Join us for a symposium on the edited collection Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy (Lexington Books, 2020). Edited by Professor Laura Gray-Rosendale, the volume "collects a range of perspectives from sexual assault survivors with backgrounds in academia. The contributors in this collection connect their experiences of sexual violence to their research and work within the academy as well as their lives outside of it."

At noon, there will be a keynote talk by Professor Gray-Rosendale, titled "We Too: Survivorship, Personal Narrative, and the Collective Challenge to Violence, Power, and Privilege.” This talk will be on zoom.

Schedule for the symposium:

8:45: Welcome, Sally J. Kenney

9:00-9:50: Sally J. Kenney (in conversation with Constance Adler)

9:55-11:40: Donna Potts, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Washington State University (in conversation with Nghana Lewis)

12:00-1:00: Laura Gray-Rosendale, Professor of English, Northern Arizona University, keynote via zoom: “We Too: Survivorship, Personal Narrative, and the Collective Challenge to Violence, Power, and Privilege”

1:30-2:20: Katrina Powell, Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, Virginia Tech (in conversation with Ebony Perro)

2:30-3:20: Lee Skallerup Bessette, Assistant Director for Digital Learning, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown Universit (in conversation with Jacque Howard)

3:30-4:20: Ray Douglas, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of History, Colgate University (in conversation with Mike Kuczynski)