9:00am - 9:30am

(Refreshments)

9:15am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:30am - 10:45am

Applied Feminist Research

Michael Ramirez , “Gotta Feelin' That You're Not Believin' That I can Play This Song:” Women's Experiences in a Local Music Scene

Megan Crimmins, Nonprofit Dimensions for Women in North Athens

Colleen McDermott, Feminist Theory in Action: Dialogue Paper

Christine Mallozzi, There are Three "I's" in Interviewing; Researcher Reflections on Conversations between Women

11:00am - 12:15pm

Gender/Texts

John Thomas Maddox IV, Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires Affair: Body, City, Masculinity

Euni Figi, Playground: A Comment on Gay Culture in Post-World War II America

Joshua Alma Enslen, Feminist Prophecy: A Hypothesis

Lesley Graybeal, Refuting Misogyny: Milton's Identification with Women

Shelley Chinnan, Potter's Poetics: Sally Potter's Rejection and Submission of Patriarchal Cinematic Techniques of The Tango Lesson

12:20pm - 1:10pm

Friday Speaker Series in SLC 350

Dr. Mary Carruth, Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi will speak on: "Southern Feminist Thinking: Mab Segrest and Minnie Bruce Pratt"

1:30pm - 2:15pm

Controlling/Contested Images

Kim Parker, Stereotypical Images of African American Women in Today's Society: The Implications of Being the "Jezebel/Bad Girl"

Jungwon Lee, Exposing Longstanding Taboos around Menstruation: A Cross-cultural Study of Women's Hygiene Product Advertising

Ashley Grove, The Cycle in Need of an End: Women, Media and Perception of Reality

Closing Remarks