2015 Graduate Research Conference
Between Identities and Environments
Keynote Speaker: Jin Haritaworn, Professor of Gender, Race, and Environment at York University
The 22nd Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies International Graduate Conference will be held at the University of Rochester on March 19th & 20th, 2015 in the Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library.
Conference Schedule
Thursday, March 19
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Opening Reception
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Keynote Address
Jin Haritaworn, Professor of Gender, Race, and Environment, York University – “Queer Regenerations: Transitioning Bodies in Transitioning Environments”
Friday, March 20
10:15 am – 10:30 amOpening Remarks
Nora Rubel, Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Panel One: Mapping Identities
Moderator: Grace Seiberling, Associate Professor of Art & Art History
Orvis Starkweather (University of Toronto) – Pilgrimage as Health Care: Access to Healing and Images of Female Mobility in the Fifteenth Century
Lifang Wang (Syracuse University) – Rural Chinese Female University Students Navigating Urban-Rural Inequalities and Gender Across the Border of Rural Homes and Urban Academies in China
Nicole Greer Golda (University of Michigan) – Suspects of Moral Turpitude: Migrant Woman's Experiences of Border in the Twentieth Century United States
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Panel Two: Framing Bodies
Moderator: Jennifer Creech, Assistant Professor of German
Sarah Fuchs Sampson (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester) – Mechanical Reproduction and the Modern Prima Donna: Jeanne Hatto's 1900 Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre Performance
Shawna Carroll (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Universityof Toronto) – The Queer Body as a Space and in the Space of the Ontario English Secondary Classroom
Joel Neville Anderson (University of Rochester) – Home Birth, World Cinema: Kawase Naomi's Experimental Personal Documentaries
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm Panel Three: Sex and Sexualities
Moderator: Deborah Modrak, Professor of Philosophy
Tiffany Pollock (York University) – Feeling Cuba: MediatingSexualities and Intimacies in Cuban Salsa Dance Tourism
Satoko Itani (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto) – Negotiating Japanese Gender and Sexual Norms Through the Discourses of Sporting Female Masculinity and Trans-normativity
Jessica Martin (York University) – The Changing Landscape of Online Pornography: Translocal Networks and Transcultural Practices
4:30 pm – 5:45 pm Film Presentation and Discussion
Moderator: Elena Bellina, Assistant Professor of Italian, Eastman School of Music
Jamie Coull (Curtin University of Technology) and Cara Snyder (University of Maryland) – “Agorafaux-pas! Creative Responses to the Faux Queen Moment”
5:45 pm – Closing Remarks