2014 Feminist Workshop

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• Feminist Workshop Co-Chairs: Lauren Connolly, University of Texas at El Paso, Emma Howes, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Lauren Rosenberg, Eastern Connecticut University, Moushumi Biswas, University of Texas at El Paso, Nicole Khoury, American University of Beirut, Shannon Mondor, College of the Redwoods, Cristina Ramirez, University of Arizona
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FEATURED SPEAKERS

Jessica Enoch, University of Maryland

• Asking Questions: What Does Recovery work of Feminist Rhetors Look Like Today?

Maureen Daly Goggin, Arizona State University

• Third-Wave Feminism: It’s not Your Mother’s or Grandmother’s Style

Jill Morris, Frostburg State University

• Feminist Mentoring in Digital Rhetoric

Gesa Kirsch, Bentley University

• Opening Rhetorical Spaces: The Challenges of Strategic Contemplation

Cindy Selfe, Ohio State University

• Writing as a Lifeline: Women's Voices in a Global MOOC

WORKSHOP PARTICPANTS

• Historical Recovery Jennie Vaughn “Writing the Measure of her Life”; Carolyn Ostrander, “Covery and Recovery”; Patty Wilde, “Bad Women Speaking Well”; Libby Jones, “Meander Scars”; Facilitated by Emma Howes
• The Contexts in which Feminists Work Kate Navickas, “Writing Assignments”; April Conway, “Exploring how feminist scholars open up spaces”; Lynn Bloom, “Advice (Not) to Live By”; Facilitated by Lauren Rosenberg
• Feminist Politics and Rhetorics Heather Brooke Adams, “Reconsidering Roe”; April Cobos, “Contradictions in the Motherhood Rhetorics”; Jane Hindman/Doreen Mattingly, “Rethinking the Politics of Second Wave Feminists”; Alyson Leitch, “Lynn Bloom Archivist and Archived Subject”; Facilitated by
• Rhetorical Histories: Erin Wecker, “Unfolding the Laundry”; Mary Fratini, “Despite One’s Best Intentions”; Roseanne Gatto, “Building Steam Engines With the Women”; Facilitated by Jessica Enoch
• Space and Identity Tamara Issak, “Transnational Feminism”; Lydia McDermott, “Home Pages”; Mor Sheinbein, “‘It’s Tribal, Not Racist!’”; Facilitated by Maureen Daly Goggin
• Embodiment in Digital Spaces Caitlin Ray, “Enabling Embodied Learning’”; Erika M. Sparby and Alison A. Lukowski, “Where Do Women Work?”; Facilitated by Jill Morris

SCHEDULE

9 am: Opening Remarks, by Lauren Connolly

• Kirsti Cole, History of the Feminisms Workshops (video) Introduced by Nicole Khoury
• Jessica Enoch, Asking Questions: What Does Recovery work of Feminist Rhetors Look Like Today?
• Introduced by Cristina Ramirez
• Maureen Daly Goggin, Third-Wave Feminism: It’s not Your Mother’s or Grandmother’s Style
• Introduced by Nicole Khoury

10:30-10:45 coffee break

• Jill Morris, Feminist Mentoring in Digital Rhetoric Introduced by Moushumi Biswas

11:15-noon: Writing workshop, part 1

noon-1: lunch (pending info)

• Cynthia Selfe, Writing as a Lifeline: Women's Voices in a Global MOOC,

Introduced by Moushumi Biswas

1:30-2:30 writing workshop, part 2

2:30-2:45 coffee break

Gesa Kirsch, Opening Rhetorical Spaces: The Challenges of Strategic Contemplation, Introduced by Lauren Rosenberg

3:15-3:55 Writing Workshop, part 3

3:55 Closing remarks, by Lauren Connolly

WORKSHOP TOPICS AND QUESTIONS

Consider the following questions in relationship to the topics:

• Where have feminists been in the past in rhetoric and composition and where are we now?
• Where are we going?
• What are the contexts for feminists coming together in workshops for collaborative learning?

Consider the following contexts:

• Women negotiating the public technological/online space
• Transnational/Nonwestern feminist rhetorics
• Feminist Methodologies
• Feminist Activism