The Tenth Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute
Gender and Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Friday, February 28, 2003
Gamble Room, 361 Rush Rhees Library
Conference Planners:
Liz Czach, Shaila Mehra, Rachel Sussman
Program Schedule
9:15 a.m. Refreshments
9:30 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
- Sue Gustafson, Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute. Professor of
German
9:45 a.m. Morning Keynote Address
Locust Abortion Technician Meets 'Hamburger Lady': Shock as Symbolic
Violence and Subcultural Signifier
- Lisa Soccio, VCS, 2002-2003 Susan B. Anthony Dissertation Fellow
10:30 a.m. Session One: Constructing Gender
'Unseemly Woman in a Seeming Man' or 'That Woman is a Woman!': Effeminacy,
Boy Players, and other Gender Crossovers
- Jennifer Ailles, English
'Birth Copulation and Death': Female Modernists' Appropriations of the
Bildungsroman
-Joanna Grant, English
Not an Ape, Not Yet Human: Lucy and the Construction of Ancestral Humanity
- Lisa Uddin, VCS
11:30 a.m. Session Two: Reproductive Health
Intimate Partner Abuse and the Reproductive Health of Sexually Active
Adolescents
- Timothy Roberts, Pediatrics
Changing Childbirth in America: Appropriate Use of Technology in Prenatal
Care
- Mary Maher, Nursing
12:30 p.m. Lunch Provided
1:30 p.m. Session Three: Visualizing Masculinity
Camera Hunting: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Wildlife
Photography
- Mathew Brower, VCS
The Canadian Landscape and Washroom Sex
- Peter Hobbs, VCS
Authorship, History and the Dialectic of Trauma: Derek Jarman's 'The Last of
England'
- Dan Humphrey, VCS
Chained Heat: Identity and Desire In and Out of 'OZ'
- Joe Wlodarz, English
3:00 p.m. Afternoon Keynote Address
Choreographing Resistance: Grassroots Globalization, Queer Sexualities, and
the Performance of Latinidad
- Ramon Rivera-Servera, Visiting Professor, Dance
4:00-5:00 p.m. Reception, Meliora Dining Hall
For more information, or to request special accomodations: phone 275-8318,
fax 461-9376, or e-mail mslf@mail.rochester.edu by February 24th
Conference co-sponsored by the Film and Media Studies Program, the Program
in Visual and Cultural Studies, the Department of English, the Department of
Art and Art History, the Graduate Organizing Group, the Frederick Douglass
Insitute for African and African American Studies
To request any special accommodations for Susan B. Anthony Institute events: phone 275-8318, fax 461-9376, or email mailto:mslf@mail.rochester.edu.