The Art of Gender in Everyday Life VII
February 26, 2010
Anderson Gender Resource Center
Idaho State University
ALL SESSIONS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
7:00 am – 8:00 am: Registration
College of Education Foyer Building #8
8:00 am – 12:00 pm: Conference Sessions:
Gender and History
College of Education Auditorium
- (8:00 am) Morgan Gwenwald: "Women Watching Women Being Men: Lydia Thompson and the British Blonds, or Burlesque in the Gilded Age."
- (8:20 am) James Newman: "Women in State Legislatures: Explaining Differences among States."
- (8:40 am) Discussant Comments –Erika Kuhlman
- (8:50 am) Discussion with questions from the audience.
Gender in Literature(Running congruently with the Gender and History Session)
College of Education Rm. 220
- (8:00 am) Joseph Henderson: "The Woman in the Veil: A Horror Story: Salman Rushdie's Shame and Spontaneous Combustion of Gender."
- (8:20 am) Heather Griffiths: "I am a Military Spouse: Poetry."
- (8:40 am) Martha Satz: "Performing Gender in Junior High and High School: Portrayal of Transgendered Youth in Young Adult Fiction."
- (9:00 am) Discussant Comments –Thomas Klein
- (9:10 am) Discussion with questions from audience.
Gendered Media
College of Education Auditorium
- (9:20 am) Lindsay Burton: "Battle for Bella: The Interplay of Race, Gender, and Class in the Twilight Series."
- (9:40 am) Sandi Billings: "Yin on the Radio."
- (10:00 am) Ian Stephens: "Marvelous Personas and Raving Beauties: Investigating the Queered Spaces of Harmony Korine's Gummo."
- (10:20 am) Discussant Comments –Claudia McCoy
- (10:30 am) Discussion with questions from the audience.
Gender in the Arts (Running congruently with the Gendered Media Session)
College of Education Rm. 220
- (9:20 am) Whitney Ferwerda: "The Little Ballerina."
- (9:40 am) Colleen Denney: "Les femmes ennuyées: Bored Women in Nineteenth-Century European Art."
- (10:00 am) Linda Leeuwrik: "Defining Masculinity: Otto Dix's Self Portrait."
- (10:20 am) Discussant Comments –Doug Warnock
- (10:30 am) Discussion with questions from the audience.
Divine Experiences in Gender
College of Education Auditorium
- (10:40 am) Lindsay Johnson: "Mystics, Abbesses, Composers, and Confraternity Sisters: Spheres of Female Influence and Power in the early Modern Catholic Church."
- (11:00 am) Sandra Slater: "Constructing Masculinity on the Atlantic Ocean: The Voyages of Missionaries and Explorers in the New World."
- (11:20 am) Radia Amari: "From Muslimette to Muzlimah."
- (11:40 am) Discussant Comments –Janie Gebhardt
- (11:50 am) Discussion with questions from the audience.
1:20pm-6:00pm: Conference Sessions:
College of Education Auditorium
Learning Gender
- (1:20 pm) Gili Hammer: "Blind Women See Gender: Blind Women and Gender Identity: Practices, Strategies, and Improvisation."
- (1:40 pm) Sparrow Jones: "Gender and Sexual Self-Identification among High-Functioning Autistic Adults."
- (2:00 pm) Greg Knotts: "Elementary Pre-Service Teachers and Homophobia: Curricular Changes Making a Difference."
- (2:20 pm) Discussant Comments –Nicole Hill
- (2:30 pm) Discussion with questions from the audience.
Body Image in Gender
- (2:40 pm) Paula Cameron: "Larger than Life: The Gendered Art of Disruptive Bodies."
- (3:00 pm) Sarah Lawrence: "Ask Me about My Tubal Ligation."
- (3:20 pm) Discussant Comments-Hillary Locke
- (3:30 pm) Discussion with questions from audience.
Witnessing the Gender of Art in Everyday Life
- (4:00 pm-5:00 pm) Dorothy Lander; John Graham-Pole; Paula Cameron; Sarah Lawrence: "Witnessing the Gender of Art in Everyday Life: A Trans-Canada Whistlestop Journey."
- (5:00 pm) Discussant Comments-Amy Jo Popa
- (5:10 pm) Discussion with questions from audience.
Performance
- (5:20 pm-6:00 pm) Molly Jorgensen: Sexuality of Sensuality?: Contact Improvisation as a Medium for Challenging Gendered Notions of Touch."
KEYNOTE: 8:00pm Lisa Diamond Lecture:
"Sexual Fluidity: New Perspectives on Female Sexuality"
College of Education Auditorium