June Baker Higgins Gender Studies Conference

April 1, 2005
11:30 AM 6:00 PM
Central Connecticut State University
Bellin Gallery and Philbrick Camp Room, Student Center

Featuring an exhibit from The Seattle Times—“Giving Women Power over HIV/AIDS"
Alumni Hall

11:30 Lunch, Bellin Gallery

12-12:10 Opening Remarks, Bellin Gallery

12:15-1:15 Catherine Blinder, Keynote Speaker, Bellin Gallery
“Not Your Mother’s Feminism”

1:15-2:45     Panel, “Gender and Literary Representation in the Great War”
                     Bellin Gallery
                     Molly Roehl, ECSU
                     Peter Jury, ECSU
                    Jennifer Allison, ECSU

1:15-2:45 “The War on Women and Reproductive Justice”
Philbrick Camp Room

Susan Yolen, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut
Hillary Felton-Reid, CCSU

2:45-4:15 “Gender, Literature, and Psychoanalysis”
Bellin Gallery

                    Dianne Hunter, Trinity College, “Maternal Legacy in Frankenstein”
                    Kristine Larsen, CCSU, “A Elbereth Gilthoniel:The Cosmological
                            Goddess of Middle-earth”
                    Rosa Lee, Trinity College, “Post-structuralism, Rhetoric, and Feminism”

2:45-4:15    Panel, “State of LGBTI Rights: What is Connecticut’s Role in the National
                        Debate?”
                    Philbrick Camp Room

                    Kathy Hermes, CCSU
                    Frank Gagliardi, CCSU
                    Robin McHaelen, True Colors

4:15-5:45 “Feminist Spaces and Education”
Bellin Gallery

                    Jacquelyn Arsenuk, SCSU, “Feminism in Action”
                    Jessica Greenebaum, CCSU, “Doing Gender: Rescuing Dogs”
                    Karen Levy, UWI—Mona, “Gender and Dancehall Music”
                    Daniel T. Larose, CCSU, “Gender, Age, Ethnicity, and Student
                          Performance in Online Statistics Courses”

4:15-5:45 “Gender and Health”
Philbrick Camp Room

                    Heather Prescott, CCSU, “There’s Got to Be a Morning After: College
                                    Women and the History of Emergency Contraception 1970-
                                    present”
                    Evelyn Baez, Institute for Community Research, Hartford, “Men’s
                                    and Women’s Female Condom Use and Experiences with
                                    Different Partner Types in a Hartford, Connecticut Trial”
                    Marc Housley, YWCA of New Britain, “Deconstructing Violence
                                    Masculinity: Hegemonic Masculinity, the Media and Gender-
                                    Based Primary Violence Prevention”

5:45-6:00 Closing Remarks

Sponsored by the CCSU Women's Studies program with support from an AAUP faculty development grant.

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