competitive Papers: Subversive & Not-So-Subversive Media I

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester I

            

9:30am to 10:45am

FWSD Competitive Papers: Subversive & Not-So-Subversive Media II

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester I

             

Women's Networking in Action

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle B

             

12:30pm to 1:45pm

FWSD Competitive Papers: UnConventional Bodies and Spaces

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Betsy A

            

unCONVENTIONAL Trans-lations: Performing Trans

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Elizabeth F

             

unCONVENTIONal: Examining Women’s Voices in Organizational Life in

Former Communist Countries

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Elizabeth G

            

Did the Media Make a Difference? Exploring Intersections Between

Gender, Race and Media in the 2008 Presidential Campaign

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester I

            

Communication Studies Scholars’ Contributions to Women’s and/or

Gender Studies Programs

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle B

            

2:00pm to 3:15pm

FWSD Competitive Papers: Feminist Uses of Foucault, Habermas and

Bourdieu

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester I

            

The UnConventional Academy: Revisioning Higher Education in Pink

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle B

            

3:30pm to 4:45pm

It Can Be Done: Managing the Challenges of Family and Scholarship

in the Academy

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Mohsen A

            

Unconventional Women's Activism: Protest, Politics, and Image in

the Second Wave

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Parlor Room 606

            

Made in India? A woman's experience with arranged marriage and

intercultural identity

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Randle B

 

 

Monday November, 24

8:00am to 9:15am

Transgressing the Borders between Feminist Academics, Art, and

Activism: Filmmaking, Organizing, and Rhetorical Criticism on the

Borderlands

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Del Mar A

            

Welcome to the Boys' Club Hillary: A Roundtable Discussion of Women

in Leadership Roles

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester B

            

The social construction of the fat body: A critical exploration of

the plus-sized identities

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester E

            

The Power of Mothers: Three Centuries of National and International

Rhetorical Conscience

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester F

            

9:30am to 10:45am

Creativity and Social Power: Tensions and Possibilities

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester B

            

The Tyranny of the Rational: Unconventional Masculinities in

Contexts

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester E

            

Unconventional Warfare/Wordfare: The Trans-formative Rhetoric of

Fannie Lou Hamer, Geraldine Ferraro, Sister Souljah and Cindy

Sheehan

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester F

            

11:00am to 12:15pm

Women's UNCONVENTIONAL Response – NO! How to Say 'NO', Create

Balance, and Succeed in Academe

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester B

            

FWSD Competitive Papers: Rhetorically Speaking...

Building: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Room: Manchester F

 

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