Ethics - Widener University

5–5.45
Open Business Meeting | Cornet Room
All conference participants encouraged to attend
6–8
Women’s Connection Reception | Maurepas Room (3rd floor)
Katrina Warriors:
Women’s Studies, Women’s Activism in New Orleans
Keynote Speaker: Supriya M. Nair, Tulane University
In her talk, Nair discusses some of the key challenges facing women’s issues
in post-Katrina New Orleans, and also some initiatives and hopes regarding
women’s lives and involving women’s activism, making links between our
institutional sites and everyday lives, between the classroom and city. She is an
Associate Professor of English, an affiliate of the African and African Diaspora
Studies Program, and currently Director of Women’s Studies. In addition to
articles on postcolonial/anglophone literature and feminist theory, Nair has
authored Caliban’s Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History (Michigan
1996), co-edited Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism
(Rutgers 2005); she is completing a book on Anglophone Caribbean literatures.
Note: Admission is by Ticket Only.
8–10
Performance Session | Waterbury Ballroom (2nd floor)
Resurrecting Belief from Home’s Decay:
Scenes from Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire
Director:
Dramaturge:
Troop:
Actors:
Christy Stanlake
Jason Shaffer
Masqueraders, United States Naval Academy
Sean Bingham, Joy Dewey, David Smestuen, Julie Barca
Talk Back Session with actors, dramaturge, and director will follow the performance.
Friday, April 13 5-5.45, 6-8, 8-10 p.m. 29