Opening Remarks - VIDEO

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

9:50 AM - 10:00 AM

Skirting Authority: Early Women's Voices in the Catholic Tradition - VIDEO

Stephen Shepherd, Associate Professor of English, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

10:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Arpillera Workshop

Veronica De Negri

McIntosh Center (University Hall 3999)

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Autumn Gem: A Documentary on Modern China's First Feminist - VIDEO

Moderator: Professor Susan Barber, Loyola Marymount University
Moderator: Professor Robin Wang, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Afternoon Tea

Kelly Kawar

Marymount Institute

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Post-Graduate Volunteer/Service Information Dinner

Service Programs

St. Roberts Auditorium

5:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Performance/Lecture by Guerrilla Girls - VIDEO

Guerilla Girls

University Hall 1000

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Comfort Women: Trans-national Activism and Art

Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Chair of the Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine
JongHwa Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Stella Oh, Department of Women's Studies, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

9:25 AM - 10:50 AM

Guerilla Girls Student Workshop

Guerilla Girls

McIntosh Center (University Hall 3999)

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Women Artists of Ciudad Juarez - VIDEO

Evangelina Arce
Alicia Partnoy, Department of Modern Language and Literatures, Chair, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

1:35 PM - 3:00 PM

Afternoon Tea: Women's Folk Music - VIDEO

Ellen Geer
Melora Marshall

Marymount Institute

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Three Generations of Activist/Artist Women - VIDEO

Alicia Partnoy
Raquel Partnoy
Ruth Irupe Sanabria

University Hall 1000

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

LA Art Girls

Ellina Kevorkian, Chair
Nancy Buchanan
Phyllis Green
Nancy Popp
Marjan Vayghan

University Hall 1000

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Performance of 'THE NEED TO KNOW.'

April Fitzsimmons

St. Roberts Auditorium

1:35 PM - 3:00 PM

Afternoon Tea

Sarah Maclay, Department of English, Loyola Marymount University

Marymount Institute

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Performance by Jude Narita

Jude Narita

University Hall 1000

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Women Who Teach Art for Social Change - VIDEO

Sherry Jason, City Hearts
Keren Taylor, founder and Executive Director, WriteGirl
Einat Metzl
Moderator: Chuck Rosenthal, Department of English, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

9:00 AM - 10:40 AM

Student You-tube Competition

Office of Student Affairs

University Hall 1000

1:35 PM - 3:00 PM

Afternoon Tea: Women in Theater

Beth Henley
Ellen Greer, artistic director, Theatricum Botanicum
Amy Madigan
Velina Houston

Marymount Institute

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Keynote address and reading by Carolyn Forche - VIDEO

Carolyn Forche

University Hall 1000

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Lifting Oppression as We Climb: Black Women Artists and Activism - VIDEO

Moderator: Professor Cassandra Veney, Department of Political Science, Loyola Marymount University
Sherry Simpson-Dean, executive director, United Nations Pasadena/Foothills
Marcia Kure
Nkiru Nzegwu, Chair of Africana Studies, Binghamton University--SUNY

University Hall 1000

10:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Women in Hip Hop Panel

Evelyn McDonnell
Angie Colette Beatty

University Hall 1000

1:00 PM - 2:50 PM

'Dust of Gold' - Performance by Elia Arce

Elia Arce
Ruben Martinez, Fletcher Jones Chair of Literature and Writing, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall East Atrium

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

'The Purpose of Being' - Opening Reception for the LA artists/activists and LMU collaborators

Ronald Lopez, 18th Street Arts Center
Jane Brucker
SaeRi Cho Dobson
LMU Students
Amitis Motevalli
Arzu Arda Kosar
Elana Mann
Vera Brunner-Sung
Kristin Ross Lauterbach
Christina Lee Storm
Ofunne Obiamiwe

Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Student Art Gallery

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Kim Abeles: Art and Activism

Kim Abeles

Laband Gallery

6:00 PM

Video installation and performances curated by Ellina Kevorkian

Ellina Kevorkian

Murphy Recital Hall

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM