Women’s & Gender Studies Conference
“NO LIMITS! Eco-Feminism & Artful Healing”
UNK – Nebraskan Student Union, Ponderosa Rooms
Contact: Linda Van Ingen (vaningenL1@unk.edu) 308-865-8772
March 4 & 5, 2011
All events are in the UNK Student Union. Rooms equipped with smart carts (A/V, wireless).
Friday, March 4
Friday, 10-10:45am – Check-in (coffee/rolls)
Friday, 10:45-11:15 – Eco-Feminism: Allison Hedge Coke (UNK) & Lee Ann Roripaugh (USD)
Friday, 11:20-12:35
Session #1: Women and Islam
Mallory Hunter (UNO), “Overcoming Obstacles: Wife, Mother, Provider”
Allyson Jurek (UNO), “The Sex Trade of Women in the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula:
Investigating Causes, Results, and Solutions”
Katy Arnold (UNO), “Stoning: How Islamic is it Really”
Session #2: Gendered Constructs in Public Spaces
Paul Skinner (UNK), “The Impact of Fight Club on the Discourse of Masculinity”
Ashley Ermer (Nebraska Wesleyan), “Fake Testicles: An Outcry of Power”
Laura Logan (Kansas State), “Gender, Race, Sexuality and Public Harassment: The Case of the
‘Killer Lesbians’”
Friday, 12:40-1:20
Lunch ($10)
Friday, 1:25-2:40
Session #3: Artful Healing
Sarah Kollars (UNK), “Support Groups for Adolescent Girls in the Community”
Ashley Frear Cooper (UNL), “Disparities in Physical and Mental Health Outcomes in the United
States: Taking an Intersectionality Approach”
Janine M. Brooks (UNO), “Girl, You Are Amazing!”
Session #4: Challenging Stereotypes of Muslim Women: Overview and Focus on Saudi Arabia
Osamah Alhenaki (UNO)
Faisal al-Dosari (UNO)
Alea Hall (UNO)
Friday, 2:45-4:00
Session #5: Transnational Feminism through Study Abroad
Rebeca Acosta (UNK), “Mujeres Atrapadas (Entrapped Women) in Colombia”
Caroline Neujahr (UNK), “Gendered Constructs in China”
Session #6: Adolescent Girls in Literature
Celeste Lempke (UNK), “Saving Young Girls from Ourselves: The Importance of Superheroine
Fantasy”
Libby Hallgren (UNL), “Adolescent Violence and Romance in The Hunger Games”
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Friday, 4:05-5:20
Session #7: Radical Women in the Second-Wave of Feminism
Jennifer Richardson (UNK), “Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz”
Rebecca Ann Sevela (UNK), “Shulamith Firestone”
Session #8: Self-Concepts and Identity
Shasta Inman (UNL), “Questions: A Monologue in Two Persons”
Emily Kubalik (UNK), “Individual and Social Factors that Influence Self-Concept Resiliency of
Women and Men”
Kylee Britzman (UNL), “A Journey into Women’s Studies: Where to Go From Here?”
Friday, 5:30pm Dinner – complimentary
Friday, 7:00pm Keynote: “Speaking Intersections” by Lenelle Moïse,
Haitian-American Artist/Poet http://www.lenellemoise.com/meet.html
Saturday, March 5
Saturday Early Birds, 5am Sandhill Cranes: sign up to take van to Audubon viewing site
Saturday, 8:30-9am – Check-in (coffee/rolls)
Saturday, 9:00-10:15am
Session #9: Hearing Women’s Voices
Tiffany Bullen (UNI), “Sleeping Bear, Gichigami and the Century of Trees: Ecopoems of the Great
Lakes”
Heather Towndrow (UNK), “Their Hearts May Be Bleeding but Are Not Yet on the Ground:
Women’s Voices at Wounded Knee”
Laura Madeline Wiseman (UNL), “Queen of the Platform: Inventions of the Life of Matilda Fletcher”
Session #10: It’s Not What it Seems: Challenges to Patriarchal, Cultural, Dystopian Perceptions
Kiera Frey (USD), “Jean Rhys’s Victimized Heroines”
Britiany Daugherty (UNO), “Rajput Women: Representations Comparable to Western Gender
Constructions”
Brittany V. Lichius (Missouri State University), “Margaret Atwood’s Campaign for Communal
Living”
Session #11: Social Implications: Homelessness, Sexual Assault, Abortion
Sara Robertson (Hastings College), “Hope for the Future: A Thematic Analysis of Female
Homelessness”
Bethany Ridling (UNL), “The Importance of Recognizing all Types of Sexual Assault: A Review of
the Literature on Same-Sex Sexual Assault”
Kate Wintz, “Abortion Debate in Nebraska”
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Saturday, 10:20-11:05
Workshop with Lenelle Moïse
Saturday, 11:10-12:25
Session #12: Ethnographic Approach to the American Muslim Experience in Nebraska
Katherine Dyche (UNO), “’Islamic Adoption’: Implications of Islamic Adoption Laws and
Traditions”
Furkan Dindar (UNO), “Take it Off, Put it On…Excuse Me? This is my Body!”
Tessie Seiler (UNO), “Religious Freedoms for Female Iraqi Refugees”
Session #13: Women’s Agency in American History
Sylvia Hall (UNL), “Art Matronage: A Movement”
Michaela Kneip (UNK), “Mexican Immigration and Migrant Issues from 1965-1985: A Woman’s
Journey”
Session #14: Gender Differences? Women, Business and Media
Haili Copas-Starke (UNO), “Merely Flirtatious Behavior: Sexual Harassment and the Workplace”
Adam Wagler (UNL), “Turning Points with New Media: Discourses Created by Interactive
Advertising Campaigns”
Bailey Eldredge (Hastings College), “Can You Hear Me Now? The Relationship Between Gender
Differences, Musical Background, and the Perception of Musical Illusions”
Saturday, 12:30-2:00pm Lunch ($10)
Women’s Studies Alumni Panel
(Amber Lewis, Laura Logan, Tessa Roberts, Elizabeth Schnieder)
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Thank you for your participation!
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