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3RD ANNUAL WOMEN'S STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

GENDERED VIOLENCE: EPISTEMOLOGIES AND PRACTICES

MARCH 30-31, 2001

For Information:
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/WomenStudies/GradStudentConf3.html


Sponsors-- UK:
Sociology
Psychology
Anthropology
Classics
Geography
Student Government Association
Women's Studies
Feminist Alliance


Conference Organizers:
Kristi Branham
Leslie Butler
Melissa Cunningham
Mary E. Curran
Michelle Del Toro
Tonya Griffith
Joy Hayes
Jenny Hoobler
Jeorg Ellen Hornsby
Kasi Jackson
JoBeth Jordan
Sara Sahni
Seetha Veeraghanta


FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2001
9:30-11:00 a.m. Registration and Reception, Commonwealth House at Gaines
Center

OPENING SESSION AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS
12:00-2:00 p.m., 230 New Student Center

WELCOME:
Joan Callahan, Director, Women's Studies and Professor of Philosophy
Howard Grotch, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Introduction: Paola Bacchetta, Department of Geography and Women's Studies
Program
Dr. Geeta Patel, Women's Studies, Wellesley College
Marking "The Quilt": Veil, Harem/Home, and Sexual Subversion Within Them

RECEPTION:
2:00-2:45 (location TBA)


SESSION 2: 2:45-4:15 P.M.

Session 2A. Dangerous Women: Witches, Masochists, and Lesbian "Killer Males"
230 New Student Center

M. Michael Schiff, Social and Political Thought, York University
"Smooth Impenetrables: Inscriptions of Violence and Horror on Gendered
Bodies of Knowledge"

Jessica Venning-Datema, Comparative Literature, Binghamton University
"Sadomasochistic Fantasies, Submerging Subjectivities, and Wanda von
Sacher-Masoch's 'Supplemental' Writing"

Erin Abner, English, University of Kentucky
"LaFonda Fay Foster: The Death Penalty and Fear of the Un-Feminine"


Session 2B. Problematizing Praxis: Contextualizing Gender, Ethnicity, Race,
and Sexuality
Bingham Davis House at Gaines Center

Oliver Leaman, Philosophy, University of Kentucky
"Violent Death as a Spur to Sophistication in Talking About Death: Some
Anglo-American Comparisons"

Phillis H. Ramsby, Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center/African-American
Student Affairs, University of Kentucky
"Bag Lady(s) Packing Light: Hermeneutics and Healing"

Tara O'Dowd, Economics, Michigan State University
"Confession, Resistance, and Domination: The Complexities of Discourses on
Female Genital Mutilation, 1975-1985"

DINNER BREAK

SESSION 3
7:00-9:00 p.m. Center Theater, Old Student Center
Showing of the film "Earth," followed by a Roundtable Discussion
University of Kentucky Feminist Alliance


SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2001

7:45-8:30 Continental Breakfast, 211 New Student Center


SESSION 4: 8:30-10 A.M.

Session 4A. Normalizing Practices: Symbolism, Schoolboys, and Jokes
228 New Student Center

Kimberly Star, Sociology, Western Michigan University
"Uncovering Violence Against Women: Problematizing the 'Doxa'"

Marcus Hightower, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Symbolic Violence: The School vs. Boys"

Joann Toth and Michelle Bemiller, Sociology, The University of Akron
"'What do you do if your dishwasher breaks down? Slap her': The
Perpetuation of Gendered Violence Through Sexist Jokes"


Session 4B. Facilitating Rape: Rock and Roll, Silence, and the State
206 New Student Center

Erin Kenny, Anthropology, University of Kentucky
"Woodstock's Stock: Big Business, the Outdoor Music Festival, and Sexual
Assault"

Robin Barrow, English, University of Iowa
"The 'draught and glow' of Sexual Violence in Jane Eyre"

Tara Hefferan, Anthropology, Michigan State University
"Politics of Terror: State-Sponsored Rape in Haiti, 1991-1994"


SESSION 5: 10:15-11:45 A.M.

Session 5A. Consumption: Tobacco and Food
228 New Student Center

Shireen Lalla, Women's Studies, Florida Atlantic University
"Rebellion or Oppression: The Targeting of Women by the Tobacco Industry"

Margaret Marquis, English, University of Kentucky
"'When de Notion Strikes Me': Body image, Food, and Desire in 'Their Eyes
Were Watching God'"


Session 5B. Poverty and Patriarchy Across the Globe: Azerbaijan, the U.S.,
and India
230 New Student Center

Ruziya Ramazanova, Women's Rights Defense Organization, Azerbaijan
"Poverty as Gendered Violence"

Garen Murray, Interdisciplinary Studies and Ethics, Graduate Theological
Union/University of California, Berkeley
"Disciplining the Welfare Mother: Public Assistance as Violence Against Women"

Dr. Ratna K. Bandila, Centre for Women's Studies, Andhra University
"Poverty as Gendered Violence"


LUNCH BREAK


SESSION 6: 1-2:30 P.M.

Session 6A. Workshop: Creating a Coordinated Campus-Community Response to
Men's Violence, 230 New Student Center

Rus Ervin Funk, Founder, Men for Gender Justice
"Social Work, National Catholic School of Social Service "


Session 6B. Colonial Violence: Tribal erasures and homosocial utopias
206 New Student Center

Seetha Veeraghanta, Sociology, University of Kentucky
"Silenced Voices: Reclaiming the Histories of Adivasi Women"

Rebecca Weaver, English, University of Kentucky
"Colonial Island Narratives and the Masculine Violence Of/Towards Men"


Session 6C. Representing Violence: Lynching and Gothic Splits, 211 New
Student Center

Chad Barbour, English, University of Kentucky
"Gothic Violence: Gender and Whiteness in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig"

David Magill, English, University of Kentucky
"The Politics of Lynching: Walter White, Ernest Hemingway, and 1920s Racial
Violence"


SESSION 7: 2:45-4:15 P.M.

Session 7A. Embodied Perversions: Actual, Imagined, and Sadomasochistic,
228 New Student Center

Dr. Ann Dowd, English
"SoulSearch: Incest, Memory, and the Power of the Maternal Voice"

Ann M. Ciasullo, English, University of Kentucky
"Deviance and Desire: The Lesbian in/and the Women's Prison in Popular
Culture"

Gioia Marie Kerlin, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Pleasure-Bound: Structures of Sadomasochistic Power Exchange Between Ana
Ozores and Fermín de Pas in Clarín's La regenta"


Session 7B. Violent States: Rwanda, the U.S., and Indonesia, 230 New
Student Center

Victoria Thur, History, Florida Atlantic University
"Killer Women: The Active Participation of Women in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide"

Christine Metzo, Philosophy and Geography, University of Kentucky
"Masculinity, Violence, and the Rallying of a Democratic National Identity"

Sari Faizah, Women's Studies, University of Alabama
"Rape of the Nation: An analysis of Gender, Race and Class in the Case
Study of Chinese-Indonesian Women"

PLENARY SESSION 8: 5:00-7:00 p.m. Phillis Wheatley Center, 647 Chestnut Street
(Shuttle vans will be available to transport participants to and from the
Center.)

"Voices of Protest, Voices for Change; Transforming the Discourse on
African-American Youth Violence"

Rosalind Harris, Rural Sociology, University of Kentucky
Aminata Baruti, Community Advocate, East End Empowerment Project
George Moorman, Director, East End Empowerment Project
Denise Brown, Poet and Community Activist
Hendrick Floyd, Poet and Scholar Activist