Host, Prof. Sara McClelland, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies

Panel 1:
Margaret Greer: Fear From Gay to Z: A Study of U.S. Gay Sex Panics in the Context of Epidemics, Moral Contagion, and Zombies
Tessa Magsoudi: Bathing in Blood: An Analysis of the Maternal Body, Nonreproduction, and the Abject in Art
Marisa Wright: “The Pink Wave” in 2018: Democratic Women Candidates’ Motivations to Run for Congress and the Future of Women’s Political Representation
Cheyanne Killin: “I Don’t Think They Can Help Me”: Exposing Abuse in Patient-Provider Interactions for Women with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Informing a Framework for Change

Audience Q&A

Panel 2:
Sydney Leigh Smith: Gendered Patterns in Public Displays of State-Perpetrated Sexual Violence: A Rwandan Case Study
Mariel Manzor: Expecting during the Unexpected: The Emotional Experiences of Pregnant Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quinn Riley: Fleabag Feminism: Looking at Gaze Theory through Television’s Liberated 21st Century Female
Gillian Rubenstein: Empowering Biological Reproductive Decision-Making for Transgender Men: Evaluating the Impact of Exogenous Testosterone on Extraovarian Structures Using a Transgender Mouse Model

Audience Q&A