JOINT CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Friday, April 4, 2008

8:00 AM-4:30 PM: REGISTRATION

8:30-9:45 AM: Session 1 (choose 1)

Crusaders, Trolls, Peasants, and Queens: Four Different Environments for the Medieval Girl

• Female Trolls in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Not the Girls Men Take Home to Meet Their Parents, Stefan Hall, Assistant Professor of Humanistic Studies- English, UW-Green Bay
• The Pagan Breast in a Crusading Environment: Peter of Dusburg and the Demise of the Galindians, Arnold Lelis, History, UW-Stevens Point
• From Flax to Linen in the Medieval Rus Lands, Heidi Sherman, Assistant Professor of Humanistic Studies-History, UW-Green Bay
• The Conception of a Russian "New Jerusalem" as an Environment of Female Power and Obligation, Kevin Kain, Humanistic Studies-History, UW-Green Bay

How Do You Blow a Horn Through a Brassiere?: The Music of Kathryne E. Thompson
A lecture recital by Holly Gaines, Assistant Professor of Music, Ursinus College

Taking it on the Road: Study Abroad in WS and LGBT

• Women Overcoming Poverty in Northern Tanzania: Women's Studies Study Abroad Experience, Liz Cannon, Interim Women's Studies Director; and Carmen Heider, Associate Professor of Communications, UW-Oshkosh
• UW-Whitewater, WS and LGBTQ Study Abroad Opportunities, Sandra Krajewski, Chair, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Sara Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Will Van Roosenbeek, Director - LGBTQQA Center, UW-La Crosse
• Making Study Abroad Opportunities Visible for LGBTQ Students, Lisa Beckstrand, Director, UW System Inclusivity Initiative

Creating LGBTQ Safer Schools Taskforce: Organizing Across State and City Lines in the Interest of Students, Families, Teachers
Three Co-founders of the Duluth-Superior area LGBT/Q Safer Schools Task Force will describe organizing a diverse group of collaborators to create and move forward the goals of the task force in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. Diana Hunter, Women's and Gender Studies Program Coordinator, UW- Superior; Deb Anderson, Violence and Harassment Prevention Specialist (retired); and Shirley Duke, Coordinator of Together for (GLBT) Youth, Lutheran Social Service, Duluth, MN

Conference Posters

• Theoretical Application of Ambiguous Loss and Resiliency as it Relates to Families Affected by Maternal Incarceration,
  The poster presentation looks at three generations of women and how maternal incarceration impacts the family. Issues of feminism, intergenerational frameworks, ambiguous loss, symbolic interaction and resiliency will be studied. This is developing research in the field of family studies. Brandy James, Kansas State University
• Get a Head Start with Art
  This poster describes a volunteer run program that provides the necessary components for parents of Headstart children to participate in the making of Indigenous arts. Samples of art created in the classes demonstrate that even those without many resources can still participate in art making and experience its healing effects. The poster seeks to convey how important art is to Native culture and how incorporation of old ways of expression, interaction and kindness remain significant within the context of our modern society. Amii John, Get a Headstart with Art, UW Green Bay; and April Hill, Get a Headstart with Art, Oneida Nation

10:00-11:00 AM: Welcome and Plenary Panel

11:15 AM-12:30 PM: Session 2 (choose 1)

Women Artists Respond to Environment
Women artists describe the various ways in which they identify and respond to concepts of environment, including studio environment, exhibition environment, and environment as inspiration. Alison Gates, Associate Professor of Art and Design, and Chair, Women’s Studies Program,UW-Green Bay; Carol Emmons, Professor of Art, UW-Green Bay; and Gail Simpson, Art Faculty, UW-Madison

Managing the Student Body
Explores how the body—particularly the female student body—appears in class whether theoretically, practically, or even in absentia. In women’s studies classes, the issues of teaching the body and its politics are particularly prescient. The presenters explore various challenges related to teaching bodies from recognizing the sexuality of hair politics to engaging debates surrounding “female cutting” to exploring how students view the professorial body. Karlyn Crowley, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's and Gender Studies, St. Norbert College; Victoria Tashjian, Associate Professor of History, St. Norbert College; and Kim Nielsen, Professor of Social Change and Development – History, and Women's Studies, UW-Green Bay

Our Words/Our Worlds: Writing on Women and Place
Four writers will read/perform their creative work on ‘women's place’ viewed in the broad sense as a subjective, ephemeral, and necessary topic. Dianna Hunter, Women's and Gender Studies Coordinator, UW-Superior; Yvonne Rutford, Senior Lecturer of English, UW-Superior; Deborah Schlacks, Professor of English, UW-Superior; and Barbara Werner, Women's Studies Coordinator, UW-River Falls

