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WOMEN OF FAITH:
A Panel Discussion with Dartmouth Female Student Religious Leaders
Hosted by the Multi-Faith Council.

Tuesday April, 1st 8 - 9:30 PM Brace Commons.

Featuring:
Haley Bolin '08 of Navs and the Edge
Meredith Druss '08 of Dartmouth Hillel
Sara Ludin '08 of al-Nur Muslim Student Association

Come hear perspectives on being a woman, a person of faith, and a student leader at Dartmouth.

Can Women Ever Become Modern?
New Directions in Thinking about Gender, Science and Modernity

Sandra Harding
Professor of Education and Women's Studies
University of California, Los Angeles

Monday, April 14, 2008

4pm
Filene Auditorium
Moore Hall

Sponsored by the Department of Religiion and Phi Beta Kappa
Phi beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program

Sandra Harding is the author of many books, including:

    Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues (2006)
    Science from Below: Gender, Imperialism and Modernity (forthcoming)

Black Womanhood
Images, Icons, and Ideologies
of the African Body

April 1 - August 10, 2008
Hood Museum of Art

11 April, Friday, 4:30 PM
Arthur M. Loew Auditorium
Opening Lecture and Reception
DE/SCRIBING BLACK WOMANHOOD: VISUAL NARRATIVES AND THE AFRICAN BODY
Barbara Thompson, exhibition curator and Curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American Collections

12 April, Saturday, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Arthur M. Loew Auditorium
SYMPOSIUM
9:00 AM Walk-in registration

9:30 - 9:45 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
Barbara Thompson, Curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American Collections
9:45 AM - 12:00 PM Critical Discourses of Black Womanhood
STILL EMBATTLED, YET EMBOLDENED: CONTESTING BLACK FEMALE EMBODIMENTS
Deborah K. King, Associate Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
BEYOND ORIENTALISM: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ART FROM NORTHERN AFRICA
Cynthia J. Becker, Assistant Professor of Art History, Boston University
BEYOND GENDERCENTRIC INTERPRETATIONS: IN PRAISE OF MOTHER, THE ULTIMATE ARTIST
Oyeronke Oyewumi, Associate Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University
1:30 - 4:30 PM Artist's Perspectives on Black Womanhood
Joyce Scott, Baltimore
Sokari Douglas Camp, London
Hassan Musa, Domessargues, France
Roundtable discussion to follow.
This symposium is cosponsored by the Hood Museum of Art, the Fannie and Allan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College, and the Allen and Joan Bildner Endowment for Human and Intergroup Relations.

 

 

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