I hope to see some of y’all there.<\/p>\n
BYU Women\u2019s Studies Conference 2011
\nWomen and Creativity<\/p>\n
Thursday, November 3, 2011<\/p>\n
Pre-Conference Women\u2019s Studies Colloquium Presentation<\/p>\n
12:00 \u2013 1:00 p.m. Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium (1060 HBLL)<\/strong><\/p>\n No\u00ebl Valis, Yale University Department of Spanish and Portuguese,<\/p>\n “Carolina Coronado and Martha Perry Lowe: Translating Sisterhood”<\/p>\n 5:00 \u2013 6:00p.m. Museum of Peoples and Cultures (700 North 100 East)<\/strong><\/p>\n Opening Reception<\/p>\n Tour of the Exhibit: \u201cEntwined: A Vibrant Heritage of the Modern Maya\u201d<\/p>\n Friday, November 4, 2011<\/p>\n Session 1: Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Dane Spencer, Brigham Young University Department of English, \u201cMary Braddon and Lady Audley: Creatively Flourishing in a Masculine Domain\u201d<\/p>\n Amy Easton-Flake, Brandeis University Department of English, \u201cImagining the Vote: Suffrage and Antisuffrage: Fiction as a Creative Force\u201d<\/p>\n Bonnie Moore, Utah State University American Studies Program, \u201cAmy Teresa Leavitt Richardson: One Woman\u2019s Creative Expressions of Humor Within Mormon Polygamy at the Turn of the Century in Mexico\u201d<\/p>\n Session 2: Women and Spirituality<\/p>\n 9:00 \u2013 10:30 a.m. 3101 JFSB<\/strong><\/p>\n Tova Leigh-Choate, Independent Scholar, \u201c\u2018A Blazing Mind Longing to Soar above the Clouds\u2019: Hildegard of Bingen, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, and the Creative Self-Consciousness of Medieval Women\u201d<\/p>\n Julie M. Smith, Independent Scholar, \u201c\u2018I Will Sing to the Lord\u2019: Women\u2019s Songs in the Scriptures\u201d<\/p>\n Jacqueline S. Thursby, Brigham Young University Department of English, \u201cMaya Angelou: A Life of Orderly Chaos\u201d<\/p>\n Session 3: Mid-Twentieth-Century Women<\/p>\n 10:45 a.m. \u2013 12:15 p.m. 3082 JFSB<\/strong><\/p>\n Monica Bowen, Seattle University Department of Visual Art & Art History, \u201cThe Hillwood Collection and Estate: Self-Portrait of an Heiress\u201d<\/p>\n Evan R. Ward, Brigham Young University Department of History, \u201cThe Woman Who Loved China: Dorothy Needham\u2019s Travel Diaries and the History of Science and Civilization in China Project\u201d<\/p>\n Hilary Demske, Utah Valley University Department of Music \u201cMusic in the Novels of Carson McCullers\u201d<\/p>\n Session 4: Dickinson and Gilman<\/p>\n 10:45 a.m. \u2013 12:15 p.m. 3101 JFSB<\/strong><\/p>\n Rachel Payne, Brigham Young University Department of English, \u201cRepression, Oppression, and Rewriting Monsters\u201d<\/p>\n Andrew Wells, Brigham Young University Department of English, \u201cEmily Dickinson: Folk Hero and Creator of Fauxlore\u201d<\/p>\n Ian Weaver, Utah State University Department of English, \u201cFrom Pristine to Human Nature: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Questioning of Authority\u201d<\/p>\n 12:15 -1:45 p.m. Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n Session 5: Early Twentieth-Century Women Lindsay Brown, Brigham Young University Department of English, \u201cPregnant Orlando: The Unexpected Embodiment of Perfection\u201d<\/p>\n Haleigh Burgon, Brigham Young University French Studies, \u201cEcstasy, Falling, and Redemption as Themes in the Works of Camille Claudel\u201d<\/p>\n Session 6: Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries<\/p>\n 1:45 \u2013 3:15 p.m. 3082 JFSB<\/strong><\/p>\n Kelly R. Summers, Brigham Young University Family History, \u201cCreativity and Individuality of the Women of Garganta La Olla, Spain in the18th Century as Expressed in their Textiles\u201d<\/p>\n Michelle S. James and Carrie Cox, Brigham Young University Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, \u201cPushing the \u2018Scented Envelope\u2019: Elisa von der Recke at the Cultural Crossroads\u201d<\/p>\n Elise Barker, Idaho State University