The Master of Arts in Women’s Studies At Southern Connecticut State University
8th Annual Southern Connecticut State University Women‟s Studies Graduate Conference
“Trafficking Humans: An Interdisciplinary Approach Addressing Sex & Labor Exploitation”
Intellectual Stimulating Practical Enriching
Why a Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies? A Women’s Studies degree provides a compelling gender, race and class analysis which can be applied effectively in the workplace and is also relevant to advanced graduate studies at the doctoral level. A master’s degree in the field of Women’s Studies offers sophisticated, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural academic training with practical applications for those who choose to seek professional credentialing such as a terminal degree in law or intend to pursue a doctorate leading to teaching and advanced research. The program also serves those who have achieved competence in their field as educators, administrators, human resource and health professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners and those who want to integrate the theory and practice of women’s studies into their profession. It is also suitable for students seeking personal enrichment. The Women’s Studies classroom is a unique environment, encouraging active student participation in the learning process. The goal of Women’s Studies pedagogy is to generate knowledge from the shared resources of the students under the guidance of the instructor. We invite you to explore the options offered by the Master of Arts degree in Women’s Studies at Southern Connecticut State University and hope that you will visit us and see for yourself the vibrant, intellectual Women’s Studies community at SCSU!
For application information, call (203) 392-6133 or e-mail womenstudies@southernct.edu
Saturday, October 30, 2010 Engleman Hall Room C112
The SCSU Women’s Studies Program Invites Submissions to
“Woman In Mind” An Academic Journal SCSU Kappa Chapter of Iota Iota Iota For more information, please call (203) 392-6133 or e-mail: Womenstudies@southernct.edu
The SCSU Women’s Studies Program Announces: The Twentieth Annual Women’s Studies Conference
“Women & Labor: At Home, At Work, Around the Globe” To be held in April 2012 Look for More Details In the Near Future
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SCSU Women’s Studies Contact Information
Keynote Speaker:
Sister Rose Bernadette Gallagher
Sister Rose Bernadette Gallagher was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She entered the Maryknoll Sisters in 1943. Sister Rose has served on the Chinese mainland, in Hong Kong, and in Thailand. Over these more than sixty years, her ministries have included education, community development and women's issues. Sister Rose was Director of the Women's Desk in Bangkok, Thailand for ten years. She went to the Sudan for a short period of time and is now at the Maryknoll Sisters' Center in New York, working in the Global Concerns Office. She keeps up with the problem of the trafficking of women throughout the world, and attends meetings at the UN related to Women's Advocacy.
Women’s Studies Program
Interim Director:
Engleman Hall B229 Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent Street New Haven, CT 06515 203.392.6133 203.392.6723 (fax) womenstudies@southernct.edu www.southernct.edu/womensstudies
Dr. Jane McGinn mcginnj1@southernct.edu
Secretary:
University Assistant: Ebony McClease mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu
Cerella Griffin griffinc1@southernct.edu
Graduate Assistants: Leah Knowles: knowlesl1@owls.southernct.edu Estela Lopez: lopeze1@owls.southernct.edu Ashley McGuffie: mcguffiea1@owls.southernct.edu
Work Study Assistant: Judith Garrett-Smith
The SCSU Women‟s Studies Program would like to thank the following people and organizations for their support: Lena‟s Café and Confections The SCSU School of Graduate Studies Graduate Conference Committee The Women‟s Studies Department The Women‟s Center
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Conference Schedule
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Session 5 Survivor Narratives
10:00-5:00
Vendors Fair
EN B 121
Frank Barnaba & Kimberly Bon Vecchione, The Barnaba Institute Victim Faces
10:00-11:00
Session 1:
EN C 112
The mission of the Barnaba Institute is to raise awareness about human trafficking as it pertains to sexual exploitation through education and media; to provide professional training course on how to identify human trafficking victims and to provide support, guidance, and care to at-risk, sexually exploited and trafficked youth and adults.
