18th Annual Women’s Studies Student Symposium:
“Feminist Research Across the Disciplines”

Friday, March 4, 2011
12:20pm - 4:40pm
Miller Learning Center

Symposium Schedule:

12:20pm - 1:10pm (IWS Friday Speaker Series)

"Excrement, Myth and Mr. Clean: Thoughts on Gender and Wim Delvoye's Cloaca"
Location - Miller Learning Center (MLC) Rm. 245
-Dr. Isabelle Wallace, Art History, UGA

1:25pm - 2:15pm (50-Minute Concurrent Sessions)

Title: “Patriarchy and the Female Stage”
Location – MLC Room 250
Session Chair: Nancy Riley, Graduate- Music and Women's Studies Graduate Certificate, UGA

“Something Beautiful and Critical: Patricarchy and Capitalism in Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun”
-Andy McGee, Undergraduate-Film Studies, UGA

“Keepin' It Real: Authenticity, Race and Class in the Real Housewives of Atlanta”
-Lori Pindar, Graduate-Journalism and Mass Communications, UGA

Title: "Learning Gender: Female Educational Experience"
Location - MLC Rm. 268
-Taylor Houston, Graduate-Sociology and Women's Studies Graduate Certificate, UGA

“Penning a Science Narrative: Correlations between Females and Males regarding Performances on Science Standerdized Tests and Their Impacts on Future Academic Opportunities”
-Jeanne Bohannon, Graduate-Feminist Rhetoric and Composition Theory, Georgia State University
-Chuck Bohannon, Graduate-Science Education, Georgia State University

“Hispanic Mothers as First Teacher: A Feminist Social Work View of Educational Support Systems”
-Sara Vogelsang, Graduate-Social Work, UGA

“Broadcasting Women's Studies”
-Elizabeth Whittenburg-Ozment, Graduate-Musicology/Ethnomusicology and Women's Studies Graduate Certificate, UGA

Title: “From Small Towns to Stonewall: Queering Activism”
Location – MLC 350
Session Chair: Katy Miller, Undergraduate-Women's Studies and Newspapers, UGA

“Queens without a palace: Small town drag queens, community, and space”
-Joshua Barnett, Undergraduate-Communication Studies and Women's Studies, UGA

“From Stonewall to Wall Street: the Gay Rights Movement Sells Out”
-Maggie Kilgo, Undergraduate-History, UGA

“Queering at the Test Site: Affect, Representation, and Futurity”
-Brian Ray, Undergraduate-Women's Studies and Philosophy, Women's Studies Graduate Certificate, UGA

2:20pm - 3:20pm (50-MinuteConcurrent Sessions)

Title: “Constraining Constructions of Womanhood”
Location – MLC Room 250
Session Chair: Jackie Stocker, Graduate-English and Women's Studies Graduate Certificate, UGA

“Anxious Desire: 'Feminazi' as Utterance and Figure”
-Brittany Blake, Graduate-Women's Studies, Georgia State University

“Re-Appropriating Anti-Abortion Discourse in Campaigns of Resistance”
-Elizabeth Barnard, Graduate-Nonprofit Organizations, Women's Studies Graduate Certificate, UGA

"Katie Couric and Construction of 'Cougardom' in a Multimodal Media Text"
-Allisa Abraham Hall, Graduate-Reading Education, UGA

Title: “Body Politics: Reconstructing Race, Gender, Control”
Location – MLC Room 268
Session Chair: Lauren Chambers, Graduate-English and Women's Studies Graduate Certificate, UGA

“Mind Your Own Business: The Right to Sexual Privacy”
-Alexandra McGee, Undergraduate-Women's Studies and History, UGA

“Strive for more--A 1980s girl's thinking about China”
-Jialing Wang, Graduate-Education, UGA

“Lost in Translation: Female Initiation Rituals in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf”
-Ondra Krouse Dismukes, Graduate-English, UGA

3:30pm - 4:40pm (70-Minute Concurrent Sessions)

Title: “Who's Your (M)other?”
Location – MLC Room 250
Session Chair: Dr. Cecilia Herles, Assistant Director of the Institute for Women's Studies, UGA

“Exploring Views of Mothering Through the Books of Barbara O'Connor”
-Kristy Shackleford, Graduate-Early Childhood Education, UGA

“Motherhood and Leisure: A Contradiction in Experience”
-Laurel P. Richmond, Graduate-Recreation and Leisure Studies, UGA
-Christina C. Yother, Graduate-Recreation and Leisure Studies, UGA

“(M)othering an Ethics of Alterity: Intersubjectivity, Abjection, and Love”
-Matthew Stewart, Graduate-Psychology and Women's Studies, Kennesaw State University

Title: “Constructing Transnational Views of Womanhood in a Postcolonial Setting Location”
Location – MLC Room 268
Session Chair: Jackie Stocker, Graduate-English and Women's Studies Graduate Certificate, UGA

“Vodou as a Source of Empowerment and Activism for Haitian Women”
-Savannah Mesco, Undergraduate-Women's Studies, UGA

“An American in Paris, Rio & Morocco: A Transnational Analysis of The Price of Beauty”
-Emilia Bak, Graduate-Mass Communications, UGA

"The Personal Becomes Political-Economic: A Transnational Reading of the Black Hair Care Industry"
-Nicola Corbin, Graduate-Mass Communication, UGA

"The neoliberal edifice: implications in women's migration"
-Amy E. Johnston, Undergraduate-Women's Studies, UGA

Title: “Women's Representation through Literature”
Location – MLC Room 348
Session Chair: Lauren Chambers, Graduate-Engish and Women's Studies Graduate Certificate, UGA

“Dagny Taggart: What Makes A Feminist?”
-Asia Larkin, Undergraduate-Religious Studies, UGA

“Becoming Woman: The Fate of Females in Jean Toomer's Cane”
-Janie Dumbleton, Undergraduate-English and Religion, UGA

“Val Plumwood's Critical Ecofeminism, Toni Morrison's A Mercy, and the Deconstruction of Dualism Story”
-Lynn Whittaker, Graduate-English, UGA

“The Sapphic State of England: The Invention of the Modern Lesbian”
-Leslie Dunsmore, Undergraduate-History and Women's Studies, UGA

Title: “Rewriting Our Stories”
Location – MLC Room 350
Session Chair: Nicole Hurt, Graduate-Communication Studies and Women's Studies Graduate Certificate, UGA

“The Poetics of Know: Eileen Myles's Lyrical Assertions”
-Caroline Ramsey, Graduate-English, UGA

“Catherine of Aragon: A powerful woman lost in translation”
-Louise Goodman, Graduate-Romance Languages, UGA

“Female Finches: How Pre-War Women's Ideology Shaped the Ways in Which Women were able to Adapt to War Time Life”
-Jaimie Richards, Undergraduate-Biology, UGA

“Who Speaks? Expanding the Literary Canon Beyond Dead, White Men--A Reflection on ENGL 4860 Native American Women Writers at The University of Georgia”
-Haley Temple, Undergraduate-English, UGA
-Meg Graham, Undergraduate-English and Women's Studies, UGA

Download a pdf of the symposium abstracts

Women's Studies Student Symposium 2011 Committee:

Lauren Chambers

Nicole Hurt

Jackie Stocker

Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment

Cecilia Herles

Joshua Barnett

Meg Graham

Katy Miller

Savannah Mesco

Asia Larkin