Seneca Falls Dialogues Biennial Conference October 17-19 2014 in Seneca Falls NY the Birthplace of Womenrsquos Rights

EcoFeminism Cultivating Place and Identity

ldquoCreating A CommunityhellipCafeacuterdquo bull ldquoBring Your Own Bagrdquo bull ldquoThe Wit and Wisdom of Susan B Anthonyrdquo bull ldquoLife Course Perspectives Feminism Across the Agesrdquo bull Belly Dance Experience with Troupe Nisaa bull ldquoSentiments and Usurpationsrdquo (film) bull ldquoTheory to Practice The Rocxxy Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadershiprdquo bull ldquoIn the Eye of the Stormrdquo bull ldquoWomen Framing American Rights Framing the Call to Activismrdquo bull ldquoFood and Nourishment Understanding Food Insecurity Health and Food Activism in Communities of Colorrdquo bull ldquoAn Analysis of Eco-feminist Perspectives in Animerdquo bull ldquoEmerging Awakening Naming The Path of Ecofeminist Recognitionrdquo bull ldquoConsidering Ecofeminism in the Classroom A Dialogue on Pedagogyrdquo bull ldquoHidden Spaces Mobile Places Changing an Institutional Environment Through Appreciative Inquiryrdquo bull ldquoUnusual Suspects in Sustainability Expanding Circles for Feminist Activismrdquo bull ldquoThe Potential of Ecofeminism to Develop lsquoDeeprsquo Sustainability Competenciesrdquo bull ldquoTeaching Ecofeminism Forming Radical Pedagogies and Creating Social Change in College Classrooms (and Beyond)rdquo bull ldquoLoving Living and Care-Giving at Times of Scarcityrdquo bull ldquoFood Feminism and Health What is Feminist Nutritionrdquo bull ldquoDisplaced Stories of Survival And Identityrdquo bull ldquoThe Disproportionate Impact of Toxins in Consumer Productsrdquo bull ldquoThe Complete Ecofeminist amp the Animal Question Intersections of Veganism Environmentalism Social Justice and Species Rightsrdquo bull ldquoClearing the Air Social Ecologies of Identity and Placerdquo bull ldquoNatural Bodiesrdquo bull ldquoValued Partner Trusted Neighbor Delivering on the Promiserdquo bull ldquoEating Fresh Buying Local Womenrsquos Nutritionrdquo bull ldquoInspiring Great Womenrdquo

Welcome to Seneca Falls Dialogues 2014

Welcome to our fourth biennial conference We are pleased and grateful at how far this conference has come from 2008 when a small group organized the first dialogues to remember and reaffirm the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights We are overjoyed by the record number of submissions from faculty students and activists on this yearrsquos conference theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place Our program demonstrates this topicrsquos timeliness and the many vital perspectives it raises on issues of gender and the environment To extend these conversations beyond the conference weekend we are pleased to announce the creation of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed online publication In recognition of the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism this publication seeks to build a collaborative open-access forum and honor our foremothersrsquo tireless pursuit of equality We look forward to an exciting weekend

Peace and Good Wishes

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Planning Committee

Betty M Bayer PhD Diana Smith Hobart and William Smith Colleges Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning and Learning

Jill Swiencicki PhD Maria Brandt PhD St John Fisher College Monroe Community College

Marilyn Tedeschi Angela Clark-Taylor President Greater Rochester University of Rochester Chapter of the American Association

of University Women Adriene Emmo Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning and Learning

Deborah Uman PhD Barbara LeSavoy PhD St John Fisher College The College at Brockport

Maria Helena Lima PhD SUNY Geneseo

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Schedule of Events Friday October 17 5 pm ndash 9 pm Registration Gould Hotel Lobby

630 ndash 8 pm Gould Hotel Wine and Cheese Reception Ballroom with Poster Session

Posters Creating A CommunityhellipCafeacute Ann Fuehrer Miami University Rebecca Howard Oxford Early Childhood Center

The Wit and Wisdom of Susan B Anthony Catherine Cerulli University of Rochester Sarah Vogel University of Rochester

Life Course Perspectives Feminism Across the Ages Catherine Cerulli University of Rochester Angela Clark-Taylor University of Rochester Alysha Alani University of Rochester

Bring Your Own Bag Judy Cadle wwwbringyourownbagnyorg

Theory to Practice The Rocxxy Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadership Angela Clark-Taylor University of Rochester

In the Eye of the Storm Sandra Wachholz University of Southern Maine Women Framing American Rights Framing the Call to Activism Denise Harrison Kent State University Cynthia Trocchio Kent State University

Inspiring Great Women National Womens Hall of Fame

Valued Partner Trusted Neighbor Delivering on the Promise Seneca Meadows IESI

Eating Fresh Buying Local Womens Nutrition Cornell Cooperative Extension

3

Welcome to Seneca Falls Dialogues 2014

Welcome to our fourth biennial conference We are pleased and grateful at how far this conference has come from 2008 when a small group organized the first dialogues to remember and reaffirm the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights We are overjoyed by the record number of submissions from faculty students and activists on this yearrsquos conference theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place Our program demonstrates this topicrsquos timeliness and the many vital perspectives it raises on issues of gender and the environment To extend these conversations beyond the conference weekend we are pleased to announce the creation of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed online publication In recognition of the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism this publication seeks to build a collaborative open-access forum and honor our foremothersrsquo tireless pursuit of equality We look forward to an exciting weekend

Peace and Good Wishes

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Planning Committee

Betty M Bayer PhD Diana Smith Hobart and William Smith Colleges Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning and Learning

Jill Swiencicki PhD Maria Brandt PhD St John Fisher College Monroe Community College

Marilyn Tedeschi Angela Clark-Taylor President Greater Rochester University of Rochester Chapter of the American Association

of University Women Adriene Emmo Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning and Learning

Deborah Uman PhD Barbara LeSavoy PhD St John Fisher College The College at Brockport

Maria Helena Lima PhD SUNY Geneseo

2

Schedule of Events Friday October 17 5 pm ndash 9 pm Registration Gould Hotel Lobby

630 ndash 8 pm Gould Hotel Wine and Cheese Reception Ballroom with Poster Session

Posters Creating A CommunityhellipCafeacute Ann Fuehrer Miami University Rebecca Howard Oxford Early Childhood Center

The Wit and Wisdom of Susan B Anthony Catherine Cerulli University of Rochester Sarah Vogel University of Rochester

Life Course Perspectives Feminism Across the Ages Catherine Cerulli University of Rochester Angela Clark-Taylor University of Rochester Alysha Alani University of Rochester

Bring Your Own Bag Judy Cadle wwwbringyourownbagnyorg

Theory to Practice The Rocxxy Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadership Angela Clark-Taylor University of Rochester

In the Eye of the Storm Sandra Wachholz University of Southern Maine Women Framing American Rights Framing the Call to Activism Denise Harrison Kent State University Cynthia Trocchio Kent State University

Inspiring Great Women National Womens Hall of Fame

Valued Partner Trusted Neighbor Delivering on the Promise Seneca Meadows IESI

Eating Fresh Buying Local Womens Nutrition Cornell Cooperative Extension

3

Schedule of Events Friday October 17 5 pm ndash 9 pm Registration Gould Hotel Lobby

630 ndash 8 pm Gould Hotel Wine and Cheese Reception Ballroom with Poster Session

Posters Creating A CommunityhellipCafeacute Ann Fuehrer Miami University Rebecca Howard Oxford Early Childhood Center

The Wit and Wisdom of Susan B Anthony Catherine Cerulli University of Rochester Sarah Vogel University of Rochester

Life Course Perspectives Feminism Across the Ages Catherine Cerulli University of Rochester Angela Clark-Taylor University of Rochester Alysha Alani University of Rochester

Bring Your Own Bag Judy Cadle wwwbringyourownbagnyorg

Theory to Practice The Rocxxy Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadership Angela Clark-Taylor University of Rochester

In the Eye of the Storm Sandra Wachholz University of Southern Maine Women Framing American Rights Framing the Call to Activism Denise Harrison Kent State University Cynthia Trocchio Kent State University

Inspiring Great Women National Womens Hall of Fame

Valued Partner Trusted Neighbor Delivering on the Promise Seneca Meadows IESI

Eating Fresh Buying Local Womens Nutrition Cornell Cooperative Extension

3

8 ndash 10 pm

Gould Hotel Belly Dance Experience with Troupe Nisaa Ballroom

Presenters Connie Boyd Genesee Community College Becca Barber Troupe Nisaa Gale Conn-Wright Troupe Nisaa Sarah Hawk Troupe Nisaa Jennifer McCracken Troupe Nisaa Molly Reiner Troupe Nisaa Jessica Snyder Whiting Troupe Nisaa Beth Volk Troupe Nisa

Too often belly dance is misconstrued as dance performed as an enticement and promotion of female subservience Troupe Nisaa dancers will help you explore belly dance as a statement of strength and endurance Through troupe performance discussion of what the dance means in relation to body image and self-concept and active participation and dance instruction participants will experience firsthand the empowerment of belly dance

Saturday October 18 8 ndash 9 am Breakfast

9 am ndash 5 pm ldquoSentiments and Usurpationsrdquo Film by Leah Shafer Hobart and William Smith Colleges The Gould Hotel Lobby

9 am ndash 5 pm Join Leah Shafer to add your voice to on-site recordings of ldquoSentiments and Usurpationsrdquo Wesleyan Chapel Check program insert for more details

Session I 915 ndash 1030 am

Gould Hotel Food and Nourishment Understanding Food Insecurity

Board Room Health and Food Activism in Communities of Color

Presenters Denise Harrison Kent State Cynthia Trocchio Kent State

This dialogue is centered around nutritional and health related issues in communities of color Given that people of color African Americans Latinos Native Americans and Asian Americans lead the way on health related illnesses based on consumption of highly processed genetically modified high fructose and sugar laden foods The aim of this discussion is to assist in developing platforms for changing the consumer mindset of consumption without question

4

Seneca Falls An Analysis of Eco-feminist Perspectives in Anime Community Center

Presenters Alysah Berwald St John Fisher College Melissa Guck St John Fisher College Erica Mader St John Fisher College Wendi Sierra St John Fisher College Jill Swiencicki St John Fisher College

This session will explore how the concepts of femininity motherhood and nature are depicted in popular anime While anime Japanese animated feature films are stylistically similar to western childrenrsquos cartoons they frequently tackle complex and adult themes The anime analyzed in this session including Princess Mononoke Ponyo The Wolf Children and Yobi the Five Tailed Fox each tackle environmental issues often through the narratives of young women and their connection with the natural world

Gould Hotel Emerging Awakening Naming The Path of Ecofeminist Ballroom Recognition

Presenters Jesse Curran Stony Brook University Ken Cooper SUNY Geneseo Lucia LoTempio SUNY Geneseo Devon Gawley SUNY Geneseo Jenna Chevrin SUNY Geneseo

On college campuses even fewer students self-identify as ecofeminist than as feminist Perhaps this shouldnrsquot be surprising since as Susan Griffin writes ldquounderneath almost every identifiable social problem we share a powerful way of ordering the world can be detected one we have inherited from European culture and that alienates consciousness both from nature and from beingrdquo In her essay ldquoSometimes It Is Namedrdquo Griffin suggests that underneath this ldquoold structurerdquo lies ldquoanother order of meaningrdquo grounded in subjective experience sensual knowledge and the ldquolife of the earthrdquo Rather than naming this sensibility as explicitly ecofeminist Griffinrsquos essay emphasizes the connections amongst social justice ecology philosophy history art and literaturemdashwhich is to say there are innumerable transecting intellectual paths with moments of potential recognition This session addressing education as a process of de-alienation will be facilitated by five college professors and students from various disciplines Each session organizer will read a passage from Griffinrsquos essay to familiarize participants with her analysis and our shared platform We will then invite the audience to join the dialogue and to focus upon interdisciplinary moments ldquoprior tordquo and ldquoafterrdquo ecofeminist self-identification Some of the questions we ask may include the following How do institutions (medical educational virtual etc) fragment identity What is the role of first-person experience in academic discourse Must one identify as a feminist or environmentalist in order to participate in the ldquoshift in consciousnessrdquo that Griffin describes What are some of the most promising uses of ecofeminist theory for asking fundamentally different questions inabout your field

