Program
Fortunes of Gender:
A Day-Long Gathering of Roundtables and Panels in the Behrend Community
Friday, Feb. 13 2009
9am – 5pm, Smith Chapel
Free & Open to the Public
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
9AM – 9:50 AM
Gender and Pedagogy
Moderator: Melissa Borgia
Elvage Murphy (Edinboro University) – “Modeling Appropriate Behavior and Setting
Standards in the Classroom Setting: The Role of the Male Professor”
Robin Powers (Gannon University) – “Reflections of a Women’s Studies Program
Founder”
Marnie Sullivan (Mercyhurst College) – “Feminist Pedgagogy 101”
10AM-10:50AM
International and Lifespan Issues
Moderator: Sharon Gallagher
Syed Andaleeb (Penn State Behrend) –“Discrimination Among Women in Bangladesh-Emerging Evidence”
R. Saya Bobick (West Virginia University) – “Cultural Practices & Their Effect on Elder Women”
Robyn Young (SafeNet Erie) – “Domestic Violence Though the Ages”
11AM-11:55AM
Keynote Talk – “Fortune as a Way of Seeing? Cinematic Subjectivity and Time in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life (1998)”
Kristi McKim (Assistant Professor of English, Hendrix College/Penn State Behrend ’99)
12:00-1:15PM
Meeting Room – Lower Level
Faculty Lunch and Roundtable on Gender in the Classroom (RSVP required) -
1:30-2:35PM
Community Focus – Serving Women and Girls in Erie
Moderator: Tammie Fleeger
Mary Baird – President & CEO, The Ophelia Project
Maureen Dunn – Executive Director, Erie DAWN
Summer Mobilia – Director of Development & Community Relations, Erie DAWN
Chris Tombaugh – Executive Director, Mercy Center for Women
2:45-3:45PM
1. Chapel – Subject To Debate: Topics of Controversy in Gender Studies
Moderator: Eva Kuttenberg
Dean Baldwin (Penn State Behrend) – “How Men Won the Sexual Revolution”
Dawn Blasko (Penn State Behrend) – “Why Aren’t There More Women in Science?”
Robert Roecklein (Penn State Behrend) – “On Machiavelli’s Thesis about Fortune in ‘The Prince.””
2. Meeting Room (Lower Level) – Interactive Student Roundtable: Gender and Sexuality on the Behrend Campus
Moderator: Sarah Whitney
Q and A with audience encouraged!
Featured Students: Ashley Albeck, Adell Coleman, Chelsea Ehret, Kameron Greene, Ashton Haas, Paul Nick, Tanya Riston, Ryan Westwood, Debra Workman
2. Meeting Room – Lower Level -
4PM-5:15PM
Clearing Up Mysteries: Faculty and Students Discuss Gender in Philosophy and Literature
Moderator: Meredith Kenyon
Joshua Shaw (Penn State Behrend) – “Why Don’t Philosophers Talk About their Mothers?”
Tom Rawls (Penn State Behrend) – “A Small Correction to the Memory of Anne Sexton”
Craig Warren (Penn State Behrend) – “And Then There Were None: Gender and Race in Agatha Christie’s Most Famous Novel”
Sarah Whitney (Penn State Behrend) – “Absent in the Spring: Gender, Agatha Christie and the Art of the Pseudonym”
Special Thanks
Beverly DiNicola
Jacqueline May
Cynara Stubbs
Craig Warren
Margo Wolfe
Smith Chapel Staff
MISC Staff
