Program Schedule |
Panels & Films
J.C. Penney Conference Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis |
Thursday, April 3 |
9:00 a.m.
Lobby |
Registration & Check-in |
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Auditorium |
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video
Film screening and discussion |
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Lobby |
Light Refreshments & Registration |
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Summit Lounge |
Welcome: Kathy Gentile, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Panel #1: Sexing the Image in Advertising
Moderator: Jennifer Ford, Advancement, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"Sexing the Truck"
Colin E. Suchland, University of Missouri-Columbia
"From 'Babushki' to 'Sexy Babes': The Sexing Up of Bulgarian Women in Advertising"
Elza Ibroscheva, Southern Illinois University
"Can 'Men' Stop Rape: Gender Ideologies in 'My Strength Is Not for Hurting' Media Campaign"
Michael Murphy, Washington University |
1:45-3:15 p.m.
Summit Lounge |
Panel #2: Film Gazes at Bodies
Moderator: Diane Carson, film critic and professor, St. Louis Community College at Meramec
"Adaptation and the Female Grotesque: The Reception of Bridget Jones"
Ezra Claverie, University of Illinois
"Framing Veronica: A Female Gaze"
(includes a showing of Veronica's Story)
Jill Evans Petzall, UMSL |
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Summit Lounge |
Panel #3: Sexing the Look Online
Moderator: Zoe Peterson, Psychology, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"The Predator and the Poptart"
Kathleen Nigro, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"Not Your Babushka's Matchmaking: Constructing Erotic Selves in Online Kazakhstan"
Samuel Buelow, Indiana University |
4:45-6:00 p.m.
Summit Lounge |
Independent Short Films
War Zone
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Fifty Nude Women
Discussion Leader: Diane Carson, film critic and professor, St. Louis Community College at Meramec |
6:00 p.m.
Lobby |
Buffet Dinner |
7:30-9:00 p.m.
Auditorium |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Babes in Boyland: Young Men and Pornography
Michael Kimmel, professor of Sociology at State University of New York, Stony Brook, and author of The Gendered Society; The Gender of Desire; Men Confront Pornography; and The Sexual Self. |
9:15-10:15 p.m.
Auditorium |
After-hours Screening
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video |
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| Friday, April 4 |
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Lobby |
Continental Breakfast |
9:00-10:30 a.m.
126 J.C. Penney |
Panel #4: Nudism, Pornography, and Feminism
Moderator: Kathleen Nigro, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"'I Ran Across It in the Barracks Here': Obscenity, Nudist Representations, and WWII"
Brian Hoffman, University of Illinois
"Producing Feminist Erections: The Pedagogy of the Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement"
Jennifer Maher, Indiana University
"Arousing Suspicions: Contemporary Anti-Pornography Feminism and the Politics of Style"
Bradley Lane, Indiana University |
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
126 J.C. Penney |
Independent Short Films
Moderator: Jill Evans Petzall, filmmaker and instructor, University of Missouri-St. Louis
The Body Beautiful
Interviews with My Next Girlfriend
Hollywood Harems |
12:15-1:15 p.m.
Summit Lounge |
Lunch |
1:15-2:45 p.m.
126 J.C. Penney |
PANEL #6 Constructing Sexy Bodies
Moderator: Darlaine Gardetto, Chair, Behavioral Sciences, St. Louis Community College at Meramec
"Senegalese Ethnic Erotica and the Golden Age of Postcards"
Patricia Hickling, Independent Scholar
"Multiple Perspectives on Brazil's Sexy Mulata"
Jennifer J. Manthei, University of Illinois-Springfield
"The Female Robot: Misogyny and Subversion"
Minsoo Kang, University of Missouri-St. Louis |
3:00-5:00 p.m.
126 J.C. Penney |
Filming Desire: A Journey through Women's Film
Film screening and discussion
Discussion Leader: Brian Woodman, archivist and film scholar, University of Missouri-St. Louis |