5

Session II 1045 am ndash 12 pm

Seneca Falls Considering Ecofeminism in the Classroom A Dialogue on Community Center Pedagogy

Presenters Colleen Lutz Clemens Kutztown University Kristina Fennelly Kutztown University Amanda Morris Kutztown University

This panel will explore the pedagogical issues of teaching ecofeminist texts in the college and university setting Through sharing of syllabi and teaching reading experiences we hope to encourage a dialogue about ways to teach and read ecofeminist texts as calls to activism Focusing on feminist resistance to oppression in modernist texts postcolonial writings and political spaces this dialogue explores the conferencersquos subthemes of voice leadership and activism by examining relationships among writers readers teachers and activists

Gould Hotel Hidden Spaces Mobile Places Changing an Institutional Board Room Environment Through Appreciative Inquiry

Presenters Deborah Blizzard Rochester Institute of Technology Caroline DeLong Rochester Institute of Technology Lisa Hermsen Rochester Institute of Technology Ann Howard Rochester Institute of Technology Corinna Schlombs Rochester Institute of Technology

This session introduces participants to a process of Appreciative Inquiry currently underway at Rochester Institute of Technologyrsquos College of Liberal Arts Understanding environment broadly as not only the physical but also the social cultural and institutional settings in which we interact the session presents a form of activism aimed at improving the environment for women in academe

Gould Hotel Unusual Suspects in Sustainability Expanding Circles for Ballroom Feminist Activism

Presenters Krista Bailey Indiana University South Bend April Lidinsky Indiana University South Bend Grace Lidinsky-Smith Indiana University Bloomington

This session will engage participants in multigenerational (and multi-ldquowaverdquo) conversations on how the issues and influences of gender and the environment the politics of space activism and sustainability can create and build sustainable feminist communities By reviewing best practices and community building techniques this workshop will provide the opportunity to share what

6

works and to discover how the unusual suspects can become effective and influential partners and collaborators

Lunch Break (Lunch on your own) 12 ndash 2 pm

Session III 2 ndash 315 pm

Gould Hotel The Potential of Ecofeminism to Develop lsquoDeeprsquo Board Room Sustainability Competencies

Presenter Susan Iverson Kent State University

This dialogue will engage discussion about competency-based education ecofeminism and sustainability More specifically we will discuss the potential for ecofeminism to yield sustainability competencies for social change The facilitator will use one program (a sustainability initiative in residence life) as a case study for thinking about how ecofeminist perspectives could be used by educators to move beyond the basic competencies for sustainability

Seneca Falls Teaching Ecofeminism Forming Radical Pedagogies Community Center and Creating Social Change in College Classrooms (and

Beyond)

Presenters Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez Bard College at Simonrsquos Rock Chr Holmes DePauw University Holly Kent University of Illinois-Springfield Jeannie Ludlow Eastern Illinois University Colleen Martell Lehigh University Stina Soderling Rutgers University

This session focuses on the issues of the politics of space and activism particularly on the academic space of the college classroom and how that space can most productively connect with wider ecofeminist efforts to create social change How can educators who teach ecofeminism break down the walls which all too often exist between the ldquoivory towerrdquo of the academy and the ldquoreal worldrdquo outside ensuring that discussing ecofeminist theory is profoundly intertwined with ecofeminist activism Our session is also very much concerned with the issues of identities and bodies and issues of food and nourishment as our panel members teach courses focused on these topics (including classes centered on food politics fashion studies and ecofeminism and mothering)

7

Gould Hotel Loving Living and Care-Giving at Times of Scarcity Ballroom

Presenters Babette Faehmel Schenectady County Community College Tiombe Farley State University of New York at Albany Vashti Marsquoat Empire State College Linnea Minbiole Independent Researcher Lisa Temoshok Writer and Independent Researcher

This session explores the modern day subcultures of polyamorous people African-American beauty culture urban squatters and the environmental justice movement Drawing on their own experiences with and academic work on these groups panelists argue that they each have developed a radical critique of the dominant US values system centered on the individualistic pursuit of wealth joy and sexual satisfaction By refusing to put the needs of members of the nuclear family or of an exclusive sexual partner above those of a larger community the subcultures the panelists explore instead represent environmentally sustainable model societies organized around the principle of mutuality reciprocity and solidarity with diverse people This session includes an interactive component designed to bring to light the often invisible hierarchy of values that permeates US American culture and society and to draw attention to its trade-offs and costs for individuals and the environment

Session IV 3 ndash 445 pm

Gould Hotel Food Feminism and Health Ballroom What is Feminist Nutrition

Presenters Jessica Hayes Conroy Hobart and William Smith Colleges Elana Gerson Hobart and William Smith Colleges Taylor Amico Hobart and William Smith Colleges Alex Lamonte Hobart and William Smith Colleges Molly Naef Hobart and William Smith Colleges Stacey Davis Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hannah Webster Hobart and William Smith Colleges Kate Mendez Hobart and William Smith Colleges Julia Yenco Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Questions of food production and consumption have been a focus of feminist scholarship and activism for some time From concerns about bodily and ecosystem health to issues of access and inequity food is undoubtedly a feminist concern But what should a feminist approach to nutrition look like What could it mean to engage in and encourage a feminist practice of nourishment and how would these practices compare to other alternative food initiatives Members of the upper-level seminar Food Feminism and Health (HWS Colleges) will facilitate a group discussion on the meaning and practice of feminist nutrition Each facilitator will briefly present on key lessons from their coursework and will then pose a series of questions to the broader audience for discussion The

8

facilitatorsrsquo questions will seek to move the audience from a general discussion of their individual food-based concerns towards the collective production of a feminist vision for nutrition theory and practice The facilitators will use a theoretical model called Political Ecology of the Body in order to organize audience membersrsquo concerns into a workable framework for analysis The outcome of the session will be a working model for feminist nutrition theory and practice that encompasses the situated concerns of the group

Gould Hotel Displaced Stories of Survival And Identity Board Room

Presenters Zamda Kamikazi Monroe Community College Christina Lee Monroe Community College Chulryong Seo Monroe Community College Alissa Unrue Monroe Community College

This session seeks to give voice to survivors of genocide and human-rights abuses Through the experiences of MCC students we will highlight how survivors create place both within their experiences of oppression in their home countries and as immigrants and students here in the US

Seneca Falls The Disproportionate Impact of Toxins in Community Center Consumer Products

Presenters Meredith Bollheimer Mercyhurst University Elissa Reitz Mercyhurst University Anne Zaphiris Mercyhurst University

This session will focus on the use of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in consumer products and the ways in which women are disproportionately affected by those toxins as a result of endocrine system disruption and its connection to breast cancer infertility and behavior and growth problems in children The discussion will cover intersecting gender issues by highlighting the fact that women are underrepresented in the decision-making process regarding how these chemicals are manufactured used and regulated yet suffer a heavier burden as result of their overuse A brief review of the studies linking EDCrsquos to poor health outcomes will be discussed as well as ways in which women can through collective economic and political action reduce or eliminate their use

9

Dinner and Keynote Speaker 6 ndash 8 pm

Gould Hotel Lettuce Liberate Ballroom

Keynote Speaker Tanya Fields Founder of the BLK ProjeK

Tanya Fields is inspired by her experiences as a single working mother living in a marginalized community She founded the BLK ProjeK in 2009 as a response to sexist institutional policies structurally reinforced cycles of poverty and harsh inequities in wealth and access to capital that result in far too many women being unable to rise out of poverty and sustain their families The group was nominated for a 2011 Union Square Award and Tanya has the honor of being a Green for All Fellow through which she connects with a national cohort of environmental justice change agents She delivered a widely praised keynote speech at the 2012 Just Food conference and served as a plenary panelist for the 2011 conference of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

Previous to the BLK ProjeK Tanya worked with several high profile environmental organizations located in the South Bronx - Mothers on the Move Sustainable South Bronx and the Majora Carter Group Tanya built upon the network skills resources and knowledge she gained through those experiences to create the BLK ProjeK She is a reputed and rising public speaker and educator She has spoken conducted workshops and participated on panels at Just Food Annual Conference NOFA NY Winter Conference Manhattanville College Kingsboro College Brooklyn Food Coalition NEWSAWG and others

Sunday October 19Session V 9 ndash 1015 am

Gould Hotel The Complete Ecofeminist and the Animal Question Board Room Intersections of Veganism Environmentalism Social

Justice and Species Rights

Presenters Lori Gruen Professor Philosophy Wesleyan University Joel Helfrich Hobart and William Smith Colleges Pattrice Jones Activist Author and Educator

The panel will discuss the significant roles of plant-based diets social justice food justice and the Animal Question within ecofeminism

10

Seneca Falls Clearing the Air Social Ecologies of Identity Community Center and Place

Presenters Barb LeSavoy The College at Brockport Lucienne Nicholson The College at Brockport Ben Roberts The College at Brockport Kelsey Mahoney The College at Brockport Sarah Richens The College at Brockport

Using the conference theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Place and Identity students will discuss feminist manifestos completed for WMS 421 Senior Seminar in Women and Gender Studies and WMS 381 Feminist Theory As a beginning frame for the roundtable the students will briefly present their manifestos which address questions of diversely identified feminists finding voice and agency as a mode of resistance to oppressions written on person and or place using theoretical locations of Queer Marxist Black Liberal and Radical feminist thought

Gould Hotel Natural Bodies Ballroom

Presenters Ann Victoria Dolinko Shimer College Michael Adeboye Shimer College Melanie Decelles Shimer College Teresa Doubet King Shimer College

Our focus will be on identities and bodies We will discuss the various ways our society affects our experience of what is natural Our first topic will look at the institution of hospital births in America The demonization of midwifery in recent past has had a dramatic affect on the process of and ideas surrounding ldquonormalrdquo birth in the US The end result of this has led to a redefinition of ldquonormalrdquo both during pregnancy and in the birthing room with an emphasis on a method of delivery that works against the bodyrsquos natural mode of childbearing Next we will address the shifting beauty standards set for women that require often invasive and expensive measures to fulfill an ideal of ldquonaturalrdquo beauty These standards sexualize the preadolescent body and encourage grown women to engage in unnatural processes to resemble this ideal What is natural on one body becomes a time consuming and often painful endeavor to another We will end our time with an examination of ldquonaturalrdquo and its connotations as applied to the bodies of black men In particular the long held connection seen between the black male form and the idea of natural or primitive Our aim is to begin a dialogue about the meaning of ldquonaturalrdquo and how society affects how we experience and live our bodies in the world

11

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Brunch and Closing Speaker 10 am ndash 12 pm

Gould Hotel Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet Ballroom

Speaker Jill Tietjen President of the National Womenrsquos Hall of Fame and co-author of Her Story A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Jill Tietjen is an author speaker and electrical engineer Her published books include the Setting the Record Straight series which explores the history of women in accounting engineering and professional achievement Tietjen is one of the top historians in the country on scientific and technical women She is the CEO of Technically Speaking a national consulting company specializing in improving opportunities for women and girls to have more career options in technology Tietjen is also a frequent keynote speaker at engineering science and womenrsquos conferences She was inducted into the Colorado Womenrsquos Hall of Fame in 2010

Jill Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering historical women in engineering and science and leadership topics Tietjen has written articles for and been profiled in SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers Graduating Engineer US Woman Engineer Woman Engineer and Engineering Horizons She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards In addition she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker Georgia and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Merrick amp Company of Aurora Colorado She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society She has been inducted into the Colorado Womens Hall of Fame and is listed in Whorsquos Who in Engineering Whorsquos Who in Science and Engineering and Whorsquos Who in Technology

Notes

12

Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Call for Submissions

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is a new multidisciplinary peer reviewed online journal that grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues

Aim and Scope The goal of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is to further extend the dialogues beyond the conference weekend in order to reach a broader audience and to invite more voices into the forum We recognize the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism particularly those that support dialogues across difference Our hope for this publication is to build a collaborative open-access forum for students faculty and the community on topics relating to the themes of the Biennial Seneca Fall Dialogues conference Submissions will contribute to the Seneca Falls Dialogues commitment to promote leadership development nonviolent activism and the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal seeks to honor the work of those who came before us as we build an accessible and inclusive publication by Women and Gender Studies students and faculty in the continued pursuit of equality

