Transformations: A Symposium for Undergraduate Student Work in Women's and Gender Studies

When: Friday, March 1, 2013 (9 AM)
Where: Roosevelt University – Chicago Campus

AUD244, Auditorium Building, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60605

8:45-9:00am

Opening Comments/ Welcome Address

9am-10am

Panel 1: Doing Gender

Brenden Carlson: “Analyzing Gender in the Marketplace”

Karissa Martin: “Beauty: The Never Ending Ideology”

Jennifer Schoolcraft: “How Emotion and Communication are Gendered Among Male Adolescents: Breaking Down the Idea that ‘Real Men Don’t Cry’”

Matthew Reynolds “SlutWalk and the Shameless Protest: Combating an International Rape Culture”

10:15- 11:15am

Panel 2: Transformations & Revisions

Eleanor Peck: “Republican Women in the U.S. Congress”

Alicia Fedro: “Shakespeare in Film: Representations of Women in Adaptations and Offshoots”

Taylor Massa: “’Yes, Mistress’: Examining the BDSM/Fetish world as a Queer Space”

Lucas Barnhill: “Treading the Silent Path”

11:30am- 12:30pm

Panel 3: Transforming Campus: Student Activism at RU

Meggie Chambers- CAASE
Gianna Chacon- sexual assault prevention on campus
Kaitlin Vens- RU Proud
Anna Rangos- Feminists United

12:30pm-1:45pm
Lunch

2pm-3pm

Keynote Address

Owen Daniel McCarter: “Police, Gender, and Detention: Changing Laws for Transgender People in Chicago”

For more information, contact Professor Ellen O’Brien, eobrien@roosevelt.edu.