Date: Wed, 09 Mar 94 19:29 CST Subject: Arkansas Festival 5th Annual Northwest Arkansas Women's Festival & Conference Images : Perceptions of Women April 7-9, 1994 -- University of Arkansas -- Arkansas Union Thursday, April 7 7-10 pm Opening Night Gathering at the Ozark Mountain Smokehouse, 215 W. Dickson, Registration begins Friday, April 8 9:30-10:30 am Women's Art at the Colombian Exposition of 1893 Concurrent Gender & Sexual Orientation : Work Place Issues Sessions The Changing Face of the Coed at the U of A AIDS & Women 10:45-11:30 am Coping with Cancer Women in Science Violence, Gender, and Music Television Challenges in the Treatment of Eating Disorders 12:15-1:15 pm Video: Laurie Anderson's "Home of the Brave" Introduced by Gayle Murchison of the UA Music Dept. 1:30-2:30 pm Gender Ideology in Buddhist Society Back of the Vineyard Women in Myth/Owning One's Body : Owning One's Power VI Encounter of Latin American & Caribbean Women : Review Self-Esteem & Stress of the '57 Chevy 2:45-3:45 pm Power Abuse Between Males & Females Transformational Grammar Woman Artist in Film Looking Within : Tracing our Ancestral She-roes 4-5 pm New Directions : Friendship in Publishing Positive Images for Women Past Menopause Choosing Emancipation Over Feminist Liberation An End to Radical Lesbian Feminism? "Dreamworlds" (video on women's image in the media and MTV) 7-9 pm Holly Devor, keynote speaker, reception following Holly Devor is a professor of sociology at the Univ. of Victoria in British Columbia. She is the author of _Gender Bending : confronting the Limits of Duality_ and the upcoming _Making Men: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society_. In her keynote address "Incorporating Others : Feminism Faces the Challenge of Converts," Devor will discuss contradictions within feminism that must be addressed in the 1990s. The emergence of feminist transsexuals has highlighted the tension between the theory that biology is not destiny and feminist identity politics that encourage diversity. Devor's follow-up session on Saturday will use the example of transsexuals in women-only space to further discuss these contradictions. Saturday, April 9 9-10 am Telling Our Stories Spirituality & Trauma : A Feminist Perspective False Memory Syndrome : Women's Credibility Women : Profiles in Courage We are all living with AIDS : A Woman's Perspective 10:30-11:30 am Defining the Boundaries of Women-only Space (Holly Devor) Domestic Abuse : Women's Rights and Options Voices and Images/Lizzy Dean's Recollections The Lady & The Unicorn : Guinevere the Heroine 11:30-1:30 Luncheon with WISE Awards (3 NW Arkansas women will be honored with Women in Significant Endeavors awards based on their contributions to the advancement of the status of women), followed by: Goddess Productions "In Whose Image," a light- hearted, insightful dramatization of society's view of women's physical and psychological images. 1:30-3 pm "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall..." Beauty and the Beast of Advertising Womonlore : The Great Goddess Re-Emerging Yoga For All Bodies Mind/Body Energy Balancing for PMS "Extremities" (Ozark Stage Works) 3:15-3:45 pm Impact of Rape Reshaping the Suffragist Image in the Progressive Era Yoga for Daily Living Aphrodite : Representation in Antique Sculpture Trailer Parks, Mavericks, and Underbellies 4-5 pm Gender Interactions in the Workplace Women & Addictions Sexuality on the Edge : Women, S/M and Leather Women's Rights and the Evolving Political Structure Writing Your Wrongs 7-8:30 pm "Whisper Stories" presented by Snapdragon:Ozark Feminist Theater And a little more. Registration on a sliding-scale basis, from $0-$50. For more info contact: Al Lord at (501) 443-1302 or (501) 575-3481 or the office of the Alliance for Women's Concerns at (501) 575-6631 BTW, Al is a gal. ;) Renee McBride cmcbride@uoknor.edu