Undergraduate Conference for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Wednesday, February 15, 2017
8:45 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Hawkins-Carlson Room

Conference

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Join us to celebrate Susan B. Anthony's Birthday during our annual Undergraduate Research Conference! The schedule is full of fantastic student research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.

Our 2017 keynote speaker is Douglas Crimp, Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History, Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies. Crimp will discuss his recently published book "Before Pictures". Part biographical and part cultural history, this book tells the story of Crimp’s life as a young gay man and art critic in New York City during the late 1960s through the turbulent 1970s. Enjoy coffee during the morning poster session and have some lunch during Professor Crimp's talk. We hope to see you there.

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8:45am Poster Session and coffee

Joseph Glick & Andrew Tarbox "Using Taskscape to Contextualize Gender Role in an Italian Alpine Community: An Exploration Through Photovoice"

Chiziterem Onyekwere "The Association Between Masculinity and Handshakes within the Young Adult Population"

Hannah Tompkins "Male Construction of the Amazon Myth"

Eibhlin Regan "Coalition for Pay Equity" 

9:30am 
Alex White "Liminal: Performance Art as Transgender Expression"

10:00am
Annabelle Taylor "Am I My Boyfriend's Keeper? Gender Disparities in Christian Sex Education"

10:30am
Anna Alden “A Study in Irene Adler: the Fluid Performance of Victorian Gender Ideals”

11:00am
Julia Rosenbaum "The Responsibility of a Feminist in a Technological Age"

11:30am
Sophia McRae & Martissa Williams "ATTN: MEN - Opinion Needed"

12:00pm
Keynote and Lunch
with Douglas Crimp, Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History, Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies

1:15pm
Madeline Bove "A Discussion of How Diamonds and Masculinity Intersect"

1:45pm
Nicola Tavella "No Fats, No Femmes: How Eating Disorders Thrive in Contemporary Queer Male Culture"

2:15pm
Mahima Joshi "'How I Learned to Drive': A Play about Coping"

2:45pm
Najia Khaled & Cheyenne Watkins "Stud, Butch, Dyke, Femme: Lesbian Self-identification by Race"

3:15pm
Amber Hudson "Black Girl Magic: Beyoncé's 'Formation'"

3:45pm
Henry Hawthorn "Hito Steyerl and the Contemporary World"

4:15pm
Rhea Shinde "Female Feticide in India, A Study of Historical and Cultural Context"