Women Helping Women with Depression: Bad News, Good News, Latest News
A presentation to help women struggling with or at risk for mood disorders, such as depression and SAD, better understanding of the latest research on how to care for themselves more effectively. Nancy Wesenberg, Communication Specialist, University Communications; Christine Kaye Webster, Service Associate, Multicultural Affairs Office; and Roberta Goodman, Senior Psychologist, Counseling Services, UW-Eau Claire

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning: Wanting to be “Out” with your Friends and “In” the Church
Discrimination does not stop at the front door of the local church. This panel will include church going LGBTQ people who share their experiences regarding their sexuality and their church from behind the pulpit to sitting in the pew. The sexuality struggle is not just for clergy anymore. It is open to any LGBTQ person wanting to be involved in a church. Christine A. Larson, member Lutherans Concerned North America and Treasurer of Holden Village Board of Directors; Leah Abrahams, former president of Congregation Cnesses Israel and CEO of Mixed Media Memoirs, LLC.; Reverend Elaine Thomas, Chaplin at Hartland Home Health and Hospice; Josh Steger, Vestry, St Anne's Episcopal Church; and Jerad Karcz, Owner (with Josh Steger), Buds 'n Bloom Design Studio

Hate Response: Creating a Culture of Anticipation, Prevention, Response, and Restitution
UW-La Crosse created a Hate Response Team in September, 2005, to better respond to incidents of hate, as well as to develop a means for students to confidentially report hate incidents. During this session, the presenters will describe UW-La Crosse’s process of how to create a Hate Response Team and the confidential reporting form, and what they have discovered regarding hate incidents on the UW-La Crosse’s campus. We will also discuss what UW-La Crosse considers the four integral functions of the Hate Response Team: anticipation, prevention, response, and restitution. Beth Hartung, Campus Climate Coordinator, Will Van Roosenbeek, Pride Center Director; and Marcia Johnson-Sage, Student Services Coordinator, UW-La Crosse

12:30 – 2:00 PM: Lunch and Keynote Speaker

Lunch and Keynote Speaker Celestine Jeffreys
Celestine Jeffreys is the first African American ever elected to the Green Bay City Council. Her community activism won her recognition in 2006 as a UW System Outstanding Woman of Color. Co-founder of the Fort Howard Neighborhood Association and a board member of the Neighborhood Housing Service of Green Bay, she was also named "Rising Leader: Community" by the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

2:15-3:15 PM: Session 3 (choose 1)

Teaching Critical Voice: Looking at Ourselves through the Arts

• Feminism, Pedagogy, and Boal: Approaches to Teaching Frida Kahlo and Dream of a Sunday Afternoon by Maritza Núñez, Catherine M. Bryan, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures – Spanish, UW-Oshkosh
• One Foot in the River of Apocalypse: Caryl Churchill's Far Away, Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, English, UW- River Falls

Moderator: Kathy Miller-Dillon, Assistant Director, Center for Women's Studies, UW- Milwaukee

Don't Ask-Don't Get: Why Women Don't Negotiate
You can t get it, if you don t ask! Why don t women ask for what they want? This roundtable will discuss the various cultural and social influences that have shaped and impacted this important question. Learn skills and techniques to become your own best advocate, by simply ASKING for what you want. Presenters invite questions and ideas from the audience as they creatively explore various options to inform women that their words have power. Hollace Anne Teuber, Assistant Professor of Speech Communications; Kate Thomas, Assistant Professor of Social Science; Susan Wolfgram, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies; and Donna Weber, Affirmative Action Officer, EEO, UW-Stout

Rhetorical Lessons of Advocacy and Activism
Rather than evaluating contemporary feminisms specifically, this panel seeks to illuminate transferable lessons for activists across contexts. That is, beyond the form or content for which each analysis is concerned, these papers present lessons of advocacy and activism that may well shape larger social movements at the macro level as well as empower individuals on the micro level with tools for affecting change in everyday life. Rachael Hill, Graduate Student, and Panel Organizer, Dep. of Communication; Malynnda Johnson, Graduate Student, and Kathryn M. Olson, Professor of Communication and Director of Rhetorical Leadership Graduate Certificate/Concentration Program, UW-Milwaukee

