Program of the Coalition of Women in German (WiG) 1995 Conference

October 19-22, 1995
Ponce de Leon Golf and Conference Resort
4000 U.S. Highway 1 North
St. Augustine, FL 32095-1608
Tel. +1 800 228 2821

Several reading lists were distributed at the 1995 conference: one dealing with Hannah Arendt, one with women's history, and one pertaining to the sociology of gender.

Conference Coordinating Collective
Helga W. Kraft, Margit Grieb, Martha Wallach, Jeanette Clausen, Robbie Blake, Allan Wood, Virginia Evjion, Sharon diFino, Halina Stephan, Chris Overstreet, Nora Alter, Britta Herdegen, et al.

Thursday, October 19

7:30-9:30 p.m. - Coping with the Backlash

Coordinator: Anna Kuhn (University of California, Davis)

Karen Achberger (St. Olaf College)
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Women in the Academy, Then and Now
Sara Lennox (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
The Anti-feminist Feminist: Or How Women Have Betrayed Women
Rick McCormick (University of Minnesota)
Confessions of a Male Feminist: Guilt and Privilege - Gender and the Job Market

9:30-10:30 p.m. - Discussion of "Backlash by Women"

Small ad-hoc discussion groups to address issues such as: How can we best respond to the anti-feminist backlash by colleagues and administrators in the academy? How can we counteract inaccurate data presented by anti-feminist "feminist" publications?

Friday, October 20

9:15-11:45 a.m. - DAAD Special Theory Session: Feminist German Studies Across the Disciplines

Coordinators: Sara Lennox (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Sara Friedrichsmeyer (University of Cincinnati)

Panelists: Myra Marx Ferree (Sociology, University of Connecticut), Joan Cocks (Politics, Mount Holyoke College), and Atina Grossmann (History, Columbia)

1:15-3:00 p.m. - Workshop in Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching Diversity/Diversifying Teaching

Coordinators: Brigitte Rossbacher (Washington University) and Dinah Dodds (Lewis and Clark College)

Panelists:
Barbara Fischer (Concordia College)
Teaching Diversity - Dismantling Patterns of Prejudice
Erika Berroth (Lewis and Clark College)
Translating Culture: Dialogues about Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the Germanys and the U.S.
Friederike Emonds (University of Toledo)
Dangers in Diversity: Conflating Drugs, Turks, Detectives and Prostitutes in Foreign Language Teaching


3:15-5:15 p.m. - WiG Business and Planning Meeting

7:30-10:00 p.m. - Film Showing: Beruf Neo-Nazi

Coordinators: Nora Alter (University of Florida) and Katharina Gerstenberger (University of Cincinatti)

Saturday, October 21

9:15-11:45 a.m. - Crossing Boundaries: Feminist Studies/Cultural Studies

Coordinators: Jeannine Blackwell (University of Kentucky) and Shanta Rao (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Dorothy Rosenberg (Institute for Policy Studies)
Disciplinary Boundaries: Die Mauer im Kopf? Oder visafreier Verkehr?
Elizabeth Mittman (Michigan State University)
Problems in Cross-Cultural Interpretation: Western Feminism and East German Women
Stephanie Ohnesorg (University of Tennessee)
Zwischen Selbstfindung und Anpassung... oder von den Schwierigkeiten, Orient-Reiseberichte von Frauen neu zu lesen


7:00-8:00 p.m. - Lesbian Meeting

8:15-9:45 p.m. - Discussion of the Film Beruf Neo-Nazi

Coordinators: Sara Friedrichsmeyer and Sara Lennox

Discussants: Myra Marx Ferree (Sociology, University of Connecticut), Joan Cocks (Politics, Mount Holyoke College) and Atina Grossmann (History, Columbia)

Sunday, October 22

8:30-10:30 a.m. - Concluding Session: WiG Members Speak Out!

For more information contact:

The Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research
University of Florida
Telephone (904) 392-3365

or send E-mail to Helga Kraft at kraft@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Contact the WiG Steering Committee.