PLENARY SPEAKERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Emily Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004), The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007), and Seneca: A Life (also published in the US as The Greatest Empire, 2015). She has also published verse translations of Seneca’s tragedies, Euripides, and most recently, Homer’s Odyssey (2017). She is the Classics editor for the revised Norton Anthology of World Literature, and Western Literature.
Gina Luria Walker is Professor of Women’s Studies at The New School and Director of The New Historia, whose mission is to present authoritative, multidisciplinary scholarship on women’s contributions to society, to broadcast these stories on a pioneering, interactive platform and at public events, and to reveal an alternative history that values the roles women have always played in human endeavors.
She is the Editor of the Chawton House Library edition of Female Biography (1803; 2013, 2o14) by Mary Hays, a six-volume work documenting the lives of 302 active, learned, and rebellious women. Most recently, she was Editor of The Invention of Female Biography (2017).
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2017
4:30-5:30pm: Registration (Anderson Hall Foyer)
5:30-7pm: Conference Opening Address by Dr. Emily Wilson – “Translating the Odyssey: Does Gender Matter?” (Anderson Hall, Auditorium 14)
7-9pm: Cocktail Reception (Intellectual Heritage Department, Anderson Hall, 2nd Floor)
SATURDAY, MARCH 17
8-9am: Breakfast and Registration (Shusterman Hall, Main Floor)
9-10:20am: Concurrent Panels A and B
Panel A – The Pedagogy of Embodiment (Wachman Hall, Rm. 108)
Karin Ekholm, St John’s College, Annapolis. “Women, Science, and Medicine in Core Courses”
James Getz, Temple University. “Gender-bending in Role-playing Pedagogy”
Sheryl Sawin, Temple University. “Join Me Down Here in Nowhere”: Teaching Claudine Rankine’s Citizen and Sophocles’ Antigone as sites of Critical Embodiment”
Chair: James DeLise
Panel B – Philo-Sophia: Feminist Philosophy and the Core (Wachman Hall, Rm. 109)
Matt Smetona, Temple University. “Social Reproduction as the Core of Society: A Case for the Inclusion of Marxist-Feminist Texts in Core Curricula”
Lisa Cassidy, Ramapo College of New Jersey. “The Case for Care Ethics as Ethical Core”
Anna Peak, Temple University. “Simone de Beauvoir in the Classroom”
Wade Roberts, Juniata College. “Arendt, Nussbaum and the Sensus Communis: Reflections on Imagination and Judgment in Liberal Education”
Chair: Ariane Fischer
10: 30 – 11:50am: Concurrent Panels C and D
Panel C – Exploring Qualities of Women’s Experience (Wachman Hall, Rm. 108)
John Ruff, Valparaiso University. “I was the First to Bring the Muse into My Country”: Reflections on Teaching Willa Cather’s Novel, My Antonia, as the First American Modernist Epic”
Naomi Taback, Temple University. “Evolution, Social Thought, and the Place of Women in Industrial Society: Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the Core Curriculum”
Mary Migliozzi, Villanova University. “Othering in the Italian Canon: The Case of Elena Ferrante”
Heather Ohaneson, George Fox University. “A Work Worthy of Athena: Teaching Sor Juana’s Seventeenth-Century Defense of Women’s Education”
Chair: Anna Peak
Panel D – Teaching Pre-Modern Texts as Sites of Power (Wachman Hall, Rm. 109)
Mary Townsend, Loyola University New Orleans. “Teaching Julia Ward Howe’s 1887 Speech on Plato’s Republic”
Elizabeth Sunflower, Temple University. “Holding Violets: Teaching Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho”
Alicia Cunningham-Bryant, Westminster College. “From Virgin/ Whore/ Mother/ Crone to Goddess: Apuleius and the Deconstruction of Perceived Female Roman Roles in Metamorphoses”
Joshua Pongan, Temple University. “Match-Making from the Margins: Examining a Medieval Woman’s Power and Influence in La Celestina”
Chair: Sheryl Sawin
12-1:30pm: Lunch and Plenary Address by Dr. Gina Luria Walker and Linda Xue – “Core Convictions: Women, Epistemological Authority, and the Canon” (Shusterman Hall, Main Floor)
1:30-2:50pm – Concurrent Panels E and F
Panel E – Translating While Female: Round-Table on the new edition of The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson (Wachman Hall, Rm. 108)
Robert Rabiee, Temple University. “Wilson’s ‘The Odyssey’ in the Gen Ed Classroom”
Marian Makins, Temple University.“‘If I Were in Your Place’: Equal Significance in/and Wilson’s The Odyssey”
Michael Dink, St. John’s College, Annapolis. “Penelope and Odysseus: Like-minded Plotters of Evil for their Enemies”
Chair: Naomi Taback
Panel F – Syllabus Transformation Workshop (Wachman Hall, Rm. 109)
Dustin Kidd, Temple University
This session allows participants to reflect critically on a current syllabus regarding its inclusion of women authors, women characters, and women’s perspectives. We will approach this intersectionally, with a focus on all types of women including women of color, women with disabilities, working class women, women of diverse faiths, trans women, and women from around the world. We will reflect on the concept of canon and its relationship to systems of inequality and examine the ways that transformations of core curricula can destabilize these systems of inequality. Participants should bring two hard copies of one syllabus to the workshop. Participants will leave with 2-3 concrete steps they can take to introduce their students to a wider array of women authors, women characters, and women’s perspectives. Please bring a syllabus you would like workshop.
3-4:20pm – Concurrent Panels G and H
Panel G – In Conversation: Women’s Voices in the Core (Wachman Hall, R. 108)
Noel Dolan, Villanova University. “A Crowded Room: Virginia Woolf in Conversation with the Core”
Susan Bertolino, Temple University. “Fierce Motherhood in Core Texts: Motherhood as Protection and Vengeance”
Christopher Strangeman, MacMurray College. “The Challenges of Putting Texts by Women into the American History Survey”
Mary Di Lucia, Bard College. “The Wash-Basin of Our Love: Teaching the Ghazals of Jahan Malik Khatun”
Chair: Rebekah Zhuraw
Panel H – Shifting the Gaze and Refunctioning the Core (Wachman Hall, Rm. 109)
Kristine Weatherston, Temple University. “A Screen of One’s Own: Women in Television and Media”
Caitlin Shanley, Temple University. “Feminist Information Literacy: Critical Inquiry from Margin to Center”
Rebecca Goldner, St John’s College, Annapolis. “Why We Should (Still) Read Beauvoir”
Chair: Natasha Rossi
4:30-5:50 – Panel I – Temple University Student Panel (Wachman Hall, Rm. 108)
GVGK Tang.“The Third Sex?: Subverting the White Male Gaze, Queering Historiographies of Gender & Sexuality”
Kara Bowen. “Emilé Du Châtelet: Realizations on Early Modern Feminism”
Ariana Davis. “In Memoria: An Antigone narrative inspired by Citizen”
Chair: Genevieve Amaral