SCHEDULE
Thursday, April 12th
Center for the Arts, UB North Campus, Rm. 112
6pm to 7pm Opening Reception
7pm Film Screening & Panel:
Women, Media Access, and Film & Video Activism
Elizabeth Barret, Archivist & Filmmaker, Appalshop (Skype)
Dorothea Braemer, Director, Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources
Meg Knowles, Communication Department, Buffalo State College
Carolyn Tennant, Media Arts Director, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Friday, April 13th
Center for the Arts, UB North Campus, Rm. 112
9am Plenary
9:30am - Noon Feminism & Visual Protest Culture
Moderator: Elizabeth Otto, Department of Visual Studies State University at Buffalo
Kirsty Robertson, Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario
"Writing a Craftivist History (Again and Again and Again)"
Guisela Latorre, Department of Women's Studies, Ohio State University
"Chicana/o Artivism and Social Justice"
Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Dr.P.H., PhD, Adjunct Faculty, University at Buffalo,
Co-Founder, Uncrowned Queens Institute
for Research and Education on Women, Inc.
"Drusilla Dunjee Houston: Visualizing a Response to Birth of a Nation"
Barbara Nevergold, Co-Founder, Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Inc. , Buffalo, NY
Susan Clements, Activist & Performance Artist, "Ladies of the Lake"
Noon - 2:30pm
Occupy Lunch takes over the Center for the Arts atrium with
an afternoon of performance, art installations, activist workshops
and demonstrations, and informational tables presented by local nonprofits.
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2:45 - 4:45 Gender & Digital Activism
Megan Boler, Theory and Policy Studies Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Annina Rüst, Department of Transmedia, Syracuse University
"Feminist Tools for the High-Tech Workplace"
Holly Johnson, Real Dream Cabaret, Dare, Virginia Project, Buffalo, NY
Cayden Mak, Department of Media Study, State University at Buffalo
"Games for Liberation: Decolonizing Minds in Virtual Worlds"
7:00 Cabaret
The 9th Ward @ Babeville, in collaboration with Hallwalls
Communication Vault featuring Jax DeLuca and other local musicians
Janna Willoughby aka MC Vendetta
Brazen-Faced Varlots
The Cabaret will be followed by a DANCE PARTY
in honor of Dara Greenwald
The theme of the 2012 Gender Across Borders Symposium is Arts, Action, Activism. Focused on the intersection of gender, activism, and artistic practice, this day and a half long symposium will feature artists and scholars who navigate the boundaries between art, activism, and scholarship. Looking at art practices across disciplines and eras, the symposium will investigate how artists, both contemporary and historical, have engaged questions of gender equity, diversity, and inclusion in struggles for social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.
For more information contact Ruth Goldman
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