Susan B. Anthony Institute

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

17th Annual Gender and Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference: February 25-26, 2010


Governing Gender: Bodies and Boundaries
The Susan B. Anthony Institute at the University of Rochester is pleased to announce the 17th Annual Gender and Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. Each year, the SBAI conference features considerations of gender and women's studies from varied disciplinary fields, including but not limited to history, art history, literary studies, music, education, nursing, philosophy, and linguistics. The conference aims to foster an interdisciplinary environment for exchanging knowledge and encouraging communication and collaboration across disciplines. The focus of this year’s conference is to interrogate the ways in which we construct and delimit gender-based categorizations in scholarship and praxis.

 

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

 

Thursday, February 25th

 

5:00 pm Opening Reception

 

6:00 pm Opening Remarks

Wendi B. Heinzelman, Dean of Gradute Studies

Honey Meconi , Director Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies

 

6:15 pm “Single?” Keynote Address by Dr. Michael Cobb, University of Toronto

 

 

Friday, February 26th

 

9:00 am Coffee & Bagel Breakfast

 

9:30 am Panel I: “Performance Anxieties”

Moderator:David Bleich, Professor of English, University of Rochester

Becky Burditt, (University of Rochester/Visual & Cultural Studies) untitled abstract on  Niagara  and the commodification of femininity

 

Joy Huang, (Louisiana State University/Theater) "The Disruption of Male Sexual Discourse in Paula Vogel’s  Hot ‘n’ Throbbing"

 

11:00 am Panel II: “Perpetuations of Gender Boundaries”

Moderator: Sarah Higley, Professor of English, University of Rochester

 

Amanda Cannata, (Stanford University/Music) "A Perpetuation of Gender Binarism: The Reception of Ingeborg von Bronsart's  Jery und Bätely  in the German Press." 

 

Amy Shema, (University of Rochester/Warner School of Education) "Schools as Social Institutions Perpetuating the Status Quo."

 

Kristi Castleberry, (University of Rochester, English) "Woman in the Wilderness: Locating Genre and Gender in the Digby  Mary Magdalene .

 

12:30 pm Lunch

 

1:30 pm Panel III: “Gendered Bodies/Spaces”

Moderator: Dr Greta Niu, Associate Professor of English, University of Rochester

 

Amanda Graham, (University of Rochester/Visual & Cultural Studies) "Re-Covering The Hiroshima Maidens."

 

Tanya Sermer, (University of Rochester/Musicology) "Women's Voices, Gendered Performance, and Public Protest in the Struggle for Jewish Religious Pluralism in Israel and Control of Jerusalem.

 

3:00 pm Closing Remarks

Honey Meconi , Director Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies