Womanist Ethnography Lunch Forums

Beginning in Fall 2022, the Womanist Ethnography Conference expanded programming to offer 4 lunch forums where womanist ethnographers with recently published works share their findings, approaches, and research narratives. These brief presentations are followed by conversations, consultations, and a time for questions.

Womanist Ethnography Conference 2022

This year’s conference centers the voices of womanist ethnographers, activists, and conference attendees alike. We wrestle with the questions of vocation, purpose, and aims of our work. We seek to deepen our commitment to social transformation.

Black women’s lived experience continues to be our compass and guide in womanist ethnography and social transformation.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

THURSDAY

2:00-2:15 Opening Ritual and Remarks

Phillis Isabella Sheppard

2:15-2:45 Intersectionality and Ethnography

Venus Evans-Winter 

2:45-3:15 Activists’ Panel

Kendra Arsenault, Mary Hooks, Shahidah Jones

3:15-3:30 Q & A

3:30-3:35 Breathing

3:35-3:50 Ethnographers’ Panel

Rosetta Ross, Stephanie Crumpton, Shannen Williams

3:50-4:05 Q & A

4:05-4:15 Art, Activism, and Womanist Method

Megan Jordan

4:15-4:30 Breakout Rooms

4:30-4:45 Participants' Findings

4:45 Closing

FRIDAY

9:00-9:30 Womanist Wisdom: Activists and Ethnographers in Conversation

9:30-9:35 Interlude

9:35-9:55 Womanist Ethnography Award Recipient Presentation

Jan Etienne

9:55-10:05 Coffee, Tea, Break

10:05-10:15 Womanist Ethnography: "More than a Good Story"

Phillis I. Sheppard

10:15-10:35 Story Telling & Making Meaning

10:35—11:00 Gathering the themes, Dreams & Hopes 

Venus Evans-Winters 

11:00-11:10 Group response to "Themes" Heard

11:10 Closing