Undergraduate Research Conference

Undergraduate Research Conference
in Gender and Women Studies

April 20, 2012
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

9:30am Breakfast and opening remarks

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

10:00am Gender, Identity, and Art 

Facilitator - Allen Topolski, Chair, Department of Art and Art History

  • Exploring Feminine Identity - Lauren Blair
  • "I Swear I'm Good at This": Subconcious Communication - Megan Brown
  • Words We Don't Like to Hear: No! No! No! - Shirley Zimmer-Kidd

10:45am Break  

11:00am Community Organizing with Empire State Pride Agenda - Jonathan Richardson

11:15am Women of Color Circle: Safe Spaces and Voice

Facilitator - Sasha Eloi, Counselor, Office of Minority Student Affairs, The Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program

  • Women of Color Circle (WOCC) Panelists: Melika Butcher, Tsion Girum, Sharese King, Lecora Massamba

12:00pm Lunch

1:00pm Keynote Address

Women, Population, and the U.N. Millennium Population Goals - Jane Roberts, co-founder, 34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

1:45pm Break

2:00pm Media, Representation, Gender, and Sexuality

Facilitator: Rebecca Burditt, Susan B. Anthony Teaching Fellow, Visual and Cultural Studies Program

  • "I could Take you Apart in One Blow": Camp in BBC's Merlin - Sara Cohen

  • "Pettin' in the Park" and "Mack the Black": Two Dance Representations of Gender and Sexuality Across Two Decades - Erika Howard

  • Born in a Closet... I Mean Trunk - April Daniels

2:45pm Under the Radar: Harriet Jacobs and Female Slave Resistance in the South - Sarah Ndegwa

3:00pm For the Camera: Representations of Minority Experience in Performative Video Works - Kirsten Williamson

3:15pm Closing Remarks

Honey Meconi, Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute

 

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