EGSA Presents 2008 Symposium in the Southwest

Identity: Constructing the Social Self

All Day-time events will be held in the Mirage-Thunderbird room on the third floor of the SUB.

Please join us for food, merriment and intellectual stimulation throughout the day, two Friday's in a row, Feb 29th and Mar 7.

Friday February 29

10-11 am. Opening remarks and breakfast

11am - 12 pm Student Panel - Beyond Words: Non-verbal Cultural Expression

Evelyn Duran Urrea, "Bilingualism and Emotions"
Rosmaria Cisneros Kostic, "'Does it End With Gypsy Women?':
   Documentary Films on Flamenco as a Political Art in
   Franco's Spain"
Anuradha Kowtha, "Finding 'Indianness' through Dance:
   Rethinking Community Memroies of 'Authenticity'"

12 - 1 pm Break

1 - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 pm Dr. Kelly Reams: "What Does Friendship Mean to the Literary Scholar and Teacher"

Kelly Reames is an associate professor at Western Kentucky University and the founder of the Lillian Hellman Society. Her book, Women and Race: From Faulkner to Morrison, was published last spring, and she is currently working on a project focused on Lillian Hellman's writing.