Seventh Annual Multidisciplinary Conference Contexts When We Speak: Sex, Power, and the #MeToo Movement Thursday, October 18, 2018 University Commons Ballrooms

Greta LaFleur, PhD Durba Mitra, PhD Julianne Malveaux, PhD Mariam Durrani, PhD Bianca Williams, PhD

9:30-10:45 a.m. – Session 1 Looking Back: Histories of Sexual Violence How to Think about the History of the #MeToo Era Greta LaFleur, assistant professor of American studies at Yale University, and author of The Natural History of Sexuality: Race, Environmentalism, and the Human Sciences in British Colonial North America Sexual Violence and the “Outrage on Modesty:” A View from the Global South Durba Mitra, assistant professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University, and Carol K. Pforzheimer assistant professor at the Radcliffe Institute 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. – Keynote Address Race, Power, and #MeToo Julianne Malveaux, labor economist and noted media writer and commentator, former president of Bennett College for Women, former professor at numerous institutions including New School for Social Research, San Francisco State University, and Michigan State University 2:00-3:15 p.m. – Session 2 Looking Forward: The Future of the #MeToo Movement The Paradox of #MeToo: When Hashtags Aren’t Enough Mariam Durrani, assistant professor of anthropology at Hamilton College Race, Gender, and Healing: How Will We Know that #MeToo is “Successful” as a Movement? Bianca Williams, associate professor of anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center, and author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism

This event was made possible in part by the William Paterson University Alumni @wpcohss wpcohss @wpcohss @wpcohss Association’s Distinguished Visiting Professorship and is co-sponsored by the Office of Sophomore and Junior Experience and the Office of Employment Equity and Diversity. #WPCOHSS #WPUNJ #WhenWeSpeak