2014 Conference
THE FUTURE OF WOMEN’S STUDIES AND WOMEN’S STUDIES OF THE FUTURE
2014 WSGO Conference
PROGRAM DETAILS
Friday, April 4, 2014, 4.30pm-6.00pm, Willard Building [162 Willard]
A WSGO Pre-Conference Seminar: "New Directions in Women's Studies"
Speakers:
Carolyn Sachs, Department Head of Women’s Studies and Professor of Rural
Sociology and Women’s Studies, Penn State
Neferti X.M. Tadiar, Department Chair and Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
Moderator: Christopher Hayashida-Knight, Dual Ph.D. Candidate in History and Women’s Studies, Penn State
6.00-7.00 Dinner Reception [118 Willard]
Saturday, April 5, 2014, 8.30am-5.10pm, Bank of America Career Service Building
8.30-9.00 Breakfast & registration
9.00-9.15 Welcome remarks: Shan-Jan Sarah Liu
9.15-10.15 SESSION 1: concurrent panels
TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST RESEARCH: Revisiting the Journeys of Transnational Feminist Research | Moderator: Arielle Hesse [103A]
Elif Balin, Hilario Lomeli, Aparna Parikh, Azita Ranjbar, and Leslie Sotomayor, Penn State
THEORY, METHODOLOGY & PEDAGOGY | Moderator: Bethany Ober [103B]
Reconceptualizing Gender Equality in Political Science: An Intersectional Approach with Nancy Fraser’s 3 Rs | Shan-Jan Sarah Liu, Penn State
Breaking Butler Out of Her 1990s Time Capsule | Krista Quesenberry, Penn State
Feminist Pedagogy in the Foreign Language Literature Classroom | Nadine Swartz, Penn State
10.15-10.30 Break
10.30-11.30 KEYNOTE SPEECH
Dr. Leela Fernandes
Challenges for Feminist Knowledge about the World: State Practices, Neo-Orientalism and Women's Studies
11.30-12.00 QnA
12.00-1.00 Lunch
1.00-2.00 SESSION 2: concurrent panels
SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND REPRESENTATION | Moderator: Desiree Valentine [103A]
The Year of Cultural Appropriation | Cassandra Collier and Yasmeen Chism, University of Louisville
Intimate Partner Violence: Constructing the Uncooperative Victim | Dana Cuomo, Penn State
Blurred Lines. Exploring Sexual Agency and the Proliferation of Rape Culture in the Music of Robin Thicke | Rachel Lemashov, Penn State
EXPERIENCES IN WOMEN’S STUDIES: Student Experiences in Women’s Studies. Paradoxes and Tensions of the Discipline | Moderator: Elif Balin [103B]
Andrei Israel, Rachel Terman, Leslie Sotomayor, Penn State
2.00-2.15 Break
2.15-3.15 SESSION 3: concurrent panels
BODY POLITICS AND ACTIVISM | Moderator: Deniz Dermus [103A]
Getting Away with It. Hymenoplasty and the Virgin Assemblage | Sarah Abu Bakr, Penn State
Sor Juana the Hieronymite: Reexamining La Respuesta for Themes of Resistance | Emilie Egger, Sarah Lawrence College
“Generally Disabled Voices”. Considering Women as Biopolitical Actors in the Early Birth Control Movement | Emily Seitz, Penn State
FEMINISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT | Moderator: Rita Daniels [103B]
Gendered Landscapes of Work. Risk in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Industry | Arielle Hess , Penn State
Maíz, Desmadre. Intimate Chaos, Interspecies, and Mexico's Agricultural Modernity | Emma Gaalaas Mullaney, Penn State
Ecofeminists’ Creative Green-Genius: Feminist Art as a Solution to Man-Made Problems | Sarah Elizabeth Slates, University of Louisville
3.15-3.30 Coffee Break
3.30-4.30 SESSION 4: concurrent panels
SPORTS AND HIGHER EDUCATION | Moderator: Emilie Egger [103A]
The Myth of the Equal Playing Field. Potential Empowerment for Women in Team Sports | Helen Rose Geleskie
The Impact of Homosocial Relationships and Peer Groups on the Body Image of First Year Women of Color Studying at a Predominately White Undergraduate Institution | Lauren Kross
Women, Contested Space, and American Football in the 1970s | Andrew Linden
CONSTRUCTING SEXUALITY | Moderator: Krista Quesenberry [103B]
Rereading Ann Bannon’s Odd Girl Out to Further the Understanding of Homosexuality | Rita Daniels
Sex as Protest. "Free Love" and Anarcha-feminism in the Gilded-Age United States | Lauren Golder
Cosmopolitan. Constructing Sexuality and Heteronormativity for Women | Daphne Laurel Heflin
4.30-4.40 Break
4.40-5.10 FILM SCREENING / ART EXHIBITION
Film titled Unreported by Stephanie Wein
Art: Traumatic Trees by Brittany Hamilton & Stephan Cohen
The Space Within Silence by Annete Hestress
5.10-5.30 Break
5.30-6.30 JUDY CHICAGO SYMPOSIUM*
Institutional Time. A Critique of Studio Art Education, Berg Auditorium at 100 Life Sciences Building
6.30-7.30 Judy Chicago book signing (HUB) and Judy Chicago Education Award Ceremony (Guild Room)
6.30-8.30 Judy Chicago Reception Art Alley exhibition/activities, HUB**
*This event is not organized by WSGO.
**WSGO is one of the sponsors for the Judy Chicago Reception.
With support from the Penn State: Women’s Studies Department, UPAC, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities We the People Challenge Grant, Rock Ethics Institute, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Jewish Studies Program, Institute for Arts and Humanities, Department of History, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Center for Women Students
WSGO Officers: President: Shan-Jan Sarah Liu | Vice President: Dylan Howser | Treasurer: Emily Seitz | Web Coordinator: Aparna Parikh