A10: (Not) All We Do is Talk Talk: Communication, (Post) coloniality and Transnational Feminist Consciousness

Seminar Leaders: Priya Jha, Murray State University and Courtney Wennerstrom, Indiana University - Bloomington

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Gresham 2

Nandini Bhattacharya, University of Toledo: “Globalizing Women’s Studies: Joys and Sorrows”

Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University: “De-Orienting Gender: Public and Private Discourse on Modern Womanhood in the Korea Mission Field”

Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green University: “Racing and Gendering the Nerd”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Gresham 2

Purna Chowdhury, Ottawa University: “Unrobing the Orient: The Turkish Women and the Manly Gaze in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters”

Ulrike Brisson, University of Massachusetts – Amherst: “Re-Writing Body Myths: Perceptions and Representations of Female Bodies in Nineteenth-Century European Women’s Travel Writings”

Paola Zamperini, Amherst College: “Ties That Cut: Alter/Native Portrayals of Chinese Women in Western Women’s Writings”

William Scott, New Mexico State University: “Utopia and Global Despair: Agnes Smedley’s Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Gresham 2

Parvinder Mehta, Wayne State University: “Narrating Ethnic Selves: (Auto) Ethnographic Performances and Mythical Interventions in The Women Warrior”

Laura M. DeLuca, University of Colorado – Boulder: “Pink Gins on the Veranda: Anthropology and (Post)colonial Ambivalence at the ‘Field’ Site”

Pius Adesanmi, Pennsylvania State University: “Beyond the Male Axis: Subjecthood, Agency, and Transnationalism in African Feminist Discourses”

Laura Dawkins, Murray State University: “Speaking for Silenced: Transnational Maternal Activism in Toni Cade Bambara’s Those Bones Are Not My Child”