MillerMacPhee, Abby Garden, Abbey Ashby, Jeannette Schollaert, Riley Redburn, and Mandy Schnakenberg. Thank you for attending, and we hope you enjoy the conference! Conference Program Schedule Friday, March 11, 2016 City Campus Union, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Friday, 8:30-9:30am – Registration (Fischer Lounge) & Refreshments (Heritage Room) Friday, 9:30-10:45am Session 1: The Limits of Social Media Activism (Regency A) Moderator: Tamy Burnett (UNL) Cassidy Taladay (UNL) – “#BringBackOurGirls: How the Syntax of a Hashtag Affects its Societal Message to Women about Who and What They Should Be" Marley Sandberg (UNL) – “#YesAllWomen” Sandra Ojer Viejo (UNO) – “The Reality of Self-Censorship in the Social Media Era” Session 2: Recovering Women’s Agency (Regency B) Moderator: Rose Holz (UNL) Suzanne Brown (UNL) – “Swinging Swords and Slashing Faces to the Alter: A Close Reading of Catalina de Erauso’s Historia de la Monja Alferez” Kami Ahrens (UNL) – “Mastering the Art of Victorian Cooking: A Re- examination of Gender and Consumer Choice during the Nineteenth Century” Jessica Winterringer (University of South Dakota) – “Women in the Easter Rising Rebellion” Session 3: Sex on the Internet (Regency C) Moderator: Linda Van Ingen (UNK) Katherine Kough (UNO) – “A Content Analysis of Free Internet Pornography” Allison Sowle (Kansas State University) – “Sex Trafficking, Social Media, and the Intersections of Race and Class” Session 4: Objectification & the Male Gaze (Ubuntu Room)
Moderator: Roz Kichler (UNL) Lauren Harrahill (UNO) – “The Male Gaze: It’s Even in the News” I Coleman (UNL) – “The Phantom Pain of Marginalization: Straight Male Privilege in Metal Gear Solid V” Joshua Wagner (UNO) – “Chains of Hegemony: The Sexualization of Women in the Media” Friday, 11-12:15pm Session 5: Women in a Global Context (Regency A) Moderator: Jessica Henry (Hastings College) Tiffani Luethke (UNL) – “Discussing the Need for Research Involving Refugee Women in the United States” Adena Weiser (Kansas State University) – “A Bridge Across Fears” Medjine Desgraves (UNO) – “Black Women in Politics: Past, Present, and Future” Kaitlin Beck (Nebraska Wesleyan University) – “Peruvian Gender Roles at the 2015 Smithsonian Folklife Festival” Session 6: Negotiating Feminism (Regency B) Moderator: Sara Lampert (University of South Dakota) Sarah Kuegle (University of South Dakota) – “The Internet and Feminism: An Analysis of Popular Feminism” Maria Ruiz (Kansas State University) – “Kyriarchal Bargains: Women Negotiate Catholic and Feminist Identities” Anna Griggs (Hastings College) – “Misguided Feminism: An Ideological Criticism of Taylor Swift’s Song Lyrics” Session 7: Negotiating Sex, Gender, & Power in Fictional Worlds (Regency C) Moderator: Tamy Burnett (UNL) Stephanie Laska (University of South Dakota) – “Possibilities and Problems of Progress and Pregnancy: Technology Induced Miscarriages, Abortion, and Botched Surgery in John Dos Passos’ The USA Trilogy and Manhattan Transfer” Becca Human (UNL) – “Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Queerbaiting Issues as Seen in Supernatural” Maddy Royse (UNL) – “The Dissection of Women's Choice in Grey's Anatomy” Session 8: Unearthing Women’s History (Ubuntu Room) Moderator: Carly Woods (UNL)