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