See the conference posters too! Here's one for the  conference overall, and here's the one Dr. Marnina Gonick's talk.

UPEI WOMEN'S STUDIES STUDENT CONFERENCE

October 23 - 24, 2009

Friday, October 23

4:00pm - Main 320

Public Talk Dr. Marnina Gonick (Canada Research Chair in Gender, Mount Saint Vincent University) "Mean Girls and Failing Boys: Postfeminist Sensibilities in Education and the Media"

5:30 - Main 420 - Dawson Lounge

Opening Reception  

Saturday, October 24

9:00-10:00am - Main 420 - Dawson Lounge

Registration and Continental Breakfast
 

10:00-11:15am – Main 320

Session #1: Thinking About Beauty Cultures

Erica Van Driel - "Cosmetic Surgery: Deconstructing the Myths"

Bethany Morris - "Making Bodies"

Fiona Ann Papps - "You Can't Love a Woman Unless You Love Hair"

11:15-11:30am – Main 420

Break  

11:30am-12:45pm – Main 320

Session #2: Constructing Identities

Kerrilynn Sweeney - "The Freak Discourse"

Conor Leggot - "Where Babies Come From"

Rebecca Jackson - "Destabilizing Dialect"                  

Tracy Tidgwell - "Imagined Selves: Fat and Queer. The Politics and Power of a Creative Culture"

12:45-2:00pm - Main 420

Lunch

2:00 – 3:15pm – Main 320

Session #3: Spaces & Places

Jay Kurtyka

Andrea Simpson - "Sex Tourism and the Dominican Republic"

Kate Huston - "Transgendered Experiences in the Justice System"

Christopher Teo - "The Gender of Pixels"

3:15 – 3:30pm – Main 420

Break

3:30 – 4:45pm – Main 320

Session #4: Representation & Media

Emily Jewell - "Female Beauty and Power in Half of a Yellow Sun"

Katie Rankin - "It's a Bird! It's a Plane! Disabled Heroes, Super Crips, and Representations of Disability in Media"

Heather Tasker - "Cosmo's Guide to Deindividuated Sex"

4:45-5:00 - Main 420

Break  

5:00 – 6:00pm – Main 320

Faculty musing: 'what drew us to Women's Studies in the first place, and what keeps us going when we're here?'

Dr. Michael Arfken

Dr. Ann Braithwaite

Dr. Fiona Ann Papps

6:30 – 8:30pm

Pot Luck Dinner (details to follow)