Official Schedule for the 2013 Women's and Gender History Symposium

Here is the official schedule for the 2013 Women's and Gender Symposium. We welcome everyone including students, faculty and staff from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana community to attend the panels and keynote address, which will be held at I-Hotel and Conference Center,1900 S. First Street, Champaign, Illinois. Registration and select meals for presenters also held at I-Hotel and Conference Center. Wednesday, February 27, 2013,

5:30 pm: “Coffy” film screening at the ARC,201 East Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820. Thursday, February 28, 2013, 7:30pm: Keynote address by Celine Parreñas Shimizu, University of California-Santa Barbara Professor of Film and Performance Studies. Friday, March 1, 2013, 8:30am: Registration and Breakfast. 9-10:15am, Panel 1: (Un)speakable (Dis)junctures: Mike Staudenmier, Sexual Exploitation and Phantom Pheminists: An Alternate Pre-History of the Feminist Sexuality Debates, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Elise Kramer, The “Enemies” of Free Speech: Political Correctness, Feminism, and the Anti-American, University of Chicago, Sonia Brown, Effecting Social Change: Postmodern Categories of “Woman” or Sisters in Solidarity?, DePaul University, Randi Cruz, Deconstructing Misogyny and the Politics of Sexism: Julia Gillard as Case Study of Resistance, University of Arkansas, 10:30-11:45am, Panel 2: Where Ladies Don’t Belong: Sandy Bolzenius, World War II Ft. Devens Strike: African American Women in the Military, Ohio State University, Marc Arenberg, An 'Unkempt Army' of Hobos: Gendered Discourse in the IWW's Spokane Free Speech Fight, 1909-1910, Northeastern Illinois, University, Rebecca Fu, Being Grouped and Articulated: Literate Women in Medieval Chinese Documents, University of Pennsylvania, Stefan Kosovych, Science, Gender, and Nationality in Third Republic France: Press Reactions to Marie Curie, 1903-1904 and 1910-1911 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 12-1pm: Presenter Lunch 1-2:15pm, Panel 3, Mediated Women: Ana Alvarez, Performing Sexuality in Art and Activism, Brown University, Megan Woller, “I Am an American Girl Now:” Representation of Puerto Rican Women in Hollywood’s Adaptation of West Side Story (1961), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Elizabeth Caroll, Love and Lust in the Blood: Female Vampires in Twentieth Century European and American Films, University of Iowa, Mei-Hsuan Chiang, Daughters of Rebellion and Disciplined Bodies: The Representation of Madwoman in Early Taiwanese Cinema, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2:30-3:45pm, Panel 4: Exploiting the Literary Imaginary, Margaret Witzke, Sita, ayana Gonna Say Something?, University of Kansas, Aaron George, The Philosophy That Lived Under A Red Flag: Anticommunist Depiction of Sexual Violence, Ohio State University, Joshua Jones, Surviving the Multiplicity of Chicano/a Identity in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Poetry, Bowling Green State University, Konstantina Karageorgos, Sarah Wright’s Unsung Marxism: An Historically Materialist Reconsideration This Child’s Gonna Live, University of Michigan, 4-5:15, Panel 5: Resistifying, Melissa Ford, “We Know How to Build Bridges:” Claudia Jones and the Transnational Struggle Against Oppression, Saint Louis University, Hilary Scott, “Victoria Woodhull and Citizenship: Employing Antislavery Republican Rhetoric to Promote Women’s Emancipation,” University of Arkansas, Kristi Carter, Abusive Second Husbands Just Don’t Understand: Elizabeth Ashbridge’s Quest for Religious Identity through Her Subconscious Rejection of Patriarchal Influence, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Saturday, March 2, 2013, 8:30am: Registration and Refreshments. 9-10:15am, Panel 6: Corporal Colonialism, Nandini Bhattacharyya Panda, Women in the Legal Tradition: Colonialism, Law and Violence in the Indian Subcontinent, University of Calcutta, Liz Perego, The Veil or a Brother’s Life: French Exploitation of Muslim Women’s Images during the Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962, Ohio State University, Reeju Ray, Women as Producers of Ethnicity: Two Case studies from North East India, Queens University, Nabaparna Ghosh, Settling Women: Prostitute Neighborhoods in Colonial Calcutta, Princeton University. 10:30-11:45am: Panel 7, Of Bodies and Borders, Kristen Loveland, Impossibilities of Reproductive Self-Determination: The Globalization and Domestication of a Third World Narrative in Germany, 1984 – 2002, Harvard University, Rico Kleinstein Chenyek, Dis-ease Sustains Life: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Coatlicue State and the Physics of Love, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Kyle Pasha & Ponni Arasu, Queer Crossings and Border Erasure, Arizona State University and University of Toronto.