Do You YouTube?
WAVE, our System Consortium's AV collection for Women's Studies, would like to collect good online video resources. Do you have any? How do you use them? Do you have your students evaluate them? Could we use them better? Bring your favorite links, and let's talk. Deb Hoskins, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UW-La Crosse

From Toilet Training to Gender Neutral Facilities
This panel will screen the documentary Toilet Training (30 min); a film that addresses the persistent discrimination, harassment, and violence that people who transgress gender norms face in gender/sex segregated bathrooms. The panel will field questions and provide resources. Erich Pitcher, LGBTQ Director, United Council; Will Van Roosenbeek, Pride Center Director, UW-La Crosse; Jen Murray, Director, LGBT Resource Center, UW-Milwaukee; Erik Trekell, Director, LGBTQ Campus Center, UW-Madison

3:30-4:45 PM: Session 4 (choose 1)

Contemporary Environmental Art through a Feminist Lens
The presenters will discuss directions in contemporary ecological art from feminist perspectives.Presentations will include images and discussioin of contemparary environmental art, and traditional Oneida storytelling. Helen Klebesadel, Artist, and Director, UW System Women’s Studies Consortium; Ann T. Rosenthal, Visiting Professor Imaging and Digital Art, University of Maryland, Baltimore College; and Debra Morningstar, Oneida Storyteller-YuKhika-l'atuhse

The Environment Inside your Head: Women, Mental Health, and Authoritative Knowledge

• Women and Mental Health: Trends, Treatments, and Responses to Care, Deirdre Dalsing, Staff Counselor for UW-Platteville Counseling Services, UW-Platteville
• Leaving Psychotropolis Behind: Psychiatry, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Natural Cures for Depression, Laura Wendorff, Professor of English and Women’s Studies, UW-Platteville
• My Sister Who Died by Suicide, Rea Kirk, Professor of Special Education, Women’s Studies, and Ethnic Studies, UW-Platteville, who has also worked in domestic violence, both as paid staff and as a volunteer
• Mental Health Aspects of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Dianne Evans, Director of Family Advocates for Grant, Iowa, and Lafayette Counties
• What to Do When You Don’t Trust the Authorities, but Know You’re No Authority, Teresa Burns, Director of Women’s Studies, Professor of English and Women’s Studies, UW-Platteville

Inclusion of LGBTQ Content in General Degree Requirement Courses
This panel will focus on the objectives, methods, practical experiences, and outcomes of including LGBT content in General Degree Requirement Courses. The questions that will be addressed include: What are the objectives/purposes of including LGBT content in GDR courses? How does the inclusion of LGBT content contribute to the overall objectives of a GDR course in a particular discipline? How can the inclusion of LGBT content in GDR courses contribute to the overall educational experience of LGBT and all other students? What are some successful methods of incorporating LGBT content in GDR courses? What specific issues, texts, activities, and assignments are helpful in achieving this goal? What have been the outcomes of including LGBT content in GDR courses? Dejan Kuzmanovic, Associate Professor of English, UW-Stevens Point; Catherine Henze, Associate Professor of Humanistic Studies- English, UW-Green Bay; Michael Laver, Assistant Professor of History, UW-Stevens Point; and Karin J. Bodensteiner, Assistant Professor of Biology, UW-Stevens Point

Feminists Create Poetry of Natural and Interior Worlds: Reading of Original Works
Feminist poets read their works, which explores responses to natural and interior worlds. Pat Gott, Professor of English, UW Stevens Point; Lauren Smith, Chair, Women’s Studies Program and Associate Professor of English, UW-Whitewater; and Alison Townsend and Paula Henke, UW-Whitewater

Gay Straight Alliance Safe Schools
The public school system historically has not always provided a welcoming environment for lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered students. This panel focuses on ways to develop and promote educational systems where all students thrive regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity / expression. Some examples of successful programs in Wisconsin will be discussed. Cindy Crane, Executive Director, GSA for Safe Schools; Brian Juchems, Program Director, GSA for Safe Schools; Daphne Tuthill, Director of Public Services, Ashwaubenon School District; and Morgan Tuff, Student, Preble High School, Green Bay

5:00-6:00 PM: Session 5 (choose 1)

GEM- Girls Empowerment Through Mentoring- Helping Girls in the Community Develop Confidence
The presentation will discuss how the student run Beloit College, Girls Empowering through Mentoring program is working with adolescent 11 to 13 year old girls in the community to help develop healthy body image, self- expression and confidence. Kate Phelps, Maryn Lewallen, and Angela Martellaro, Students, Beloit College

Imagining New Worlds, 18th Century Feminist Writers

• Uneditable Skins and Unreasonable Marriages in Aphra Behn’s Novels Of Defect, Deformity, and Difference, Emily Bowles Smith, Lecturer in English Gender Studies, Lawrence University
• Could Women be Citizens? Olympe de Gouges on Women’s Rights and Social Change in Revolutionary France, Lisa Beckstrand, Director, UW System Inclusivity Initiative

Changing the World with Sticks and String
A recent resurgence in the popularity of knitting in the US and the UK has brought about new interest in using this "women's work" to better the world. Diverse groups of knitters have found ways to knit for causes (such as Project Linus and the Dulaan Project, to name but two) and save lives, globally. This presentation introduces several knitters' collectives and their work, connects the history of textile production to current conditions, and will provide information on how knitting can actually improve anyone's quality of life. Please bring your knitting, if you so desire! Alison Gates, Associate Professor of Arts and Visual Design, and Chair, Women's Studies Program, UW-Green Bay; and other participants TBA

Certificate Programs in LGBT Studies
Program coordinators from UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison will discuss curriculum, program requirements, and provide advice for those seeking to initiate similar certificate programs. Sarah Morgan, Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, Advisor LGBT Studies, UW-Milwaukee; Mariamne Whatley, Associate Dean, School of Education, Professor of Women’s Studies, and Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Madison

Growing LGBTQ Campus Culture

• Making a BIG Change on a SMALL Campus with a TINY Budget
  This presentation will provide insights and ideas of how to address LGBTQISA education, awareness, and grassroots organizations through innovative and inexpensive means. There will be a discussion of ways to increase campus budget. Carly-Anne Ravnikar, Senior Student Leader, UW-Parkside
• Where is LGBTQ Culture on a Western Wisconsin University Campus?
  This paper will examine the history of LGBTQ culture (signs, symbolism, dialogue, art) on a western Wisconsin university campus. David T. Chollar, MSW, LCSW, Clinical Instructor, Director of Internship, Department of Social Work; and Gloria L. Fennell, PhD, ACSW, LESW, RN, Associate Professor of Social Work, UW-Eau Claire

Moderator: Jennifer Murray, Director, LGBT Resource Center, UW-Milwaukee

6:00-7:15 PM: Reception

7:30 PM: Eve Ensler’s play The Good Body in Christie Theater (must sign up on registration to receive free ticket)

Saturday, April 5, 2008

8:00AM-4:30 PM: REGISTRATION

8:30-9:45 AM: Session 6 (choose 1)

Community Readiness for LGBT Intimate Partner Violence Support Services
The presenters will describe the first year’s work of an 18-month planning project designed to determine LGBT communities’ awareness of intimate partner violence (IPV) within their specific geographic and sexual/gender orientation communities. In addition, the project seeks to assess LGBT community readiness to address IPV as a critical public health issue and to determine the barriers to services and needs of LGBT individuals experiencing IPV based on sexual orientation, gender identity groups, and location of LGBT individuals within the state. Susan C. Turell, Coordinator, Women's Studies, UW-Eau Claire; and Molly H. Herrmann, Consultant, Humble Pie Consulting

Women, Land, Art, and Literature

• The Tale of Two Farmers: Tasha Tudor and Mrs. William Heelis, the Former Beatrix Potter
  Tasha Tudor, New England farmer and writer/illustrator of children's books, captures and celebrates rural living in all her works, from storybooks to the domestic arts of gardening, costume-design, and food preparation. Tudor lives in intimate contact with the land and all that grows and thrives upon it. She is a preservationist of the land and of a way of life. Like Tudor, Beatrix Potter lived a life that was equal parts art and farming. Her love of nature fueled her art, and her business acumen made it possible for her to become a wise buyer and manager of over 4,000 acres of land in England's Lake District. This paper will consider the way books like those of Potter and Tudor may introduce a child to nature and model a lifelong respect for it. Carla Graham, Associate Professor of English, UW-La Crosse
• Elizabeth Baird, an Early Female Settler in Wisconsin, Kate Thomas, Assistant Professor of Social Science, UW-Stout

Moderator: Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, English, UW- River Falls

Voices from the Trenches: Educational and Institutional Barriers in STEM Education
This roundtable discussion will introduce research findings on barriers for girls and women in STEM education and will discuss academic planning perspectives on science and engineering perspectives, as well as report on System initiatives and task forces. Audience participation will be encouraged. Carmen Faymonville, Academic Planner, UW System; Anuschka Neuwald, Graduate Student in Science Education, UW-Madison; and others TBA

