Conference Schedule

The 2013 CRCGE, "Body as Battleground: Why the Law Continues to Fail Women," will be held on Saturday, February 23, 2013, in the Rotunda of Van Hecke-Wettach Hall at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

8:00-9:00

Coffee and Sign-in/Registration |Upper Rotunda

9:00 - 9:20

Opening Remarks | Rotunda | Dean Jack Boger

9:30 - 11:00

First Panel: Framing the Scope of the Battleground | Rotunda

• Prof. Maxine Eichner
• Prof. Joan Krause
• Kumi Silva
• Prof. Gene Nichol

11:15 - 12:30

Breakouts

• Women and Prisons, Room 3049
  • Elizabeth Albiston
  • Lynne Burke
  • Schree Greene
• Construction of Gender, Room, 3025
  • Avory Faucette
  • Shannon Gilreath
• Reproductive Rights, Room 4004
  • Suzanne Buckley
  • Dr. Jamila Taylor
• Grrrls! Discrimination and Young Women, Rumpus Room
  • Fatima Goss-Graves
  • Hannah Shaw
  • Daphne Vosberg

12:30 - 1:45

Lunch by The Pig (featuring tabling by local community/activist groups)

1:55 - 2:00

Introduction of Keynote Speaker | Rotunda 

2:00 - 3:00

Marilyn Yarbrough Distinguished Speaker Keynote Address | Rotunda | Dr. Alice Kessler-Harris

3:15 - 4:45

Second Panel: A Way Forward

• Dr. Rachel Seidman
• Loretta Ross
• Prof. Deborah Weissman
• Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

4:45 - 5:00

Goodbye