18th Annual
Women & Society Conference
Thursday, October 22 at 7 p.m.
Pre-conference Event
Movie Screening of “MILEVA MARIC: The Other Einstein”
Screening and Skype Discussion with Alana Cash, Vibegirl
Productions
This documentary tells the tragic story of the first wife of Albert Einstein – her
struggle to become educated, her unhappy marriage to Albert Einstein, and the
haunting sacrifice that she made to keep him. Further, it tells the little known
story of Maric’s scientific collaboration with Einstein that produced the greatest
theories of the 20th Century, a fact that has been relegated to obscurity.
Friday October 23
Noon- 4:30 Conference Registration & Hospitality—
Henry Hudson room. 3rd Floor, Fontaine Hall
Concurrent Panels: Session 1
1.A
1:00- 2:30
Women and Politics
Leading the Way Rhetorically: Women Governors’ Leadership
Styles & Messages
Julia A. Spiker, The University of Akron
Images of Women on Bulgarian National Currency Depicting
Gender Differences in Historical Perspectives
Petrouchka Alexieva, CSULA
1.B.
Women and Activism
Transforming the Academy: Spiritual Activism, Multicultural
Pedagogies and Women’s Studies Programs on the Verge
Donna Souder, Colorado State University
The Texts of Gloria Anzaldua
Gillian Collie, Colorado State University--Pueblo
Transforming the Liberal Arts Core: The Application of Theory in
Everyday Life
Joanne Ardovini, Metropolitan College of New York
1.C.
Workshop
Recording Herstory: How to do a quality oral “his/her”tory interview
Karen Michel, Marist College
1 D.
Women and Wartime Issues
Five Faces of Prisoner Oppression
Jason L. Mallory, Raritan Valley Community College
Torture, Gender, and Armed Conflicts: Women as Specific Intent
Victims
Itai Sheh, John Jay College
Love and War: How Militarism Shapes Heterosexuality
Tom Digby, Springfield College
Concurrent Panels: Session 2 (3:00-4:30)
2.A.
Societal Views of Female Idealization
Overexposed: Female Celebrity and the Search for the Perfect
Shot
Brandeise Monk-Payton, New York University
Our Depilatory Obsession
Sophie Ordway, Marist
2.B.
Poets Present Women in History, Art, and Myth
Session Organizer: Judith Saunders, Marist College
Participants: Lucia Cherciu, Dutchess Community College,
Lea Graham, Marist College, Raphael Kosek, Marist College and
Dutchess Community College
2.C.
Pushing “Normal”
Come Armageddon! Come!: Queer Nihilism and the Margin of the
Urban
Daniel Portland, New York University
Taking on the Wedding Industrial Complex: A Feminist Analysis of
the Contemporary Western Ideology of Female Bridal Beauty
Dara Persis Murray, Rutgers University
Claiming: Becoming a Visible Person Intentionally
Sarah Cooper, Purdue University
2.D.
Oppression
Controlled Parenthood: Bioethics and the Notion of the Family
Maya Sabatello, New York University
Feminism and Psychological Oppression
Cathleen Muller, The Ohio State University
FGM: Women’s Health is a Human Right
Padmini (Mini) Murthy, Marist College
Women & Society Buffet & Reception (5-7 pm)
Student Center Performing Arts Room
Robin Gerber—KEYNOTE ADDRESS
on
Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way
7:30 p.m. Student Center Performing Arts Room
Keynoter:
Gerber’s acclaimed Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless
Strategies From the First Lady of Courage focuses on the continuing need
for women to take on more leadership roles and draws on the values,
tactics, and beliefs that enabled Eleanor to bring about transformational
change in her own time.
For more information about Robin Gerber and her books visit
www.robingerber.com
Saturday October 24
8:30 Continental Breakfast
Henry Hudson Room
8:30- 5 Registration & Hospitality
Henry Hudson Room
Concurrent Panels: Session 3 (9-10:30)
3.A.
Music, Artistry and Identity
Narrative Themes in Lyrics by Female Hip Hop Artists
Erin C. Manion, Syracuse University
Out of the Closet and Into the Mainstream: Exploitation of Lesbian
Imagery in the Music Industry
Katie Swain, University of Mississippi
3.B.
Student’s First Impressions of Women in Asia
Moderated by Kristin Bayer
Students from a course Women in Asia reflect on their initial
impressions.
3.C.
Education Outside the Classroom
Women in Prison - Institutional Violence, Values, and Healing
Mar Peter-Raoul, Marist Praxis Project for Public Citizenship
The Enlightenment As a Continuation of Scholasticism: Another
Reason for the Lower Status of Women’s Ways of Knowing in the
Social Sciences and Professions
Jerry Willis, Marist College Domestic Violence Education
Joanne Myers, Marist College
3.D.
