Gender Across Borders III:  Research Transformations

Complete Conference Schedule

April 4-5, 2008  

University at Buffalo Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

CLEMENS HALL AND CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Registration 8:30am-1pm in Clemens Hall 1004

8:30am-9am, Clemens Hall 120

Breakfast and welcome

9am-1pm, Clemens Hall 120

SPECIAL SESSION:  CREATING A SPACE FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE

9am:  Creating a Space for Women in Science panel

Laura Abdi, Environmental Specialist, the Leader Group

Gail Willsky, Associate Professor, UB Biochemistry

Joseph Gardella, Professor, UB Chemistry

11am:  SCIENCES KEYNOTE, TANYA FURMAN

Pennsylvania State University-University Park, Professor of Geosciences; Assistant Vice President & Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

12pm-1pm Lunch and discussion

1A.  JEWISH IDENTITY, Clemens Hall 904

Faculty respondent:  Dr. Maxine Seller,  Professor Emeritus, Educational Organization, Administration, and Policy, University at Buffalo

Nicky Fox, University at Buffalo.  "Tikkun Olam:  Jewish Women's Participation in the American Civil Rights Movement"

Abby Gondek, San Diego State University.  "Black, Jewish and Female: 'Caught in the Crossfire':  The Myth of Racial Democracy and Its Implications for Racist Sexism and Anti-Semitism in Brazil"

Kimberly Long, San Diego State University.  "Henrietta Szold: Gender and Education in the Yishuv"

1B.  THE BODY POLITIC:  WOMEN’S HEALTH AND MOTHERING, 930 Clemens Hall

Faculty respondent:  Dr. Joan Baizer, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo

Amber O'Daniels, University at Buffalo.  "What came first, the female or the sickness: a look into how science created the female sickness"

Jennifer Sandoval, University of New Mexico.  "'We're not gonna take it:' The pathologizing of feminine health norms in pharmaceutical advertising"

Marlisa Moschella, Binghamton University (SUNY).  "Effective Speculation: Alternative Family Structures and the Identity Formation of Children"

1C.  GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT, Clemens Hall 1004

Faculty respondent:  Dr. Marieme Lo, Dept. of Global Gender Studies, University at Buffalo

Neelam Maheshwari, University at Buffalo.  "Feminist Critique of Microfinance"

Barbara Wejnert, University at Buffalo.  "Gender, Democracy and Globalization"

Percyslage Chigora and Tobias Guzura, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.  "Gender Equality In Institutions of Higher Learning in Zimbabwe: A Case of Midlands State University's Experience With Female Advancement 2004-2007"

3pm-5pm, Panel Group 2

2A.  ATTENDING TO GENDERED DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE:  UB STUDENT RESEARCH, Clemens Hall 904

Faculty Respondent:  Dr. Laina Bay-Cheng, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo

Jane Bassatt-Winchell and Nicole Fava.  “Contextualizing Differences in Perception and Experience of Rape: Implications for Social Work Practice with Refugee Women.”

Kimberly Girdlestone.  “Gender and Mental Health Differences Among Suburban Drug Court Participants.”

Rebecca Eliseo-Arras.  “Gender Differences in Self-injury.”

2B.  GENDER PHARMACOLOGY:  UB RESEARCH, Clemens Hall 930

Faculty chair:  Dr. Glenna Bett, Gynecology-Obstetrics/Physiology & Biophysics, University at Buffalo

Tishana Daniel, University at Buffalo, "Gender Pharmacology"
Glenna Bett, University at Buffalo, "Mediation of Gender-specific Serious Adverse Events by Ion Channels”

Salwan Abdul Sahib, University at Buffalo, "A Novel Voltage-gated Potassium Channel in the Myometrium"
Bingjun He, University at Buffalo, "Sex Differences in the Electrical and Pharmacological profile of the Heart"
Michael Duffey, University at Buffalo, "Sex Differences in Cardiac Ion channel Expression"

5PM, CENTER FOR THE ARTS SCREENING ROOM

HUMANITIES KEYNOTE:  “What’s Up on Planet Earth??: A New Age Ecowomanist Statement”

LAYLI PHILLIPS, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and African American Studies at Georgia State University; editor, The Womanist Reader (Routledge 2006)

6pm Refreshments, CENTER FOR THE ARTS BLACK BOX THEATRE

7pm, CFA Screening Room

SPECIAL SESSION:  TRANSFORMING GENDER IN FILM

Presenters:  Elvira Dones, Director, Sworn Virgins

Sworn Virgins

FtF:  Female to Femme

SATURDAY, APRIL 5

NATURAL SCIENCES COMPLEX (NSC)

Registration & breakfast 8:30am-1pm in Natural Sciences Complex lobby

9am-11am, Panel Group 3

3A.  WOMEN'S CREATIVE RESISTANCE, NSC 201

Respondent:  Dr. Lori Johnson, UB Dept. of Visual Studies

Paola Kersch, University at Buffalo.  “Bonds of Love, Trauma, or A Cacophony of Radio-transmitted Voices?”