Transgender Transformation Support Group
Positive Voice, Inc has been running a successful Transgender Transformation Support Group for the past few years. Members of this panel will share the impact that the group has had on them and how it has helped them in their coming out process and/or transitioning process. The panel will also discuss growing demand Transgender Support groups, as well as suggest practical ways to facilitate starting and structuring such a group. Lynn Nash, President, Positive Voice, Inc., Green Bay, Wisconsin

Writing for a Lesbian Audience
This panel is led by the author of lesbian novels who will discuss and read excerpts from two of her novels entitled, Undercurrents and Racing toward Providence, as well as from her collection of poems entitled, I Sing Back. Writing process, writing for a lesbian audience, and the lesbian publishing arena will also be discussed. If there is interest, the panelist will reserve some time to facilitate writing workshop ideas. Laurel Mills, Author and Faculty member in English, UW-Fox Valley

10:00-11:15 AM: Session 7 (choose 1)

Childhood, Education, and the Power of Change

• LGBTQ Content in the Syllabi of CWSE Child Welfare Courses
  Research articles addressing the needs of LGBTQ youth are becoming increasingly available, but is the research making it into the Social Work classroom? This presentation discusses the results of research suggesting that syllabi from required Child Welfare courses, and from required Diversity courses, are more likely to reflect all other traditionally oppressed groups than they are to reflect the needs of LGBTQ youth. Julie Stockwell, MSW, CAPSW, Appleton
• Feminism and Early Childhood Education
  This presentation will explore the intersection or lack of intersection between feminism and the field of Early Childhood Education. Like many other traditionally female fields; such as nursing and social work, Early Childhood Education has long received less respect and less money then more male fields (or sub-fields). Michelle Tichy, Assistant Professor of Education, St. Norbert College

Moderator: Greta Gaard, Assistant Professor of English, UW-River Falls

Teaching to Lead: Women's Studies as Leadership Training
This roundtable discussion explores the ways that Women's Studies teachers can better empower students to imagine themselves in leadership positions. Keeping in mind the barriers that many women leaders face, how do we better move students from the process of understanding social problems to understanding their own responsibility and capacity for civic engagement? Ellie Schemenauer, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies; Lauren Smith, Associate Professor of Women's Studies; Rebecca Shrum, Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies; Zohreh Ghavamshahidi, Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies; Mary Emery, Language and Literatures, UW-Whitewater

Researching Gender and Environmental Disasters: Using New Modes of Research for an Old Problem
Researchers today can (and should!) tap new electronic resources for studying gendered aspects of both historical and contemporary environmental disasters. To study the relationship of women/gender to environmental disasters, researchers today can make use of several new electronic resources, including Google Book Search, Amazon's "Search Inside this Book," YouTube, websites of international organizations, and more. These resources are revolutionizing how students and scholars alike should approach research today, whether they are studying women's roles and the effect on women of a historical disaster, such as The Great Chicago Fire, or a more contemporary one, such as Hurricane Katrina. The presenter will demonstrate how and why to do so. Phyllis Holman Weisbard, UW System Women's Studies Librarian

Intersex Intersections in the Curriculum

• Including Sex and Gender Science in the Curriculum by Putting the "I" in GLBTI
  This presentation will address grievous examples of sex and gender enforcement in our society, including the medicalization of intersexed children and the deep-seeded assumptions propagated by the "scientific" community. Excerpts from a video entitled, "Hermaphrodites Speak" produced by the Intersex Society of North America will be shown. The speaker will address how to incorporate the discussion into a Gender Studies course. Rellen Hardtke, Assistant Professor of Physics and Women's Studies, UW-River Falls
• Intersexually Speaking
  This presentation will focus on what it’s like growing up as intersexed from birth to adulthood, including a discussion of medical, legal, and employment problems. The speaker will talk about "how society sees us in every day life." Stephanie Calewarts, Intersexed Speaker, who lectures at UW- Green Bay

Moderator: Maren Greathouse, Associate Student Service Specialist, LGBT Campus Center, UW-Madison

Ally Studies 101: Four Allies Introduce Multiple Perspectives in Ally Development
Whereas a growing body of literature is dedicated to understanding sexual identity development for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, little is written about heterosexual ally development. This interactive panel, composed of students and faculty, will share perspectives on becoming and being allies in their personal and professional lives. Alison Gates, Associate Professor of Arts and Visual Design and Chair, Women's Studies; Jolanda Sallmann, Assistant Professor of Social Work and Women's Studies; Jessica Derenne, Social Work and Spanish Student ; and Sarah Vosen, Senior Student and Vice President of the Straight and Gay Alliance, UW-Green Bay