Submission Guidelines Using the 2014 Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD) theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place we invite SFD participants to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration We encourage student essays co-authored material and creative works including visual and electronic media Manuscripts should follow MLA style specifications and should not exceed 6000 words Submission Deadline January 9 2015

Each submission is to include the following contact information author(s) name(s) institutions telephone number(s) and email address(es) for all authors and work address for the corresponding author Submissions should be uploaded to httpdigitalcommonsbrockportedusfdpolicieshtml

Submission Policies Submitted essays cannot have been previously published nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) By submitting material to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that she or he will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal You may contact sbairochesteredu if you have questions concerns about the submission terms for The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Final formatting requirements will be communicated to authors whose work is accepted for publication

The Biennial SFD and The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal are sponsored by Women and Gender Studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Monroe Community College The College at Brockport State University of New York St John Fisher College University of Rochester SUNY Geneseo Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women and The Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning See httpwww senecafallsdialoguescom for additional information about the SFD

13

Seneca Falls An Analysis of Eco-feminist Perspectives in Anime Community Center

Presenters Alysah Berwald St John Fisher College Melissa Guck St John Fisher College Erica Mader St John Fisher College Wendi Sierra St John Fisher College Jill Swiencicki St John Fisher College

This session will explore how the concepts of femininity motherhood and nature are depicted in popular anime While anime Japanese animated feature films are stylistically similar to western childrenrsquos cartoons they frequently tackle complex and adult themes The anime analyzed in this session including Princess Mononoke Ponyo The Wolf Children and Yobi the Five Tailed Fox each tackle environmental issues often through the narratives of young women and their connection with the natural world

Gould Hotel Emerging Awakening Naming The Path of Ecofeminist Ballroom Recognition

Presenters Jesse Curran Stony Brook University Ken Cooper SUNY Geneseo Lucia LoTempio SUNY Geneseo Devon Gawley SUNY Geneseo Jenna Chevrin SUNY Geneseo

On college campuses even fewer students self-identify as ecofeminist than as feminist Perhaps this shouldnrsquot be surprising since as Susan Griffin writes ldquounderneath almost every identifiable social problem we share a powerful way of ordering the world can be detected one we have inherited from European culture and that alienates consciousness both from nature and from beingrdquo In her essay ldquoSometimes It Is Namedrdquo Griffin suggests that underneath this ldquoold structurerdquo lies ldquoanother order of meaningrdquo grounded in subjective experience sensual knowledge and the ldquolife of the earthrdquo Rather than naming this sensibility as explicitly ecofeminist Griffinrsquos essay emphasizes the connections amongst social justice ecology philosophy history art and literaturemdashwhich is to say there are innumerable transecting intellectual paths with moments of potential recognition This session addressing education as a process of de-alienation will be facilitated by five college professors and students from various disciplines Each session organizer will read a passage from Griffinrsquos essay to familiarize participants with her analysis and our shared platform We will then invite the audience to join the dialogue and to focus upon interdisciplinary moments ldquoprior tordquo and ldquoafterrdquo ecofeminist self-identification Some of the questions we ask may include the following How do institutions (medical educational virtual etc) fragment identity What is the role of first-person experience in academic discourse Must one identify as a feminist or environmentalist in order to participate in the ldquoshift in consciousnessrdquo that Griffin describes What are some of the most promising uses of ecofeminist theory for asking fundamentally different questions inabout your field

5

Session II 1045 am ndash 12 pm

Seneca Falls Considering Ecofeminism in the Classroom A Dialogue on Community Center Pedagogy

Presenters Colleen Lutz Clemens Kutztown University Kristina Fennelly Kutztown University Amanda Morris Kutztown University

This panel will explore the pedagogical issues of teaching ecofeminist texts in the college and university setting Through sharing of syllabi and teaching reading experiences we hope to encourage a dialogue about ways to teach and read ecofeminist texts as calls to activism Focusing on feminist resistance to oppression in modernist texts postcolonial writings and political spaces this dialogue explores the conferencersquos subthemes of voice leadership and activism by examining relationships among writers readers teachers and activists

Gould Hotel Hidden Spaces Mobile Places Changing an Institutional Board Room Environment Through Appreciative Inquiry

Presenters Deborah Blizzard Rochester Institute of Technology Caroline DeLong Rochester Institute of Technology Lisa Hermsen Rochester Institute of Technology Ann Howard Rochester Institute of Technology Corinna Schlombs Rochester Institute of Technology

This session introduces participants to a process of Appreciative Inquiry currently underway at Rochester Institute of Technologyrsquos College of Liberal Arts Understanding environment broadly as not only the physical but also the social cultural and institutional settings in which we interact the session presents a form of activism aimed at improving the environment for women in academe

Gould Hotel Unusual Suspects in Sustainability Expanding Circles for Ballroom Feminist Activism

Presenters Krista Bailey Indiana University South Bend April Lidinsky Indiana University South Bend Grace Lidinsky-Smith Indiana University Bloomington

This session will engage participants in multigenerational (and multi-ldquowaverdquo) conversations on how the issues and influences of gender and the environment the politics of space activism and sustainability can create and build sustainable feminist communities By reviewing best practices and community building techniques this workshop will provide the opportunity to share what

6

works and to discover how the unusual suspects can become effective and influential partners and collaborators

Lunch Break (Lunch on your own) 12 ndash 2 pm

Session III 2 ndash 315 pm

Gould Hotel The Potential of Ecofeminism to Develop lsquoDeeprsquo Board Room Sustainability Competencies

Presenter Susan Iverson Kent State University

This dialogue will engage discussion about competency-based education ecofeminism and sustainability More specifically we will discuss the potential for ecofeminism to yield sustainability competencies for social change The facilitator will use one program (a sustainability initiative in residence life) as a case study for thinking about how ecofeminist perspectives could be used by educators to move beyond the basic competencies for sustainability

Seneca Falls Teaching Ecofeminism Forming Radical Pedagogies Community Center and Creating Social Change in College Classrooms (and

Beyond)

Presenters Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez Bard College at Simonrsquos Rock Chr Holmes DePauw University Holly Kent University of Illinois-Springfield Jeannie Ludlow Eastern Illinois University Colleen Martell Lehigh University Stina Soderling Rutgers University

This session focuses on the issues of the politics of space and activism particularly on the academic space of the college classroom and how that space can most productively connect with wider ecofeminist efforts to create social change How can educators who teach ecofeminism break down the walls which all too often exist between the ldquoivory towerrdquo of the academy and the ldquoreal worldrdquo outside ensuring that discussing ecofeminist theory is profoundly intertwined with ecofeminist activism Our session is also very much concerned with the issues of identities and bodies and issues of food and nourishment as our panel members teach courses focused on these topics (including classes centered on food politics fashion studies and ecofeminism and mothering)

7

Gould Hotel Loving Living and Care-Giving at Times of Scarcity Ballroom

Presenters Babette Faehmel Schenectady County Community College Tiombe Farley State University of New York at Albany Vashti Marsquoat Empire State College Linnea Minbiole Independent Researcher Lisa Temoshok Writer and Independent Researcher

This session explores the modern day subcultures of polyamorous people African-American beauty culture urban squatters and the environmental justice movement Drawing on their own experiences with and academic work on these groups panelists argue that they each have developed a radical critique of the dominant US values system centered on the individualistic pursuit of wealth joy and sexual satisfaction By refusing to put the needs of members of the nuclear family or of an exclusive sexual partner above those of a larger community the subcultures the panelists explore instead represent environmentally sustainable model societies organized around the principle of mutuality reciprocity and solidarity with diverse people This session includes an interactive component designed to bring to light the often invisible hierarchy of values that permeates US American culture and society and to draw attention to its trade-offs and costs for individuals and the environment

Session IV 3 ndash 445 pm

Gould Hotel Food Feminism and Health Ballroom What is Feminist Nutrition

Presenters Jessica Hayes Conroy Hobart and William Smith Colleges Elana Gerson Hobart and William Smith Colleges Taylor Amico Hobart and William Smith Colleges Alex Lamonte Hobart and William Smith Colleges Molly Naef Hobart and William Smith Colleges Stacey Davis Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hannah Webster Hobart and William Smith Colleges Kate Mendez Hobart and William Smith Colleges Julia Yenco Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Questions of food production and consumption have been a focus of feminist scholarship and activism for some time From concerns about bodily and ecosystem health to issues of access and inequity food is undoubtedly a feminist concern But what should a feminist approach to nutrition look like What could it mean to engage in and encourage a feminist practice of nourishment and how would these practices compare to other alternative food initiatives Members of the upper-level seminar Food Feminism and Health (HWS Colleges) will facilitate a group discussion on the meaning and practice of feminist nutrition Each facilitator will briefly present on key lessons from their coursework and will then pose a series of questions to the broader audience for discussion The

8

facilitatorsrsquo questions will seek to move the audience from a general discussion of their individual food-based concerns towards the collective production of a feminist vision for nutrition theory and practice The facilitators will use a theoretical model called Political Ecology of the Body in order to organize audience membersrsquo concerns into a workable framework for analysis The outcome of the session will be a working model for feminist nutrition theory and practice that encompasses the situated concerns of the group

Gould Hotel Displaced Stories of Survival And Identity Board Room

Presenters Zamda Kamikazi Monroe Community College Christina Lee Monroe Community College Chulryong Seo Monroe Community College Alissa Unrue Monroe Community College

This session seeks to give voice to survivors of genocide and human-rights abuses Through the experiences of MCC students we will highlight how survivors create place both within their experiences of oppression in their home countries and as immigrants and students here in the US

Seneca Falls The Disproportionate Impact of Toxins in Community Center Consumer Products

Presenters Meredith Bollheimer Mercyhurst University Elissa Reitz Mercyhurst University Anne Zaphiris Mercyhurst University

This session will focus on the use of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in consumer products and the ways in which women are disproportionately affected by those toxins as a result of endocrine system disruption and its connection to breast cancer infertility and behavior and growth problems in children The discussion will cover intersecting gender issues by highlighting the fact that women are underrepresented in the decision-making process regarding how these chemicals are manufactured used and regulated yet suffer a heavier burden as result of their overuse A brief review of the studies linking EDCrsquos to poor health outcomes will be discussed as well as ways in which women can through collective economic and political action reduce or eliminate their use

9

Dinner and Keynote Speaker 6 ndash 8 pm

Gould Hotel Lettuce Liberate Ballroom

Keynote Speaker Tanya Fields Founder of the BLK ProjeK

Tanya Fields is inspired by her experiences as a single working mother living in a marginalized community She founded the BLK ProjeK in 2009 as a response to sexist institutional policies structurally reinforced cycles of poverty and harsh inequities in wealth and access to capital that result in far too many women being unable to rise out of poverty and sustain their families The group was nominated for a 2011 Union Square Award and Tanya has the honor of being a Green for All Fellow through which she connects with a national cohort of environmental justice change agents She delivered a widely praised keynote speech at the 2012 Just Food conference and served as a plenary panelist for the 2011 conference of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

Previous to the BLK ProjeK Tanya worked with several high profile environmental organizations located in the South Bronx - Mothers on the Move Sustainable South Bronx and the Majora Carter Group Tanya built upon the network skills resources and knowledge she gained through those experiences to create the BLK ProjeK She is a reputed and rising public speaker and educator She has spoken conducted workshops and participated on panels at Just Food Annual Conference NOFA NY Winter Conference Manhattanville College Kingsboro College Brooklyn Food Coalition NEWSAWG and others

Sunday October 19Session V 9 ndash 1015 am

Gould Hotel The Complete Ecofeminist and the Animal Question Board Room Intersections of Veganism Environmentalism Social

Justice and Species Rights

Presenters Lori Gruen Professor Philosophy Wesleyan University Joel Helfrich Hobart and William Smith Colleges Pattrice Jones Activist Author and Educator

The panel will discuss the significant roles of plant-based diets social justice food justice and the Animal Question within ecofeminism

10

Seneca Falls Clearing the Air Social Ecologies of Identity Community Center and Place

Presenters Barb LeSavoy The College at Brockport Lucienne Nicholson The College at Brockport Ben Roberts The College at Brockport Kelsey Mahoney The College at Brockport Sarah Richens The College at Brockport

Using the conference theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Place and Identity students will discuss feminist manifestos completed for WMS 421 Senior Seminar in Women and Gender Studies and WMS 381 Feminist Theory As a beginning frame for the roundtable the students will briefly present their manifestos which address questions of diversely identified feminists finding voice and agency as a mode of resistance to oppressions written on person and or place using theoretical locations of Queer Marxist Black Liberal and Radical feminist thought

