Crossing Boundaries, Transcending Borders
The 11th Annual Louisiana State University Women's and Gender Studies Conference
March 6 - 7, 2008
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Schedule Overview
Thursday March 6th
Keynote Talk by AnaLouise Keating
6pm in the Design Building Auditorium
Reception Following at the French House
Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Connectionist Perspectives on Academic Identities, Boundaries, and Lives
As the terms “women’s studies” and “gender studies” imply, these interdisciplinary fields–as well as others like “ethnic studies,” “gay studies,” “lesbian studies,” “LGBTQ Studies,” and “disability studies”--emerged from and are built around identity categories, interests, and histories. What are the strengths and limitations in this formulation, especially given the academy’s “divide-and-conquer” approach, an approach that effectively pits potential allies against each other? How might students and educators motivated by social justice issues effect radical change? Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa’s connectionist philosophy, as well as her own experiences, AnaLouise Keating explores these and related questions. She calls for transformational alternatives designed to challenge disciplinary norms.
Friday March 7th
Registration, Program Pick-up, and Welcome from the Chair 8-9am 225 Peabody Hall
Conference Panels in Peabody Hall 9-4:30
Networking Luncheon in 225 Peabody Hall 12-1pm
Under the Radar: A Speakers Series Celebrating Queer Issues and Diversity
presents
Ana-Maurine Lara, Erzulie’s Skirt, and Lenelle Moïse, Madivinez
with Professor Solimar Otera, English/WGS
5pm in the Design Building Auditorium
Full Conference
Panel Schedule
SESSION A: 9:00-10:15
A1: Gender and/in Sociology
Room: 219 Peabody Hall Chair: Elizabeth Domangue
Alexander Lu, PhD Student, Sociology at LSU
“Social Disadvantage and Age at First Birth for Men”
Skylar Gremillion, PhD Student, Sociology at LSU
“Gendered Religion: Evangelical Christianity and the Wage Gap”
Julia D’Antonio, PhD Student, Sociology at LSU
“Violent Southern Women: Understanding the Effects of a Southern Subculture of Violence on Gender”
A2: Transported Beyond Borders: Vignettes from a Study Abroad Tour to India: A Performance Panel
Room: 310 Peabody Hall Chair: Sharbari Dey
Sharbari Dey, Graduate Student, Social Work at LSU
Rakinzie Fisher, Graduate Student, Social Work at LSU
Laina Suire, Graduate Student, Social Work at LSU
Briane Manuel, Graduate Student, Social Work at LSU
Francie Rose Hartline, Graduate Student, Sociology at LSU
Rob J Harrison, Graduate Student, Social Work at LSU
SESSION B: 10:20-11:35
B1: Identity, Culture and Curriculum in a Global Context
Room: 218 Peabody Hall Chair: Dr. Nina Asher
E. Sybil Durand, PhD Student, Curriculum Theory at LSU
“Transcending the Black and White Frame”
Heather Durham, PhD Student, Curriculum Theory at LSU
“Teaching Outside the Canon”
Bruce Parker, PhD Student, Curriculum Theory at LSU
“Partners of Transgender People, Interstitial Identities and Complicating the Gender/Sexuality Conversation”
Wei Guan, PhD Student, Curriculum Theory at LSU
“The Art of Communication: Negotiating the Selves-Others”
B2: Digital Video as Methodological Border Crossing: A Film Panel
Room: 219 Peabody Hall Chair: Meredith Anderson
Meredith Anderson, PhD Candidate, Sociology at LSU
B. Paige Miller, PhD Candidate, Sociology at LSU
Jessica Ketcham Weber, PhD Candidate, English at LSU
B3: Gender and Psychology
Room: 310 Peabody Hall Chair: Dr. Kevin Grobman
Christy Seidel, PhD Student, Psychology at LSU
“Identifying Gender in Internet Chat Sessions”
Courtney Snyder & Amanda E. Van Lamsweerde, PhD Students, Psychology at LSU
“The Origins of Gender Differences in Babies”
Brett Bloemer, Katie Fenerty, Alexander Max Harrington, Danielle Billings, Laura Miller, Susette Tassin,
Undergraduate Students, Psychology at LSU
“Test Performance Under Stereotype Threat”
SESSION C: 12:45-2:00
C1: Activism at LSU: A Feminist Survival Guide: A Multimedia Panel
Room: 219 Peabody Hall Chair: Racheal Hebert