11:30 AM-1:00 PM: Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards Ceremony and Luncheon, Awards Speaker Dr. Joan Prince

1:15-2:15 PM: Session 8 (choose 1)

Defining Realities: Uses of the Media

• A Good Womyn: Reframing Rural Stereotypes through Female-driven Country Music
  By failing to engage pervasive stereotypes concerning country music, academic and popular culture unintentionally silence the voices of rural women. Viewing country music as a reflection of rural life, this presentation engages those stereotypes to explore how country music can empower rural women by affirming their individuality and argues that this neglected genre can uniquely further feminist discourses. Jennifer Billman, The National Forensic League
• LGBTQ Television Environments: How “Gay TV” Professionals Understand the Value of their Work
  This presentation draws from extensive interviews with “Gay TV” professionals to demonstrate their shared belief that television has significant educational value; thus, they construct their work as politically important to this marginalized community. While I share the belief that the business of television may promote social change, many Gay TV players overestimate the value of their work by failing to recognize the parameters of this industry. Kathleen Farrell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UW-Marshfield/Wood County

Moderator: Phyllis Holman Weisbard, UW System Women's Studies Librarian

Women Writing Nature

• Seeing Red: Considering Williams’ Passion and Patience as Gateways to an Ecofeminist Pedagogy
  The presenters draw on Terry Tempest Williams’ (2001) book Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert to examine the nexus between a sense of place and a politics of place toward the end of coming to know one’s self and one’s history in and with a particular landscape. They consider how Williams’ particular style of writing is uniquely suited to ignite a compassionate dialogue between educators and students about the power, politics and transformative potential of engaging emotion and place-consciousness in learning. Julia G. Brooks, Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow in Social and Comparative Analysis in Education, University of Pittsburgh; and Heather Greenwood, Masters Student in Resource Management and Conservation, Antioch University of New England
• Toni Morrison's Revisioning of "Green" Discourse
  "Green" discourse needs to be more open to non-Western conceptualizations of "the environment." In Toni Morrison's novels, humans and the non-human environment have an occult or symbiotic relationship. Morrison's fiction offers a new paradigm for thinking about environmentalism as something more than saving the Western, white ideal of the environment. Sharon Jessee, Professor of English, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Departments, UW-La Crosse

Moderator: Pat Gott, Professor of English, UW-Stevens Point

Women in the Academia: Success, Satisfaction or Survival

• Women in Academia: A Review of Factors Affecting Success and Satisfaction
  The presenters review individual and institutional factors that affect the success and the satisfaction of women in academics. Sue Norton, Professor; and Michele Gee, Associate Professor, Department of Business, UW-Parkside
• Academic Mobbing: Is There A Gender Connection?
  This interactive presentation will include research on the phenomena of academic mobbing, introducing 16 defining characteristics. A discussion of how mobbing is carried out, including the physical, mental, and medical effects on academics of both genders will be presented. Sandra Stokes, Professor of Education and Women’s Studies, UW-Green Bay
  Moderator: Helen Klebesadel, Artist, and Director of the UW System Women's Studies Consortium

Women of Color in Leadership Roles
This is a workshop that will include attention to: Suspicion, Rejection, Hypo-Reaction, Racism and Sexism that women of color face in leadership roles. Daphne Brown, Author, Sun Prairie, WI

When Emotion Meets Logic: Effective Communication Strategies for LGBTQ Issues
This interactive workshop is designed to enable educators, staff, and leaders to practice making an effective case for creating and defending safe workplaces and learning environments for the LGBTQ student and staff. The following questions will be addressed: What makes effective messaging? How do opponents frame the conversation abut LGBTQ issues? How can we as leaders, staff or educators, re-frame the conversation and effectively make the case for addressing anti-LGBTQ bias with various constituents? Participants will practice with each other effective messaging techniques. Kathleen Leadley, Teacher Emeritus, Green Bay Area Public Schools

2:00 PM: Eve Ensler’s play The Good Body in Christie Theater (must sign up on registration to receive free ticket)

2:30-3:30 PM: Session 9 (choose1)

Women Composers of the 20th Century
Professor Cheryl Grosso, Music faculty UWGB , Sarah Meredith, Associate Professor of Arts and Visual Design - Music, and Women’s Studies, UW-Green Bay; and students TBA

