Women’s and Gender Studies Conference

This conference will feature papers from scholars across the disciplines on our campus, 2 keynote sessions—one called “Climate Change: Women Bear the Brunt”, the second a presentation by the founders of a cooperative art gallery in St Louis called the Floodplain Gallery—a workshop on what it takes to be an activist, a panel of activists from our region featuring former state Representative Rebecca McClanahan, Jessica Parks of the Take Root Project, Christine Harker and Sharon Bagatelle from Citizens Climate Lobby. Toss in some creative nonfiction/life writing and we have two days of presentations that might grab you or someone you know.

Friday March 2, 2018 Alumni Room, Truman Student Union Building

10:30 am     Scholars from Across Disciplines and Sites of Activity

Maggie Wilcox: Immigration and Identity

Jessica Jones: Endometriosis: A Comprehensive Outlook

Gloria Kwok: Duong Thu Huong: Viet Nam’s Female Activist and Novelist

 

11:30 am     Keynote: Women Bear the Brunt: The Global Costs of Climate Change

Christine Harker, WGS Tand English faculty, Truman State University

 

12:30 pm     Workshop: Breaking Barriers to Activism

Roberta Donahue, Nursing Faculty Truman State University

 

1:30 pm        Activists of Northeast Missouri: A Panel Discussion

Rebecca McClanahan, former Missouri State House Rep, Adair County Democrats President

Christine Harker and Sharon Bagatelle, Citizens Climate Lobby

Jessica Parks, The Take Root Project

 

2:30 pm       Scholars from Across Disciplines

Anna Barger: Performing Femininity: A Look At Intersectionality Through Speech

Eboni Miller: Inequality Within the Wage Gap

Leah Wright: The Relationship Between Sorority Membership and Self-Reported Mental Health Status at Truman State

Ding-hwa Hsieh Taiwan’s Road to Democracy and Social Progress


Saturday March 3, 2018 Alumni Room Truman Student Union Building

10:00 am     Scholars from Across Disciplines

Sarah Connolly: Working to the Grave: The Toxicity of the American Workplace and How to Change It

Maha Mohamed: Examining Rwanda’s Success in Family Planning

Emily Hannon Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

 

11:00 am     Keynote “Place-Making and the Visual Arts in the Midwest”

Amelia-Colette Jones, Trina Van Ryn, and Elizabeth Wolfson, Co-Directors, Flood Plain Gallery, St. Louis, MO [Possibly joined by Jessee Rose Crane, Rose Raft Artist Residency]

 

12:00 pm     Creative Nonfiction Panel

Megan Goebel: Beyond the Virgin

Emily Stobbe: Kiss

Emmy Nixon: The Great Divide

 

1:00 pm     The WGST 300 Mentoring Project

Morgan Stoll: Women in Nursing: Over-represented and Underpaid

Natalie Mitten: A Study of Self-Reported Mental Health in the Truman Community

Melissa Pittman: A Gendered Environment

Jessica Kincaid: Agriculturalists: The Biased Perspective