Plain-text 2022 Program
All times shown are Central Standard Time (UTC -6).
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Dr. Dana Rabin, Introduction and Opening Remarks
Panel 1: Black Womanhood
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM | Chelsea Buggs, University of Memphis ‘Strained to the Breaking Point’: I am Me: Black Middle-class Women’s Intellectual-Activism, Public Spaces, & Identity Construction & Demonstration in the Jim/Jane Crow Era, 1880- 1930.
9:20 AM – 9:40 AM | Emmanuella Amoh, Purdue University The American and un-American: Pauli Murray and Shirley Graham Du Bois in Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1961-1966.
9:40 AM – 10:00 AM | Cameron Sauers, University of Kentucky Black Women and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction South Carolina, 1865-1869.
10:00 AM – 10: 15 AM | Questions
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Short Break
Panel 2: Masculine Gaze, Reflected
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM | Sarah Bartlett, Iowa State University Embracing Ambiguity: Examining a New Framework for the study of Ancient Athenian Women on Attic Pottery.
10:50 AM – 11:10 AM | Patrick Levine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign From Wimps & Nerds to Mass Shooters & Incels: Political Bodies and the Rage of Some Marginalized Men.
11:10 AM – 11:30 AM | William Walker, Iowa State University Honor With Death: Roman Masculinity and Self-Killing.
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM | Questions
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM | Lunch
Panel 3: Women’s Spaces and Places
12:30 PM – 12:50 PM | Caroline Greer, George Mason University Sites of Spectacle and Sites of Sacrifice.
12:50 PM – 1:10 PM | Claire Patton, Oklahoma State University Cleanliness in the Dust Bowl: Preservation, Society, and Hope.
1:10 PM – 1:30 PM | Fernando Jauregui, California State University, Los Angeles The Agent of Transformation: Cauim and Tupinamba Women in Sixteenth-Century Brazil.
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM | Questions
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM | Short Break
Panel 4: Regulating the Sexed Body
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM | Catherine Drzewiecki, San Diego State University Bars, Social Hygiene Clinics, and Mixed-Race Babies: The Flourishing Sex Industry Near US Military Bases in the Philippines.
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM | Ann Vlock, University of Nebraska – Lincoln Once Ruined, Always Ruined: The Late Nineteenth Century Discourse on the Age of Consent.
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM | Emily Windham, San Diego State University African American Women and Progressive Reform: Examining Social Action and Mental Health.
3:00 PM – 3: 15 PM | Questions
3:15 PM – 3: 30 PM | Short Break
Panel 5: Reproductive Control
3:30 PM – 3:50 PM | Hailee Josefina Menchaca, San Diego State University Madrigal v. Quilligan: Cultural Identity and Testimony as a Site of Power.
3:50 PM – 4:10 PM | Genesis Agosto, University of Nebraska – Lincoln Involuntary Sterilization of Native American Women.
4:10 PM – 4:30 PM | Emma Wathen, University of Wisconsin – Madison The Girls at Taycheedah: Labor and Political Organization in the Wisconsin Industrial Home for Women.
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM | Questions
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Short Break
Keynote Address
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Dr. Natalie Lira, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign State Care Embodied: Sterilization and Confinement in California During the Era of Eugenics
6:00 PM | Conference Concludes