March 16-17, 2012
Duke University
Keynote Speakers
Joanna Hodge
Professor, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University
Patricia Williams
James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Leti Volpp
Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
University Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Duke University Co-Sponsors: African & African American Studies, Arts of the Moving Image, Center for International Studies, Cultural Anthropology, English Department, Franklin Humanities Institute, History Department, Literature Program, Office of the Dean of Faculty, Office of the Provost, The program in the study of sexualities, Romance Studies.
Institutional Co-Sponsors: Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University; The Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Women's and Gender Studies at North Carolina State University; Women's and Gender Studies Program at Ohio University; Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory; Women's Studies Department at the University of Michigan; Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa; Women's and Gender Studies at Wake Forest University; The Alice Paul Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania; Center for the Study of Women and Society, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Miami University of Ohio; Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies,The Ohio State University; Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing, School of English, University of Kent-Canterbury; Women and Gender Studies Program, Arizona State University-Tempe; PhD programme in Feminist Studies and the PhD programme in American Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal