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A day-long tour will take girls and their teachers, parents, and other allies to Chicago to experience the work of Chicago-based organizations who work specifically with girls to develop their interests and talents in performance and mediamaking. Workshops will be administered by the Viola Project, a girls’ theater group casting all-girl companies to stage and perform the works of Shakespeare ; their performance partner with Babes with Blades, expanding opportunities for women in the world of stage combat; and Beyondmedia Education , a media group empowering girls to shape media and girls’ representation in it. A luncheon performance, “Grimm’s Grimmes: The Darker Side of Fairy Tales,” will be presented by Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholar and Storyteller Judith Heineman. Continuing Professional Development Units (CPDUs) available for K-12 teachers. Organized by Liberal Arts & Sciences Office of External Programming, Northern Illinois University.
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Sandra Cisneros, celebrated author of The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, will be a featured speaker. She will read from Caramelo, which devotes much of its text to immigration issues,and comment on the politics of migration and mobility today. Before she was able to earn her living by her pen, Cisneros worked as an educator and counselor to high-school dropouts, an artist-in-the schools where she taught creative writing at every level except first grade and pre-school, a college recruiter, an arts administrator, and a visiting writer at a number of universities including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. |  |
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Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., is Professor of Education and Human Development at Colby College in Maine. A founding member of the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and co-creator of the nonprofit Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Brown has written two previously acclaimed books on girls’social and psychological development: Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger (Harvard Univ. Press, 1998) and Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls (New York Univ. Pess, 2003). Her latest book Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketer’s Schemes (St. Martin’s Press, 2006), co-authored with Dr. Sharon Lamb, shows the image of girls that's being packaged and sold while giving caring adults the tools to help girls resist these images. |
A focused track of sessions within the larger NWSA conference—including scholarly papers, performances, and films— will address issues concerning the emerging field of Girls’ Studies and Activism. Sessions will feature participation from girls and K-12 teachers in addition to college and university academics. Additional Continuing Professional Development Units (CPDUs) through Northern Illinois University’s Liberal Arts & Sciences Office of External Programming will be available to K-12 teachers attending the conference track.