Undergraduate Research Conference

Undergraduate Research Conference
in Gender and Women Studies

November 30, 2012
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library

10:15am Opening remarks

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

10:20am The Female Body in the Nineteenth Century

Arian Burnett-Farrands

10:40am Transcultural Journies:Haudenosaunee Cradleboards, 1750-1925

Carlie Fishgold, '12

11:00am Examining Gender Roles through Youth Activism in Leh, Ladakh, India

Lukas Slipski and Alykhan Alani

11:30am Lunch

11:45am Keynote

Creating a Career Based on Passion

Catherine Cerulli
Director, Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership

12:45pm Feminism Declawed: Neglecting Anti-Capitalist Discourse in the Mainstream Feminist

Narrative

Alykhan Alani

1:05pm More than Friends? Lesbianism According to Adrienne Rich in Toni Morrison's Sula

Hilary Wermers

1:35pm Not Your Average Porn Star: Exposing Heterosexual Pornography through Bruce LaBruce's

"Skin Flick"

Laurel Raymond

1:55pm Pornography, Antagonism, and the Politics of Sexuality

Kevin Diamond, '12

2:10pm Experiences of Transgender Individuals in America

Michael Johnson

2:25pm Discourses of Femininity: From Huli Women to Sandra Fluke

Paige Hammond

2:45pm Understanding Pregnancy in Rural Northeastern Thailand: Cultural Prenatal Precautions

Anaise Williams

3:00pm Closing Remarks

Honey Meconi
Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute