50th Anniversary Schedule

Friday, October 24th
Sterling Hall,
475 North Charter Street

4:00pm-5:30pm (rm 1310)
“Former GWS103 TAs Roundtable”

Over fifteen women, who served as GWS103 teaching assistants from 1978-2009 on Mariamne Whatley and Nancy Worcester’s Teaching Teams, come together to celebrate the amazing roles that teaching assistants have played in developing and continually building the course, and how they have taken GWS103 into their professional, activist, and personal lives.

The second half of the program focuses on themes animating GWS103 today. 

Welcome Remarks
Ruth Goldstein, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, UW-Madison

Introductions
Mariamne Whatley
Nancy Worcester

TA Participants
Joy Aruguete
Bevo Buhr
Sarah Davis
Andrea Espinosa
Judith Houck
Marina Kelly
Helen Klebesadel
Lisa Levenstein
Laura McEnaney
Sue Pastor
Ronna Popkin
Sharmila Rudrappa
Lisa Tetrault
Nina Valeo Cooke
Donna Vukelich-Selva
Chris Wagner
Janet Wright

“GWS103 Today”

Speakers
Kelly Ward, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Sociology, UW-Madison
Annie Menzel, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison

5:30pm  (rm 3331)
Celebration Reception

Congratulatory Remarks
Eric M. Wilcots, Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences, UW-Madison

Saturday, October 25th
Monona Terrace,
1 John Nolen Drive

8:30am  (Hall of Ideas, J)
Continental Breakfast

8:30am-9:20am (Hall of Ideas, G)
“Caring for Each Other: GWS and Local Partnerships”

Welcome Remarks
Chris Garlough, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, Director Center for Research on Gender and Women, UW-Madison
Community Speakers
Kristin Welch, Founder and Executive Director Waking Women Healing Institute
Susan Bickley, Marie Martini, Sheila Plotkin, Linda Roberson, Organizers The Raging Grannies of Madison
Sandi Torkildson, Founder A Room of One’s Own 

9:30am-10:30am (Hall of Ideas, G)
“GWS Emeriti Faculty: Building Fields of Excellence within Gender and Women’s Studies”

Welcome Remarks
Judith Houck, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, and History, UW-Madison
Featured Speaker
Virginia Sapiro, Professor Emerita Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
Roundtable Respondents
Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis, Professor Emerita African American Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, and Art, UW-Madison
Judith Leavitt, Professor Emerita History, Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison
Janet Hyde, Professor Emerita Department of Psychology and Gender & Women’s Studies, UW-Madison
Jane Piliavin, Professor Emerita Department of Sociology, UW-Madison
Diane Kravetz, Professor Emerita School of Social Work, UW-Madison

11:00am-12:15pm  (Hall of Ideas, G)
“Community Engaged Research and Activism”

Moderator
Tracy Lemaster, Communications and Operations Specialist, Lecturer, UW-Madison
Speakers
Kong Pheng Pha, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, UW-Madison
Aurora Santiago Ortiz, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies
Karla Strand, UW Gender & Women’s Studies Librarian
Kai Pyle, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, UW-Madison

11:00am-12:15pm  (Hall of Ideas, J)
“Departmental Reflections & Archival Collections: Drop-In Workshop”

Stephanie Rytilahti, Director Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium, UW-Madison

12:15pm-1:30pm
Lunch on your own

1:30pm-2:30pm  (Hall of Ideas, G)
“GWS Graduate Studies: Past, Present, and Future”

Moderator
Sami Schalk, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, UW-Madison
Roundtable Speakers
GWS Graduate Students Past
Agnes Phoebe Muyanga
Jennifer Fierro
Rae Scifo
Cyra Polizzi
Shelby Baker
GWS Graduate Students Present
Edwin Thomas
Amber Steiger
Joniel Pacheco Munoz
Maisy Hinsey
Nomalanga Dube
Archi Mukherjee
Jungyeon Lee
Fatou Janneh
Kean O’Brien

1:30pm-2:30pm  (Hall of Ideas, J)
“GWS Makers Table: Drop-In Workshop”

Kean O’Brien, Graduate Student, Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison

2:45pm-3:45pm  (Hall of Ideas, G)
“Forward Together: Teaching, Research, and Service in GWS”

Welcome Remarks and Moderator
Keisha Lindsay, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, and Political Science, UW-Madison
Speakers
Finn Enke, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, and History, UW-Madison
Jill Casid, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, and Art History, UW-Madison
Anna Campbell, Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, and Art History, UW-Madison
Kate Walsh, Professor Gender & Women’s Studies and Psychology, UW-Madison
Leigh Senderowicz, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, and Obstetrics & Gynecology, UW-Madison

2:45pm-3:45pm  (Hall of Ideas, Grandview Cafe Lounge)
“Alumni Networking Event:
Drop-In Workshop”

Kate Phelps, Teaching Faculty, Alumni Engagement Coordinator, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison
Lachrista Greco, Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison

4:00pm-5:15pm  (Hall of Ideas,  EFHI)
“Keynote by Dr. Brittney Cooper” Keynote Address

Introduction
Nicholas Syrett, Chair, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison
Keynote
Brittney Cooper, Professor of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers-New Brunswick

5:15pm-6:30pm  (Ballroom, CD)
Cash Bar, Reception, Small Plates Dinner

Welcome Remarks
Nicholas Syrett, Chair, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison
Congratulatory Remarks
Grant Nelsestuen, Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities, the College of Letters and Sciences, UW-Madison

6:30pm  (Ballroom, CD)
Dancing

MC
Kate Phelps, Teaching Faculty, Alumni Engagement Coordinator, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison