Program Schedule
Friday, March 5, 2010
Friday, 10:00am-11:15 – Registration (coffee and pastries will be available)
Friday, 11:15am-12:30 – Opening Welcome / Lunch
With a few words from Professor Ellen Weissinger (Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs)
Friday, 12:45pm-2:00
Session 1: Theorizing Sexuality and Gender (Regency A)
Moderator: Kris Gandara (UNL)
Elizabeth Suellentrop (George Washington University alum) – “Home is where...well, where is it?: Bisexual
Femme Identities”
Devin Marie Garofalo (UNO) – “‘Unions of the Soul’: Eighteenth-Century Sex and the Transcendence of
Disappointment”
Session 2: Global Issues, Transatlantic Voices: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Literature (Regency B)
Moderator: Kelly Payne (UNL)
Kelly Payne (UNL) – “‘[T]o speak of removal’: Lydia Maria Child’s Gift Book Fiction and Native American
Reform”
Kathryn Kruger (UNL) – “‘The Antigone and Its Moral’: George Eliot, Hegel, and the Antigone Complex”
Kim Banion (UNL) – “The Miraculous Medal: Gender, Politics, and Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century
Conversion Narratives”
Session 3: Women as Artists and/in Art History (Regency C)
Moderator: Bridget Blomfield (UNO)
Nicole Roberts (UNO) – “The Ever Elusive Inanna/Ishtar”
Katherine Drelicharz (UNO) – “Idealizing Women of the Nineteenth Century”
Kimberly Minor (UNL) – “Deconstructing the L-word: Contemporary Lesbian Erotic Art”
Friday, 2:15pm-3:30
Session 4: Questioning Locations of Female Empowerment (Regency A)
Moderator: Basuli Deb (UNL)
Kiley Cameron (UNO) – “The Female Terrorist: Addressing the Question of Liberation or Oppression”
Erica L. Wright (Nebraska Wesleyan) – “Part-Objects, Perversions, and Power Differentials: The Sexual
Politics of Access, Entitlement, and Erotic Ownership in Popular Pornographic Magazines from the
1950s to the Present”
NOTE: This panel contains adult content.
Session 5: Oral Histories, Women’s Lives (Regency B)
Moderator: Amelia Montes (UNL)
Heather Towndrow (UNK) – “Sober But Not Healed: Analysis of Women’s Experiences with Addiction and
Their Needs in Recovery”
Sonali Ghosh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) – “Bargaining Relationships Between Spouses in
Intermarriages in Urban India: An Intersectional Analysis of Gender, Class, Caste and Ethnicity”
Donna Pucket (UNK) – “‘If You Left the Farm, What Would You Do?’ Three Generations of South Dakota
Women Farmers”
Session 6: Language, Performance, and Female Perspectives (Regency C)
Moderator: Pat Tetreault (UNL)
Rebecca Ankenbrand (UNL) – “Old Characters in New Tongues”
Aimee Allard (UNL) – “Coming Out as a Fatty: Weight Loss, Silence, and Reclaiming the Body”
Shasta Inman (UNL) – “Women’s Experience(s): A Selection of Poetry”
Friday, 4pm-5:30 – Keynote Address by Professor Obioma Nnaemeka, “Captured in Translation: Feminisms in a World
in Motion” (the Sheldon Art Museum)
Friday, 5:30pm-7:00 – Reception (the Sheldon Art Museum). Light refreshments will be served.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Saturday, 8:30am-9:00 – Registration (coffee and pastries will be available)
Saturday, 9:00am-10:15
Session 7: Gendered Fantasies: From Heroism to Happily Ever After (Regency A)
Moderator: Tamy Burnett (UNL)
Kirsten Jensen (UNO) – “The Gender Continuum in Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns as an
Illustration of Non-Static Gender Expression”
Alicia Jordan Meyer (UNL) – “The Female Superhero and the Duality of Heroism”
Stephanie Wagle (UNL) – “The Media’s Changing Perceptions of Gender Roles”
Session 8: Journeys of Feminist Inquiry (Regency B)
Moderator: Jessica Henry (Hastings College)
Amber Lewis (UNK) – “Bringing a Local Voice to Global Issues Through Travel to Dubai”
Bailey Eldredge (Hastings College) – “The Dark Years: Journey to my Calling”
Heather Stauffer (UNL) – “The Legacy of Carol and Her All-Terrain Volkswagen Beetle: A Work of Creative
Nonfiction”
Session 9: Use Your Words: Finding Opportunities for Feminist Activism in the Classroom (Regency C)
Moderator: Lesley Bartlett (UNL) – “Inviting Activism: Making Room for Students’ Commitments in Course
Design”
Brady Usher (UNL) and Sindu Sathiyaseelan (UNL) – “From Women to Gender: Creating a Safe Space for All
Genders”
Justin Shilhanek (UNL) – “The Politics of Gender Inclusion in the UNL Non-Discrimination Clause”
Bea Huff (UNL) – “A Beginner’s Guide to Sex and Gender in the Queer Community”
Saturday, 10:30am-11:45
Session 10: Challenging Sexism in Science (Regency A)
Moderator: Linda Van Ingen (UNK)
Michael Ioerger (UNL) – “Could Sexism Influence Patient Behavior and Belief Socialization?”
Setareh Makinejad (UNL) – “How to Raise the Interest of Girls in the STEM Fields in the US Secondary
Schools and Beyond”
Session 11: Using Literature to Challenge Hegemonies: Successes and Limitations (Regency B)
Moderator: Joy Castro (UNL)
Steven Alfer (UNL) – “Sex and Sexuality in Cactus Blood”
Carrie Walker (UNL) – “‘A Place Between Worlds’: Broken Bodies/Broken Lands in Linda Hogan’s Solar
Storms”
Nina Schmieder (UNL) – “Feminism and the Indian Woman”
Session 12: Using Women’s Bodies to Sell/Promote Products, Politics, and Ideas (Regency C)
Moderator: Karen Falconer Al-Hindi (UNO)
Madeleine Roberg (UNL) – “Big Hair and Shirtwaists: Analyzing the Gibson Girl”
Britta Acksel (Hastings College) – “The Dove ‘For Real Beauty’ Campaign: A Comparison of Two Countries’
Responses to a Controversial Advertising Campaign”
Rachel Tomlinson Dick (UNO) – “Using Objectification to End Objectification: Women’s Bodies and the
Animal Rights Movement”
Saturday, 12:00pm-1:15
Session 13: Women’s Bodies and Health in a Transnational Context (Regency A)
Moderator: Margaret Jacobs (UNL)
Caroline Jones (UNL) – “Power Play: The Fight for Control of Women’s Reproductive Choice in Nicaragua”
Ginnie Kim (Brigham Young University) – “Cutting Through the Body and Soul: Female Genital Mutilation
and Its Implications for Women”
Sapana Upadhyay (UNK) – “A Comparative Study of the Maternal and Child Health System and Status of the
United States and Nepal”
Session 14: Adolescent Bodies, Adolescent Desires (Regency B)
Moderator: Amber Harris Leichner (UNL)
Danielle Vanecek (UNO) – “Who’s Teaching American Girls about Sex?”
Chelsea Chappell (UNL) – “Girls Coming of Age: Bringing Menstruation Back!”
Libby Hallgren (UNL) – “Bitten: Twilight and the Poisoning of Adolescent Desire”
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Session 15: Male Writers Writing Female Trauma Panel (Regency C)
Moderator: Sarah A. Chavez (UNL)
Rebecca Ankenbrand (UNL) – “Rape, Suicide, and the Roman Empire: A Historical Look at ‘The Rape of
Lucrece’”
Marianne Kunkle (UNL) – “Silence, Paraphrase and Speech: Reading Voice as Authenticating Stereotype in
Shakespeare’s ‘The Rape of Lucrece’”
Sarah A. Chavez (UNL) – “The Continual Failure of Patriarchal Language: The Act of Acting in Shakespeare’s
‘The Rape of Lucrece’”
Saturday, 1:30-2:45 – Lunch / Roundtable / Final Close
“Community Connections” (featuring WGS alums now working with community agencies and
advocacy groups in Lincoln and the surrounding area)
Moderator: Barbara DiBernard (UNL)
Panelists: Danielle Charleston (Cedars)
Schyler Lindekugel (Friendship Home)
Lisa Lux (Ten Thousand Villages)
Azure Wall (Lincoln Action Program)
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