Gould Hotel Natural Bodies Ballroom

Presenters Ann Victoria Dolinko Shimer College Michael Adeboye Shimer College Melanie Decelles Shimer College Teresa Doubet King Shimer College

Our focus will be on identities and bodies We will discuss the various ways our society affects our experience of what is natural Our first topic will look at the institution of hospital births in America The demonization of midwifery in recent past has had a dramatic affect on the process of and ideas surrounding ldquonormalrdquo birth in the US The end result of this has led to a redefinition of ldquonormalrdquo both during pregnancy and in the birthing room with an emphasis on a method of delivery that works against the bodyrsquos natural mode of childbearing Next we will address the shifting beauty standards set for women that require often invasive and expensive measures to fulfill an ideal of ldquonaturalrdquo beauty These standards sexualize the preadolescent body and encourage grown women to engage in unnatural processes to resemble this ideal What is natural on one body becomes a time consuming and often painful endeavor to another We will end our time with an examination of ldquonaturalrdquo and its connotations as applied to the bodies of black men In particular the long held connection seen between the black male form and the idea of natural or primitive Our aim is to begin a dialogue about the meaning of ldquonaturalrdquo and how society affects how we experience and live our bodies in the world

11

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Brunch and Closing Speaker 10 am ndash 12 pm

Gould Hotel Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet Ballroom

Speaker Jill Tietjen President of the National Womenrsquos Hall of Fame and co-author of Her Story A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Jill Tietjen is an author speaker and electrical engineer Her published books include the Setting the Record Straight series which explores the history of women in accounting engineering and professional achievement Tietjen is one of the top historians in the country on scientific and technical women She is the CEO of Technically Speaking a national consulting company specializing in improving opportunities for women and girls to have more career options in technology Tietjen is also a frequent keynote speaker at engineering science and womenrsquos conferences She was inducted into the Colorado Womenrsquos Hall of Fame in 2010

Jill Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering historical women in engineering and science and leadership topics Tietjen has written articles for and been profiled in SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers Graduating Engineer US Woman Engineer Woman Engineer and Engineering Horizons She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards In addition she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker Georgia and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Merrick amp Company of Aurora Colorado She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society She has been inducted into the Colorado Womens Hall of Fame and is listed in Whorsquos Who in Engineering Whorsquos Who in Science and Engineering and Whorsquos Who in Technology

Notes

12

Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Call for Submissions

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is a new multidisciplinary peer reviewed online journal that grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues

Aim and Scope The goal of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is to further extend the dialogues beyond the conference weekend in order to reach a broader audience and to invite more voices into the forum We recognize the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism particularly those that support dialogues across difference Our hope for this publication is to build a collaborative open-access forum for students faculty and the community on topics relating to the themes of the Biennial Seneca Fall Dialogues conference Submissions will contribute to the Seneca Falls Dialogues commitment to promote leadership development nonviolent activism and the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal seeks to honor the work of those who came before us as we build an accessible and inclusive publication by Women and Gender Studies students and faculty in the continued pursuit of equality

Submission Guidelines Using the 2014 Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD) theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place we invite SFD participants to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration We encourage student essays co-authored material and creative works including visual and electronic media Manuscripts should follow MLA style specifications and should not exceed 6000 words Submission Deadline January 9 2015

Each submission is to include the following contact information author(s) name(s) institutions telephone number(s) and email address(es) for all authors and work address for the corresponding author Submissions should be uploaded to httpdigitalcommonsbrockportedusfdpolicieshtml

Submission Policies Submitted essays cannot have been previously published nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) By submitting material to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that she or he will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal You may contact sbairochesteredu if you have questions concerns about the submission terms for The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Final formatting requirements will be communicated to authors whose work is accepted for publication

The Biennial SFD and The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal are sponsored by Women and Gender Studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Monroe Community College The College at Brockport State University of New York St John Fisher College University of Rochester SUNY Geneseo Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women and The Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning See httpwww senecafallsdialoguescom for additional information about the SFD

13

Session II 1045 am ndash 12 pm

Seneca Falls Considering Ecofeminism in the Classroom A Dialogue on Community Center Pedagogy

Presenters Colleen Lutz Clemens Kutztown University Kristina Fennelly Kutztown University Amanda Morris Kutztown University

This panel will explore the pedagogical issues of teaching ecofeminist texts in the college and university setting Through sharing of syllabi and teaching reading experiences we hope to encourage a dialogue about ways to teach and read ecofeminist texts as calls to activism Focusing on feminist resistance to oppression in modernist texts postcolonial writings and political spaces this dialogue explores the conferencersquos subthemes of voice leadership and activism by examining relationships among writers readers teachers and activists

Gould Hotel Hidden Spaces Mobile Places Changing an Institutional Board Room Environment Through Appreciative Inquiry

Presenters Deborah Blizzard Rochester Institute of Technology Caroline DeLong Rochester Institute of Technology Lisa Hermsen Rochester Institute of Technology Ann Howard Rochester Institute of Technology Corinna Schlombs Rochester Institute of Technology

This session introduces participants to a process of Appreciative Inquiry currently underway at Rochester Institute of Technologyrsquos College of Liberal Arts Understanding environment broadly as not only the physical but also the social cultural and institutional settings in which we interact the session presents a form of activism aimed at improving the environment for women in academe

Gould Hotel Unusual Suspects in Sustainability Expanding Circles for Ballroom Feminist Activism

Presenters Krista Bailey Indiana University South Bend April Lidinsky Indiana University South Bend Grace Lidinsky-Smith Indiana University Bloomington

This session will engage participants in multigenerational (and multi-ldquowaverdquo) conversations on how the issues and influences of gender and the environment the politics of space activism and sustainability can create and build sustainable feminist communities By reviewing best practices and community building techniques this workshop will provide the opportunity to share what

6

works and to discover how the unusual suspects can become effective and influential partners and collaborators

Lunch Break (Lunch on your own) 12 ndash 2 pm

Session III 2 ndash 315 pm

Gould Hotel The Potential of Ecofeminism to Develop lsquoDeeprsquo Board Room Sustainability Competencies

Presenter Susan Iverson Kent State University

This dialogue will engage discussion about competency-based education ecofeminism and sustainability More specifically we will discuss the potential for ecofeminism to yield sustainability competencies for social change The facilitator will use one program (a sustainability initiative in residence life) as a case study for thinking about how ecofeminist perspectives could be used by educators to move beyond the basic competencies for sustainability

Seneca Falls Teaching Ecofeminism Forming Radical Pedagogies Community Center and Creating Social Change in College Classrooms (and

Beyond)

Presenters Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez Bard College at Simonrsquos Rock Chr Holmes DePauw University Holly Kent University of Illinois-Springfield Jeannie Ludlow Eastern Illinois University Colleen Martell Lehigh University Stina Soderling Rutgers University

This session focuses on the issues of the politics of space and activism particularly on the academic space of the college classroom and how that space can most productively connect with wider ecofeminist efforts to create social change How can educators who teach ecofeminism break down the walls which all too often exist between the ldquoivory towerrdquo of the academy and the ldquoreal worldrdquo outside ensuring that discussing ecofeminist theory is profoundly intertwined with ecofeminist activism Our session is also very much concerned with the issues of identities and bodies and issues of food and nourishment as our panel members teach courses focused on these topics (including classes centered on food politics fashion studies and ecofeminism and mothering)

7

Gould Hotel Loving Living and Care-Giving at Times of Scarcity Ballroom

Presenters Babette Faehmel Schenectady County Community College Tiombe Farley State University of New York at Albany Vashti Marsquoat Empire State College Linnea Minbiole Independent Researcher Lisa Temoshok Writer and Independent Researcher

This session explores the modern day subcultures of polyamorous people African-American beauty culture urban squatters and the environmental justice movement Drawing on their own experiences with and academic work on these groups panelists argue that they each have developed a radical critique of the dominant US values system centered on the individualistic pursuit of wealth joy and sexual satisfaction By refusing to put the needs of members of the nuclear family or of an exclusive sexual partner above those of a larger community the subcultures the panelists explore instead represent environmentally sustainable model societies organized around the principle of mutuality reciprocity and solidarity with diverse people This session includes an interactive component designed to bring to light the often invisible hierarchy of values that permeates US American culture and society and to draw attention to its trade-offs and costs for individuals and the environment

Session IV 3 ndash 445 pm

Gould Hotel Food Feminism and Health Ballroom What is Feminist Nutrition

Presenters Jessica Hayes Conroy Hobart and William Smith Colleges Elana Gerson Hobart and William Smith Colleges Taylor Amico Hobart and William Smith Colleges Alex Lamonte Hobart and William Smith Colleges Molly Naef Hobart and William Smith Colleges Stacey Davis Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hannah Webster Hobart and William Smith Colleges Kate Mendez Hobart and William Smith Colleges Julia Yenco Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Questions of food production and consumption have been a focus of feminist scholarship and activism for some time From concerns about bodily and ecosystem health to issues of access and inequity food is undoubtedly a feminist concern But what should a feminist approach to nutrition look like What could it mean to engage in and encourage a feminist practice of nourishment and how would these practices compare to other alternative food initiatives Members of the upper-level seminar Food Feminism and Health (HWS Colleges) will facilitate a group discussion on the meaning and practice of feminist nutrition Each facilitator will briefly present on key lessons from their coursework and will then pose a series of questions to the broader audience for discussion The

8

facilitatorsrsquo questions will seek to move the audience from a general discussion of their individual food-based concerns towards the collective production of a feminist vision for nutrition theory and practice The facilitators will use a theoretical model called Political Ecology of the Body in order to organize audience membersrsquo concerns into a workable framework for analysis The outcome of the session will be a working model for feminist nutrition theory and practice that encompasses the situated concerns of the group

Gould Hotel Displaced Stories of Survival And Identity Board Room

Presenters Zamda Kamikazi Monroe Community College Christina Lee Monroe Community College Chulryong Seo Monroe Community College Alissa Unrue Monroe Community College

This session seeks to give voice to survivors of genocide and human-rights abuses Through the experiences of MCC students we will highlight how survivors create place both within their experiences of oppression in their home countries and as immigrants and students here in the US

Seneca Falls The Disproportionate Impact of Toxins in Community Center Consumer Products

Presenters Meredith Bollheimer Mercyhurst University Elissa Reitz Mercyhurst University Anne Zaphiris Mercyhurst University

This session will focus on the use of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in consumer products and the ways in which women are disproportionately affected by those toxins as a result of endocrine system disruption and its connection to breast cancer infertility and behavior and growth problems in children The discussion will cover intersecting gender issues by highlighting the fact that women are underrepresented in the decision-making process regarding how these chemicals are manufactured used and regulated yet suffer a heavier burden as result of their overuse A brief review of the studies linking EDCrsquos to poor health outcomes will be discussed as well as ways in which women can through collective economic and political action reduce or eliminate their use

9

Dinner and Keynote Speaker 6 ndash 8 pm

Gould Hotel Lettuce Liberate Ballroom

Keynote Speaker Tanya Fields Founder of the BLK ProjeK

Tanya Fields is inspired by her experiences as a single working mother living in a marginalized community She founded the BLK ProjeK in 2009 as a response to sexist institutional policies structurally reinforced cycles of poverty and harsh inequities in wealth and access to capital that result in far too many women being unable to rise out of poverty and sustain their families The group was nominated for a 2011 Union Square Award and Tanya has the honor of being a Green for All Fellow through which she connects with a national cohort of environmental justice change agents She delivered a widely praised keynote speech at the 2012 Just Food conference and served as a plenary panelist for the 2011 conference of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

Previous to the BLK ProjeK Tanya worked with several high profile environmental organizations located in the South Bronx - Mothers on the Move Sustainable South Bronx and the Majora Carter Group Tanya built upon the network skills resources and knowledge she gained through those experiences to create the BLK ProjeK She is a reputed and rising public speaker and educator She has spoken conducted workshops and participated on panels at Just Food Annual Conference NOFA NY Winter Conference Manhattanville College Kingsboro College Brooklyn Food Coalition NEWSAWG and others

Sunday October 19Session V 9 ndash 1015 am

Gould Hotel The Complete Ecofeminist and the Animal Question Board Room Intersections of Veganism Environmentalism Social

