Our theme for this year's interdisciplinary and international graduate conference, "Research Subjects," takes seriously the subjection of bodies to research:  we are interested in ethical and contentious issues orbiting both subjects *of* research and subjects *as* researchers.  The conference took place at the University at Buffalo's North Campus on Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22, 2006.

Three poster-prizes were warded to outstanding poster displays in the exhibit accompanying the symposium.

A film screening and poetry reading, Obsidian Frames, featuring 13 filmmakers and the writing of Bhanu Kapil, closed our two day conference on Saturday night at Squeaky Wheel in downtown Buffalo at 7pm.

For a detailed listing of presenters and events, click on "read more." 

FRIDAY APRIL 21

120 CLEMENS HALL:  Room 120.  Break-out rooms: 412, 436, 538

1:00 – 1:30 pm       REGISTRATION, WELCOME, COFFEE

1:30 – 3:00 pm                       STREAM A (3 panels)

(A1)  Engendering Social Work
Clemens        Organizer:  Carolyn Taggart
436              Moderator: Tracy Torelli
                   Respondent:  Liana Bay-Cheng

Kelly F. Jackson, LMSW, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo.   “‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’: A Doctoral Student’s Reflections on Doing Grounded Theory Research - In Henry’s Light.”
Sandra M. Sheppard, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo.  “School Discipline and Social Work Practice: Application of Research and Theory to Intervention.”
Carolyn E. Taggart, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo.  “ ‘Adging Up’ to ‘Beef on Sight’: A Qualitative Study of the Perceived Causes of Interpersonal Conflict and Violence Among African-American Girls in an Urban High School.”

(A3)  Material Words                          
Clemens        Moderator/Respondent: Kyle Schlesinger
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Jenny Douglas, Department of English, University of Rochester. 
“'Perform or Else': the Performativity of Discipline in Ana Mendieta’s Body Art.”
Lori Emerson,  Department of English, University at Buffalo.
"Materiality, Intentionality, and the Computer-Generated Poem: Erin Moure."
Michael Cross, Department of English, University at Buffalo.   
“Leslie Scalapino’s ‘Event Horizon.’”

(A5)  Women and Male Culture in Early Modern English Dramas
Clemens      Moderator:  Maya Mathur
412            Respondent: Barbara Bono

Seon Young Jang, Department of English, University at Buffalo.   “Woman and the Law in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.”
Chia-ying (Carrie) Wu, Department of English, SUNY at Buffalo. “Reinstating Male Potency: Multi-Scripts and the Queer Bodies in Ben Jonson’s Epicene.”
Jongwoo Park, Department of English, Universtiy at Buffalo. “Female Subject in Male Disguise: The Transvestism in The Roaring Girl.”

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3:15-5:15 pm                          STREAM B          (3 panels)

(B1)  Intertext:  Bodies (Un)bound
Clemens        Organizer/Moderator:   Lydia Kerr
436              Respondent:  (TBA)

Nicole Jowsey, Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo.  "Losing the Divine: Melancholia, Finitude and the Work of Art."
Patricia Connolly, Department of English, University of Vermont.  "Corporeal Intersubjectivity in the Works of Jeanette Winterson and Virginia Woolf."
Nate Gorelick, Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo.  “‘May We Be Forgiven’: Revolt, Monstrosity and Redemption in Sade's Eugénie de Franval."
Deborah Spanfelner, Department of Comparative Literature, Binghamton University.  “Re-reading, Re-writing, and Re-creating the ‘Critical’ I.” 

