Forum on Diversity Friday, November 8, 2013: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Grand Couteau)
76-1 Carnival in the Classroom: Playing with Performance in Writing and Speaking
Charles Schuster, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this presentation celebrates risk and play in our classrooms. Attendees will be offered models of writing and speaking activities that ask students to assume roles, wear rhetorical masks, experience diversity, and engage creatively and critically with texts and ideas.
76-2 Binders of Women: Diversity, Feminism, Gender and Gender Identification
Laurel Holland, Georgia Gwinnett College;
Jamie Lewis, Georgia Gwinnett College;
Stephanie Marra, Georgia Gwinnett College;
Vivian Mosley, Georgia Gwinnett College;
Shannon Wilson, Georgia Gwinnett College
Faculty members will discuss the use of a feminist theoretical frame to develop Binders of Women: Gender and Sexual Minorities in American Society. Student participants discuss their experiences and provide insights into why feminism is important to our understanding and discussion of issues related to gender and gender identity.