Yeewan Koon, University of Hong Kong.  “Skirting the Borders: Women Artists in Hong Kong”

Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah, University at Buffalo.  “Resisting Multiple Oppressions:  The Diasporic Voices of Lauryn Hill and Abrewa Nana”

3B.  LIBERATING SEX:  NEW PERSPECTIVES ON INTERSEX AND TRANS-SEXUAL BEING, NSC 205

Respondents:  Mary Foltz, Ph. D. candidate, Department of English

            Ryan Hatch, Ph. D. candidate, Department of English

Hilary Malatino, Binghamton University. “Documenting Sexed Aberrance, Figuring Subversive Desires: Intersex Visuality.”

Rachel Verni, CUNY Graduate Center.  “Passing as a practice of agency.”

3C. CHANGING OUR MINDS:  Science and homosexuality, NSC 210

Film and discussion:  Changing Our Minds:  The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker

11am-12:30pm, Panel Group 4

4A.  CONTESTING FEMINIST ETHICS, NSC 205

Respondent:  Lydia R. Kerr, Ph. D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature

Alexandra Murphy, University of Dublin, Trinity College.  “Self, Space and Subject - towards 'Deep-Visuality' as an ontological strategy.” 

Susannah Bartlow, University at Buffalo.  “Ebb and flow:  the future of feminist intervention.”

Lucy Nicholas, University of Edinburgh.  “Contemporary Anarcho-Queer Gender Politics: A Reciprocal Ethics of Practice.”

4B. WOMEN WRITERS AND LITERARY POSSIBILITIES, NSC 210

Respondent:  Dr. Shelby Crosby, Liberal Arts, D’Youville College

Hope Russell, Dept. of Global Gender Studies.  “A Rent in the Master Narrative: The Bildungsroman from the 18th Century to the Present”

Allison Siehnel, Dept. of English.  "Subverting and Supporting Femininity: How Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century Reestablishes the Meaning of Virtue by Ignoring the Cult of True Womanhood"

Elizabeth Scarlett, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures.  “From the Erotic to the Sublime and Back Again: Ana Rossetti as Postmodern Mystic.”

Nicole Zeftel, Dept. of English.  “See Ourselves as Others See Us”: The Representation of Gerty MacDowell Through the Languages of Commodity and the Sentimental Novel”

4C.  COUNTING HEADZ:  WOMEN AND HIP-HOP, NSC 201

Film screening and discussion:  Counting Headz:  South African Women and Hip-Hop

Faculty chair:  Dr. Tara Jabaar-Gyambrah, UB academic adviser and lecturer in African American Studies

12: 30pm-1pm             Lunch, NSC lobby

1pm-3pm, Panel Group 5

5A.  MANAGING TRANSFORMATION & COHESION: MAKING MEANING, CHALLENGING BORDERS:  SCHOLARS OF YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO, CANADA, NSC 201

Chair:  May Friedman

Vicki Hallett.  “Carried on Epistolary Currents:  A Woman's Writing Life in Newfoundland”

Diana Gibaldi.  “She’s My Dad:  Transgender Parenting and the Shifting Landscape of Gender Borders in North America."

May Friedman.  “Mommies gone wireless:  Mothering in an Internet age”

Claire Carter.  “Body Borders: Negotiating the Self Through Body Practices”

5B.   BORDER-CROSSING AND RESISTANCE, NSC 205

Faculty respondent:  Dr. Margarita Vargas, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures, University at Buffalo

Claudia Anguiano, California State University of Los Angeles. “Investigating Border Identity: A Critical Exploration of the dialogic resistance of undocumented students.”

Ramona Olvera, Brandeis University.  “Immigration & Mexican Women”

Natalie Miller, Ramapo College.  “Ending Female Conquest: Hearing the Other's Voice”

Ashwini Tambe, University of Toronto.  “The Trajectory of Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Transnational Feminist Story?”

5C.  BUFFALO WOMEN COMMUNITY WORKERS, NSC 210

Faculty respondent:  Dr. Ruth Meyerowitz, Dept. of American Studies, University at Buffalo

Zoe Hollomon, Growing Green Youth Enterprise and PUSH Buffalo.

Erin Sharkey, Massachusetts Avenue Project.

Micaela Shapiro-Shellaby, Coalition for Economic Justice.

Kate Riehlman and Joanna Boron, UB Students Against Sweatshops.

Dara Biltekoff, Women Under 30 Board, Erie County Commission on the Status of Women.

3PM, SUMMARY ROUNDTABLE, NSC 201

Laura Abdi, Environmental Specialist, the Leader Group

Susannah Bartlow, Graduate Assistant, UB Gender Institute

Barbara Bono, Associate Professor, English

Lydia R. Kerr, Ph. D. Candidate, Comparative Literature 

Gwynn Thomas, Assistant Professor, Global Gender Studies

Gail Willsky, Associate Professor, Biochemistry

7pm, POST-CONFERENCE CELEBRATION

Please join the committee at the “Derby 101” Nickel City Knockouts vs. Devil Dollies Roller Derby Match.  See Susannah Bartlow for limited conference tickets (first come, first served) or visit http://www.queencityrollergirls.net/

Gender Across Borders Graduate Committee:  Swati Bandi, Susannah Bartlow, Nicky Fox, Kimm Girdlestone, Ruth Goldman, Emma H. Johnson, Paola M. Kersch, Amber O’Daniels, Sunanda Ray, Hope L. Russell, Laurie Sanders

Special Thanks:  Faculty advisors Gail Willsky and Gwynn Thomas; Co-Directors Margarita Vargas and Rosemary Dziak; Associate Director Patricia Shelly