(B3) Necessary Foreignness?  Subjects of Research & their Researchers.
Clemens        Organizer/Moderator:  Swati Bandi
120              Respondent:  Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Akram Bhatti, Educational Administration, University at Buffalo.
“Gender Equity in India as articulated in the Affirmative Action Policy: Leveling the Playing Field?”
Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen, independent scholars, writers, editors.
“Discussion of Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey”
Hope Russell, Department of Women’s Studies, University at Buffalo.  "Of, For, and By the Children: The National Movement of Street Boys and Girls in Brazil" 

(B5) Asian/American Resistance to the Gendered Legacies of Colonialism
Clemens        Moderator: (TBA)
538              Respondent: Susan Moynihan

Mikyung Park, Department of English, University at Buffalo. 
“’Comfort Women’ and the Praxis of Justice in Art”
Zhen Li, Department of English, University at Buffalo. 
“Inversion: Race, Gender and Nationality in M. Butterfly”
Yasuko Kase, Department of English, University at Buffalo
“Over the Father's Corpse: Daughter's Subversive Mimicry in Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle"
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5:30 pm                  KEYNOTE: Bhanu Kapil, Naropa University  
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW. 

SATURDAY APRIL 22

NATURAL SCIENCES BUILDING (Atrium). North Campus, University at Buffalo
8:00 – 8:30 am  REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 

8:30 – 10:00 am                     STREAM A  (3 panels)

(A2)        Enacting Gender in the Every Day                 
NSC        Moderator:  Rima Aranha
216         Respondent: Yoshiko Nozaki

Elizabeth Gage, Department of Sociology, University at Buffalo. 
“The Impact of Women’s Integration into College Sports on Men Athlete’s Sexual Behavior and Attitudes Regarding Gender.” 
Andrea Nikischer, Educational Leadership & Policy, University at Buffalo.  “The Impact of Sexual Assault on the Educational Outcomes and Life Choices of Women.”
Clayton Steen, Educational Leadership & Policy, University at Buffalo.  “Black Male Identity in First Ring Suburban Neighborhoods.”

 

(A4)  Claiming Bodies, Reclaiming Spaces:  Women’s Political and Creative Resistance
NSC          Moderator:  Voichita Nachescu
218           Respondent:  Stacy Hubbard

Susannah Bartlow, Department of English, University at Buffalo.
"'Obscenity Is Catching'":  Audre Lorde, Erotic Knowing, and Political Power."
Heather Biddell, Department of Women’s Studies, University at Buffalo. "The Feminization of Space:  Language and the Notion of Home in Indigenous Women’s Literature and Lives."
Brooke Fitzpatrick, Department of Art History, University at Buffalo.   "Guerilla Girls:  The Art of Defiance."

(A6)  Women and Male Culture in Early Modern English Dramas II
NSC            Moderator: Maya Mathur    
222            Respondent: Barbara Bono

Anne-Marie E. Schuler, Department of English, The Ohio State University. 
“Virtuous Love and Vicious Lust: Florimell and the Embodiment of Female Chastity, Friendship, and Justice in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.”
Sonya Brockman, Department of English, University at Buffalo. 
"Munera's Punishment: Containment of Female Transgression in Spenser's The Faerie Queene".
Hilda Ma, Department of English , University at Buffalo.
“A ‘Map of Woe’: Reading Violence and the Culture of Dissection in Titus Andronicus.”

POSTER SET–UP:  Participants can set up their posters anytime between 9-12pm

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10:10 – 12:00          STREAM B (3 panels)

(B2)  Objet d’art & the female body  
NSC          Organizers:  LindaBeth Flack & Setareh Masoumbeiki
218           Moderator:  LindaBeth Flack   Respondent:  Lori Johnson

Featuring the research and artwork of:
Krystal Stowe, Department of Art History, State University of New York at Potsdam. “The Ideal Woman in Art:  An In Progress Study from 30 B.C.E.to present”
Margaret Le Jeune Ross­­, Art Department, University of Syracuse.
Setareh Masoumbeiki, Independent artist and scholar
Erin Finley, Department of Fine Arst, University of Toronto.
“Vaseline Venus: An examination of intersections between pornography and odalisque art history in Nadia Nefariously.”