Racheal Hebert, LSU WGS Alumnae
Mariah Stidham, LSU Senior in Sociology and WGS
Morgan Moreau McCann, LSU Senior in WGS
Nicole Zaleski, LSU Senior in WGS and Psychology
C2: Blended Genres: Auto-performance, Fiction, and Personal Narrative: A Performative Panel
Room: 218 Peabody Hall Chair: Dr. Laura Hope
Khaled Nasser, PhD Student, Communication Studies at LSU
Yasmine Dabbous, PhD Student, Mass Communication at LSU
“Take Me Home: A Lebanese Veiled Woman’s Travel Experience”
Shelby Goddard, MFA Student, English at LSU
“Domestic Animals”
Emily Tarver, PhD Candidate, Education at LSU
“Growing Up in a Rural Southern Town”
C3: Exploring Unstable Gender Categories in Film and Literature
Room: 310 Peabody Hall Chair: Laura Marks
Carol McCarthy, MFA Student, English at UNO
“The Poetics of Degendering in Marianne Moore”
June Pulliam, PhD Candidate, English at LSU
“Sexually Ambiguous or Liminal? Some Thoughts on Carol Clover’s Final Girl in the Teen Slasher Film”
Tyler Smith, MFA Student, English at LSU
“All in All: Gender Role Instability in Paradise Lost”
Shelisa Theus, PhD Candidate, English at LSU
“Reading Alice Walker's By the Light of My Father's Smile as a Revisionist Narrative”
SESSION D: 2:05-3:20
D1: Both Sides Now: Gynecological Stories from a Womanly Perspective: A Performance Panel
Room: 218 Peabody Hall Chair: Brianne Waychoff
Brianne Waychoff, PhD Student, Communication Studies at LSU
Melissa Cameron, Master’s Student, Communication Studies at LSU
D2: Gender in Educational Contexts
Room: 219 Peabody Hall Chair: Kristi Richard
june newman graham, PhD Candidate, English Education & Curriculum Theory at LSU
“Reading Women: The History of Women’s Book Clubs in the U.S.”
Jie Yu, PhD Student, Educational Theory, Policy, and Practice at LSU
“Chinese Mother Club on the Playground”
Tammie Jenkins, PhD Student, Curriculum and Instruction at LSU
“Advertising ‘Love for Sale’: The Reselling of Western Stereotypes of African American Women”
D3: Gender, Sexuality, and Literary Theory & Criticism
Room: 310 Peabody Hall Chair: Tanja Stampfl
Laura Faulk, PhD Student, English at LSU
“Dickens’ Death of the Mother”
Alison Graham Bertolini, PhD Candidate, English at LSU
“Killing the False Female: Restorative Vengeance in Shirley Ann Grau’s The Keepers of the House
Erin Elizabeth Smith, Graduate Student, English at University of Southern Mississippi
“Different Like Me: Confession and Sexuality in Stone Butch Blues and Bastard Out of Carolina”
Carrie O’Connor, PhD Student, French Studies at LSU
“The Novel as a Tool of Authority”
SESSION E: 3:25-4:40
E1: Gender and Visual Representation
Room: 218 Peabody Hall Chair: Brianne Waychoff
Martha Pitts Perry, Master’s Student, English at George Mason University
“Marketing Aunt Jemima and the Construction of Whiteness: From Drag Queen to Corporate Goddess”
Julie Berthoud, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature and WGS at LSU
“Lesbian Issues in MS. and EMMA: A Comparative Analysis”
Andrée E. C. Betancourt, PhD Student, Communication Studies at LSU
“The Art of Six Feet Under’s Claire Fisher: From Family Photography to Fictional Relics”
E2: Marriage and (Un)learned Gender Roles
Room: 219 Peabody Hall Chair: Wendy Braun
Ritu Tyagi, PhD Student, French at LSU
“Transcending Narrative Boundaries: Subversion of the Romance Plot in Ananda Devi’s Works”
Melanie Hackney, PhD Student, French at LSU
“The Double Voice of Mistress Henley: Silencing the Woman”
Shelby Goddard, MFA Student, English at LSU
“Coming of Age in the Age of Empire: Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out
E3: Women in/and Situated Spaces
Room: 310 Peabody Hall Chair: Cara Jones
Lauren Nussbaum, Master’s Candidate, Latin American Studies at Tulane University
“Avoidance or Agency? Natural Medicine, Empowerment, and Cervical Cancer
Elizabeth Buckley, Undergraduate Student, WGS at LSU
“A White Female Porter? Ha!”
Caitlin Heckathorn, Graduate Student, Urban Planning at UNO & Project Director, Project Locus
“NOLA Locus: Representing the Under-represented in New Orleans Grassroots Non-Profits”
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