Event Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
A celebration of the life and work of bell hooks
Annual GSWS Conference 2022
April 27, 12:00-4:00 pm
This is an online event with a keynote webinar followed by a zoom meeting. Registration is required for both components (see below).
12:00-12:05 - Opening Remarks
WG Pearson, Chair, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
12:05-1:20 - Keynote Lecture: "Bone Black Wise Woman (a reflection on bell hooks)"
DaMaris B. Hill, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, University of Kentucky.
Poet, writer, and interdisciplinary scholar, Damaris B. Hill is the author of A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland and Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood. https://damarishill.com/
Please register for the keynote lecture here: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lGPJO9dxS4e0WE2zwkQLNQhttps://westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lGPJO9dxS4e0WE2zwkQLNQ
1:30-2:30 - Pedagogy Roundtable
Alumni and Friends of GSWS
Facilitator: Susan Knabe, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
2:40-3:55 - Storytelling with bell
Althea Tait, Assistant Professor, State University of New York (Brockport)
GSWS Students
Facilitator: Miranda Green-Barteet, Undergraduate Chair, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Please register for the rest of the conference here:
https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsc-ygrDIpHtW8bhPHjHLxSaU6esyqOeHy
3:55 - Closing Remarks
Jessica Polzer, Graduate Chair, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies