| 8:15-9:10am |
A Place to Meet and Mingle
Heritage Room |
| 9:15-10:35am |
Session #1: Visual Art, Creativity, and Design
Regency A
- Moderator: Briar Essex (UNL)
- Rebekah Brown (UNL), “Making it Come True: Validating and Empowering the African American Feminist Artist in Faith Ringgold’s French Collection”
- Venn Jemkur (UNL), “Plus-size Apparel: The Design Question”
- Keshia Mcclantoc (UNL), “The Rise of Female Commentary YouTubers and QueerFeminist Educational Activism”
- Tix Tennant-Hill (University of Central Oklahoma), “Asexuality and Aromanticism through Photography”
Session #2: Power and Representation in Pop Culture
Regency B
- Moderator: Lara A. Garrido (UNL)
- Carrie Cave (UNL), “Gender, Popular Culture, and Social Movements in Beyoncé's ‘Lemonade’ Album”
- B. Littman (UNL), “Feminism and Representation of Diverse Identities in American Girl Dolls”
- Olivia Pereira (UNL), “Representation of Alternative Sexualities in Media”
- Emily Steinbach (Nebraska Wesleyan University), “It’s Time to Cancel, Cancel Culture: Power Dynamics and Gender Roles”
Session #3: Applying Feminism in Education, Medicine, and Law (Regency C)
- Moderator: Alex Mohr (UNL)
- Jacob Jardel (University of Missouri – Kansas City), “Within and With Out: Queering Composition Through Collaboration and Student Narrative”
- Aidan Maher (Nebraska Wesleyan University), “Trigger Warning: Gender and Trauma in College Classrooms”
- Syd Miller (UNL), “Trans Legal Aid: Resources and Information for Lawyers Working With Transgender Clients”
- Grey Stone (University of Central Oklahoma), “Asexual Ally 101”
Session #4: Women’s Voices and Feminist Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America (Ubuntu Room; 202)
- Moderator: Catherine Medici-Thiemann (UNL)
- Bethany Holley-Griffith (University of Central Oklahoma), “Republican Motherhood: Understanding the Role of Domesticity and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Education Reform”
- Kaitie Mannis (University of Central Oklahoma), “Entertaining While Indoctrinating: The Gendering of Children’s Literature in the Victorian Period”
- Jaclyn Swiderski (UNL), “‘What an awful pity it is that you can’t say damn’: Disability as Complex Embodiment in The Diary of Alice James”
- Ann Vlock (UNL), “Once Ruined, Always Ruined: The Late Nineteenth Century Discourse on the Age of Consent”
Session #5: This Land Is Our Land: Digitizing The Center’s Archives of Rare BGLTQ+ and Feminist Periodicals from the 1970s-2010s (Unity Room; 212)
- Moderator: Jen Kruse (UNL)
- Alexis McKernan, Emma Stewart, Mikele Smith, and Skyler Donnell (University of Central Oklahoma)
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| 11:00am-12:15pm |
Keynote Address: SJ Sindu
Union Auditorium |
| 12:15-12:55pm |
Complimentary box lunches for those pre-registered
Centennial Room |
| 1:00-2:20pm |
Session #6: Language, Gender Identities, and Prescribed Gender Roles
Regency A
- Moderator: Melissa Homestead (UNL)
- Skyler Donnell (University of Central Oklahoma), “The Modern Language Surrounding Male Birth Control”
- Ana Tudela Martinez (UNL), “Dueling Masculinities: Anachronism and Contrast in C. Tangana’s El madrileño”
- Aster Yeoman (University of Central Oklahoma), “Which of these Languages Have Gender Neutral Pronouns?”
Session #7: Power and Resistance Across Time and Place
Regency B
- Moderator: Kathleen Lacey (UNL)
- Courtney Hanson (Hastings College), “Women Leaders as Collaborators, Builders, and Tacklers of Male-Dominated Spaces”
- Briar Essex (UNL), “Lou’s Hand: An Exploration of Queer Kinship through the Diaries of Lou Sullivan”
- Maya Fitch (University of Central Oklahoma), “Fact and Fiction: A Look at Jewish Gender Subversion from the Hellenistic Period to Present Day”
Session #8: Feminist Examinations of Sexual Health in Theory, Language, and Practice
Regency C
- Moderator: Alexandra Bissell (UNL)
- Hannah Ash (University of Central Oklahoma), “Why America Needs Sexual Health Education”
- Jayce Camp (University of Central Oklahoma), “Confronting Stigmatizing Policies: An Oklahoma-Based Analysis of Policy and Stigmatizing Attitudes Towards HIV/AIDS”
- Philana McHenry (University of Central Oklahoma), “What’s In a Name? Activism, Bigotry, Treatment, and Language in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic”
- Lauren Watkins (University of Central Oklahoma), “Healthcare and Inequity: Transgender Patients Quality of Treatment”
Session #9: Rethinking Theory
Ubuntu Room / 202
- Moderator: Iker González-Allende (UNL)
- Clare Frances Kennedy (UNL), “Masculinities at a Crossroads: Addressing Harassment and Sexism Within the Field of Masculinities Studies”
- Ashton Koch (UNL), “Clash and Cooperation of Ecofeminism and Postmodern Feminism"
- Natalie Watson (Hastings College), “Doing Justice to Gender”
