Seneca Falls Dialogues
Student registration, orientation and reception Friday night, October 10, 2008, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at the Seneca Falls Visitors Center, 115 Fall Street.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 11
7:30 – 8:30 am Registration & Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 am Welcoming Remarks
9:00 – 10:30 am DIALOGUE I
Women’s Rights/Human Rights, Locally & Globally
Hobart and William Smith College
Moderator: Betty Bayer, PhD
Panelists: Jennifer Burns, Lucy Crawford, Meg O’Neill, Michaela Parnell, Leanne Roncolato with 5 paper titles
BREAK 10:30 – 10:45 am
10:45 -11:45 am DIALOGUE II
Roots & Legacies of Seneca Falls
Stephanie Sellers, PhD Gettysburg College: “Indigenous Historic Roots at the Seneca Falls Convention
Doris Meadows, PhD Rochester Institute of Technology: “Crossing Boundaries: Lessons & Legacies in Leadership of the International
Women’s Rights Movement”
Noon – 1:30 pm
**Luncheon address by Carolyn Hannan, Director, UN Division for the Advancement of Women:
“A Salute to Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights”; **Mary Robinson, former UN HCHR and former President of Ireland, greeting; **Russian delegations introduced; **Brief on the STORIES PROJECT
BREAK 1:30 – 1:45 pm
1:45 – 2:45 pm DIALOGUE III
Women’s Leadership & Activism: Past, Present & Future
Brockport State College, SUNY
Moderator: Jenny Lloyd, PhD Chair and Associate Professor, History
Panelists: Carl Davila, PhD, Assistant Professor, History Mary Corey, PhD – Associate Professor, Education and Human Development
Barb LeSavoy, PhD – Director, Women and Gender Studies
Jamie Bergeron and Hilarie Dahl, students– Women and Gender Studies
BREAK 2:45 – 3:00 pm
3:00 – 4:15 pm DIALOGUE IV
Young, Opinionated & Educated: Feminism on the Rise
St.John Fisher College
Alana Burke, “Dream Big, Think Small: Issues of Language and Socially Constructed Gender Roles”
Sarah Nachtrieb, “Women Behind Bars: Locked Up but not Forgotten”
Iaen Nylund, “Feminist Reformation in the Academy: The Fourth Wave”
Jessica Poupore “A Radical, Social Constructivist’s Response to French Feminist Theory”
Nicole Reitz, “Representations of Women in the Media”
Christine Smeaton, “Equality in the Household: Challenging Gender Roles in a Changing World”
BREAK 4:15 – 4:30 pm
4:30 – 5:30 pm DIALOGUE V
Arts & Activism for Human Rights
Hobart & William Smith College
Moderator:
Panelists: Diana Carson Performance artist & Dancer Galina Mukomolova, PoetPaula Schneider, Visual Artist
Jennie Seidewand, Writer & Public Installation Artist
Kathy Wong, Photographer; Tiffany Warren, Filmmaker ( See Warren’s “Life Stories in Words & Film” screening in the Media Room)
SATURDAY OCTOBER 11
5:30 – 6:00 pm ROUND TABLE
Summaries from our student reporters on ideas to take back to campuses and communities.
6:00 – 6:30 pm Wine and Cheese
6:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner with keynote by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY 14th District): “The U.S. Congress and the Women’s Rights Agenda”he United States C
7:30 – 8:30 pm Booksigning with Carolyn Maloney, author of “Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Women's Lives Aren't Getting Any Easier--And How We Can Make Real Progress For Ourselves and Our Daughters”
SUNDAY OCTOBER 12
10 am – 1 pm BRUNCH and WORLD CAFÉ with facilitators Marilyn Tedeschi and Don Moffitt. Hear panelists, Eleanor LeCain, Georgia State Representative Nan Grogan Orrock , and author Dr. Peter Mott. Hear Reports on the elections from our college partners. Dialogue will center around how women of different
ages and political beleifs can unite to become a positive and effective force in society.
1 – 1:30 pm Wrap up, Evaluations, Notes for the Next Seneca Falls Dialogues
In Addition:
THE STORIES PROJECT Room 105 both days. Come in and have your story put on film or tape for posterity: Your Story, 500 words or less, of a life challenge you as a woman (or your mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, friend) have experienced on your life’s journey and how this challenge was overcome. The purpose of the “STORIES” project is to document women’s life experiences over the last seventy-five years and use them to provide examples of women’s leadership and ingenuity. We will ask your permission to use your name, or you may remain anonymous.
MEDIA ROOM 109: A schedule of films and media events both Saturday and Sunday
SATURDAY OCTOBER 11
10:00 to 10:30 am FILM: “See That the World is Moving”, 2008, 26 min. Mini-DV; DVD: Producer: Holly Johnson Director: Meg Knowles
“See That the World is Moving” is an historical documentary focused on the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, NY. It tells the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s early experience and pivotal role in organizing the convention, which sprang from women’s abolitionist and temperence movements in 19th Century Central New York. Stanton, along with Quaker Lucretia Mott and others, organized the 1848 Convention and drafted a “Declarations of Sentiments”, which publicly demanded female suffrage for the first time in American history. This landmark Convention marked the beginning of Stanton’s long career fighting (with Susan B Anthony) for women’s suffrage, which was not achieved until 1920, nearly twenty years after her death in 1902.
Meg Knowles is an award winning documentary and experimental film and video artist whose work has been screened at festivals, galleries and museums including the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, Artists Television Access, San Francisco; the Athens International Film & Video Festival, the 4th ILGCN World Conference in the Ukraine, as well as on public access television and PBS. A graduate of the MFA program in Film Media Arts at Temple University, Meg has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arts Council of Buffalo and Erie County, Niagara Council for the Arts and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. Meg is also a Director and Producer for the Philadelphia-based Termite TV Collective. She is an Assistant Professor of Media Production at Buffalo State College.
MEDIA ROOM 109
SATURDAY OCTOBER 11
10:30 – 11:00 am SLIDE SHOW: "On the Road to Seneca Falls, Women's History Sites in upstate NY"
PATRICIA MURPHY, PhD, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Geneseo Choices offered: Slide show/talk called "Lesser Known Women of the 19th century Women's Rights Movement", by Pat Murphy, Sociology professor and former coordinator of Women's Studies at SUNY Geneseo. She has done substantial research on women of this region then and now and could offer slightly different talks too; others she suggests are "On the Road to Seneca Falls, Women's History Sites in upstate NY" or "Making Connections; Women in Upstate NY."
11 – 11:30 am SHORT FILM: “Life Stories in Words & Film” by Tiffany Warren, Hobart & William Smith College
Scenes from a visit to South Africa, changing the world where the words rape and epidemic no longer exist. Interviews with women with HIV, their stories.
1:30 – 2:00 pm REPEAT “See That the World Is Moving”
2:00 – 2:30 pm REPEAT Slide Show by Patricia Murphy
2:30 – 2:45 pm REPEAT “Life Stories in Words & Film”
5:30 pm “SENECA FALLS” PLAY READING Aaron Netsky, Geneseo State College, SUNY. A Musical about Stanton, Anthony, Douglas
Uncrowned Queens website, computer with internet access to http://wings.buffalo.edu/uncrownedqueens/ may also be set up in the Media Room 109
SUNDAY OCTOBER 12
MEDIA ROOM 109
10 am – 2 pm Schedule TBA OR no media room as the World Café will be in session
