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College to Host Women's Studies Mini-Conference
March 6, 2008

10:00 - 11:15 a.m. – Student Center, Fallon Room

Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Ph.D., presents: Making a Way Out of No Way:  African American Women’s Journey from the Rural South to the Urban North in the Second Great Migration, 1940-1970

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  -  Student Center, Fallon Room                                                                    
Lori Dawson, Ph.D., presents: The Personal is Political: Self-Disclosure, Power, and Pedagogy

K Soysa, Ph.D., presents: Clipped Wings in the Bird Cage: Trauma in the Sri Lankan Warzone

12:30 - 1:00 p.m. – Student Center, Fallon Room

Lunch

Poster Display by Bonnie Orcutt, Ph.D., and her Microfinance students Microfinance: Prospects for Prosperity

1:00 - 2:15 p.m. – Fallon Room

Kristin Waters, Ph.D., presents: Crying Out for Liberty: Freedom, Equality, and Abolition

Fortunata Songora Makene, Ph.D., presents:  A Glance At What Shapes Human History: Globalization and Its Impact on Girls’ Education In Tanzania

2:30 - 3:30 p.m. – Student Center, Fallon Room

Judy Jeon-Chapman, Ph.D., presents: Feminine Spiritual Forces on Earthly Pedestals: The Cults of Anis, Diana and Mary in Le Puy-en-Velay   

 
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. – Learning Resource Center, Room 168

Cathy Wilcox-Titus, Ph.D., presents: Cute as the Aesthetic Frame

Sponsored by: WSC Women's Studies
Event Contact: Professor K Soysa, 508-929-8703 or csoysa@worcester.edu