2017 PROGRAM

2017 Black Women and Girls Research Collaborative Annual Symposium

September 8-9, 2017
’64 Hall Slavin Center | Providence College, Providence RI

Conference Program

September 8, 2017
  • 6:15pm – 7:30pm | Plenary (Keynote Speaker – Charlene Carruthers)
    OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
September 9, 2017
  • 8:00am – 8:30am | Registration and Continental Breakfast

  • 8:30am – 8:45am | Welcome Remarks

  • 8:45am – 10:00am | Panel 1: Black Girls’ Bodies in Different Spaces
    • “She is Here!: Black (Female) Bodies in the Future” – Grace D. Gipson 
    • “Acting Up: The Black Girl Leader in Black Women’s Science Fiction” – Jalondra Davis
    • “Zulaikha’s Cry: Challenging Mainstream Ideologies of Black Girls’ Comportment and Agency in School” – Dana Nickson

  • 10:05am – 11:20am | Panel 2: Mind, Body, Resistance
    • “The Privilege of Passing: Black Female Masculinity Politics in the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement” – Ash Lynch
    • "No Easy Demon: How Good Girls of Color Manage Identity” – Darlene Anita Scott
    • “Call My Mama! Toward an Intrapsychic Holding Environment” – Kishundra King

  • 11:30am-12:30pm | Workshops
    • “It Starts With ME!: Bold, Black and Balanced” – Nicole E. Kenney
    • "Writing with Black Girl Magic: Before and Beyond the Hashtag” – LaKeisha Thorpe
    • “Black Girl Gamers as Agents of Social Justice” – Maria Velazquez and Tamyka Morant
    • “Refusing to be Removed: Black Women’s and Girls’ Seat at the STEM Table” – Nicole Joseph, Jakita O. Thomas and Meseret Hailu 

  • 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch

  • 1:30pm – 2:45pm | Panel 3: In Their Own Words: Black Girls and Young Women Talk Back

  • 2:50pm – 4:05pm | Panel 4: Politics of Visibility
    • “#BlackWomenInGradSchool: Exploring the use of Digital Spaces as Platforms of Resistance and Persistence for Black Women in the Ivory Tower” – Raven Cokley
    • “It’s a Black Meme; You Wouldn’t Understand” – Jay Nixon
    • “Nuestro Cabello: Personal and Social Significance of Hair Among Black Women in Havana” – Miari Taina Stephens

  • 4:10pm – 5:30pm |Roundtable Discussions

  • 5:30pm – 6:00pm | Closing Remarks and Reading (“Butterfly Jar” – Jalondra Davis)

 BWGS 2017 

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