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SYMPOSIUM EVENTS |
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Symposium Events |
October 2 - 16, 2004
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| Saturday, October 2 |
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10:00 a.m. - noon Discriminating Crime: Detective Fiction on the Social Margins
Newberry Library Seminar, Saturday, October 2 - December 4 |
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2:00 - 4:00 p.m. An Afternoon with Author, Poet, and Activist Lucha Corpi
Mexican Fine Arts Center, Sor Juana Festival |
| Monday, October 4 Student Union, Golden Eagles Room |
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10:30a.m. Lucha Corpi reads Where Fireflies Dance/Ali, Donde Bailan Las Luciernagas with Chicago public school children |
| Monday, October 4 CLS-2094 |
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2:50 - 4:05 p.m. Issues of Gender & Ethnicity in Lucha Corpi's Detective Fiction
Speaker: Christina Gomez, Sociology, Mexican and Caribbean Studies |
| Tuesday, October 5 CLS-2094 |
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1:40 - 2:40 p.m. Fiction vs. Reality:
Women Detecting and Crime Reporting in the Chicago Police Department
Moderator: Ruth Handel, litracy specialist, political activist and writer / publicist
Speakers: Barbara D'Amato, author of Suze Figueroa & Norm Bennis Mystery Series
Gera-Lind Kolarik, crime reporter and author of Freed to Kill (1990) |
| Tuesday, October 5 CLS-2056 |
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2:50 - 4:05 p.m. Exploring Social Issues in Detective Fiction and Crime Reporting
Moderator: Audrey Natcone, Justice Studies & Women's Studies
Speakers: Barbara D'Amato, author of Suze Figueroa & Norm Bennis Mystery Series
Gera-Lind Kolarik, crime reporter and author of Freed to Kill (1990) |
| Tuesday, October 5 SU-214 |
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4:15 - 5:30 p.m. Reception for Lucha Corpi
Sponsored by the Mexican and Caribbean Studies Program |
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5:40 - 6:55 p.m. Lucha Corpi's Detective Fiction of Resistance: Rethinking Law & Order From a Chicana Historical Perspective
Speakers: Lucha Corpi, author of Gloria Damasco Series |
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7:05 - 8:20 p.m. Writer Meets "Critics": A Roundtable Discussion with Lucha Corpi
Lucha Corpi with Panelists: Tim Libretti, author of "Lucha Corpi and the Politics of Detective Fiction" in Multicultural Detective Fiction: Murder from the "Other" Side, 1999; Christina Gomez, Sociology & Mexican & Caribbean Studies; Maria Luna, ENLACE Program; Fernando Moreno, Honors Program |
| Wednesday, October 6 SCI-242 |
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5:40 - 6:55 p.m. Investigating the Status of Women in Detective Fiction - An Exchange
August P. Aleksy, Jr., Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore;
Linda Dawaskin, Something Wicked Bookstore; Judy Duhl, Scotland Yard Bookstore;
Sylvia Foti, Sisters in Crime |
| Thursday, October 7 SCI-113 |
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12:15 - 1:30 p.m. Sleuthing Through Mathematical Economics
Presenter: Diane L. Stehman, Economics, Geography and Environmental Studies |
| Thursday, October 7 Location: CLS-2094 |
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1:40 - 2:40 p.m. Usual Suspects, Unusual Sleuths
Moderator: Brenda Murphy, NEIU Alumnae, Women & Children First Bookstore
Panelists: Diane Haslett, Social Work and Women's Studies, University of Maine; Alex Matthews, author of Cassidy McCabe Series; June Sochen, History and Women's Studies |
| Thursday, October 7 CLS-2056 |
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2:50 - 4:05 p.m. First Wave Feminists Detect
Presenter: Audrey Natcone, Justice Studies & Women's Studies |
| Friday, October 8 FA-216 |
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Noon - 12: 50 p.m. The Social Worker as Sleuth
Speaker: Diane Haslett, Social Work and Women's Studies, University of Maine |
| Saturday, October 9 CLS-2094 |
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10:50 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Ethnic & Class Relations in Tony Hillerman's Detective Fiction
Speaker: Rohan De Silva, Sociology |
| Sunday, October 10 DuSable Museum |
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2:00 - 4:00 p.m. An Afternoon with Detection Fiction Writer Barbara Neely
Speaker: Barbara Neely |
| Monday, October 11 Library Lower Level Classroom |
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10:00 - 11: 50 a.m. The Mysterious Teen
Moderator: Sara Lifson, NEIU Reference Librarian
Panelists: Gini Baker, Millburn School; Rick Kinnebrew,
Evanston Public Library; Cindy Welch, U of IL Library and Information Science; Michelle Wilson, Glencoe Public Library |
| Monday, October 11 CLS-2094 |
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2:50 - 4:05 p.m. Exposing & Exploring the Color Line - Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
Speaker: Christina Gomez, Sociology, Mexican and Caribbean Studies |
| Monday, October 11 SCI-242 |
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5:40 - 6:55 p.m. Working Class Women Sleuths Clean Up! - Blanche White Meets Lily Bard
Staged Reading: Barbara Scott, Sociology, African/African-American Studies and Women's Studies; Martha Thompson, Sociology and Women's Studies |
| Tuesday, October 12 CLS-2094 |
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1:40 - 2:40 p.m. Activity Hour: Relationship Issues & Challenges in the Lives of Female Sleuths
Panelists: Eleanor Taylor Bland, author of Marti McCallister Series; Libby Fischer Hellmann, author of Elle Foreman Series; Barbara Neely, author of Blanche White Series |
| Tuesday, October 12 CLS-2056 |
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2:50 - 4:05 p.m. Learning from Detective Fiction: Justice from an African- American Woman Cop's & Journalist's Perspectives
Moderator: David Barr, playwright, adaptation of Walter Mosley's A Red Death
Panelists: Eleanor Taylor Bland; and Chris Benson, author of Special Interest, 2001 and "Double Dealing" in Shades of Black, 2004 |
| Tuesday, October 12 Student Union, Golden Eagle Room |
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4:15 - 5:30 p.m. Reception for Barbara Neely and other honored guests in celebration of NEIU's new African and Afirican American Studies Program |
| Tuesday, October 12 Student Union, Recital Hall |
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5:40 - 6:55 p.m. Blanche Talks Back-Speaking Truth to Power Through Detective Fiction
Speaker: Barbara Neely, Author of Blanche White Series |
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7:05 - 8:20 p.m. Response Panel to Barbara Neely - Using the Blanche White Series as a Classroom Text
Respondents: Erica Meiners, Educational Leadership & Women's Studies; BarBara Scott, African/African American Studies & Women's Studies; Brett Stockdill, Sociology, Women's Studies, and Mexian and Caribbean Studies |
| Saturday, October 16 Budlong Woods Library |
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2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Women of Mystery:
Three Writers Who Forever Changed Detective Fiction
Video & Discussion |
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