Justice and Species Rights

Presenters Lori Gruen Professor Philosophy Wesleyan University Joel Helfrich Hobart and William Smith Colleges Pattrice Jones Activist Author and Educator

The panel will discuss the significant roles of plant-based diets social justice food justice and the Animal Question within ecofeminism

10

Seneca Falls Clearing the Air Social Ecologies of Identity Community Center and Place

Presenters Barb LeSavoy The College at Brockport Lucienne Nicholson The College at Brockport Ben Roberts The College at Brockport Kelsey Mahoney The College at Brockport Sarah Richens The College at Brockport

Using the conference theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Place and Identity students will discuss feminist manifestos completed for WMS 421 Senior Seminar in Women and Gender Studies and WMS 381 Feminist Theory As a beginning frame for the roundtable the students will briefly present their manifestos which address questions of diversely identified feminists finding voice and agency as a mode of resistance to oppressions written on person and or place using theoretical locations of Queer Marxist Black Liberal and Radical feminist thought

Gould Hotel Natural Bodies Ballroom

Presenters Ann Victoria Dolinko Shimer College Michael Adeboye Shimer College Melanie Decelles Shimer College Teresa Doubet King Shimer College

Our focus will be on identities and bodies We will discuss the various ways our society affects our experience of what is natural Our first topic will look at the institution of hospital births in America The demonization of midwifery in recent past has had a dramatic affect on the process of and ideas surrounding ldquonormalrdquo birth in the US The end result of this has led to a redefinition of ldquonormalrdquo both during pregnancy and in the birthing room with an emphasis on a method of delivery that works against the bodyrsquos natural mode of childbearing Next we will address the shifting beauty standards set for women that require often invasive and expensive measures to fulfill an ideal of ldquonaturalrdquo beauty These standards sexualize the preadolescent body and encourage grown women to engage in unnatural processes to resemble this ideal What is natural on one body becomes a time consuming and often painful endeavor to another We will end our time with an examination of ldquonaturalrdquo and its connotations as applied to the bodies of black men In particular the long held connection seen between the black male form and the idea of natural or primitive Our aim is to begin a dialogue about the meaning of ldquonaturalrdquo and how society affects how we experience and live our bodies in the world

11

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Brunch and Closing Speaker 10 am ndash 12 pm

Gould Hotel Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet Ballroom

Speaker Jill Tietjen President of the National Womenrsquos Hall of Fame and co-author of Her Story A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Jill Tietjen is an author speaker and electrical engineer Her published books include the Setting the Record Straight series which explores the history of women in accounting engineering and professional achievement Tietjen is one of the top historians in the country on scientific and technical women She is the CEO of Technically Speaking a national consulting company specializing in improving opportunities for women and girls to have more career options in technology Tietjen is also a frequent keynote speaker at engineering science and womenrsquos conferences She was inducted into the Colorado Womenrsquos Hall of Fame in 2010

Jill Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering historical women in engineering and science and leadership topics Tietjen has written articles for and been profiled in SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers Graduating Engineer US Woman Engineer Woman Engineer and Engineering Horizons She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards In addition she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker Georgia and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Merrick amp Company of Aurora Colorado She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society She has been inducted into the Colorado Womens Hall of Fame and is listed in Whorsquos Who in Engineering Whorsquos Who in Science and Engineering and Whorsquos Who in Technology

Notes

12

Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Call for Submissions

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is a new multidisciplinary peer reviewed online journal that grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues

Aim and Scope The goal of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is to further extend the dialogues beyond the conference weekend in order to reach a broader audience and to invite more voices into the forum We recognize the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism particularly those that support dialogues across difference Our hope for this publication is to build a collaborative open-access forum for students faculty and the community on topics relating to the themes of the Biennial Seneca Fall Dialogues conference Submissions will contribute to the Seneca Falls Dialogues commitment to promote leadership development nonviolent activism and the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal seeks to honor the work of those who came before us as we build an accessible and inclusive publication by Women and Gender Studies students and faculty in the continued pursuit of equality

Submission Guidelines Using the 2014 Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD) theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place we invite SFD participants to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration We encourage student essays co-authored material and creative works including visual and electronic media Manuscripts should follow MLA style specifications and should not exceed 6000 words Submission Deadline January 9 2015

Each submission is to include the following contact information author(s) name(s) institutions telephone number(s) and email address(es) for all authors and work address for the corresponding author Submissions should be uploaded to httpdigitalcommonsbrockportedusfdpolicieshtml

Submission Policies Submitted essays cannot have been previously published nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) By submitting material to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that she or he will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal You may contact sbairochesteredu if you have questions concerns about the submission terms for The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Final formatting requirements will be communicated to authors whose work is accepted for publication

The Biennial SFD and The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal are sponsored by Women and Gender Studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Monroe Community College The College at Brockport State University of New York St John Fisher College University of Rochester SUNY Geneseo Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women and The Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning See httpwww senecafallsdialoguescom for additional information about the SFD

13

works and to discover how the unusual suspects can become effective and influential partners and collaborators

Lunch Break (Lunch on your own) 12 ndash 2 pm

Session III 2 ndash 315 pm

Gould Hotel The Potential of Ecofeminism to Develop lsquoDeeprsquo Board Room Sustainability Competencies

Presenter Susan Iverson Kent State University

This dialogue will engage discussion about competency-based education ecofeminism and sustainability More specifically we will discuss the potential for ecofeminism to yield sustainability competencies for social change The facilitator will use one program (a sustainability initiative in residence life) as a case study for thinking about how ecofeminist perspectives could be used by educators to move beyond the basic competencies for sustainability

Seneca Falls Teaching Ecofeminism Forming Radical Pedagogies Community Center and Creating Social Change in College Classrooms (and

Beyond)

Presenters Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez Bard College at Simonrsquos Rock Chr Holmes DePauw University Holly Kent University of Illinois-Springfield Jeannie Ludlow Eastern Illinois University Colleen Martell Lehigh University Stina Soderling Rutgers University

This session focuses on the issues of the politics of space and activism particularly on the academic space of the college classroom and how that space can most productively connect with wider ecofeminist efforts to create social change How can educators who teach ecofeminism break down the walls which all too often exist between the ldquoivory towerrdquo of the academy and the ldquoreal worldrdquo outside ensuring that discussing ecofeminist theory is profoundly intertwined with ecofeminist activism Our session is also very much concerned with the issues of identities and bodies and issues of food and nourishment as our panel members teach courses focused on these topics (including classes centered on food politics fashion studies and ecofeminism and mothering)

7

Gould Hotel Loving Living and Care-Giving at Times of Scarcity Ballroom

Presenters Babette Faehmel Schenectady County Community College Tiombe Farley State University of New York at Albany Vashti Marsquoat Empire State College Linnea Minbiole Independent Researcher Lisa Temoshok Writer and Independent Researcher

This session explores the modern day subcultures of polyamorous people African-American beauty culture urban squatters and the environmental justice movement Drawing on their own experiences with and academic work on these groups panelists argue that they each have developed a radical critique of the dominant US values system centered on the individualistic pursuit of wealth joy and sexual satisfaction By refusing to put the needs of members of the nuclear family or of an exclusive sexual partner above those of a larger community the subcultures the panelists explore instead represent environmentally sustainable model societies organized around the principle of mutuality reciprocity and solidarity with diverse people This session includes an interactive component designed to bring to light the often invisible hierarchy of values that permeates US American culture and society and to draw attention to its trade-offs and costs for individuals and the environment

Session IV 3 ndash 445 pm

Gould Hotel Food Feminism and Health Ballroom What is Feminist Nutrition

Presenters Jessica Hayes Conroy Hobart and William Smith Colleges Elana Gerson Hobart and William Smith Colleges Taylor Amico Hobart and William Smith Colleges Alex Lamonte Hobart and William Smith Colleges Molly Naef Hobart and William Smith Colleges Stacey Davis Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hannah Webster Hobart and William Smith Colleges Kate Mendez Hobart and William Smith Colleges Julia Yenco Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Questions of food production and consumption have been a focus of feminist scholarship and activism for some time From concerns about bodily and ecosystem health to issues of access and inequity food is undoubtedly a feminist concern But what should a feminist approach to nutrition look like What could it mean to engage in and encourage a feminist practice of nourishment and how would these practices compare to other alternative food initiatives Members of the upper-level seminar Food Feminism and Health (HWS Colleges) will facilitate a group discussion on the meaning and practice of feminist nutrition Each facilitator will briefly present on key lessons from their coursework and will then pose a series of questions to the broader audience for discussion The

8

facilitatorsrsquo questions will seek to move the audience from a general discussion of their individual food-based concerns towards the collective production of a feminist vision for nutrition theory and practice The facilitators will use a theoretical model called Political Ecology of the Body in order to organize audience membersrsquo concerns into a workable framework for analysis The outcome of the session will be a working model for feminist nutrition theory and practice that encompasses the situated concerns of the group

Gould Hotel Displaced Stories of Survival And Identity Board Room

Presenters Zamda Kamikazi Monroe Community College Christina Lee Monroe Community College Chulryong Seo Monroe Community College Alissa Unrue Monroe Community College

This session seeks to give voice to survivors of genocide and human-rights abuses Through the experiences of MCC students we will highlight how survivors create place both within their experiences of oppression in their home countries and as immigrants and students here in the US

Seneca Falls The Disproportionate Impact of Toxins in Community Center Consumer Products

Presenters Meredith Bollheimer Mercyhurst University Elissa Reitz Mercyhurst University Anne Zaphiris Mercyhurst University

This session will focus on the use of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in consumer products and the ways in which women are disproportionately affected by those toxins as a result of endocrine system disruption and its connection to breast cancer infertility and behavior and growth problems in children The discussion will cover intersecting gender issues by highlighting the fact that women are underrepresented in the decision-making process regarding how these chemicals are manufactured used and regulated yet suffer a heavier burden as result of their overuse A brief review of the studies linking EDCrsquos to poor health outcomes will be discussed as well as ways in which women can through collective economic and political action reduce or eliminate their use

9

Dinner and Keynote Speaker 6 ndash 8 pm

Gould Hotel Lettuce Liberate Ballroom

Keynote Speaker Tanya Fields Founder of the BLK ProjeK

Tanya Fields is inspired by her experiences as a single working mother living in a marginalized community She founded the BLK ProjeK in 2009 as a response to sexist institutional policies structurally reinforced cycles of poverty and harsh inequities in wealth and access to capital that result in far too many women being unable to rise out of poverty and sustain their families The group was nominated for a 2011 Union Square Award and Tanya has the honor of being a Green for All Fellow through which she connects with a national cohort of environmental justice change agents She delivered a widely praised keynote speech at the 2012 Just Food conference and served as a plenary panelist for the 2011 conference of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

Previous to the BLK ProjeK Tanya worked with several high profile environmental organizations located in the South Bronx - Mothers on the Move Sustainable South Bronx and the Majora Carter Group Tanya built upon the network skills resources and knowledge she gained through those experiences to create the BLK ProjeK She is a reputed and rising public speaker and educator She has spoken conducted workshops and participated on panels at Just Food Annual Conference NOFA NY Winter Conference Manhattanville College Kingsboro College Brooklyn Food Coalition NEWSAWG and others

Sunday October 19Session V 9 ndash 1015 am

Gould Hotel The Complete Ecofeminist and the Animal Question Board Room Intersections of Veganism Environmentalism Social

Justice and Species Rights

Presenters Lori Gruen Professor Philosophy Wesleyan University Joel Helfrich Hobart and William Smith Colleges Pattrice Jones Activist Author and Educator

The panel will discuss the significant roles of plant-based diets social justice food justice and the Animal Question within ecofeminism

10

Seneca Falls Clearing the Air Social Ecologies of Identity Community Center and Place

Presenters Barb LeSavoy The College at Brockport Lucienne Nicholson The College at Brockport Ben Roberts The College at Brockport Kelsey Mahoney The College at Brockport Sarah Richens The College at Brockport

Using the conference theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Place and Identity students will discuss feminist manifestos completed for WMS 421 Senior Seminar in Women and Gender Studies and WMS 381 Feminist Theory As a beginning frame for the roundtable the students will briefly present their manifestos which address questions of diversely identified feminists finding voice and agency as a mode of resistance to oppressions written on person and or place using theoretical locations of Queer Marxist Black Liberal and Radical feminist thought

