In celebration of 10 years at Augusta State University, the Women’s Studies Program, along with the Women’s Studies Student Association, will present Emerging Narratives, a day-long conference on Saturday, March 28, with sessions held in various locations in the Jaguar Student Activities Center.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Irene Salami-Agunloye, associate professor of African Expressive Literature, Women, and Cultural Studies in the Department of Theatre and Communication Arts at the University of Jos in Nigeria. Dr. Salami-Agunloye, a former Fulbright Scholar at UCLA, is an accomplished playwright who lectures extensively about women’s and children’s issues.
Registration begins at 8 a.m.; the conference will open with a welcome by the Women’s Studies Student Association president, Shannon Bruckner, and vice president, Melinda McKew. The first session, Diaries and Travel Logs: Women’s Narratives as Historical Sources, will begin at 9 a.m. in the Skinner Meeting Room in the JSAC.
Culminating the day’s activities will be a dinner to benefit Clinica Latina at 6:30 p.m. at Luciana’s on Fury’s Ferry Road. Clinica Latina is a medical clinic that serves the needs of members of the Latino community within the Central Savannah River Area.
Registration is $10 for students and $20 for faculty and staff. For more information, call Dr. Seretha Williams, interim director of Women’s Studies, at 706-729-2175.
Feb 20, 2009
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