The Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association and Institute for Women’s Studies

16th Annual Women’s Studies Student Research Symposium:
“Feminist Research Across the Disciplines”

Friday, February 27, 2009
1:25 - 7:00 p.m.
Miller Learning Center

Symposium Schedule

1:25 – 2:15 p.m.
Title: “Women’s Sexual Health Education”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 148
Katy Janousek, Sexual Health Coordinator, University Health Center, UGA

2:30 – 3:20 p.m. (Concurrent Sessions)

Title: “Feminist Science Studies”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 148
Session Chair: Dr. Cecilia Herles, Assistant Director-Institute for Women’s Studies, UGA
“Pregnant Women and Ultrasounds: A Closer Look at the Widespread Use of Antenatal Screening”
-Ashley Grove, Undergraduate-Biology, UGA

“Menstruation as a “Materialist Moment”: Rethinking the Scientific Discourse and Construction of Female Bodies”
-April Greene, Undergraduate-Women’s Studies, UGA

“The Male Model of Cardiovascular Disease and its Implications for Women”
-Ashley Grove, Undergraduate-Biology, UGA

Title: “Pedagogy and Education as Activism”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 248
Session Chair: Dr. Doris Kadish, Professor of Romance Languages and Women's Studies, UGA
“Writers Who Run with the Wolves”
-Ellen Hurst and Karla Zisook, Graduate-Language and Literacy, GSU

“The Voices of Women Activists: School Counselors in Action”
-Allessandra Urbano, Eleanor McMahan and Meg Haston, Graduate-Counseling Psychology, UGA

“Reconstruction Era Pedagogies: An Introduction”
-Christina Davis, Graduate-History, UGA

Title: “Women, Religion, Church”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 250
Session Chair: Kristen Cox, Department of Religion, UGA
“Feminine Incarnate: Relating Christ’s Humanity to Female Experience in Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe”
-Kathleen McCullen, Undergraduate-English/Women’s Studies, UGA

“Womanism, Black Sexuality, and the Church”
-Rojauna McPherson, Undergraduate-Psychology, UGA

3:30 – 4:40 p.m. (Concurrent Sessions)

Title: “Exploring Feminist Issues through in-depth Interviews: Voices of Women’s Studies Students”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 148
Session Chair: Dr. Shannon Miller, Institute for Women’s Studies, UGA “Thriving through Disability: A Woman’s Journey”
-Imann Gad, Billy Ferguson, Melissa Fox, Nathanial Phillips, Camrei Terrell

“Embracing Multicultural Diversity: A Look at the Bulldog Nation”
-Annette Alarcon, Tamara Best, Emily Eggers, William Hearn, Keturah Spence

“Women around the Ring”
-Justin Campbell, Benjamin Terry, Darla Svich, Kalie Watch, Brady Moon, Jenna Miller

Title: “Textual Criticisms”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 248
Session Chair: Dr. Chris Cuomo, Director-Institute for Women’s Studies, UGA
“(Re)Production in/of the Lesbian (Canon)”
-Tiffany Ball, UGA Alumnus

“Misogyny and Gendered Modernity in Historias del Kronen by José Ángel Mañas”
-Julia Barnes, Graduate-Romance Languages, UGA

“Thou map of woe, that thus dost talk in signs!”: Interrogating the (Im)possibility of Woman’s Rhetorical Agency in Titus Andronicus
-Sarah Frank, Undergraduate-English/Women’s Studies, UGA

“Cixous: Writing the Female Exile”
-Liana Babayan, Graduate-French and Francophone Literature, UGA

Title: “Women and the Media”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 250
Session Chair: Kristen McCauliff, Dept. of Speech Communication, UGA
“Objectification of Women in Popular Music”
-Katherine Quick, Undergraduate-Women’s Studies, UGA

“Gendered Bands, Engendered Composers”
-Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment, Graduate-Musicology/Ethnomusicology, UGA

“Blurring The Line: Homosociality and Undoing Gender in Indie Rock Bands”
-Taylor M. Houston, Graduate-Sociology, UGA

“The Sexualization and Commodification of Adolescent Girls in the Media” -Crissy Baker, Graduate-Women’s Studies, GSU

4:50 – 5:40 p.m. (Concurrent Sessions)

Title: “Family: A Discussion on Motherhood and Fatherhood”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 148
Session Chair: Kelly Byers, Department of Agricultural Leadership, UGA
“Salaam and Namaste, My Dear Indian Mother”
-Suha Zakiuddin, Undergraduate-Journalism/Newspapers, UGA

“Accepting the Reality of Single Mothers: Breaking the Link Between Marital Status and Poverty”
-Sarah Jane Baskin, Graduate-Social Work, UGA

“What Does Father Know?: Post-Feminist Portrayals of Fatherhood in Popular Film”
-Jasper Webb, Graduate-History, UGA

Title: “Women and International Politics”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 248
Session Chair: Dr. Pamela Voekel, Associate Professor of History, UGA
“An Ecofeminist Response to the Persian Gulf War”
-Leslie Dunsmore, Undergraduate-History, UGA

“Motherism in an Anti-Colonial Movement”
-Allison Stouffer, Undergraduate-Women’s Studies/International Affairs, UGA

“The Expense of Expansion: Western Imperialism from Colonialism to Globalization”
-Crissy Baker, Graduate-Women’s Studies, GSU

Title: “Feminist (Auto)Biography”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 250
Session Chair: Beth Turner, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, UGA “Greek Culture: A Few togas, a lot of Tube Tops”
-Hannah Barfield, Undergraduate-Psychology/Women’s Studies, UGA

“What Textbooks Don't Tell: My Life As A White Female College Student and Single Professional Woman in 1960-70s”
-Millie Coleman, Graduate-Women’s Studies, GSU

“Puerto Rican Feminist Thought: Boricua”
-Celina Correa, Undergraduate-International Affairs, UGA

5:50 – 6:40 p.m. (Concurrent Sessions)

Title: “Feminist and Womanist Theories”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 148
Session Chair: Lauren Chambers, Department of English, UGA
“Writing from the Margin: A Theoretical Analysis of bell hooks”
-Crissy Baker, Graduate-Women’s Studies, GSU

“An Original Poetry Conversation on the Intersections of Womanism and Feminism Between Lucille Clifton, Natasha Trethewey, Toni Morrison, Hannah Clark, and Katy Miller”
-Katy Miller, Undergraduate-Journalism/Women’s Studies, UGA
-Hannah Clark, Undergraduate-Anthropology, UGA

Title: “Exploring the Economics of Women’s Lives”
Location – Miller Learning Center Room 248
Session Chair: Sarah Jane Baskin, School of Social Work, UGA
“Is Critical Theory Feminist Theory? A Case Study of Welfare”
-Laurel Richmond, Graduate-Recreation and Leisure Studies, UGA

“A Critical Analysis of the Living Wage as a Woman’s Issue”
-Vinuta Naik, Undergraduate-Psychology, UGA