Gould Hotel Natural Bodies Ballroom

Presenters Ann Victoria Dolinko Shimer College Michael Adeboye Shimer College Melanie Decelles Shimer College Teresa Doubet King Shimer College

Our focus will be on identities and bodies We will discuss the various ways our society affects our experience of what is natural Our first topic will look at the institution of hospital births in America The demonization of midwifery in recent past has had a dramatic affect on the process of and ideas surrounding ldquonormalrdquo birth in the US The end result of this has led to a redefinition of ldquonormalrdquo both during pregnancy and in the birthing room with an emphasis on a method of delivery that works against the bodyrsquos natural mode of childbearing Next we will address the shifting beauty standards set for women that require often invasive and expensive measures to fulfill an ideal of ldquonaturalrdquo beauty These standards sexualize the preadolescent body and encourage grown women to engage in unnatural processes to resemble this ideal What is natural on one body becomes a time consuming and often painful endeavor to another We will end our time with an examination of ldquonaturalrdquo and its connotations as applied to the bodies of black men In particular the long held connection seen between the black male form and the idea of natural or primitive Our aim is to begin a dialogue about the meaning of ldquonaturalrdquo and how society affects how we experience and live our bodies in the world

11

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Brunch and Closing Speaker 10 am ndash 12 pm

Gould Hotel Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet Ballroom

Speaker Jill Tietjen President of the National Womenrsquos Hall of Fame and co-author of Her Story A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Jill Tietjen is an author speaker and electrical engineer Her published books include the Setting the Record Straight series which explores the history of women in accounting engineering and professional achievement Tietjen is one of the top historians in the country on scientific and technical women She is the CEO of Technically Speaking a national consulting company specializing in improving opportunities for women and girls to have more career options in technology Tietjen is also a frequent keynote speaker at engineering science and womenrsquos conferences She was inducted into the Colorado Womenrsquos Hall of Fame in 2010

Jill Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering historical women in engineering and science and leadership topics Tietjen has written articles for and been profiled in SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers Graduating Engineer US Woman Engineer Woman Engineer and Engineering Horizons She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards In addition she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker Georgia and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Merrick amp Company of Aurora Colorado She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society She has been inducted into the Colorado Womens Hall of Fame and is listed in Whorsquos Who in Engineering Whorsquos Who in Science and Engineering and Whorsquos Who in Technology

Notes

12

Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Call for Submissions

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is a new multidisciplinary peer reviewed online journal that grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues

Aim and Scope The goal of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is to further extend the dialogues beyond the conference weekend in order to reach a broader audience and to invite more voices into the forum We recognize the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism particularly those that support dialogues across difference Our hope for this publication is to build a collaborative open-access forum for students faculty and the community on topics relating to the themes of the Biennial Seneca Fall Dialogues conference Submissions will contribute to the Seneca Falls Dialogues commitment to promote leadership development nonviolent activism and the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal seeks to honor the work of those who came before us as we build an accessible and inclusive publication by Women and Gender Studies students and faculty in the continued pursuit of equality

Submission Guidelines Using the 2014 Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD) theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place we invite SFD participants to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration We encourage student essays co-authored material and creative works including visual and electronic media Manuscripts should follow MLA style specifications and should not exceed 6000 words Submission Deadline January 9 2015

Each submission is to include the following contact information author(s) name(s) institutions telephone number(s) and email address(es) for all authors and work address for the corresponding author Submissions should be uploaded to httpdigitalcommonsbrockportedusfdpolicieshtml

Submission Policies Submitted essays cannot have been previously published nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) By submitting material to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that she or he will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal You may contact sbairochesteredu if you have questions concerns about the submission terms for The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Final formatting requirements will be communicated to authors whose work is accepted for publication

The Biennial SFD and The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal are sponsored by Women and Gender Studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Monroe Community College The College at Brockport State University of New York St John Fisher College University of Rochester SUNY Geneseo Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women and The Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning See httpwww senecafallsdialoguescom for additional information about the SFD

13

Gould Hotel Loving Living and Care-Giving at Times of Scarcity Ballroom

Presenters Babette Faehmel Schenectady County Community College Tiombe Farley State University of New York at Albany Vashti Marsquoat Empire State College Linnea Minbiole Independent Researcher Lisa Temoshok Writer and Independent Researcher

This session explores the modern day subcultures of polyamorous people African-American beauty culture urban squatters and the environmental justice movement Drawing on their own experiences with and academic work on these groups panelists argue that they each have developed a radical critique of the dominant US values system centered on the individualistic pursuit of wealth joy and sexual satisfaction By refusing to put the needs of members of the nuclear family or of an exclusive sexual partner above those of a larger community the subcultures the panelists explore instead represent environmentally sustainable model societies organized around the principle of mutuality reciprocity and solidarity with diverse people This session includes an interactive component designed to bring to light the often invisible hierarchy of values that permeates US American culture and society and to draw attention to its trade-offs and costs for individuals and the environment

Session IV 3 ndash 445 pm

Gould Hotel Food Feminism and Health Ballroom What is Feminist Nutrition

Presenters Jessica Hayes Conroy Hobart and William Smith Colleges Elana Gerson Hobart and William Smith Colleges Taylor Amico Hobart and William Smith Colleges Alex Lamonte Hobart and William Smith Colleges Molly Naef Hobart and William Smith Colleges Stacey Davis Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hannah Webster Hobart and William Smith Colleges Kate Mendez Hobart and William Smith Colleges Julia Yenco Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Questions of food production and consumption have been a focus of feminist scholarship and activism for some time From concerns about bodily and ecosystem health to issues of access and inequity food is undoubtedly a feminist concern But what should a feminist approach to nutrition look like What could it mean to engage in and encourage a feminist practice of nourishment and how would these practices compare to other alternative food initiatives Members of the upper-level seminar Food Feminism and Health (HWS Colleges) will facilitate a group discussion on the meaning and practice of feminist nutrition Each facilitator will briefly present on key lessons from their coursework and will then pose a series of questions to the broader audience for discussion The

8

facilitatorsrsquo questions will seek to move the audience from a general discussion of their individual food-based concerns towards the collective production of a feminist vision for nutrition theory and practice The facilitators will use a theoretical model called Political Ecology of the Body in order to organize audience membersrsquo concerns into a workable framework for analysis The outcome of the session will be a working model for feminist nutrition theory and practice that encompasses the situated concerns of the group

Gould Hotel Displaced Stories of Survival And Identity Board Room

Presenters Zamda Kamikazi Monroe Community College Christina Lee Monroe Community College Chulryong Seo Monroe Community College Alissa Unrue Monroe Community College

This session seeks to give voice to survivors of genocide and human-rights abuses Through the experiences of MCC students we will highlight how survivors create place both within their experiences of oppression in their home countries and as immigrants and students here in the US

Seneca Falls The Disproportionate Impact of Toxins in Community Center Consumer Products

Presenters Meredith Bollheimer Mercyhurst University Elissa Reitz Mercyhurst University Anne Zaphiris Mercyhurst University

This session will focus on the use of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in consumer products and the ways in which women are disproportionately affected by those toxins as a result of endocrine system disruption and its connection to breast cancer infertility and behavior and growth problems in children The discussion will cover intersecting gender issues by highlighting the fact that women are underrepresented in the decision-making process regarding how these chemicals are manufactured used and regulated yet suffer a heavier burden as result of their overuse A brief review of the studies linking EDCrsquos to poor health outcomes will be discussed as well as ways in which women can through collective economic and political action reduce or eliminate their use

9

Dinner and Keynote Speaker 6 ndash 8 pm

Gould Hotel Lettuce Liberate Ballroom

Keynote Speaker Tanya Fields Founder of the BLK ProjeK

Tanya Fields is inspired by her experiences as a single working mother living in a marginalized community She founded the BLK ProjeK in 2009 as a response to sexist institutional policies structurally reinforced cycles of poverty and harsh inequities in wealth and access to capital that result in far too many women being unable to rise out of poverty and sustain their families The group was nominated for a 2011 Union Square Award and Tanya has the honor of being a Green for All Fellow through which she connects with a national cohort of environmental justice change agents She delivered a widely praised keynote speech at the 2012 Just Food conference and served as a plenary panelist for the 2011 conference of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

Previous to the BLK ProjeK Tanya worked with several high profile environmental organizations located in the South Bronx - Mothers on the Move Sustainable South Bronx and the Majora Carter Group Tanya built upon the network skills resources and knowledge she gained through those experiences to create the BLK ProjeK She is a reputed and rising public speaker and educator She has spoken conducted workshops and participated on panels at Just Food Annual Conference NOFA NY Winter Conference Manhattanville College Kingsboro College Brooklyn Food Coalition NEWSAWG and others

Sunday October 19Session V 9 ndash 1015 am

Gould Hotel The Complete Ecofeminist and the Animal Question Board Room Intersections of Veganism Environmentalism Social

Justice and Species Rights

Presenters Lori Gruen Professor Philosophy Wesleyan University Joel Helfrich Hobart and William Smith Colleges Pattrice Jones Activist Author and Educator

The panel will discuss the significant roles of plant-based diets social justice food justice and the Animal Question within ecofeminism

10

Seneca Falls Clearing the Air Social Ecologies of Identity Community Center and Place

Presenters Barb LeSavoy The College at Brockport Lucienne Nicholson The College at Brockport Ben Roberts The College at Brockport Kelsey Mahoney The College at Brockport Sarah Richens The College at Brockport

Using the conference theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Place and Identity students will discuss feminist manifestos completed for WMS 421 Senior Seminar in Women and Gender Studies and WMS 381 Feminist Theory As a beginning frame for the roundtable the students will briefly present their manifestos which address questions of diversely identified feminists finding voice and agency as a mode of resistance to oppressions written on person and or place using theoretical locations of Queer Marxist Black Liberal and Radical feminist thought

Gould Hotel Natural Bodies Ballroom

Presenters Ann Victoria Dolinko Shimer College Michael Adeboye Shimer College Melanie Decelles Shimer College Teresa Doubet King Shimer College

Our focus will be on identities and bodies We will discuss the various ways our society affects our experience of what is natural Our first topic will look at the institution of hospital births in America The demonization of midwifery in recent past has had a dramatic affect on the process of and ideas surrounding ldquonormalrdquo birth in the US The end result of this has led to a redefinition of ldquonormalrdquo both during pregnancy and in the birthing room with an emphasis on a method of delivery that works against the bodyrsquos natural mode of childbearing Next we will address the shifting beauty standards set for women that require often invasive and expensive measures to fulfill an ideal of ldquonaturalrdquo beauty These standards sexualize the preadolescent body and encourage grown women to engage in unnatural processes to resemble this ideal What is natural on one body becomes a time consuming and often painful endeavor to another We will end our time with an examination of ldquonaturalrdquo and its connotations as applied to the bodies of black men In particular the long held connection seen between the black male form and the idea of natural or primitive Our aim is to begin a dialogue about the meaning of ldquonaturalrdquo and how society affects how we experience and live our bodies in the world

11

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Brunch and Closing Speaker 10 am ndash 12 pm

Gould Hotel Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet Ballroom

Speaker Jill Tietjen President of the National Womenrsquos Hall of Fame and co-author of Her Story A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Jill Tietjen is an author speaker and electrical engineer Her published books include the Setting the Record Straight series which explores the history of women in accounting engineering and professional achievement Tietjen is one of the top historians in the country on scientific and technical women She is the CEO of Technically Speaking a national consulting company specializing in improving opportunities for women and girls to have more career options in technology Tietjen is also a frequent keynote speaker at engineering science and womenrsquos conferences She was inducted into the Colorado Womenrsquos Hall of Fame in 2010

Jill Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering historical women in engineering and science and leadership topics Tietjen has written articles for and been profiled in SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers Graduating Engineer US Woman Engineer Woman Engineer and Engineering Horizons She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards In addition she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker Georgia and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Merrick amp Company of Aurora Colorado She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society She has been inducted into the Colorado Womens Hall of Fame and is listed in Whorsquos Who in Engineering Whorsquos Who in Science and Engineering and Whorsquos Who in Technology

Notes

12

Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Call for Submissions

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is a new multidisciplinary peer reviewed online journal that grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues

