18th Annual Gender Studies Symposium

9-10:15 A.M., STAMM
Panel: Sex Work: Health, Safety, and Economic Justice

9-10:15 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Visions in Action: Commitment to End Hunger and Poverty

10:30-NOON, THAYER
Panel: Superwomen and She-Devils in Medieval German Literature

10:30-NOON, STAMM
Workshop: Unique Issues of Trans- and Intersex Survivors of Domestic Violence

10:30-11:45 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Sexuality and Power in the Age of AIDS

12:15-1:15 P.M., STAMM
Reading: Synergia authors

1:15-2:45 P.M., THAYER
Roundtable: Surviving Breast Cancer

1:15-2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Performance and Discussion: Drawing the Shades, by April Elliott

3-5 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Featured Event. Documentary Film and Discussion: Jane: An Abortion Service

5-5:30 P.M., FIR ACRES THEATRE, BLACK BOX
Performance: Inappropriate Behavior, by Teresa Celsi

7:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
RECEPTION FOLLOWS IN FOYER
Keynote Address: Women and HIV: A Human Rights Perspective
Dazon Dixon, founder of SisterLove, a women’s AIDS organization, Atlanta

9-10:15 A.M., STAMM
Informal discussion with Dazon Dixon

10:30-NOON, THAYER
Panel: Distorted Perceptions: Eating Disorders and Body Image

10:30-11:45 A.M., STAMM
Roundtable: Youth and Issues of Sexual Diversity

10:30-NOON, COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Voices of Women Healers: Alternative Healthcare in Modern Society

NOON-1 P.M., STAMM
Poetry Reading: Women Writers’ Circle

1:15-2:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel: Money Matters: Can’t Buy Me Healthcare

1:15-2:45 P.M., STAMM
Theatre Workshop: Improvising About Gender in Every Day Life

1:15-2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: The Politics, Healthcare, and Activism of the Reproductive Rights Movement

3-4:15 P.M., THAYER
Panel: The Self-Misdiagnosis of Vaginal Yeast Infection: Clarifying the Confusion

3-4:15 P.M., STAMM
Panel: Women, Poverty, and the Welfare State: Historical and Global Perspectives

3-4:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Gendered Identity Crises in Modern Cinema

4:30-5:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel: Three Emigrant Latino Women Talk About Health and Poverty: Salud, Amor, Peseta, y Politica en la Mesa

4:30-5:45 P.M., STAMM
Multigenre Reading: Annie Dawid and Judith Arcana

7:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
RECEPTION FOLLOWS IN FOYER
Keynote Address: Men’s Health, Men’s Violence, Men’s Lives:
Why Gender Equality is the Answer
Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook, author of Manhood in America

9-10:15 A.M., STAMM
Panel: Breaking Down the Myths of Prostitution

9-10:15 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: The Literate Body: Inventing Women’s Identities

10:30-11:45 A.M., STAMM
Workshop with Michael Kimmel: Why Are We So Defensive? Interrogating Men’s Resistance to Equality

10:30-NOON, COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Diagnosis Discrimination: Challenging the Oregon Health Plan

NOON-1 P.M., THAYER
Roundtable: A Continuing Journey: Lewis & Clark College’s Sexual Conduct Policy

NOON-1 P.M., STAMM
Poetry Reading: The Muse Strikes Back

1:15-2:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel: “Never Another Battered Woman”: Men and Women on Domestic Violence

1:15-2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Fulbright Scholars

3-4:30 P.M., THAYER
Panel: 19th-Century Women Writers: Different Genres/Different Journeys

3-4:30 P.M., STAMM
Roundtable: Teen Moms Talk

3-4:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Women’s Bodies in 20th-Century Russia

4:45-6:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Keynote Performance: Comfort Me With Apples: Homeless Characters Throughout Literature
Betty Jean Steinshouer, Performance Artist