22nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium

gender and the arts

Art Exhibit, March 12-14, TEMPLETON STUDENT CENTER, STAMM
With new approaches, both subtle and direct, students, faculty, and other contemporary artists celebrated and investigated the age-old concerns of beauty, mystery, and the seeming differences of the sexes. Curated by Barbara Bartholomew, visiting assistant professor of art, and the Gender Studies Symposium Art Committee.

Wednesday, March 12

9-10:15 A.M., STAMM
Roundtable, Different Strokes for Different Folks?: Queer Issues on College Campuses

9-10:15 A.M., THAYER
Panel, Women Writers: Sexuality in Text and Sub-Text

10:30-Noon, COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Gender and Expression in Film

10:30 A.M.-noon, THAYER
Panel, Power and Progress: Women in American History

Noon-1:15 P.M., STAMM
Performance, Gender Speaks: Voices of Experience

1:30-2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Pop Culture’s Claims on Sexuality

1:30-2:45 P.M., THAYER
Roundtable, Sex Workers, Nervy Girls, and Stay-at-Home Moms: Zine Culture in Portland

3:00-4:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Are All Workers Prostitutes?: Sex Work in Cross-Cultural Perspective

3:00-4:00 P.M., BLACK BOX, FIR ACRES THEATRE
Performance, Waking the Sleeping Woman, part 2

7:30 P.M., Council Chamber
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Baby Mamas, Chickenheads and Post-Soul Gender Relations
Mark Anthony Neal, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English, SUNY-Albany

Thursday, March 13

9-10:15 A.M., STAMM
Informal Discussion with Mark Anthony Neal

9-10:15 A.M., THAYER
Panel, The Lay of the Land: Geography and Gender Identity in Literature

10:30-11:45 A.M., STAMM
Panel, Publishing and Empowerment: New Paths and Alternative Voices

10:30-Noon, THAYER
Panel, ‘Allas! That evere love was synne!’: Medieval Constructs of Gender and the Volatile Power of Love

Noon-1:00 P.M., STAMM
Multigenre Reading
Elizabeth Beverly and Annie Dawid

1:15-2:45 P.M., STAMM
Performance, Race Monologues

1:15-2:45 P.M., EVANS AUDITORIUM
Performance/Discussion, Women, Music and Creativity

3:00-4:15 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Art Across Cultures

3:00-4:15 P.M., STAMM
Panel, Art and Gender Awareness for Boys and Girls

4:30-5:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Unknown Resistors

4:30-5:45 P.M., STAMM
Roundtable, Dying To Be Thin: A Look at Eating Disorders

4:30-5:45 P.M., BLACK BOX, FIR ACRES THEATRE
Staged Reading of A Handmaid’s Tale, a new play adapted from Margaret Atwood’s novel

7:30 P.M., Council Chamber
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Guerrilla Girls

Friday, March 14

9-10:15 A.M., THAYER
Panel, Beauty Pageants: Personal Experiences and Insights

9-10:15 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel, Art and Construction of the Self

10:30-noon, STAMM
Panel/Demonstration, 1+1=1: The Art of Partner Dance

10:30-11:45 A.M., THAYER
Panel, Faces of the Changing American Woman: Challenging Female Stereotypes in the 20th Century

12:15-1:15 P.M., STAMM
Featured Event, Reading by guest poet Maxine Scates

1:30-2:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel, Fighting the Man: Women Challenging the Establishment

1:30-2:45 P.M., STAMM
Multigenre Open Reading

3:00-4:00 P.M., BLACK BOX, FIR ACRES THEATRE
Performance, Break Away, Broken

3:00-4:30 P.M., THAYER
Regional Meeting, National Women’s Studies Association

3:00-4:30 P.M., STAMM
Featured Event, Poetry Writing Workshop
Maxine Scates, Writer-in-Residence, Reed College

4:45-6:00 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Featured Event, Performance/Discussion by The Mambo Queens

Sponsors: Associated Students of Lewis & Clark College and Lewis & Clark’s Gender Studies Program

Lewis & Clark College adheres to a nondiscriminatory policy with respect to employment, enrollment, and program. The College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap or disability, sexual orientation, or marital status and has a firm commitment to promote the letter and the spirit of all equal opportunity and civil rights laws.