Feminist Communities in Theory and Practice
Hosted by the Penn State Women’s Studies Graduate Organization
#WSGO2015
Friday, February 13, 4-6 PM 216 Willard
A Pre-conference Panel Discussion:
"Feminist Leaders on Feminist Communities in State College"
Speakers:
Anne K. Ard, Executive Director, Centre County Women's Resource Center
Debra Greenleaf, International Outreach Project, Centre County STOP Violence Against Women Grant
Peggy Lorah, Director, Center for Women Students, Penn State University; Assistant Professor of Counselor Education, College Student Affairs, and Women's Studies
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights; Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Clinical Professor of Law, Penn State Law
Reception to follow in 118 Willard.
Saturday, February 14, 8:30 AM - 6 PM
HUB-Robeson Center Rooms 129 A, B, and C
Feminist Communities in Theory and Practice
8:30-9:00 AM Breakfast and Registration [129 B]
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome Remarks [129 B]
9:15-10:30 Session 1: Concurrent Panels
Panel 1: Historical Communities [129 A]
Moderator: Emily Seitz
Participants:
Lauren Golder, An Uncivil Union: Anarchist Free Marriage and the 1887 Kansas State Supreme Court
Sara Kern, "Good Life, Good Death": Elderly Women's Communities in the Hemlock Society
Carly Fox, Constructing Radical Genealogies: Okie Women and Dust Bowl Memories
Panel 2: Women and Art [129 C]
Moderator: Bethany Mannon
Participants:
Leslie Sotomayor, Feminist Curating and Research: A Collaborative Creative Process Layering Identity, Migration, and Art
Philomena Lopez, Community Empowerment through the Creation of Murals in the Public Space
Sarah Abu Bakr, A Stranger in the Gallery
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Session 2: Concurrent Panels
Panel 1: Undergraduate Research [129 A]
Moderator: Jill Wood
Participants:
Keighlyn Alber, No Freedom ‘Till We’re Equal? Interrogating Marriage and Mainstream Social Justice Movements’ Desires for Equality
Kathleen Bender, Seeing Red: The Relationship Between Slaughterhouse Work and Gendered Violence in the U.S.
Molly Dilts, ‘Fake Geek Girl’: Masculinity and Female- Occupied Space in Geek Culture
Melissa McCleery, Sexual Assault Education: The Lacking Information in United States Sex Education Curricula
Panel 2: Masculinity [129 C]
Moderator: Sara Kern
Participants:
Elizabeth Hopta, The Intertwining of Homophobia and Rape Culture
Marc Carpenter, "The Man-Part of the Indian Race": Carlos Montezuma and Progressive-Era Native American Notions of Masculinity
Kathryn Falvo, Men without Meat: Manliness and Vegetarianism in the Nineteenth Century
12:00-1:15 Lunch [129 B]
1:15-2:30 Session 3: Concurrent Panels
Panel 1: 20th Century Women Writers [129 A]
Moderator: Kathryn Falvo
Krista Quesenberry, Rethinking the Self-Reflexive Archive with Margaret Anderson
Narjes Azimi, Womanism as Complementary Concept of Black Feminism, Black Cosmopolitanism, and Black Cosmo-Feminism in Alice Walker Novels [Read by Rhiannon Kallis]
Bethany Mannon, Representing Public and Private Selves in Academic Memoirs
Panel 2: Care and Community [129 C]
Moderator: Kailie Smith
Participants:
Michelle Huang, Towards a Bioethics of Care in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation (2003)
Sara DiCaglio, Tweaking, Testing, Diagnosing: The Rhetoric of the Pregnancy Test Gallery
Giuliana Sorce, LGBT Coalition-Building: A Case Study in Queer Community-Making
2:45-4:00 Session 4
Panel 1: Feminism in University Communities [129 A]
Moderator: Lauren Golder
Participants:
Nadine Swartz, Nadine is Quite Rude: Gender Bias in Student Evaluations
Erin Kreher, ROTC at Penn State
Katie Tavenner, From Colonial Student to Global Citizen: The Role of Feminist Pedagogy in Study Abroad Programs
4:00-4:15 Break
4:15-5:15 Keynote Address, Dr. Lisa Nakamura [129 C]
5:15-6 Keynote Q&A
The Women's Studies Graduate Organization would like to acknowledge the generous support of the University Park Allocation Committee, the Richard's Civil War Era Center, the Center for Women Students, the Institute for Arts and Humanities, and the departments of Communications, Arts, and Sciences; Comparative Literature; Curriculum and Instruction; English; French; Geography; History; Labor Studies; and Sociology.