The Women’s Studies Graduate Organization presents our 12th Annual Graduate Conference.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Saturday, February 16, 8am-6pm, Bank of America Career Services Building, 1st Floor
8:00-8:40 BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION, Lobby Café
8:40-8:45 WELCOMING REMARKS, Lobby Café
Deniz Durmuş, President of WSGO
8:45-9:45 SESSION 1 – Concurrent Panels
Speaking Up in Novels, Plays, and Comics (103A)
Speaking Up: Presentation and Representation (103B)
10:00-10:45 SESSION 2 – Concurrent Panels
Speaking Up in Higher Education (103A)
Technology: Speaking Up 2.0 (103B)
11:00-11:45 SESSION 3 – Concurrent Panels
Speaking Up Across Nations and Borders (103A)
Speaking Up About Identity, Privilege, and Power (103B)
11:45-12:30 Lunch, Lobby Café
12:30-1:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: A Rebellious Reading of History
Latoya Peterson, nationally-renowned blogger and feminist activist
1:30-2:30 SESSION 4 – Concurrent Panels
Belonging and Speaking Up (103A)
Speaking Up About Bodies at Risk (103B)
2:45-3:30 PERFORMANCE: The Window Sex Project: Responding to sexual harassment through dance (Sydnie L. Mosely Dances)
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break, Lobby Café
4:00-6:00 SPOKEN WORD WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCE
with Philadelphia-based Sketch Lightly (Ryan Vinson)
6:30 Cocktail Hour at The Deli/Z-Bar, 113 Heister St.
Group will leave together from conference or meet us there
PROGRAM DETAILS
8:45-9:45 SESSION 1 – Concurrent Panels
SPEAKING UP IN NOVELS, PLAYS, AND COMICS (Room 103A)
Moderator: Vanessa Massaro
· Nadine Swartz, Penn State University, “Moving Beyond Monologues: Early Stages of Coalition Formation in La Nef des sorcières”
· Marissa R. Schwalm, Binghamton University, “Superheroine/Villain & Icon: Graphic Autobiographies and Women’s Identities”
· Melissa Cole, SUNY Stony Brook, “A Male Voice in the Feminist Struggle to be Heard: Analyzing the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne”
· Molly Kat Goldblatt, Binghamton University, “Lucy: A Novel in Prose Poems”
SPEAKING UP: PRESENTATION AND REPRESENTATION (Room 103B)
Moderator: Krista Quesenberry
· Shan-Jan Sarah Liu, Penn State University, “Examining Asian Women’s Protest Participation: Do Government Positions Held by Women Matter?”
· Amy Bloom, Penn State University, “Measured Women: Skirt Length and National Pride”
· Grace Thompson, Penn State University, “Disguise: Submission or Revolt?”
· Deniz Durmuş, Penn State University, “Speaking Up in the History of Science and Academia: A Woman Scientist’s (Christine Ladd Franklin) Contributions to Rewriting the History of Science from a Feminist Perspective”
10:00-10:45 SESSION 2 – Concurrent Panels
SPEAKING UP IN HIGHER EDUCATION (Room 103A)
Moderator: Elif Balin
· Jackie Atkins, Penn State University, “Paying the Rent: Pedagogical Practices for Activism”
· Catherine Jampel, Penn State University, “Universal Design for Instruction (UDI) as Feminist Pedagogy: Considering Ability/Disability”
· Caitlin Domagal, Vinika Porwal and Susan R. Rankin, Penn State University, “Exploring the Intersections: How Multiple Identities Affect LGB Student Outcomes?”
TECHNOLOGY: SPEAKING UP 2.0 (Room 103B)
Moderator: Lauren J. DeCarvalho
· Liliana Acevedo Callejas, Michelle Acevedo Callejas, and Kazi Priyanka Silmi, Ohio University, “Hollaback: how speaking up against street harassment works”
· Dana Cuomo, Penn State University, “Stalking and Emotional Security: Shifting the Balance of Power through Surveillance”
· Katty Alhayek, Ohio University, “Using Information and Communication Technologies to Promote Syrian Refugee Women's Rights: a Case Study on Servile Marriage”
11:00-11:45 SESSION 3 – Concurrent Panels
SPEAKING UP ACROSS NATIONS AND BORDERS (Room 103A)
Moderator: Rita Daniels
· Kathryn R. Falvo, Penn State University, “‘World-Traveling’ and the Possibility of Global Integration”
· Chris Hayashida-Knight, Penn State University, “Toward a Feminist Nation”
· Aisling McIntyre, Penn State University, “Sin Vergüenza: Prostitution and Moral Policing at the U.S.-Mexico Border"
SPEAKING UP ABOUT IDENTITY, PRIVILEGE, AND POWER (Room 103B)
Moderator: Desiree Valentine
· Karla Loya, Penn State University, “Issues of Identity Explained through Diverse Theoretical Lenses: Constructing Personhood (or Who Counts)”
· Janeetra Johnson, Penn State University, “‘On the Flip Side’: White Privilege in 2011 America”
· Leslie Christina Sotomayor, Penn State University, “Bridging Feminist Theories with Studio Arts”
11:45-12:30 LUNCH
Featuring Exhibition from Phoenix Savage, Visiting Artist at Penn State
Penn State Career Services Q&A Table (also available during coffee break), Elif Balin, Career Counselor at Penn State
12:30-1:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Room 103A)
“A Rebellious Reading of History” by Latoya Peterso
1:30-2:30 SESSION 4 – Concurrent Panels
BELONGING AND SPEAKING UP (Room 103A)
Moderator: Donna King
· Anna Rachel Terman, Penn State University, “Theoretical and Applied Expansions of Belonging”
· Aparna Parikh, Penn State University, “At Home in the Gated Community”
· Sara Erdmann, Binghamton University, “Chinese like You: A White Adoptive Mother’s Desire to Ethnically Identify with Her Chinese Daughter”
· Vanessa Massaro, Penn State University, “It’s mostly just sitting around and waiting for the first of the month: The everyday spaces and practices of the drug economy in Philadelphia”
SPEAKING UP ABOUT BODIES AT RISK (Room 103B)
Moderator: Kathryn R. Falvo
· Heather Shumaker & Lindsey Gingrich, Planned Parenthood, “Speaking up Against Attacks on Women’s Reproductive Rights”
· Arielle Hesse, Penn State University, “Risk Knowledge: Gender Power and Testimony in the Marcellus Shale”
· Erin Kimberly Shaw, New York University, “In Sanger’s Shadow: Margaret Sanger, the Illinois Birth Control League, and the Ideological Battle over Birth Control in the 1920s and 1930s”
2:45-3:30 PERFORMANCE (Room 103C)
The Window Sex Project with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances
3:30-4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00-6:00 SPOKEN WORD WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCE Room 103C Sketch Lightly with Ryan Vinson
6:30 COCKTAIL HOUR
The Deli/Z-Bar, 113 Heister St.
Group will leave together from conference or meet us there
With support from the Penn State: Art Education Program; Center for Women Students; College of Communications; Commission for Women; Communication Arts and Sciences; Comparative Literature; Curriculum and Instruction; Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures; Geography; History; Institute for Arts and Humanities; Jewish Studies; Labor Studies and Employment Relations; Political Science; Rock Ethics Institute; Sociology and Crime, Law and Justice; Women’s Studies, Career Services, and the University Park Allocation Committee.