Susan B. Anthony Institute

The Seventh Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute
Gender and Women's Studies
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

Saturday, February 19, 2000
Dewey 2-110D

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

  • 8:30-9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks:
    Professor Lisa Cartwright, English/Visual & Cultural Studies

  • 9:15-10:15 Panel I: "Work in Progress: Susan B. Anthony Dissertation Fellowships"
    Moderator: Anne Birien, English

    Kelly Hankin, English: "Potent Shots: The Production of Lesbian Bar Space in Robert Aldrich's The Killing of Sister George (1969)"

    Lina Kawar, Nursing: "Jordanian Women's Knowledge of, Attitudes Towards, and Participation in Breast Cancer Screening Programs"

     

  • 10:25-11:45 Panel II: "Public Bodies: Gender, Medical Culture, and Social Change"
    Moderator: Craig Sellers, Nursing

    Lynn Wemett Nichols, Nursing: "Women and Adherence to Health Care Regimens"

    Alissa Herschbach-McElreath, English: "The Mother Architect: Victoria Woodhull and the Rhetoric of Race"

    Narin Hassan, English: "Public Anatomies: Women, Travel and Victorian Medicine"

     

  • 11:55-1:15 Panel III: "Alternative Visions: Race, Gender, Utopia"
    Moderator: Kelly Hankin, English

    Jennifer Klein Hudak, English: "The (Re) Production of Perfection: Technology, Gender, and Evolution in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland"

    Edward Chan, English: "Accounting for the Remainder in the Imagination of a Utopian Subject"

    Alyssa J. O'Brien, English: "Gendered Agendas in Harlem's Little Magazines"

     

  • 1:15-2:15 Lunch: The Meliora

     

  • 2:15-3:50 Panel IV: "Rereading History/Revising Traditions: The Politics of Gender & Sexuality"
    Moderator: Katherine Kyger, History

    Chris Nugent, English: "En-gendering Heresy: Knighton's Chronicle and the Sexual Politics of Lollardy"

    Mara Amster, English: "Sex on Trial: Legal and Literary Representations of Gender"

    Nathan Nobis, Philosophy: "Feminist Ethics: Problems and Prospects"

    Andrea Patterson, Philosophy: "What's Wrong with Sexual Harassment?"

     

  • 4:00-5:20 Panel V: "Visualizing Sexuality, Materializing Gender"
    Moderator: Lisa Soccio, Visual & Cultural Studies

    Daniel I. Humphrey, Visual & Cultural Studies: "Projection/Reflection: Cinema as a Queer Project in the Work of Ingmar Bergman"

    Margot Bouman, Visual & Cultural Studies: "Strangers and Bodies, Strangers and Space: Feminist Theory"

    Lucy Curzon, Visual & Cultural Studies: "Corporeal Geometry: The Photography of Francesca Woodman"

     

For more information, please call the Susan B. Anthony Institute at 275-8318.