18th Annual Gender Studies Symposium
All symposium events are free and open to the public. All events are held in Templeton Student Center or the Black Box in Fir Acres Theatre.
Sign language interpreter provided for keynote addresses.
Art Exhibit
MARCH 10-12, TEMPLETON STUDENT CENTER, STAMM
Wednesday, March 10
Panel: Women Writers of the 1930s
9-10:15 A.M., STAMM
Panel: Sex Work: Health, Safety, and Economic Justice
9-10:15 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Visions in Action: Commitment to End Hunger and Poverty
10:30-NOON, THAYER
Panel: Superwomen and She-Devils in Medieval German Literature
10:30-NOON, STAMM
Workshop: Unique Issues of Trans- and Intersex Survivors of Domestic Violence
10:30-11:45 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Sexuality and Power in the Age of AIDS
12:15-1:15 P.M., STAMM
Reading: Synergia authors
1:15-2:45 P.M., THAYER
Roundtable: Surviving Breast Cancer
1:15-2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Performance and Discussion: Drawing the Shades, by April Elliott
3-5 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Featured Event. Documentary Film and Discussion: Jane: An Abortion Service
5-5:30 P.M., FIR ACRES THEATRE, BLACK BOX
Performance: Inappropriate Behavior, by Teresa Celsi
7:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
RECEPTION FOLLOWS IN FOYER
Keynote Address: Women and HIV: A Human Rights Perspective
Dazon Dixon, founder of SisterLove, a women’s AIDS organization, Atlanta
Thursday, March 11
Panel: Talking the Game: Patriarchy and Athletics
9-10:15 A.M., STAMM
Informal discussion with Dazon Dixon
10:30-NOON, THAYER
Panel: Distorted Perceptions: Eating Disorders and Body Image
10:30-11:45 A.M., STAMM
Roundtable: Youth and Issues of Sexual Diversity
10:30-NOON, COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Voices of Women Healers: Alternative Healthcare in Modern Society
NOON-1 P.M., STAMM
Poetry Reading: Women Writers’ Circle
1:15-2:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel: Money Matters: Can’t Buy Me Healthcare
1:15-2:45 P.M., STAMM
Theatre Workshop: Improvising About Gender in Every Day Life
1:15-2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: The Politics, Healthcare, and Activism of the Reproductive Rights Movement
3-4:15 P.M., THAYER
Panel: The Self-Misdiagnosis of Vaginal Yeast Infection: Clarifying the Confusion
3-4:15 P.M., STAMM
Panel: Women, Poverty, and the Welfare State: Historical and Global Perspectives
3-4:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Gendered Identity Crises in Modern Cinema
4:30-5:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel: Three Emigrant Latino Women Talk About Health and Poverty: Salud, Amor, Peseta, y Politica en la Mesa
4:30-5:45 P.M., STAMM
Multigenre Reading: Annie Dawid and Judith Arcana
7:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
RECEPTION FOLLOWS IN FOYER
Keynote Address: Men’s Health, Men’s Violence, Men’s Lives:
Why Gender Equality is the Answer
Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook, author of Manhood in America
Friday, March 12
Panel: Women and the Politics of Work
9-10:15 A.M., STAMM
Panel: Breaking Down the Myths of Prostitution
9-10:15 A.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: The Literate Body: Inventing Women’s Identities
10:30-11:45 A.M., STAMM
Workshop with Michael Kimmel: Why Are We So Defensive? Interrogating Men’s Resistance to Equality
10:30-NOON, COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Diagnosis Discrimination: Challenging the Oregon Health Plan
NOON-1 P.M., THAYER
Roundtable: A Continuing Journey: Lewis & Clark College’s Sexual Conduct Policy
NOON-1 P.M., STAMM
Poetry Reading: The Muse Strikes Back
1:15-2:45 P.M., THAYER
Panel: “Never Another Battered Woman”: Men and Women on Domestic Violence
1:15-2:45 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Fulbright Scholars
3-4:30 P.M., THAYER
Panel: 19th-Century Women Writers: Different Genres/Different Journeys
3-4:30 P.M., STAMM
Roundtable: Teen Moms Talk
3-4:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Panel: Women’s Bodies in 20th-Century Russia
4:45-6:30 P.M., COUNCIL CHAMBER
Keynote Performance: Comfort Me With Apples: Homeless Characters Throughout Literature
Betty Jean Steinshouer, Performance Artist
Contact Us
The Gender Studies Program is located in Miller Center for the Humanities.
email gender@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7378
fax 503-768-7379
Director Deborah Heath
Symposium Director Kimberly Brodkin
Administrative Assistant Nancy J. Hugg
Gender Studies Program
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 63
Portland, Oregon 97219






