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Community of Scholars Symposium title on blue and green fractal
Summer 2015 Community of Scholars fellows present their research.

SCHEDULE:
Welcome/Opening Remarks (8:50-9:00 a.m.)

Panel 1. Materialities (9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.)

Katie Lennard (American Culture), “Made in American: Violence, Industry, and the Bodies of the Ku Klux Klan 1902-1940”

Meghanne Barker (Anthropology), “Living with Dolls: Objects and Animation, Affect, and Aesthetics”

Monique Bourdage (Communication Studies), “The Playboy Pad: Negotiating Gender and Domestic Space in Postwar Magazines”

Panel Chair: Krisztina Fehervary (Department of Anthropology)

Panel 2. Accounting for Gendered Sexuality (10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.)

Jamie Budnick (Sociology), “The New Gay Science: The (Re)Emergence of Biological and Genetic Theories of Sexuality”

Rita Seabrook (Psychology and Women’s Studies), “Greek Life and Gender Strife: The Relation between Fraternity Culture and Traditional Sexual Scripts, Sexual Violence, and Objectification of Women”

Emily Youatt (Health Behavior and Health Education), “Coming Out to Your Doctor: Interrogating Sexual Orientation Disclosure in Clinical Encounters”

Panel Chair: Alex Stern (Departments of History, American Culture and Obstetrics and Gynecology)

LUNCH (provided): 12pm-1pm (please register at cos15.eventbrite.com)

Panel 3. Policing Sexuality (1:00-2:30 p.m.)

Cassius Adair (English), “States of Identification: Gender Variance, Racial Rhetoric, and the Politics of the Photo ID”

Duygu Ula (Comparative Literature), “Ayse Loves Fatma: Representations of Lesbian (in)Visibility from Turkey”

Cristian Capotescu (History), “Mitigating the Effects and Legacies of Abortion Bans and Economic Austerity: Humanitarian Aid for Romania in the 1980s and 1990s”

Panel Chair: Ruby Tapia (Departments of Women’s Studies and English)

Panel 4. Missionaries and Movements (2:30-4:00 p.m.)

Nevila Pahumi (History), “Of Women, Faith, and Nation: American Protestantism and the Kyrias School for Girls, Albania, 1891-1933”

Rebecca Mandell (Health Behavior and Health Education), “Exploring Intersectional Approaches between the Environmental Justice and Reproductive Justice Movements"

Jessica Lowen (Anthropology), “Good Girls, Bad Acts: How Sex-Workers-Turned-Missionaries are Redefining Moral Personhood in Detroit”

Panel Chair: Damani Partridge (Departments of Afro and Afro-American Studies and Anthropology)
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Community of Scholars Symposium title on blue and green fractal

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