Women's History Month/ Fat Studies Conference At Sarah Lawrence

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Saturday, March 5, 2011 8:30 – 10 a.m., Heimbold Lobby
Breakfast Reception (Free)

8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m., Heimbold Lobby
Registration

10 – 11:45 a.m., Heimbold 202
Plenary Session
Opening Remarks: Rona Holub, Co-Director, Graduate Program in Women’s History, Sarah Lawrence College

Plenary Panel
Kathleen LeBesco, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NYFatness and the Self-Governing Citizen: Health, Morality, and Ideology

Susan Schwiek, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CAThe Ugly Laws and After

Zoe Spencer, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VAThe Sexualized Body Politics of African American Women: From Enslavement to Hip Hop

Noon – 1 p.m., Heimbold Lobby
Lunch Break
Art ExhibitJayne Mansfield’s Dog, New Drawings by Erin Finley, Ontario College of Art and Design, Ontario, Canada

1 – 2:30 p.m., Breakout Session I
WorkshopInclusion/Exclusion: Explorations in Movement

Dance Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Kathryn Westwater
Peggy Gould
Emily Devine
(Please wear appropriate athletic shoes, no boots)

PanelStigma

Tonisha Taylor, City College of New York, New York, NYHottentot Venus to Video Vixen: An Analysis of the Image of Black Women as Hypersexual Beings

Adam Newman, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY“Why Can’t Jews with Polio Play Indian?”: Disability and Racial Performance in Philip Roth’s Nemesis

William Peace, Independent Scholar, Garrison, NYThe Dialectics of Stigma: From Independence to Dependency and Back

PanelIssues in Fat Studies

Cayce Canipe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VASlender Trouble

Ellen Cox, Transylvania University, Lexington, KYThe Color of Fat: Interrogating Race in Fat Studies

Kristen Sutherland, Brandeis University, Waltham, MATransforming the Obese Body: (Bio) Medicalization and the False Promise of Bariatric Surgery

Alexandra Soiseth, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NYChoosing Me: Reflections on a Shifting Self-Image

Round-Table DiscussionBurlesque

Elsa E. Sjunneson, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NYPerforming Obscenity: Burlesque and American Obscenity Law

Julie Vogt, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NHPirate Feminism: Burlesque and the Exploitation/Empowerment Binary

Magdalen Jenne, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NYNever Give Everything Away

Jessica Giusti, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MNFat Femme Falling: Neo-Burlesque and the Queer Politics of Failure

Heather Lang, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NMBig (Fat) Burlesque Backlash: Burlesque Bodies as Rhetorical Agents of Social Change

2:45 – 4:15 p.m., Breakout Session II
PanelBody Politics on Film

Katrina Brown, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NYFeminisms and Pornography in Documentaries

Heike Steinhoff, Ruhr-University, Bochum, GermanyDissecting the Norm?: Plastic Surgery, Deviant Bodies, and the Politics of the Monstrous in Nip/Tuck

Jackie Wykes, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia“Is This Really What You Want?”: Negotiating Choice and Resistance in Huge

WorkshopBody Image and the Collective Imagination in Early 21st Century America

Carol Polcovar, Founding Director,
All Out Arts’ Fresh Fruit Festival, New York, NY

PanelConstructing Women

Ashley Lawson, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, NEThe Cyborg as a Site of (Re)construction of the Feminine

Natalie Rose, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MIFrom Criminal to Girl Next Door: Depictions of Mormon Women’s Bodies

Brittany Chevalier, Independent Scholar, New York, NYBody Empowerment: Women’s Political Freedom and the Shifting Ideals of Beauty

Round-Table Discussion

Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetics of the Non-Normative Body

Jennifer Bartlett, Poet and Lecturer, Brooklyn, NY
Sheila Fiona Black, Poet, Las Cruces, NM
Michael Northern, Poet, Pennsauken, NJ

4:30 – 6 p.m., Breakout Session III
PanelThe Price of Beauty

Amanda Czerniawski, Temple University, Philadelphia, PABehind the Fat Catwalk: The Backstage Aesthetic Labor Process of Plus-Size Fashion Models

Meredith Dault, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, CanadaThe Last Triangle: Sex, Money, and the Politics of Pubic Hair

Caroline Biggs, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NYRestricted: Women’s Roles and Waistlines after the Second World War

Lori Rotskoff, Barnard Center for Research on Women, New York, NYFrom “Daughters of Maybelline” to “Sisters of Freedom”: Second-Wave Feminism, Girls’ Activism, and the Politics of Feminine Beauty in the US

PanelThe Cultural Politics of Fat Bodies: The Art and Rhetoric of Intersecting Identities

Stefanie Snider, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Embodiment and In/Visibility in Contemporary Photographic Self-Portraits

Kristin Kurzawa, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Fat Femmes Framed: Censorship and Celebration of Queer Femme Photography

Sheana Director, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Invisible Fatness and The Fat Menace: Fat Bodies and Disidentification

Zoë Meleo-Erwin, CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan, NY
Queering the Linkages and Divergences: The Relationship Between Fatness and Disability and the Hope for a Livable World

PanelCategorizing the Body

Katelyn Angell, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Charlotte Price, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY“Does this book make me look fat?”: Information Bias and Body Image in Academia

Peggy Gould, Dance Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College,
Bronxville, NYTransforming Rigid Notions of Human Normalcy: Dynamic Images and Poetics in the Field of Functional Anatomy from 1926 to the Present

Sara Hardwick, New York University, New York, NYFighting the Visual “War on Obesity”: Defacement, Invisibility, and Abjection in Weight-Related News Reporting

6 p.m., Heimbold Lobby
Closing Reception