Regional Statistics Amy Vlacich: Sugar Mamas: Sexual & Economic Exploitation in the Caribbean Andrea Wilson: Human Trafficking: Worldwide Problem, Unique Context Carol Huckaby: Trafficking for Labor on a Local Level Moderator: Heather Brady 11:00-12:00
Session 2:
EN C 112
Educating about Sex Trafficking: Curricular and Co-Curricular Contributions Michelle Kaufman: Teaching Sex Trafficking of Girls & Women as an Online Course: Challenges & Rewards Donna Bickford : Literary Analysis of Sex Trafficking: Why? Janet Hagen & Kelly Brandon: Sex Trafficking & Student Activism Moderator: Leah Knowles 12:00-1:00
Lunch
EN B125
1:00-2:00
Theatrical performance of a scene from “Body & Sold”
EN C 112
by Deborah Fortson, Tempest Productions
Notes:
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Gina Callahan: Spotlight on the Spotlight: Public Attention to Human Trafficking from 1995-2005
2:00-3:00
Christopher McKee: U.S. vs. Dennis Paris Case From 2004 to 2008, this case was investigated by a multijurisdictional federal and municipal task force operated out of the US Attorney‟s Office for the District of Connecticut, in conjunction with the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice investigating domestic sex trafficking in the greater Hartford area (US v. Paris et al). As a result of that collaborative effort, ten individuals were convicted of various crimes including Sex Trafficking of Minors and Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion and multiple United States women and juvenile girls that the defendants exploited for prostitution were rescued. Session 4 Activist Field Work
Policies that Promote Human Trafficking Gina Callahan: Spotlight on the Spotlight: Public Attention to Human Trafficking from 1995-2005 Christopher McKee: U.S. vs. Dennis Paris Case Moderator: Danielle DellaRocco 3:00-4:00
Session 4: Elm City Abolitionists, a Love146 task force Soroptomist Yalies Against Human Trafficking Moderator: Moira Duffy
4:00-5:00
Session 5:
Yalies Against Human Trafficking
EN C 112
Survivor Narratives Frank Barnaba and Kimberly Bon Vecchione: Victim Faces
Sandra Abbott David Washer
EN C 112
Activist Field Work
Estela López
Soroptomist
EN C 112
Andrea Wilson:
Elm City Abolitionists, a Love146 Task Force
Session 3:
Theories & Practice: Public Awareness & Public Policy
It is interested in the change in frequency of trafficking-related source material from 1995 to 2005 in three sites of public discourse—media, NGOs, and films—and cognizant of two major pieces of legislation passed during that era. It concludes that there was, in fact, a dramatic and noted increase in public discussion about trafficking in this period and suggests that this quantitative characterization may extend and work in conjunction with other forms of discursive and policy analysis of this issue.
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Moderator: Sarah Bratchell 5:00-6:00
Dinner
EN B125
6:00-7:00
Keynote Address
EN C 112
Sister Rose Bernadette Gallagher
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Session 1:
“Trafficking Humans”
The discourses on trafficking circulating in the public sphere help construct public response. Representational strategies in literature offer mechanisms to inform how we think about and wrestle with complex issues. Although human trafficking encompasses both sex and labor trafficking, in the U.S. we have thus far paid the most attention to sex trafficking; our cultural products reflect that emphasis. Documentary films are plentiful, mainstream Hollywood films increasingly so, and survivor narratives are available. Fictional portrayals of sex trafficking, however, are just beginning to surface.
Amy Vlacich: Sugar Mamas: Sexual & Economic Exploitation in the Caribbean In the post-colonial Caribbean, a new form of sexual and economic abuse is developing as a result of the growing travel industry: sexual tourism. After centuries of economic and sexual conquest, is it possible for Caribbean women to break the cycle? Among immigrant women who have spent time abroad, geographically and culturally removed from the homeland, it seems so.
Andrea Wilson:
Janet Hagen & Kelly Brandon: Sex Trafficking & Student Activism
Human Trafficking: Worldwide Problem, Unique Context
This presentation is student-centered and consists of students from Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT, explaining what they did to promote awareness about sex trafficking through a teach-in held on campus. The students who participated were from two groups on campus: Hagen‟s women‟s studies course (which ran for the first time in spring 2010), Gender in the Everyday World, WMS 198, and the feminist organization on campus, Lone Juliet, for which Hagen is faculty advisor.
A few brief country and policy examples will be provided to illustrate the general conditions that contribute to trafficking. However, it will become clear that trafficking affects individuals uniquely within distinct country or regional contexts. Therefore, the paper will ultimately focus on a case study of Thailand.
Donna Bickford: Literary Analysis of Sex Trafficking: Why?
Regional Statistics
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Carol Huckaby:
Session 3:
Trafficking for Labor on a Local Level
Theories & Practice: Public Awareness & Public Policy Session 2:
Policies that Promote Human Trafficking
Educating about Sex Trafficking:
Moisés Naím states that it is “thanks to [human traffickers‟] ability to elude government-imposed obstacles [that] they can turn human impulses into profits” yet I argue that government action does not always produce obstacles. In fact, in some cases certain policies make trafficking easier.
Curricular and Co-Curricular Contributions
Michelle Kaufman: Teaching Sex Trafficking of Girls & Women as an Online Course: Challenges & Rewards This presentation will focus on an online course entitled Sex Trafficking of Girls and Women taught for North Carolina State University Distance Education students through the Women „s and Gender Studies Program. The course is designed to introduce students to the issue of human trafficking, particularly into sex work. Course content focuses on trafficking in various parts of the world, including South Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central and South America, Africa, and the U.S. and Canada.
Andrea Wilson:
Gina Callahan: Spotlight on the Spotlight: Public Attention to Human Trafficking from 1995-2005 It is interested in the change in frequency of trafficking-related source material from 1995 to 2005 in three sites of public discourse—media, NGOs, and films—and cognizant of two major pieces of legislation passed during that era. It concludes that there was, in fact, a dramatic and noted increase in public discussion about trafficking in this period and suggests that this quantitative characterization may extend and work in conjunction with other forms of discursive and policy analysis of this issue.