The Battlefront of Politics
Constructing Pelosi: A Case Study of Gender, Politics and the
Press
Jennifer E. Liebman, Syracuse University
The Home as a Battlefront: Femininity, Gendered Spheres, and the
1943 Women in National Service Campaign
James J. Kimble, Seton Hall University
Concurrent Panels: Session 4 (10:45-12:15)
4.A.
The First Ladies
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Struggle for Human Rights: A Close
Textual Analysis of her September 1948 Address to the United
Nations
Amanda Gresens, University of Memphis
Meeting Michelle: The Framing of a First Lady
Lyn Ringer Lepre, Marist College & Naeemak Clark, Elon University
4.B.
Momism
Cashing in on Domesticity: Mass Consumption, Motherhood and
Women's Businesses in the 1950s
Debra Michals, Merrimack College
A Little “TLC”: Depictions of Motherhood and the Working Mom as
a "Learning” Experience
Shannon L. Roper, Marist College
Cultural Reflections on Motherhood, Work and Child Care
Kristin Bayer, Marist College
4.C.
Screening of “Not Your Mama’s Roller Derby”
With discussion led by Alexia Kosmider, Producer, University of
Rhode Island & Debbie Monuteaux
The film focuses on the story of Providence Roller Derby and film examines why
women join sports and what sports mean to them and also confronts the
stereotypes of women in roller derby. It brings up serious questions about the
ways in which women are perceived in sports and also highlights women's
communities.
4.D.
Lenses of Looking
Sexuality and Power Through the Gaze: Gender Inequality in Jack
Vettriano’s Studio Process and Paintings
Darenda DeLoach, University of North Texas
Women Sports Fans and the Pleasures of Looking
Kim Toffoletti and Peter Mewett, Deakin University,
Victoria, Australia
4.E.
Workshop
Internet Publication and Reputation Building
Kate Lindemann, Mount Saint Mary’s College
Lunch (Henry Hudson Room) 12:30-1:15
Concurrent Panels: Session 5 (1:30-3:00)
5.A.
Talk and Discussion: The Evolution of Statutory
Rape/Consent Laws
Gloria Browne-Marshall, Founder/Executive Director—The Law and
Policy Group, Inc.
5.B.
Visibility, Stereotypes and Representations
It’s Not Fake, It’s Just Unrealistic: High School Girls’ Perception of
Their Identity Through Television
Teri Del Rosso, Syracuse University
Memoirs and Women’s Voices
Nels P. Highberg, University of Hartford
5.C.
Women’s Rights Across the Globe
Towards a Rights-based Approach to Poverty and Development
Jerusa Ali, Marist College
The Past and Present Predicaments of Women’s Rights and Islam
in Indonesia
Kimberly Twarog, UCLA
Indigenous Women’s Human Rights: An Analysis of International
Agreements
Marcheta L. Wright, Lynn University
5.D.
Commanding the Royal Gaze: Imperial Women’s Patronage of
Art in Cultures of Female Seclusion
Visible but Unseen: Hadice Sultan’s and Patronage of Yeni Valide
Mosque Complex in Istanbul
Laural Anne Braun, SUNY Oswego
For all the World to See: Illustrating Japanese Women for the
Women’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
Lisa K. Langlois, SUNY Oswego
Concurrent Panels: Session 6 (3:15- 4:45)
6.A.
Sounding the Borders of Nation and Womanhood
Playing a Tune for the Nation: Women Traditional Musicians and
the Boundaries of Intelligibility in Early 20th Century Ireland
Tes Slominski, New York University
The Masculine Sound of South Africa
Nicol Hammond, New York University
Country, Class and Gender in the Construction of Post-9/11
American Patriotism
Elizabeth K. Keenan, Columbia University
6.B.
Seeing The Feminine Side
Emily Hobhouse, Human Rights, Whiteness and Femininity
Rachel Poyatt Spassiani, University at Albany, SUNY
Gender Representations in three 'Dangerous,' 'Daring,' and
'Double-Daring' Childhood Conduct
Jessica Sippy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
6.C.
The Culture of Fear on College Campuses
Lauri Hyers, West Chester University
Dolly Ramos, Carla Schwager, & Beth Tirrell, West Chester
University
6.D.
Cultural Laws, Community Rights and Individual Rights
A Case for the Boyahs: Accommodating Gendered Subjectivities in
the United Arab Emirates
Noor Al-Qasimi, New York University
A Sense of Property: Evoking Collective Sunjectives, or Agnes
Varda against John Locke
Laura Kane, York University, Toronto, Canada