Session #10: Responding to Student Disclosures with CARE
Unity Room / 212
- Moderator: Jennifer Kruse (UNL)
- Workshop led by Lizzy Lavin (UNL)
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| 2:30-3:50pm |
Session #11: Representations of Gender in Television and Film
Regency A
- Moderator: Tamy Burnett (UNL)
- Tina Jones (UNK), “RuPaul and Drag Race’s Influence on Society”
- Hannah Labonar (UNL), “Geniuses and Bad Girl Shenanigans: The Moral Complexity of Superhero TV’s Female Scientists”
- Kayla Schmitz (UNL), “‘This Was Supposed to Be Easy!’ Reproductive Justice Rhetoric Through Rhetorical Homology in Hulu’s Plan B”
Session #12: Listening to Stories of Violence among Under-represented Women: How the Media and Other Institutions Have Failed Them
Regency B
- Moderator: Meagan Kunitzer (UNL)
- Ty Anderson and Mikele Smith (University of Central Oklahoma), “The Missing White Woman Syndrome”
- Becca Archer (UNK), “Inequity and Violence: Indigenous Women and Sex Trafficking Policies”
- Christina Markgraf, Tiffany Berry, Journey Noyes, Tina Jones, and Michelle Gerih (UNK), “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and the Media”
- Lydia Perez (University of Central Oklahoma), “The War on Drugs and the Calderón Administration: A Historical Analysis of Militaristic Language and Tendencies”
Session #13: The Black Woman Experience
Regency C
- Moderator: Shari Stenberg (UNL)
- Keesha Albrecht (UNK), “Love and Control in Their Eyes Were Watching God”
- Kiley Anderson (UNK), “The Poetry and Public Persona of Phillis Wheatley”
- Taleaha Lee (University of Central Oklahoma), “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”
- Keryeé Morton (University of Central Oklahoma), “Black Minds Matter”
Session #14: Feminism at the Intersections of Religious Traditions
Ubuntu Room / 202
- Moderator: Marissa Oliver (UNL)
- Andrew Hedges (University of Central Oklahoma), “B’tselem Elohim ‘In G-d’s Image’”
- Trevor Linn (Nebraska Wesleyan University), “The Ambivalence of Feminist Religious Symbolism”
- Jacob Reavis (University of Central Oklahoma), “Sacred River in Crisis: An Analysis of Gender, Cultural Practices, and Pollution along the Ganges”
- Deanna Sobczak (UNO), “Woman and the Cosmos: Creation Imagery in Heldegard of Bingen’s Liber Divinorum Operum”
Session #15: Zine Making Workshop: A Historical Analysis of Queer Resistance in Zines
Unity Room / 212
- Moderator: Keshia Mcclantoc (UNL)
- Workshop led Grace Payne and Skyler Donnell (University of Central Oklahoma)
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| 4:00-5:20pm |
Session #16: Documentary Film: “Sexual Health Is Health”
Regency A
- Moderator: Shari Stenberg (UNL)
- Documentary directed by Mak McCleary (University of Central Oklahoma)
Session #17: Transgressing Prescribed Narratives
Regency B
- Moderator: Tamy Burnett (UNL)
- Mara Andersen (UNK), “The Constellation of Shakespeare’s Juliet”
- Eden Bass (University of Central Oklahoma), “Neuroqueer: The Intersectionality of Neurodivergence and Queerness”
- Diana Humble (University of South Dakota), “Preliminary Findings: The Inclusion of Rape and Other Non-Consensual Sexual Adults in Self-Insert Fanfiction”
- Merrick S. (University of Central Oklahoma), “‘Queerly Beloved’ and ‘Phantom Mechanics:’ A Duality of Queer Resistance”
Session #18: Transcending Cultural Norms and Gender in Transnational Communities
Regency C
- Moderator: Sandra Loughrin (UNK)
- Zachary Cheek (UNL), “The Impact of India’s 2009 Right to Education Act on Primary- and Secondary-Level Gender Parity Indices”
- Michelle Gerih (UNK), “Sexism in Latino Culture”
- AnaMarie Lopez (University of Central Oklahoma), “Cultural Customs and their Limits on Liberation: An Analysis of the Latinx Community and the Mental Illness Within It”
Session #19: Investigating Women, Gender, and Sex Through Change Over Time: Historical Perspectives
Ubuntu Room / 202
- Moderator: Jess Morrow (UNL)
- Giovanni Esparza (University of Northern Colorado), “‘Jorgensen Enjoys Being Christine’: Christine Jorgensen’s Public Image and How It Shaped a Movement”
- Elizabeth Malousek (UNL), “The Problem with Purity: Let’s Talk about Why We Don’t Talk About Sex”
- Sam Royka (University of Central Oklahoma), “Love As Resistance”
- Emma Stewart (University of Central Oklahoma), “A History of Hysteria: The Evolution of Attitudes Towards Menstruation From 1920-2020”
Session #20: bell hooks: Pedagogy through Dialogue - Tributes from UNL Teachers, Writers, and Advocates
Unity Room / 212
- Amelia-Marie Altstadt, Briar Essex, Jordan Charlton, Zoe McDonald, Elva Moreno Del Rio, and Alexander Vera (UNL)
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| 5:30-6:00pm |
Last Chance to Mingle and Fond Farewells…Until Next Year at UNK! |