Ecological Feminist Analysis of Media, Popular Culture, and Science Itself

• Ecofeminist Themes in Science Fiction/Fantasy
  This paper will examine ecofeminist themes within works of Science Fiction / Fantasy, particularly the novels by Sheri S. Tepper (of The Gate to Women’s Country fame). Tepper creates worlds where nature literally fights back (whether by “absorbing” gas-guzzling cars or having animals tell humans that it’s just plain rude and egotistical to assume that humans are the only intelligent beings) or where nature has already “lost” to humans but humans are the real losers. These works may be fiction, but they offer important criticism as well as suggestions for improving how humans interact with the only world we have (for now, at least). Maria DeRose, Visiting Lecturer in Gender Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington
• Reproductive Technologies or Reproductive and Environmental Justice? An Ecological Feminist View
  Placing reproductive technologies in context, this presentation examines not only differences of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation, but also environment. Greta Gaard, Assistant Professor of English, UW-River Falls
• From Pink to Green: An Ecofeminist Critique of Mainstream Breast Cancer Advertisements
  This ecofeminist critique of pink ribbon related advertisements demands a move from viewing breast cancer as an individual issue toward collective action. Mainstream print advertisements related to breast cancer typically feature women who are young, thin and conventionally beautiful. The images and messages are often additionally coded as heterosexual and middle-class. As with many forms of advertising, breast cancer related ads commonly use images that are passive, objectifying and dehumanizing. The advertisements additionally serve to obscure connections between breast health and environmental toxins. Julia Mason, Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

Moderator: Carmen Faymonville, Academic Planner, UW System

Undergraduate Student Writers Reading Original Work on Gendered Spaces and Identities II
UW-Green Bay students read fiction, creative nonfiction, analytical work, and poetry on Conference-related topics. Rebecca Meacham, Associate Professor of Humanistic Studies - English, and Women's Studies, UW-Green Bay; and students TBA

Working Together to Change the Campus Climate for Women
This session will examine the unique challenges faced in implementing advocacy, education and training about sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking for students at three very different institutions a public four-year university, a private university, and a technical college. Participants will have the opportunity to share the struggles on their own campuses and brainstorm solutions. Sandra Krajewski, Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UW-La Crosse; Ingrid Peterson, Campus Violence Prevention Specialist, UW-La Crosse; Jessica Wood, Campus Violence Educator and Advocate, Viterbo College; and Sylvia O’Brien, Campus Violence Prevention Specialist and Advocate, Western Technical College

Discussion of Horace Griffin’s Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches
Griffin analyzes the black church's engagement with LGBT Christians and shares ways in which churches can confront oppression in order to do the work of the black community. Panelists will present and discuss Griffin's work. John Pruitt, Assistant Professor of English, UW-Rock County; Vallerie Maurice, Director of Workforce Equity and Diversity, UW Colleges and UW-Extension

3:30-4:45 PM: Session 10 (choose 1)

Female Exile and Utopia: Visions of Feminist Community in Ethnic Women's Fiction
This panel examines the search for selfhood and home(land) in works of 19th- and 20th-century fiction by ethnic women writers

• “Ability, Sincerity, and Moving Conviction”: Female Self-Realization in Drude Krog Janson’s A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter, Kristin Risley, Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy, UW-Stout
• Fabulist Fictions: Women in Search of a Home in Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men, Lopamudra Basu, Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy, UW-Stout

Women: Politics and Change

• Presidential Traits and First Lady Affect: Does Gender Make a Difference? Scott Nikolai, Political Science, UW-Platteville
• Polling Data and Female Candidates, Wendy Scattergood, Assistant Professor of Political Science, St. Norbert College

Undergraduate Student Writers Reading Original Work on Gendered Spaces and Identities II
UW-Green Bay students read fiction, creative nonfiction, analytical work, and poetry on Conference-related topics. Rebecca Meacham, Associate Professor of Humanistic Studies-English, and Women's Studies, UW-Green Bay; and students TBA

Cultural Diversity in Health Care and LGBTQI Issues
This workshop is about the inclusion of LGBTQ issues in an undergraduate nursing course, Cultural Diversity in Health Care, using two perspectives for addressing and teaching about LGBTQI issues in nursing, the cultural diversity perspective and the caring perspective. After the presentation the presenter would like to engage in dialogue with the audience about my ideas, materials and methods. Sarah Morgan, Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing and LGBT Studies Certificate Program Coordinator, UW-Milwaukee