Department of English, \u201cRomancing the (Un)Satisfying Endings in Austen’s Biography and Novels\u201d<\/p>\n Session 7: Early Modern Women\u2019s Art and Literature<\/p>\n 3:30 \u2013 5:00 p.m. 3101 JFSB<\/strong><\/p>\n Emily Larsen, Brigham Young University Art History Program, \u201cGender and Portraiture: A Sympathetic Portrayal in Catharina van Hemessen\u2019s 1551 Portrait of a Lady\u201d<\/p>\n Jennifer Haraguchi, Brigham Young University Department of French and Italian, \u201cVita di Eleonora: A Unique Example of Autobiographical Writing in Early Modern Italy\u201d<\/p>\n Robert J. Hudson, Brigham Young University Department of French and Italian, \u201cCl\u00e9ment Marot and Proto-Feministic Discourse in Lyrical Lyon\u201d<\/p>\n Session 8: Women in the Applied and Social Sciences<\/p>\n 3:30 \u2013 5:00 p.m. 3082 JFSB<\/strong><\/p>\n Richard Grimmett, Brigham Young University-Idaho Department of Computer Science and Engineering, \u201cSocial Networks and Non-Traditional Engineering Student Retention and Success\u201d<\/p>\n Lisa Barrager, Brigham Young University College of Engineering & Technology, \u201cAddressing the Unique Needs of Women Engineering and Technology Students at Brigham Young University\u201d<\/p>\n Connie Lamb, Brigham Young University Middle East & Women\u2019s Studies Librarian, \u201cThree Waves of Women Anthropologists and Their Creative Endavors\u201d<\/p>\n 5:00 \u2013 7:00 p.m. Dinner Break<\/strong><\/p>\n 7:00 \u2013 7:20 p.m.<\/strong> BYU Museum of Art<\/strong> (Warren & Alice Jones and Paul & Betty Boshard galleries \u2013 MOA lower level)<\/p>\n Tour of the Exhibit: \u201cFrom Heart to Hand: African-American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts\u201d<\/p>\n Plenary Session and Recital<\/p>\n 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Museum of Art Auditorium (260 MOA) Piano Recital: Stephen Beus performing works by Marion Bauer<\/p>\n Saturday, November 5, 2011<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9:00 \u2013 9:20 a.m. Harold B. Lee Library<\/strong> (HBLL)<\/p>\n Visit the Harold B. Lee Library Women and Creativity Exhibit?<\/p>\n Session 9: Contemporary Authors<\/p>\n 9:30 \u2013 11:30 a.m. Library Auditorium<\/strong> (1060 HBLL)?<\/p>\n Bruce W. Jorgensen, Brigham Young University Department of English, \u201cRecovering Creation in Gina Berriault\u2019s \u2018The Island of Ven\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Dale J. Pratt, Brigham Young University Department of Spanish and Portuguese, \u201cVirtual Lives, Virtual Memories: Female Posthumans in Rosa Montero\u2019s Latest Novels\u201d<\/p>\n Rex P. Nielson, Brigham Young University Department of Spanish and Portuguese, \u201cViolence and Silence in the Domestic Landscape: Adriana Lisboa\u2019s Sinfonia em Branco\u201d<\/p>\n Tiffany Martin, Brigham Young University Departments of English and Philosophy, \u201cSoaring Larks and Shattering Glass: Creativity and Freedom in Jennifer Johnston\u2019s Fiction\u201d<\/p>\n Session 10: Creativity and Women\u2019s Bodies Felicia L. Jones, \u201cThe Feminine Peter Pan\u201d<\/p>\n Heidi Olsen, Brigham Young University, \u201cNatacha Lesueur and the Abject\u201d<\/p>\n Kristina Gibby, Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University Humanities, \u201cFrida Kahlo and the Monstrous Female: Confronting Colonial and Male Desires\u201d<\/p>\n Susan Garver, Brigham Young University, \u201c\u2018Une transformation profonde\u2019: Nature and Death in Agn\u00e8s Varda\u2019s Cl\u00e9o from 5 to 7\u201d<\/p>\n Closing remarks<\/p>\n
\n8:30 \u2013 9:00 a.m. Conference Registration 3101 JFSB (Joseph F. Smith building)<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nKeynote Lecture: Dr. Susan Pickett, Catharine Chism Professor of Music Theory and Violin, Whitman College<\/p>\n
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\n9:30 \u2013 11:30 a.m. Library Special Collections<\/strong> (1130? HBLL)?<\/p>\n