Conference on Gender: Past Programs
2008 Agenda
5th Annual Conference on Gender
Wofford College
Montgomery Room
March 28, 2006
3:30 - 6:30 p.m.
3:30-3:45
Welcome, Introductory Remarks
Professor Sally Hitchmough
3:50-4:15
"Brains and Beauty in Sensation Fiction"
Katie King (Humanities, Prof. Anne Rodrick)
"The Moral Reform Movement:
Retaining American Virtue"
Vanessa Lauber (History, Prof. Tracy Revels)
4:15-4:45
Break for Questions
4:45-5:15
"Trends in Female Immigrant Jewish Education due to Ethic Identification"
Rachel Moore (English, Prof. Jim Neighbors)
"From Social Imprisonment to Suicide: Authorial Criticism and Empathy in Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina"
Lauren Stephenson (English, Prof. Sally Hitchmough)
"The Sins of the Mothers"
Emily Smith (Creative Writing, Prof. John Lane)
5:15-6:30
Pizza served, questions and discussion continued
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4th Annual Conference on Gender
Wofford College
Montgomery Room
March 22, 2005
SESSION ONE, 4:00-5:00 PM
Belinda Durbin: Introduction
"Someday the Death of My Father"
"The Storm Window"
Emily Smith, Creative Writing
Faculty Sponsor: John Lane
"Only Visible in Certain Lights: Bisexuality in Jeanetter Winterson's Written on the Body"
Miriam Hahn, English
Faculty Sponsor: Sally Hitchmough
"Feminism in Weimar Germany: The Struggle After Emancipation"
Jonathon DeBusk, History
Faculty Sponsor: Anne Rodrick
"A Discursice Morality: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Philosophy"
Meredith Nettles, Philosophy
Faculty Sponsor: Jim Keller
5:00-5:30 Dinner, Dessert and Discussion
Pizza, drinks and dessert available for all in attendance
SESSION 2: 5:30-6:30
"International Differences in Prenatal Care: A Comparison of Nations and the Implications of these Discrepancies"
Nora Awkerman, Psychology
Faculty Sponsor: Cecile McAninch
"The Pains of Sex: A Study of the Corset"
Susanna Paul, History
Faculty Sponsor: Anne Rodrick
"The Necessity of Feminine Bonds in Jane Eyre and Sula"
Megan Lorick, English
Faculty Sponsor: Sally Hitchmough
"Gender and Imperialism in Victorian Children's Literature"
Sarah McLean, History
Faculty Sponsors: Sally Hitchmough and Anne Rodrick
"They'll Get Theirs"
Deborah Arden Dickinson, Creative Writing
Faculty Sponsor: John Lane