Aim and Scope The goal of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is to further extend the dialogues beyond the conference weekend in order to reach a broader audience and to invite more voices into the forum We recognize the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism particularly those that support dialogues across difference Our hope for this publication is to build a collaborative open-access forum for students faculty and the community on topics relating to the themes of the Biennial Seneca Fall Dialogues conference Submissions will contribute to the Seneca Falls Dialogues commitment to promote leadership development nonviolent activism and the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal seeks to honor the work of those who came before us as we build an accessible and inclusive publication by Women and Gender Studies students and faculty in the continued pursuit of equality

Submission Guidelines Using the 2014 Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD) theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place we invite SFD participants to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration We encourage student essays co-authored material and creative works including visual and electronic media Manuscripts should follow MLA style specifications and should not exceed 6000 words Submission Deadline January 9 2015

Each submission is to include the following contact information author(s) name(s) institutions telephone number(s) and email address(es) for all authors and work address for the corresponding author Submissions should be uploaded to httpdigitalcommonsbrockportedusfdpolicieshtml

Submission Policies Submitted essays cannot have been previously published nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) By submitting material to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that she or he will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal You may contact sbairochesteredu if you have questions concerns about the submission terms for The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Final formatting requirements will be communicated to authors whose work is accepted for publication

The Biennial SFD and The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal are sponsored by Women and Gender Studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Monroe Community College The College at Brockport State University of New York St John Fisher College University of Rochester SUNY Geneseo Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women and The Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning See httpwww senecafallsdialoguescom for additional information about the SFD

13

facilitatorsrsquo questions will seek to move the audience from a general discussion of their individual food-based concerns towards the collective production of a feminist vision for nutrition theory and practice The facilitators will use a theoretical model called Political Ecology of the Body in order to organize audience membersrsquo concerns into a workable framework for analysis The outcome of the session will be a working model for feminist nutrition theory and practice that encompasses the situated concerns of the group

Gould Hotel Displaced Stories of Survival And Identity Board Room

Presenters Zamda Kamikazi Monroe Community College Christina Lee Monroe Community College Chulryong Seo Monroe Community College Alissa Unrue Monroe Community College

This session seeks to give voice to survivors of genocide and human-rights abuses Through the experiences of MCC students we will highlight how survivors create place both within their experiences of oppression in their home countries and as immigrants and students here in the US

Seneca Falls The Disproportionate Impact of Toxins in Community Center Consumer Products

Presenters Meredith Bollheimer Mercyhurst University Elissa Reitz Mercyhurst University Anne Zaphiris Mercyhurst University

This session will focus on the use of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in consumer products and the ways in which women are disproportionately affected by those toxins as a result of endocrine system disruption and its connection to breast cancer infertility and behavior and growth problems in children The discussion will cover intersecting gender issues by highlighting the fact that women are underrepresented in the decision-making process regarding how these chemicals are manufactured used and regulated yet suffer a heavier burden as result of their overuse A brief review of the studies linking EDCrsquos to poor health outcomes will be discussed as well as ways in which women can through collective economic and political action reduce or eliminate their use

9

Dinner and Keynote Speaker 6 ndash 8 pm

Gould Hotel Lettuce Liberate Ballroom

Keynote Speaker Tanya Fields Founder of the BLK ProjeK

Tanya Fields is inspired by her experiences as a single working mother living in a marginalized community She founded the BLK ProjeK in 2009 as a response to sexist institutional policies structurally reinforced cycles of poverty and harsh inequities in wealth and access to capital that result in far too many women being unable to rise out of poverty and sustain their families The group was nominated for a 2011 Union Square Award and Tanya has the honor of being a Green for All Fellow through which she connects with a national cohort of environmental justice change agents She delivered a widely praised keynote speech at the 2012 Just Food conference and served as a plenary panelist for the 2011 conference of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

Previous to the BLK ProjeK Tanya worked with several high profile environmental organizations located in the South Bronx - Mothers on the Move Sustainable South Bronx and the Majora Carter Group Tanya built upon the network skills resources and knowledge she gained through those experiences to create the BLK ProjeK She is a reputed and rising public speaker and educator She has spoken conducted workshops and participated on panels at Just Food Annual Conference NOFA NY Winter Conference Manhattanville College Kingsboro College Brooklyn Food Coalition NEWSAWG and others

Sunday October 19Session V 9 ndash 1015 am

Gould Hotel The Complete Ecofeminist and the Animal Question Board Room Intersections of Veganism Environmentalism Social

Justice and Species Rights

Presenters Lori Gruen Professor Philosophy Wesleyan University Joel Helfrich Hobart and William Smith Colleges Pattrice Jones Activist Author and Educator

The panel will discuss the significant roles of plant-based diets social justice food justice and the Animal Question within ecofeminism

10

Seneca Falls Clearing the Air Social Ecologies of Identity Community Center and Place

Presenters Barb LeSavoy The College at Brockport Lucienne Nicholson The College at Brockport Ben Roberts The College at Brockport Kelsey Mahoney The College at Brockport Sarah Richens The College at Brockport

Using the conference theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Place and Identity students will discuss feminist manifestos completed for WMS 421 Senior Seminar in Women and Gender Studies and WMS 381 Feminist Theory As a beginning frame for the roundtable the students will briefly present their manifestos which address questions of diversely identified feminists finding voice and agency as a mode of resistance to oppressions written on person and or place using theoretical locations of Queer Marxist Black Liberal and Radical feminist thought

Gould Hotel Natural Bodies Ballroom

Presenters Ann Victoria Dolinko Shimer College Michael Adeboye Shimer College Melanie Decelles Shimer College Teresa Doubet King Shimer College

Our focus will be on identities and bodies We will discuss the various ways our society affects our experience of what is natural Our first topic will look at the institution of hospital births in America The demonization of midwifery in recent past has had a dramatic affect on the process of and ideas surrounding ldquonormalrdquo birth in the US The end result of this has led to a redefinition of ldquonormalrdquo both during pregnancy and in the birthing room with an emphasis on a method of delivery that works against the bodyrsquos natural mode of childbearing Next we will address the shifting beauty standards set for women that require often invasive and expensive measures to fulfill an ideal of ldquonaturalrdquo beauty These standards sexualize the preadolescent body and encourage grown women to engage in unnatural processes to resemble this ideal What is natural on one body becomes a time consuming and often painful endeavor to another We will end our time with an examination of ldquonaturalrdquo and its connotations as applied to the bodies of black men In particular the long held connection seen between the black male form and the idea of natural or primitive Our aim is to begin a dialogue about the meaning of ldquonaturalrdquo and how society affects how we experience and live our bodies in the world

11

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Brunch and Closing Speaker 10 am ndash 12 pm

Gould Hotel Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet Ballroom

Speaker Jill Tietjen President of the National Womenrsquos Hall of Fame and co-author of Her Story A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Jill Tietjen is an author speaker and electrical engineer Her published books include the Setting the Record Straight series which explores the history of women in accounting engineering and professional achievement Tietjen is one of the top historians in the country on scientific and technical women She is the CEO of Technically Speaking a national consulting company specializing in improving opportunities for women and girls to have more career options in technology Tietjen is also a frequent keynote speaker at engineering science and womenrsquos conferences She was inducted into the Colorado Womenrsquos Hall of Fame in 2010

Jill Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering historical women in engineering and science and leadership topics Tietjen has written articles for and been profiled in SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers Graduating Engineer US Woman Engineer Woman Engineer and Engineering Horizons She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards In addition she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker Georgia and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Merrick amp Company of Aurora Colorado She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society She has been inducted into the Colorado Womens Hall of Fame and is listed in Whorsquos Who in Engineering Whorsquos Who in Science and Engineering and Whorsquos Who in Technology

Notes

12

Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Call for Submissions

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is a new multidisciplinary peer reviewed online journal that grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues

Aim and Scope The goal of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is to further extend the dialogues beyond the conference weekend in order to reach a broader audience and to invite more voices into the forum We recognize the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism particularly those that support dialogues across difference Our hope for this publication is to build a collaborative open-access forum for students faculty and the community on topics relating to the themes of the Biennial Seneca Fall Dialogues conference Submissions will contribute to the Seneca Falls Dialogues commitment to promote leadership development nonviolent activism and the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal seeks to honor the work of those who came before us as we build an accessible and inclusive publication by Women and Gender Studies students and faculty in the continued pursuit of equality

Submission Guidelines Using the 2014 Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD) theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place we invite SFD participants to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration We encourage student essays co-authored material and creative works including visual and electronic media Manuscripts should follow MLA style specifications and should not exceed 6000 words Submission Deadline January 9 2015

Each submission is to include the following contact information author(s) name(s) institutions telephone number(s) and email address(es) for all authors and work address for the corresponding author Submissions should be uploaded to httpdigitalcommonsbrockportedusfdpolicieshtml

Submission Policies Submitted essays cannot have been previously published nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) By submitting material to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that she or he will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal You may contact sbairochesteredu if you have questions concerns about the submission terms for The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Final formatting requirements will be communicated to authors whose work is accepted for publication

The Biennial SFD and The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal are sponsored by Women and Gender Studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Monroe Community College The College at Brockport State University of New York St John Fisher College University of Rochester SUNY Geneseo Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women and The Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning See httpwww senecafallsdialoguescom for additional information about the SFD

13

Dinner and Keynote Speaker 6 ndash 8 pm

Gould Hotel Lettuce Liberate Ballroom

Keynote Speaker Tanya Fields Founder of the BLK ProjeK

Tanya Fields is inspired by her experiences as a single working mother living in a marginalized community She founded the BLK ProjeK in 2009 as a response to sexist institutional policies structurally reinforced cycles of poverty and harsh inequities in wealth and access to capital that result in far too many women being unable to rise out of poverty and sustain their families The group was nominated for a 2011 Union Square Award and Tanya has the honor of being a Green for All Fellow through which she connects with a national cohort of environmental justice change agents She delivered a widely praised keynote speech at the 2012 Just Food conference and served as a plenary panelist for the 2011 conference of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

Previous to the BLK ProjeK Tanya worked with several high profile environmental organizations located in the South Bronx - Mothers on the Move Sustainable South Bronx and the Majora Carter Group Tanya built upon the network skills resources and knowledge she gained through those experiences to create the BLK ProjeK She is a reputed and rising public speaker and educator She has spoken conducted workshops and participated on panels at Just Food Annual Conference NOFA NY Winter Conference Manhattanville College Kingsboro College Brooklyn Food Coalition NEWSAWG and others

Sunday October 19Session V 9 ndash 1015 am

Gould Hotel The Complete Ecofeminist and the Animal Question Board Room Intersections of Veganism Environmentalism Social

Justice and Species Rights

Presenters Lori Gruen Professor Philosophy Wesleyan University Joel Helfrich Hobart and William Smith Colleges Pattrice Jones Activist Author and Educator

The panel will discuss the significant roles of plant-based diets social justice food justice and the Animal Question within ecofeminism

10

Seneca Falls Clearing the Air Social Ecologies of Identity Community Center and Place

Presenters Barb LeSavoy The College at Brockport Lucienne Nicholson The College at Brockport Ben Roberts The College at Brockport Kelsey Mahoney The College at Brockport Sarah Richens The College at Brockport

Using the conference theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Place and Identity students will discuss feminist manifestos completed for WMS 421 Senior Seminar in Women and Gender Studies and WMS 381 Feminist Theory As a beginning frame for the roundtable the students will briefly present their manifestos which address questions of diversely identified feminists finding voice and agency as a mode of resistance to oppressions written on person and or place using theoretical locations of Queer Marxist Black Liberal and Radical feminist thought

Gould Hotel Natural Bodies Ballroom

Presenters Ann Victoria Dolinko Shimer College Michael Adeboye Shimer College Melanie Decelles Shimer College Teresa Doubet King Shimer College

Our focus will be on identities and bodies We will discuss the various ways our society affects our experience of what is natural Our first topic will look at the institution of hospital births in America The demonization of midwifery in recent past has had a dramatic affect on the process of and ideas surrounding ldquonormalrdquo birth in the US The end result of this has led to a redefinition of ldquonormalrdquo both during pregnancy and in the birthing room with an emphasis on a method of delivery that works against the bodyrsquos natural mode of childbearing Next we will address the shifting beauty standards set for women that require often invasive and expensive measures to fulfill an ideal of ldquonaturalrdquo beauty These standards sexualize the preadolescent body and encourage grown women to engage in unnatural processes to resemble this ideal What is natural on one body becomes a time consuming and often painful endeavor to another We will end our time with an examination of ldquonaturalrdquo and its connotations as applied to the bodies of black men In particular the long held connection seen between the black male form and the idea of natural or primitive Our aim is to begin a dialogue about the meaning of ldquonaturalrdquo and how society affects how we experience and live our bodies in the world

