(Inter)Disciplining Culture
Conference Program
(Inter)Disciplining Culture
Conference Program
Below please find a copy of the program for today's (Inter)Disciplining Culture conference. The names and times of panels, as well as the names of panel participants and titles of the papers they will be delivering, are provided; scheduling and presentation information regarding the conference's keynote presentation, introductory remarks, and concluding remarks may also be found here.
Please note that each panel is accessible through its own unique URL generated by Zoom, indicated in the below program as the session's or panel's "Zoom Access Link." Panel moderators will remind participants of this important access-related matter at the conclusion of each panel event. As panel sessions conclude and we prepare to move to subsequent panels or collectively return for the keynote address, please be sure to return to this page to access the necessary link for the event in question.
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Introductory Remarks
Leah Kuragano, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies, William & Mary
2:00 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
Session #1
2:15 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Panel A: Gender and Sexuality on Social Media
Moderated by Joseph F. Lawless
Caroline Donnelly, "ALOK's #DeGenderFashion
Campaign"
Nathaly Perez, "TikTok and the Exploitation of Queer
Love Narratives"
Cloe Frank, "Bimbofication: A Political Iconography"
Panel B: Femininity in/and Competition
Moderated by Leah Kuragano
Linda Li, "'Will You Accept This Rose?': Analyzing The
Bachelor's Regressive Gender Roles
Caroline Teneyck, "Male-Dominated Narratives and
Controlling Images in Survivor"
Natalie Bavos-Chen, "'Pretty Hurts': How Beauty
Standards Have Become the 'Disease of the Nation'"
Session #2
2:45 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Panel C: Sexism and Double Standards
Moderated by Joseph F. Lawless
Ryan McCracken, "Sticking It to 'the Man': Taylor Swift's
Rejection of Sexist Double Standards"
Emma Sliwinski, "Dichotomous Politics: Lady Gaga,
Sexism, and Feminism"
Tess Goldenthal, "Women's and Men's Sports: Sexism in
Athletics"
Delaney Bowen, "Marrying a Monster: The Question of
Woman in The Sopranos"
Panel D: Gendered Embodiment
Moderated by Leah Kuragano
Jess Atkinson, "A Gender Analysis of Adventure Time's
BMO"
Lucy Greenman, "When I Was a Boy: Costs of the Gender
Binary"
Julia Laber, "More Than One Prison: Navigating Gender
Binaries in American Prisons"
Alyssa Conrad, "'If I Was a Man, I'd Be the Man': Reading
Taylor Swift and Gloria Steinem"
Keynote Presentation
"'Riot' and 'Protest': The Effect of National Images and Discourse
on Local Interactions"
Neal Going
B.A. in Philosophy and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, William & Mary
3:15 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
Session #3
3:45 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
Panel E: Media Representations of Black Women
Moderated by Leah Kuragano
Heidi Zmick, "To Boldly Go Where No Black Woman Has
Gone Before: Experiences of Nichelle Nichols with Star Trek"
Lindsea Strelser, "Black Women's Sexuality and
Stereotypes in Cardi B's 'WAP'"
Emily Childress, "Bonnie Bennett's 'Black Girl Magic' in
The Vampire Diaries"
Panel F: Entanglements of Race and Sexuality
Moderated by Joseph F. Lawless
Matt Stottlemyer, "Sexism, Racism, and Homophobia in
Online Gaming"
Caroline Emeric, "Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and the
Question of Black Sexual Politics"
Halle Boynton, "Star Wars, Gold Bikinis, and Black
Sexuality"
Session #4
4:15 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Panel G: Calls for Justice, Liberation, and Emancipation
Moderated by Joseph F. Lawless
Bayley Leyshon, "LGBTQ+ Activism in Rural Areas"
Elena Chun, "Stop Asian Hate!"
Evan Parker, "Frameworks for Discussing Women in
STEM"
Sophia Armitano, "'Dear Fellow Employees: Stop
Assuming Gender!'"
Panel H: Feminist Representations across Time and Space
Moderated by Leah Kuragano
Katherine Welch, "Political Entanglements: Star Trek's
Nichelle Nichols, Feminism, and the Civil Rights Movement"
Ruth Bekele, "The Intersectionality of Period Poverty"
Betsabe Galindo, "I'm Not an Easy Man: Feminisms,
Sexisms, Hegemonies"
Brett Restrick, "Conversations from Art: Depicting the
Nude"
Concluding Remarks
Joseph F. Lawless, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies, William & Mary
4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
GSWS at William & Mary
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