THE ART OF GENDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE V SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
March 5 – 7, 2008
Anderson Gender Resource Center
Idaho State University
*ALL SESSIONS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Registration is available on site.*
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008:
- 7:00pm: Women Behind the Camera Screening, followed by a discussion with writer/director/producer Alexis Krasilovsky
Bengal Theater, Pond Student Union Building
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008:
- 8:30am – 9:00am: Registration
Third Floor, Pond Student Union Building
- 9:00am – 11:00am: “Feminine Voices” Workshop with Dr. Tania Modleski
Please bring your favorite film clip examples of Feminine Voices for this interactive workshop.
Salmon River Suite, Pond Student Union Building
- 12:30pm – 3:00pm: Concurrent Conference Sessions:
- Gender Issues in Modern Society
Bear River Room, Pond Student Union Building
- (12:30) Laura Fry: Why Women’s Bodies? Constructing the HPV Vaccine as a Feminine Problem
- (12:50) Samantha Hansen: Just Friends? A Study of Flirtatious and Friendly Presentations Divided Along the Lines of Gender.
- (1:10) Maeve M. O’Donovan: Feminist Philosophy and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Living and Learning Differently
- (1:30) Verena M. Roberts: Gender Differences in Startle Eye Blink Modulation
- (1:50) Jesse Call: The Sexuality of Women with (Physical) Disabilities
- (2:10) Discussant Comments
- (2:30) Discussion, with questions from the audience
- Gender in Art and Music
Clearwater Room, Pond Student Union Building
- (12:30) Katie Harris: Gendered Identities in Classical Music Ensembles
- (12:50) Linda Leeuwrik: Gabriele Münter: Woman Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- (1:10) Ruth Porritt: The Suspended Shift Between Representation and Abstraction: Lauren Fensterstock’s “A Third Nature” Exhibition & Jessica Fisher’s Frail-Craft Poems
- (1:30) Persephone Thorn-Hauswirth: Re-Facing Identity: The Surgery-Performances of Orlan
- (1:50) Jackie Wang: Resisting Phallogocentricism: Bourgeois’s Re-Ordering of the Symbolic
- (2:10) Discussant Comments
- (2:30) Discussion, with questions from the audience
- 3:00pm – 5:00pm: Concurrent Conference Sessions:
- WeLEAD (Women empowered to Learn, Educate, Advance and Develop) at Idaho State University
Bear River Room
Presenters: Deb Easterly and Maureen Brandon
- WOCA (Women of Color Alliance) Workshop: Creating the World of Possibilities: Utilizing your skills and talents in the world of Social and Gender Justice
Clearwater Room
Presenter: Sonya Rosario
- 7:00pm: Dr. Tonia Modleski’s Keynote:
“No More Tears: On the Persistence of Melodrama in Representing Women's Lives”
Salmon River Suite
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008:
- 8:30am – 10:30am: Concurrent Conference Sessions:
- The Gendered Lives of Native American Women
Bear River Room
- (8:30) Olena Gorelova: The Reflection of Traditional Gender Roles in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Garden in the Dunes
- (8:50) Lark Real Bird Paz: The Changing Dynamics of Gender Roles Among the Crow
- (9:10) Kristin T. Ruppel: Indian Land Unearthed: The Intersection of Gender and Ecology in Native America
- (9:30) Rebecca Wingo: The Impact of Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe on Native American Women
- (9:50) Discussant Comments
- (10:10) Discussion, with questions from the audience
- Gender in 18th and 19th Century England
Clearwater Room
- (8:30) Amy Harris: Making a Man Out of Paul: Shaping Gender in Early Nineteenth-century England
- (8:50) Adam Brady: Learning Gender: Children at Play in Early Modern and Victorian England
- (9:10) Suzanne Earnshaw: Teaching Gender: The Role of Grandparents in Teaching Gendered Ideals to Grandchildren in Nineteenth-century England
- (9:30): Ardis Smith: Gender and Non-Parental Childcare in Eighteenth-century England
- (9:50) Discussant Comments
- (10:10) Discussion, with questions from the audience
- 10:30am – 12:10pm: Concurrent Conference Sessions:
- Gender in Fact and Fiction
Bear River Room
- (10:30) Dawn Christiansen: Man Ke Manjeere: The Use of Self-presentational Success-telling Strategies in a Feminist Fairytale to Promote Social Change
- (10:50) John Couper: Gender and Divisive Discourse: Performing Rejection
- (11:10) Michele Smith: “I’m Doin’ It For Defense”: Popular Culture, Masculinity, Women’s Patriotism and Sexual Violence Stateside During WWII
- (11:30) Discussant Comments
- (11:50) Discussion, with questions from the audience
- Gender in Dance and Performance
Clearwater Room
- (10:30) Cara Spooner: Can Feminist Dance Exist?
- (10:50) Maureen K. McGuire: The Vagina Monologues: An Exploration in the Construction and Regulation of Gender in Performance
- (11:10) Lauren Larken: Taking Gender Out of the Box, Femme as Gender Queer – A Revelation of the Performances
- (11:30) Discussant Comments
- (11:50) Discussion, with questions from the audience
- 2:00pm: Dance Performance: Missy Pfohl Smith
“Bull”
Ballroom, Pond Student Union
- 2:30: Drum Circle
An interactive musical experience – please bring a drum if you have one!
Ballroom
- 7:00pm: LUNAFEST Screening
Bengal Theater