Gender Studies Symposium
19th Annual Gender Studies Symposium
March 08, 2000
2000 Gender Symposium
Undergraduate Campus
Art Exhibit
MARCH 8 - 10, TEMPLETON STUDENT CENTER, STAMM
The 2000 Gender Studies Symposium Art Exhibition explored issues of gender, poverty, and health through a variety of artistic media. Artwork came from many corners of our community: Lewis & Clark students, staff, and faculty, as well as artists from the Portland community and beyond. Each artist brought his or her unique visual voice to these compelling issues.
Gender and Popular Culture
Wednesday, March 8
9 - 10:30 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Roundtable, Sacred Monsters in Their Prime: Riffs on Gender and Popular Culture
9 - 10:30 A.M., STAMM
Workshop, Is It Sex, Gender, or Autogynephilia?
10:45 A.M. - NOON, COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Masculinity in Literature and Film
10:45 - NOON, STAMM
Discussion, May I/WE Have the Pleasure?: Gender Balance in Partner Dancing
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., STAMM
Reading/discussion, How True Are Memoirs?
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., THAYER
Roundtable, What Is Pop Culture?
1:30 - 2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Gender Portrayals in Music Videos
1:30 - 2:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel, Contradictions of the Body: Perspectives on Prostitution, Eating Disorders, and Stripping
3 - 4:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Missing Women: Literature, History, and Film Reexamined
3 - 4:15 P.M., THAYER
Informal discussion, “Dreamworlds” with filmmaker Sut Jhally
7:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
RECEPTION FOLLOWS IN FOYER
Keynote Address: Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity
Sut Jhally, video producer and professor or communication, University of Massachusetts
Thursday, March 9
9 - 10:15 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Interpreting Gender Messages: Mouthwash, Magazines, and Milk
9 - 10:15 A.M., THAYER
Panel, Stories of Sisterhood From the World Wide Web and the Wedding Party
10:30 A.M. - NOON, COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Feminist Perspectives on Film
10:30 A.M. - 11:45 A.M., THAYER
Panel, Mythic Women: From the First Female to “The Guiding Light”
NOON - 1 P.M., STAMM
Roundtable, What Is Feminism?
NOON - 1 P.M., STAMM
Roundtable, Popular Culture and Gender in Art: Visual Record of a Time–Or Just Being “Cool”?
1:15 - 2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Waifs, Housewives, and Tommy Boys: A Discussion of Gendered Elements in Print Advertising
1:15 - 2:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel, International Perspectives on Communism, Gender, and the Family
3 - 4:15 P.M., THAYER
Panel, Gendered Fictions: Utopias, Revolutionary Ideology, and Cold War Spectacle
3 - 4:15 P.M., STAMM
Panel, Girls’ Initiative Network: Sisters Communicating for Realistic Representations of Girls and Women
4:30 - 5:30 P.M., FIR ACRES THEATRE, BLACK BOX
Performance, Corpsfem
4:30 - 6:00 P.M., STAMM
Dramatic reading, Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories From the Women Who Lived Them
7:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW IN FOYER
Keynote Address: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media
Susan Douglas, author of Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media, and professor of communication, Univeristy of Michigan
Friday, March 10
9 - 10:15 A.M., THAYER
Panel, Women in Sports Advertising
9 - 10:15 A.M., STAMM
Informal discussion with Susan Douglas
10:30 A.M. - NOON, COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Peer Pressure: An Interdisciplinary Session Exploring Women’s Responses to Popular Culture in Early 20th-Century Europe
10:30 A.M. - NOON, STAMM
Panel, Rhetoric of Women
12:15 - 1 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Women’s Work for the Environment: Art, Music, Poetry, and Activism
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., STAMM
Roundtable, Polyamory: A Stirfry of Radical Thoughts
1:15 - 2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Reports on Gender From the Post-Colonial World
1:30 - 2:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel, Coming of Age Under Patriarchy
3 - 4:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Videos/discussion with Portland filmmakers, Gender, Culture, and the Stories Films Tell
3 - 4:30 P.M., THAYER
Panel, Pushing the Boundaries: Sexual Ambiguity in Fiction
4:45 - 6:15 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Music/discussion, Dear Nora Presents: Reaction to Women in Rock