A10: (Not) All We Do is Talk Talk: Communication, (Post) coloniality and Transnational Feminist Consciousness

Seminar Leaders: Priya Jha, Murray State University and Courtney Wennerstrom, Indiana University - Bloomington

Friday, April 16, 8:15 � 10:15 AM, Gresham 2

Nandini Bhattacharya, University of Toledo: �Globalizing Women�s Studies: Joys and Sorrows�

Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University: �De-Orienting Gender: Public and Private Discourse on Modern Womanhood in the Korea Mission Field�

Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green University: �Racing and Gendering the Nerd�

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 � 10:15 AM, Gresham 2

Purna Chowdhury, Ottawa University: �Unrobing the Orient: The Turkish Women and the Manly Gaze in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu�s Turkish Embassy Letters�

Ulrike Brisson, University of Massachusetts � Amherst: �Re-Writing Body Myths: Perceptions and Representations of Female Bodies in Nineteenth-Century European Women�s Travel Writings�

Paola Zamperini, Amherst College: �Ties That Cut: Alter/Native Portrayals of Chinese Women in Western Women�s Writings�

William Scott, New Mexico State University: �Utopia and Global Despair: Agnes Smedley�s Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution�

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 � 10:15 AM, Gresham 2

Parvinder Mehta, Wayne State University: �Narrating Ethnic Selves: (Auto) Ethnographic Performances and Mythical Interventions in The Women Warrior�

Laura M. DeLuca, University of Colorado � Boulder: �Pink Gins on the Veranda: Anthropology and (Post)colonial Ambivalence at the �Field� Site�

Pius Adesanmi, Pennsylvania State University: �Beyond the Male Axis: Subjecthood, Agency, and Transnationalism in African Feminist Discourses�

Laura Dawkins, Murray State University: �Speaking for Silenced: Transnational Maternal Activism in Toni Cade Bambara�s Those Bones Are Not My Child