Purdue University’s Black Cultural Center

 





Proudly Presents





 

BLACK WOMEN’S STUDIES AND THE ACADEMY

a national symposium

 

Thursday, February 27 - Saturday, March 1, 2003

 

The symposium will provide an opportunity for scholars, faculty, students, professionals and other researchers to trace the development of Black women’s studies as a discipline; discuss theory, pedagogy and epistemology as related to the study of Black women; and consider issues of institutionalization and canonization.  The symposium will also provide a forum for scholars to consider critical issues facing Black women and explore possibilities of a collective research agenda toward effecting positive social change.

 

Confirmed speakers:

 

Delores Aldridge, Ph.D.

Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Emory University

 

Darlene Clark Hine, Ph.D.

John A. Hannah Professor of History, Michigan State University

 

Valerie Lee, Ph.D.

Chair of the Department of English and Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Ohio State University

 

Obioma G.  Nnaemeka, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Women’s Studies, Indiana University, IUPUI

 

Jessie Carney Smith, Ph.D.

William and Camille Cosby Professor in the Humanities and University Librarian, Fisk University

 

 

 

Planning Committee:                                            Sponsors:

 

Susan Curtis, Ph.D. American Studies                                  African American Studies

Karen Hall, Women’s Resource Office                                American Studies

Carolyn Johnson, Ph.D., African American Studies             Black Cultural Center

Ruth Salvaggio, Ph.D., Women’s Studies                            Diversity Resource Office

Dorothy Simpson-Taylor, Ph.D.                                             Office of the Provost

   Diversity Resource Office                                                  Sociology and Anthropology

Marcia Stephenson, Ph.D., Women’s Studies                     Women’s Resource Office

Dorothy Washington, Black Cultural Center                       Women’s Studies

                                                                                             

 

Call for papers at http://www.purdue.edu/bcc/library/BWSCall.htm

 

Registration information  at http://www.purdue.edu/bcc/library/bwsreg.htm

Hotel accommodations:

 

Union Club

Purdue Memorial Union

101 N. Grant Street, West Lafayette, IN

Purdue University

1 (800) 320-6291 or (765) 494-8913

 

University Inn

3001 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN

1(800) 777-9808 or (765) 463-5511

 

 

For additional information contact: Dorothy Ann Washington, Coordinator, (765) 494-3093 or dwashin2@purdue.edu

 

 

"when and where I enter ... the whole ... race enters with me"--Anna J. Cooper