Annual Virtual Conference
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April 23rd, 2021
Register for the Conference here: Registration Link
Preparation for Conference
For interest in plants:
https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/issue/view/2248
For law students:
https://gender.indiana.edu/research/articles/making-and-unmaking.html
Keynote Speaker
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Dr. Laura Foster |
Conference Schedule
37th Annual Conference
April 23, 2021
Welcome 9:00-9:30
TTU Scarlet Voce Logistics & Welcome - Aimee Cameron
Welcome to the Conference – Dr. aretha marbley
MODERATOR: SARA GUENGERICH
Session I: 9:30-10:20 (2 rooms)
Room 1 – LGBTQ+ Histories & Emerging Trends
MODERATOR: LIZ KARAM
Adam Thomas - Transgender Men, Infidelity, and Sexual Identity Following Testosterone Treatment Jacob Reavis - Challenging Ignorance: AIDS and Female Agency, 1980 – 1989
Room 2 –
MODERATOR: KARLA CHAPMAN
Dr. Aretha marbley, Wendy Ross, Melissa Galica, Nefertiti Beck, Shi-Han Huang & Aliza Wong - Reconstituting Democracy and Power: Our responses to the Public, the Media, and Snoop Dogg's attack of Gayle King
Session II: 10:30-11:20 (3 rooms)
Room 1 –
MODERATOR: PERRY CARTER
Dr. aretha marbely, Jesse Starkey, Brian Hicks, Patrice Dunn, Nichole Gonzalez, Le
Tran - Intimate Intersections and Forbidden Terrains: Reinventing the Social Construction
of Gender, Sexuality, and Race
Room 2 - Gender Equity Transnationally
MODERATOR: ANDREW HERRIDGE
Lydia A. Perez - The U.S.-Mexico Border, Maquiladoras, and Women: Forty Years of Violence
Kashif Siddique - Gender Equality among Childbearing Age Women and Maternal Healthcare Utilization in Pakistan
Dr. Mary Okumu - The Role of Women in Irrigation: A Case Study of Ahero Irrigation Scheme in Kenya
Room 3 – Feminist Theory to Action
MODERATOR: JODY RANDALL
Dr. Jocelyne Scott, Virginia Flores, Sofia Miller, Sarah Musa, Abigail Asaju, Montana
Chandler, Adaku Otuonye, Bertha Sagreirois - Undergraduate Student Roundtable
Session III: Presidential remarks, Keynote & Awards
11:30am-1:20pm
I. Introduction of President Schovanec by Dr. aretha marbley
II. Introduction of Keynote, Dr. Laura Foster by Erin Engelhardt
III. Q & A facilitated by Erin Engelhardt
IV. Awards announced by Dr. Dana Weiser
V. Scarlet Voce's Suffrage Contata, introduced and conducted by Dr. Carolyn Cruse
Session IV: 1:30-2:20 (2 rooms)
Room 1 - Gender in Communications
MODERATOR: DANA WEISER
Aster Yeoman - Gender Neutral Wording in Languages Katelyn Kim - Communication: The
Failures Through the Reproductive Rights of Indigenous Women Andrew Yaakov Hedges
- אָדָם (Adam): The Beginning of Gendering Judaism
Room 2 –
MODERATOR: STEPHEN CHAO
Dr. Jocelyne Scott, Danni Brar , Fiker Tesfaye , Mona Borgozi, Adam Thomas, Illeana
Garcia, Courtney Tyler, Jackie Price, Matthew Rivas-Koehl - Feminist Theory to Action:
Graduate Roundtable
Session V: 2:30-3:20 (3 rooms)
Room 1-
MODERATOR: TERESA HOLLEY
Kate Smitherman, Anjali Aaluri & Ariana Aranda - After my Feminist Awakening
Room 2 –
MODERATOR: CHRISTINE SELF
Dr. Shera C. Thomas-Jackson, Dr. Jocelyne Scott & Jody Randall - To she or not to
she: A discussion about gender neutral terminology in women's health
Room 3 - Gendered Labor Politics
MODERATOR: JON MCNAUGHTAN
Jessica Addai - The Intersections of Cannabis Culture and Economics with Race, Class,
and Gender Jennifer Phillips - My Ass is Mine: Issues in Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
Jason Putteet - Female Gang Membership
Session VI: 3:30-4:20 (2 rooms)
Room 1 - Gender and Popular Culture
MODERATOR: MEGAN CONDIS
Savannah Shelby-Amrhein - The Change in Teacher Representation in Cinema over Time
and Space Nishanta Ghatak - "Films, Female and Disability: Understanding the Politics
of Body through Feminist (Dis)ability Studies"" Dr. Stacey Jocoy - Aggretsuko: Cute,
Japanese, Pink-Collar Rage
Room 2 –
MODERATOR: SOFIA MILLER
Kate Smitherman & Dr. Jocelyne Scott - Sorority Women and Feminism
Session VII: 4:30-5:30 (2 rooms)
Room 1 -
MODERATORS: MOLLY IRELAND, BRITTA ANDERSON & KATY BALLARD
4:30: Happy Hour (invitation only)
Room 2 -
MODERATOR: LAMI AFOLABI
Student Meeting with Dr. Foster (WGS and Law students only)
Women's & Gender Studies
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Address
DRANE Hall 257-260 | MS 2009 | Office Hrs: M-F, 8-5 -
Phone
806.742.4335 -
Email
womens.studies@ttu.edu