11

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Brunch and Closing Speaker 10 am ndash 12 pm

Gould Hotel Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet Ballroom

Speaker Jill Tietjen President of the National Womenrsquos Hall of Fame and co-author of Her Story A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Jill Tietjen is an author speaker and electrical engineer Her published books include the Setting the Record Straight series which explores the history of women in accounting engineering and professional achievement Tietjen is one of the top historians in the country on scientific and technical women She is the CEO of Technically Speaking a national consulting company specializing in improving opportunities for women and girls to have more career options in technology Tietjen is also a frequent keynote speaker at engineering science and womenrsquos conferences She was inducted into the Colorado Womenrsquos Hall of Fame in 2010

Jill Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering historical women in engineering and science and leadership topics Tietjen has written articles for and been profiled in SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers Graduating Engineer US Woman Engineer Woman Engineer and Engineering Horizons She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards In addition she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker Georgia and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Merrick amp Company of Aurora Colorado She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society She has been inducted into the Colorado Womens Hall of Fame and is listed in Whorsquos Who in Engineering Whorsquos Who in Science and Engineering and Whorsquos Who in Technology

Notes

12

Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Call for Submissions

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is a new multidisciplinary peer reviewed online journal that grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues

Aim and Scope The goal of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is to further extend the dialogues beyond the conference weekend in order to reach a broader audience and to invite more voices into the forum We recognize the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism particularly those that support dialogues across difference Our hope for this publication is to build a collaborative open-access forum for students faculty and the community on topics relating to the themes of the Biennial Seneca Fall Dialogues conference Submissions will contribute to the Seneca Falls Dialogues commitment to promote leadership development nonviolent activism and the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal seeks to honor the work of those who came before us as we build an accessible and inclusive publication by Women and Gender Studies students and faculty in the continued pursuit of equality

Submission Guidelines Using the 2014 Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD) theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place we invite SFD participants to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration We encourage student essays co-authored material and creative works including visual and electronic media Manuscripts should follow MLA style specifications and should not exceed 6000 words Submission Deadline January 9 2015

Each submission is to include the following contact information author(s) name(s) institutions telephone number(s) and email address(es) for all authors and work address for the corresponding author Submissions should be uploaded to httpdigitalcommonsbrockportedusfdpolicieshtml

Submission Policies Submitted essays cannot have been previously published nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) By submitting material to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that she or he will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal You may contact sbairochesteredu if you have questions concerns about the submission terms for The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Final formatting requirements will be communicated to authors whose work is accepted for publication

The Biennial SFD and The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal are sponsored by Women and Gender Studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Monroe Community College The College at Brockport State University of New York St John Fisher College University of Rochester SUNY Geneseo Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women and The Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning See httpwww senecafallsdialoguescom for additional information about the SFD

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Seneca Falls Clearing the Air Social Ecologies of Identity Community Center and Place

Presenters Barb LeSavoy The College at Brockport Lucienne Nicholson The College at Brockport Ben Roberts The College at Brockport Kelsey Mahoney The College at Brockport Sarah Richens The College at Brockport

Using the conference theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Place and Identity students will discuss feminist manifestos completed for WMS 421 Senior Seminar in Women and Gender Studies and WMS 381 Feminist Theory As a beginning frame for the roundtable the students will briefly present their manifestos which address questions of diversely identified feminists finding voice and agency as a mode of resistance to oppressions written on person and or place using theoretical locations of Queer Marxist Black Liberal and Radical feminist thought

Gould Hotel Natural Bodies Ballroom

Presenters Ann Victoria Dolinko Shimer College Michael Adeboye Shimer College Melanie Decelles Shimer College Teresa Doubet King Shimer College

Our focus will be on identities and bodies We will discuss the various ways our society affects our experience of what is natural Our first topic will look at the institution of hospital births in America The demonization of midwifery in recent past has had a dramatic affect on the process of and ideas surrounding ldquonormalrdquo birth in the US The end result of this has led to a redefinition of ldquonormalrdquo both during pregnancy and in the birthing room with an emphasis on a method of delivery that works against the bodyrsquos natural mode of childbearing Next we will address the shifting beauty standards set for women that require often invasive and expensive measures to fulfill an ideal of ldquonaturalrdquo beauty These standards sexualize the preadolescent body and encourage grown women to engage in unnatural processes to resemble this ideal What is natural on one body becomes a time consuming and often painful endeavor to another We will end our time with an examination of ldquonaturalrdquo and its connotations as applied to the bodies of black men In particular the long held connection seen between the black male form and the idea of natural or primitive Our aim is to begin a dialogue about the meaning of ldquonaturalrdquo and how society affects how we experience and live our bodies in the world

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Brunch and Closing Speaker 10 am ndash 12 pm

Gould Hotel Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet Ballroom

Speaker Jill Tietjen President of the National Womenrsquos Hall of Fame and co-author of Her Story A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Jill Tietjen is an author speaker and electrical engineer Her published books include the Setting the Record Straight series which explores the history of women in accounting engineering and professional achievement Tietjen is one of the top historians in the country on scientific and technical women She is the CEO of Technically Speaking a national consulting company specializing in improving opportunities for women and girls to have more career options in technology Tietjen is also a frequent keynote speaker at engineering science and womenrsquos conferences She was inducted into the Colorado Womenrsquos Hall of Fame in 2010

Jill Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering historical women in engineering and science and leadership topics Tietjen has written articles for and been profiled in SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers Graduating Engineer US Woman Engineer Woman Engineer and Engineering Horizons She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards In addition she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker Georgia and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Merrick amp Company of Aurora Colorado She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society She has been inducted into the Colorado Womens Hall of Fame and is listed in Whorsquos Who in Engineering Whorsquos Who in Science and Engineering and Whorsquos Who in Technology

Notes

12

Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Call for Submissions

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is a new multidisciplinary peer reviewed online journal that grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues

Aim and Scope The goal of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is to further extend the dialogues beyond the conference weekend in order to reach a broader audience and to invite more voices into the forum We recognize the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism particularly those that support dialogues across difference Our hope for this publication is to build a collaborative open-access forum for students faculty and the community on topics relating to the themes of the Biennial Seneca Fall Dialogues conference Submissions will contribute to the Seneca Falls Dialogues commitment to promote leadership development nonviolent activism and the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal seeks to honor the work of those who came before us as we build an accessible and inclusive publication by Women and Gender Studies students and faculty in the continued pursuit of equality

Submission Guidelines Using the 2014 Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD) theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place we invite SFD participants to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration We encourage student essays co-authored material and creative works including visual and electronic media Manuscripts should follow MLA style specifications and should not exceed 6000 words Submission Deadline January 9 2015

Each submission is to include the following contact information author(s) name(s) institutions telephone number(s) and email address(es) for all authors and work address for the corresponding author Submissions should be uploaded to httpdigitalcommonsbrockportedusfdpolicieshtml

Submission Policies Submitted essays cannot have been previously published nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) By submitting material to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that she or he will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal You may contact sbairochesteredu if you have questions concerns about the submission terms for The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Final formatting requirements will be communicated to authors whose work is accepted for publication

The Biennial SFD and The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal are sponsored by Women and Gender Studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Monroe Community College The College at Brockport State University of New York St John Fisher College University of Rochester SUNY Geneseo Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women and The Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning See httpwww senecafallsdialoguescom for additional information about the SFD

13

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Brunch and Closing Speaker 10 am ndash 12 pm

Gould Hotel Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet Ballroom

Speaker Jill Tietjen President of the National Womenrsquos Hall of Fame and co-author of Her Story A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Jill Tietjen is an author speaker and electrical engineer Her published books include the Setting the Record Straight series which explores the history of women in accounting engineering and professional achievement Tietjen is one of the top historians in the country on scientific and technical women She is the CEO of Technically Speaking a national consulting company specializing in improving opportunities for women and girls to have more career options in technology Tietjen is also a frequent keynote speaker at engineering science and womenrsquos conferences She was inducted into the Colorado Womenrsquos Hall of Fame in 2010

Jill Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering historical women in engineering and science and leadership topics Tietjen has written articles for and been profiled in SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers Graduating Engineer US Woman Engineer Woman Engineer and Engineering Horizons She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards In addition she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker Georgia and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Merrick amp Company of Aurora Colorado She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society She has been inducted into the Colorado Womens Hall of Fame and is listed in Whorsquos Who in Engineering Whorsquos Who in Science and Engineering and Whorsquos Who in Technology

Notes

12

Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Call for Submissions

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is a new multidisciplinary peer reviewed online journal that grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues

Aim and Scope The goal of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is to further extend the dialogues beyond the conference weekend in order to reach a broader audience and to invite more voices into the forum We recognize the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism particularly those that support dialogues across difference Our hope for this publication is to build a collaborative open-access forum for students faculty and the community on topics relating to the themes of the Biennial Seneca Fall Dialogues conference Submissions will contribute to the Seneca Falls Dialogues commitment to promote leadership development nonviolent activism and the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal seeks to honor the work of those who came before us as we build an accessible and inclusive publication by Women and Gender Studies students and faculty in the continued pursuit of equality

Submission Guidelines Using the 2014 Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD) theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place we invite SFD participants to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration We encourage student essays co-authored material and creative works including visual and electronic media Manuscripts should follow MLA style specifications and should not exceed 6000 words Submission Deadline January 9 2015

Each submission is to include the following contact information author(s) name(s) institutions telephone number(s) and email address(es) for all authors and work address for the corresponding author Submissions should be uploaded to httpdigitalcommonsbrockportedusfdpolicieshtml

Submission Policies Submitted essays cannot have been previously published nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) By submitting material to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that she or he will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal You may contact sbairochesteredu if you have questions concerns about the submission terms for The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Final formatting requirements will be communicated to authors whose work is accepted for publication

The Biennial SFD and The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal are sponsored by Women and Gender Studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Monroe Community College The College at Brockport State University of New York St John Fisher College University of Rochester SUNY Geneseo Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women and The Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning See httpwww senecafallsdialoguescom for additional information about the SFD

13

Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Call for Submissions

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is a new multidisciplinary peer reviewed online journal that grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues

Aim and Scope The goal of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal is to further extend the dialogues beyond the conference weekend in order to reach a broader audience and to invite more voices into the forum We recognize the importance of creatively engaging diverse tools for feminist activism particularly those that support dialogues across difference Our hope for this publication is to build a collaborative open-access forum for students faculty and the community on topics relating to the themes of the Biennial Seneca Fall Dialogues conference Submissions will contribute to the Seneca Falls Dialogues commitment to promote leadership development nonviolent activism and the ideals set forth in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal seeks to honor the work of those who came before us as we build an accessible and inclusive publication by Women and Gender Studies students and faculty in the continued pursuit of equality

Submission Guidelines Using the 2014 Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD) theme EcoFeminism Cultivating Identity and Place we invite SFD participants to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration We encourage student essays co-authored material and creative works including visual and electronic media Manuscripts should follow MLA style specifications and should not exceed 6000 words Submission Deadline January 9 2015

Each submission is to include the following contact information author(s) name(s) institutions telephone number(s) and email address(es) for all authors and work address for the corresponding author Submissions should be uploaded to httpdigitalcommonsbrockportedusfdpolicieshtml

Submission Policies Submitted essays cannot have been previously published nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) By submitting material to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that she or he will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal You may contact sbairochesteredu if you have questions concerns about the submission terms for The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal Final formatting requirements will be communicated to authors whose work is accepted for publication

The Biennial SFD and The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal are sponsored by Women and Gender Studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Monroe Community College The College at Brockport State University of New York St John Fisher College University of Rochester SUNY Geneseo Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women and The Womenrsquos Institute for Leadership and Learning See httpwww senecafallsdialoguescom for additional information about the SFD

13

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BROCKPORT STAT E UN I VERSITY or Ew Y ORK

Evolutionary Women

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Friends of Assemblyman Brian M Kolb

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Friends of Assemblyman Brian M Kolb

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