Identity and Science

• Science Research and LGBTQ Identities, Nancy Wall, Associate Dean and Professor of Biology, Lawrence University
• Additional paper TBA

5:00-6:00 PM: Session 11 (choose 1)

International Perspectives on Women's Activism

• The Participation of Arab Women in Politics
  This presenter examines the position of Arab women and their role in political activities and decision- making areas. The role of women in conventional forms of political participation such as cabinets and parliaments as well as in military conflicts and national struggle will be considered. Barriers that hinder Arab women in social, cultural, religious and financial activities will also be discussed. Hanan Khimish, Applied Science University, Amman- Jordan
• Violence Against Women in Buea Community
  This presentation will examine the status of women in Buea social institutions such as community, administrative, rural, business, unpaid unemployed housewife, house help, student/pupil etc. The presentations will consider challenges, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in their daily activities. Origins, types, sources and effects of violence are identified and solutions proposed to minimize, if not stop the violence. Takang Pamela Manyo, Dynamic Action Group(DAG) – NGO, Buea

Moderator: Ellie Schemenauer, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, UW-Whitewater

Art Made Feminist

• Painting as Ecofeminist Research
  The artist will share images of her watercolor paintings from the series Nature/Human/Nature and discuss them as ecofeminist research. Helen Klebesadel, Artist, and Director of the UW System Women’s Studies Consortium
• "Mayonnaise made in a blender takes only a minute and tastes so good." Betty Crocker
  The artist discusses the phenomenon of Martha Stewart and other homemaking avenues along with contemporary feminist theory that informs her investigation into the identity of the young homemaker. Mindy Sue Meyers, UW-Green Bay Alumnae, and Graduate Student in Art, Arizona State University

High School Teachers as Advocates for Women in Science-Related Fields
Opportunities for Wisconsin Women in Science, Technology and Engineering (OWWSTE) is a training program for secondary teachers and counselors to increase awareness of gender bias in STEM education, and to introduce educators to regional and national programs available to promising female students in science, technology and engineering. This session will show highlights from the video produced, and examples of projects that teachers completed as a result of this program. Susannah Sandrin, Director, UW System Women and Science Program, UW-Oshkosh; and teachers TBA

Culturally Competent LGBT Sexual Assault Support Services: Interactive Workshop
This interactive presentation will include audience participation along with useful information necessary to help and educate staff and the community on this important issue. While heterosexual sexual abuse has similar traits with sexual abuse in the LGBT community, there are differences in context and dynamics. The differences include gender identity, use of language and living in a homophobia society. These barriers keep the victim from reporting as well as the fear of “coming out” without choice. This fear of “outing” can also be used as a threat from the perpetrator if the assault is reported to authorities. It is often impossible to find support services with staff that are culturally competent in the area of gay, lesbian or transgender sexual Lynn Johnson, Social Work Student and Intern, Sexual Assault Center, UW-Green Bay; and Lynn Nash, President, Positive Voice, Inc., Green Bay

Domestic Partner Benefits: Past, Present, and Future
This presentation will discuss the move toward domestic partner benefits in the State of Wisconsin. While historically, DP benefits have been slow in coming, there is progress being made within the UW System. What are the on-going and new efforts being put forth by the university system? A representative from the lobby group, Fair Wisconsin, will discuss their current actions within the broader context of the state. Practical suggestions on how to help promote DP benefits with state representatives and businesses will be given. Andrei Varney, Diversity and Equality Chair-Student Government Association, UW-Green Bay; Lisa Beckstrand, Director of the Inclusivity Initiative for LGBTQ people, UW System; and Glenn Carlson, Executive Director, Fair Wisconsin

Going from being an Asset to a Liability in the World of Work: A Teacher’s Transition through a Transgendered Woman’s Chance for a Better Life
This is the story of a teacher's learning about her impact on students through her experience as a teacher of a transgendered woman. Through her class, "People Process Culture" which focuses on how personal histories get filtered through life experiences, this lecturer became fascinated with the perspectives of a transgendered student. The student transitioned from a man in a traditionally dominated male field (manufacturing) to a woman pursuing her dream to become a teacher. This student will tell her story of having experienced life through a society of gender dichotomies. Kari Dahl, Lecturer, Operation, Construction and Management, UW-Stout; and Karen Stricker, Student, UW-Stout

6:00-7:30 PM: Dinner, PB Poorman Award and Closing Keynote Speaker, Mark Pocan, Wisconsin State Representative, 78th Assembly District

8:00 PM: Ellis performance