4th Annual Gender Research Conference

Past Event

Monday, May 9, 2011 6:00 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
Research 1, Room 163

The Gender Research Conference returns for its fourth year.  Hosted by Women and Gender Studies, the annual event provides a forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their research and to participate in a scholarly dialogue on gender.

Mason's Gender Research Conference began as the culminating feature of the Gender Research Project.  Following a two-semester course designed to teach undergraduate and graduate students about the fundamental tools of social research, the Gender Research Conference serves as a forum for these students to present their research to the Mason community.

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Agenda

10-10:15   Welcome

  • Suzanne Scott, Director of Women and Gender Studies
  • Dr. Ingrid Sandole-Staroste, Gender Reseaerch Project Instructor

10:15- 11:15   Session 1: Results from the Gender Research Project

  • Frances Rutherford, Success in Professional Teaching Careers: A Case Study of Women Professors at George Mason University
  • Jennifer Maloney, Cultural Fusion: Bridging Diversity on a University Campus
  • Lulu Geza, A Place to Call Home: Community & Identity on George Mason Women's Rugby Team

11:30-12:30   Session 2

  • Julie Anderson, Warriors in the Academy: Veterans Transition from Military to Mason
  • Lily Bolourian, Gender Equality in America: Are We There Yet?
  • Yeme Mehari, Representations of Gender in the Smithsonians

12:30-1:15   Research Beyond the Classroom: Faculty Perspectives Roundtable  Cancelled

1:30-2:30   Session 3

  • Sara Hussaini, Alternative Approaches to Human Trafficking in Pakistan
  • Andrea Rutan, Female Adherence to Islam & Veiling in Germany: An Individualist Practice of Ethics
  • Sarah Faragalla, Muslim Women and the Veil

2:40-3:40   Session 4

  • Christine Cartwright, Madness in Lessing's The Golden Notebook & The Grass Is Singing
  • Mabinty Quarhie, Black Feminist Statement Revised
  • Justin Roykovich, The Redux as Redefinition

3:50-4:50  Session 5

  • Nicole McCoy, The Brazillian Mulata: Race, Identity and the Body
  • Sarah Wright, Family Narratives and the Body
  • Sara Mitcho, Different Bodies, Different Lives, & the Universal Vulnerability: the Importance of Ontology in the Field of Feminist Ethics

4:50- 5:00   Closing Remarks

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