(B4)  Negotiating Gendered Identities
NSC          Organizer:  Rima Aranha
216           Moderator:  Andrea Nikischer
                Respondent:  Yoshiko Nozaki

Rima Aranha, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy, University at Buffalo.  “Negotiating marriage with the home and nation they left behind: Narratives and experiences of Indian women graduate students in the US”
Yu-Chen Lin, Visiting scholar, University at Buffalo and National Taiwan Normal University.  “Constructing alternative female identities: Two drop out girls in Taiwan.”
Madiha J. Bhatti, Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo.  "Researcher or Informant: The Shifting Roles of a Native Ethnographer"

(B6)  Sex Differences in Bio/Psych &  Sociological Sciences                 
NSC            Moderator:  Sean Green     
222             Respondent:  Eduardo Mercado III

Chong Wang, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience.  University at Buffalo.  “Humpback whales and computational Neural Network”
Drina Eva Bosnjak, Independent Scholar.  “Awareness and Agency in the Visual Field: Sensorimotor Subjects”
Maurico Carvallo, Social-Personality Psychology, University at Buffalo.  TBA
Kirstin Stauffacher Grös, Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo. "Searching For Gender Differences in Aggression."

12:00 – 12:30 pm                   LUNCH

12:30-1:30                             KEYNOTE Molly Carnes, MD

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2:00 – 4:00 pm                       STREAM C (2 panels and poster display/contest)                 

(C1a) Regional Research, Activists & Researchers
NSC            Moderator: Pat Shelly
216             Respondent: Greg Dimitriadis (tbc)

Terrianne K. Schulte, University at Buffalo. “’Action on Water’:  The League of Women Voters and Federal Water Pollution Control, 1962-1972.”
Cassi Meyerhoffer, University at Buffalo.  “Who’s Doing What?:  Gender and Neighborhood Organizing through Block Clubs in Buffalo, NY”
Lori Eldridge, University at Buffalo.  “The Fashioned Researcher and Gender Study in Unitarian Universalism”

(C1b) Pedagogy-Research-History 
NSC           Moderator: Pat Shelly
216            Respondent: Greg Dimitriadis (tbc)

Voichita Nachescu, University at Buffalo. “Between consciousness-raising and institutionalization: the Case of the ‘213 Collective’ at SUNY Buffalo”
Tomoka Toraiwa, University at Buffalo.  “Graduates’ Reflections of the Women’s Studies Program.”

 

(C3)  The Feminine: Framed, Filmed and Furious?
NSC             Organizer:  Swati Bandi
218              Moderator:   Julie Perini
                   Respondent:  Sarah Bay-Cheng

Deveryle James, Department of comparative Literature, University at Buffalo.  "What's Love Got to Do With It:” Sexual Violence Against Women in Filmic Works”
Beth Tsai, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo. 
“Japanese Horror and the Gaze.”
Swati Bandi, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo.
“Mama Go Home: Transnational selves and ‘Going-back’ in Safina Uberoi’s ‘My Mother India.’”

Poster Contest:  2:00-4pm (NSC Atrium): 

Shereen Brown, Gabriell Foley, Christine LoBue-Estes, Naoyuki Murakami, Krystal M. Stowe, Edith Williams, Jeffrey J. Yu, Eunice Y. Yuen, Hongoak Yun.

Judges:  Rosemary Dziak, Kathleen MacKormick, Gail Willsky, Lori Johnson, Eddie Mercado.

4:30pm  Reception & Announcement of Winners of Poster Contest

7pm:  Obsidian Screens:  Film screening & Poetry reading. Location:  Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St., Buffalo  –  downtown.  Poetry Reading by Kapil.  Filmmaker’s showcasing their work:  Swati Bandi, Sandra Boero-Imwinkelried, Mili Pradhan, Meg Knowles, Elizabeth Knipe, Gautam Malik, Christopher Ernst, Beth Tsai, Aysegul Taskent, Seohyoung Kim, Vincenzo Mistretta.