8:30am - 9:00am

(Refreshments)

9:15am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:30am - 10:45am

Some Queer Reflections on Autobiography and Activism

Cora A. Jakubiak, “Looking Straight: Being at a Queer Angle”

Kimberly Kelly, “We’re All Here, Some of Us Are Queer and A Few of Us Need to Get Over It”

Stefanie R. Papps & Gareth F. Griffin, “Brickwalls: LGBT Activism at the University of Georgia, Past and Present”

11:00am - 12:15pm

Gender and the Global Context

Jeremy Johnson, “Shahidki: The Black Widows of Chechnya”

Elizabeth Ann Bryant, “With A Little Help from My Friends: Women’s Survival Techniques in Auschwitz”

Allison Prickett, “Solidarity and Healing in Ese Infierno”

Betsy Beasley, “Damsels in Distress, Frustrated Old Women, and the Masculine Enterprise: Gendered Constructs in U.S. Relations with Vietnam, 1963-1968"

12:30pm - 1:45pm

Latinas in the U.S.

A Presentation and Discussion by WMST 3250

2:00pm - 3:15pm

Race, Sexuality and Literature

Jorge Catala-Carrasco, “Carmen Olle’s Las dos caras del deseo (1994): Searching For Identity Within A Sexuality Based on Bodies Not On Gender Or Sex”

Lauren Chambers, “Destroying the Master’s Property as Resistance in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple”

Heather Watson, “What If I Were Free?: Queer Meanings and Identities for Women in Speculative Fiction”

3:30pm - 4:45pm

New Directions in Women’s Studies Research

Jene Baclawski, “’Because she wants to play’: Negotiating the Invisible Spaces of Women’s Labor in Youth Sports”

Sung Hyun Yun, “The Analysis of Confucianism: The Origin of Patriarchal and Sexist Culture in Korea—From A Feminist Perspective”

Vanessa E. Volz, “A Hidden Population: The Struggle for Abused Women with Disabilities to Achieve Legal Justice”

Closing Remarks