7th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium
March 12-14, 1998
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
THURSDAY, March 12, 1998
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Session 1: U207, Fight Fire with Fire, Bonnie Nelson (KSU), moderator
Lisa Coulthard (U of Toronto), &1xbet best casino website ;Dead Men Don't Rape: Revenge
Feminism and Popular Culture&1xbet best casino website ;
Susan Anne Carlson (Pittsburg St U), &1xbet best casino website ;Turning Incest into High
Art: Anais Nin and the Father Romance&1xbet best casino website ;
Robin Ikegami (Xavier U), &1xbet best casino website ;Violence as Empowerment and Redemption
in Contemporary Women's Literature&1xbet best casino website ;
Session 2: U212, Unspeakable Coercions, Alison Wheatley (KSU), moderator
S. Lillian Kremer (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;Holocaust Coping and Survival Strategies:
Women's Witness&1xbet best casino website ;
Alan Sikes (U of MN), &1xbet best casino website ;Performing Subjects/Performative Acts:
Notes on a Nazi Concentration Camp&1xbet best casino website ;
Corey Lewis (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;Upsetting Ambiguities in the Work of Franz
Kafka&1xbet best casino website ;
1:45-3:15 p.m.
Session 3: U207, Race and Violence, Jerome Dees (KSU), moderator
Margaret Mara (First Step House, Lawrence), &1xbet best casino website ;White Womanhood
Stands In Bloodied Skirts: The Pedestal and the Auction Block&1xbet best casino website ;
Kathleen De Grave (Pittsburg St U), &1xbet best casino website ;'Reign of Death-Eye Dog':
the Politics of Violence in Native American Literature&1xbet best casino website ;
Lynnell Thomas (Emory U), &1xbet best casino website ;Vestiges of the Old South in the
Old Square (Vieux Carré)&1xbet best casino website ;
Session 4: U212, S/He Asked For It..., Dean Hall (KSU), moderator
Cathy Bogart (Avila College), &1xbet best casino website ;'She Asked For It': Perceptions
of Women, Alcohol and Sexual Assault&1xbet best casino website ;
Minna Ruuskanen (U of Helsinki), &1xbet best casino website ;Of Women Who Have Killed
a Man in a Close Relationship&1xbet best casino website ;
L. Susan Williams (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;Gender, Justice, and the Courts:
Judicial and Courtroom Bias in Domestic Violence and Rape Cases&1xbet best casino website ;
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Session 5: U207, Slashing the Celluloid, Lawrence Rodgers (KSU), moderator
Steffen Hantke (U of Northern CO), &1xbet best casino website ;Violence Incorporated:
On the Uses of Gratuitous Violence in Fiction&1xbet best casino website ;
Matthew Brooks (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;Violent Messages Made Over&1xbet best casino website ;
Linda Brigham (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;'Really Bad Aliens' and Social Solidarity
in Alien3&1xbet best casino website ;
David Schmid (SUNY - Buffalo), &1xbet best casino website ;The Serial Killer as Culture
Industry&1xbet best casino website ;
Session 6: U212, Crossing the Threshold with Bluebeard, Angela Hubler
(KSU), moderator
Casie Hermansson (Pittsburg St U), &1xbet best casino website ;Narrative Violence: Bluebeard
and his Reader&1xbet best casino website ;
Bansari Mitra (George Mason University), &1xbet best casino website ;Bluebeard's Bloody
Chamber: The Aesthetics of Violence in Angela Carter's Adult Fairy Tales&1xbet best casino website ;
7:00-8:30 p.m., Seaton 063
Reading by Mary Karr
**Reception 8:30-10:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, March 13, 1998
8:45-10:15 a.m.
Session 7: U205, Sites of Violence in the Abortion Debate, Jan Boudart
(Chicago, IL), moderator
Jennifer Margiotta (Georgetown U), &1xbet best casino website ;Envisioning (Re)productions
of Social Justice in Reproductive Health Activism&1xbet best casino website ;
Ginna Husting (U of IL), &1xbet best casino website ;War, Violence, Chaos, Law and Order
in Abortion-Related Protest&1xbet best casino website ;
Linda Myrsiades (West Chester U), &1xbet best casino website ;The Abortion Wars: Cultural
and Legal Construction of Reproductive Woman&1xbet best casino website ;
Session 8: U212, Violent Spectacles and Those Who Watch, Steffen
Hantke (U of Northern CO), moderator
Salvador Oropesa (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;Violence in Movies: Tesis by Alejandro
Abenámar&1xbet best casino website ;
Peter Caster (OR St U), &1xbet best casino website ;Ultra-violence and the Spectacle of
Killing in John Woo's Films&1xbet best casino website ;
Julie Tharp (U of WI), &1xbet best casino website ;When the Body is Your Own: Feminist
Film Criticism and the Horror Genre&1xbet best casino website ;
Kristina Zarlengo (Columbia U), &1xbet best casino website ;Some Deaths of the Nation
in Nuclear War Films&1xbet best casino website ;
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Session 9: U205, The Writing Classroom as a Site of Violence, Irene
Ward (KSU), moderator
John Bruni (KU), &1xbet best casino website ;Electronic Writing Spaces: Technological
Literacy and Class Distinctions&1xbet best casino website ;
William J. Carpenter (KU), &1xbet best casino website ;Thriving on 'Open-Mindedness':
Why Students are Persuaded Not to Persuade&1xbet best casino website ;
Amy Goforth (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;Stratification, Domination, and Subordination:
The Violence of Marginalization in the Collaborative Writing Class&1xbet best casino website ;
Sharon James McGee (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;The Sound of Silencing: The Violence
of Teacher Response&1xbet best casino website ;
Session 10: U212, Violence, Imperialism, and Victorian Solidarity, Naomi
Wood (KSU), moderator
Donald E. Hall (CA St U, Northridge), &1xbet best casino website ;Middlemarching: George
Eliot, ARBEIT UND FREIHEIT&1xbet best casino website ;
Michael Hancock (KU), &1xbet best casino website ;George Eliot and Provincial Violence&1xbet best casino website ;
M. Kellen Williams (Kennesaw St U), &1xbet best casino website ;'If Not By Fair Means,
Then By Foul': Naming the Perverse Body in Robert Louis Stevenson's STRANGE
CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE&1xbet best casino website ;
Joseph McLaughlin (Ohio U), &1xbet best casino website ;Fear in a Handful of Soap: Commodity
Imperialism in Shaw's PYGMALION&1xbet best casino website ;
[Lunch 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.]
1:30-3:00 p.m., U212
ROUND TABLE ON VIOLENCE: Theory, Practice, and the Real Experience of
Violence Against Women in the U.S.: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
by Sandy Barnett, Executive Director, Kansan Coalition Against
Domestic Violence; Judy Davis, Executive Director, The Crisis Center,
Inc.; Melissa Divine, Women's Studies instructor, Crisis Center;
Sue Zschoche, Associate Professor of History, Kansas State.
3:15-4:45 p.m.
Session 11: U205, Telling Trauma, Amy Cummins (KU), moderator
Kathleen Nichols (Pittsburg St U), &1xbet best casino website ;The Cultural Shock-Jocks
of Moral Reform and Literary Representations of Child Murder in Toni Morrison's
BELOVED&1xbet best casino website ;
Lisa Garbus (UC Berkeley), &1xbet best casino website ;Stories of Violence: Literature,
Film, Philosophy and Life&1xbet best casino website ;
Deborah Thompson-Galloway (SW MO St U), &1xbet best casino website ;Darin Galloway: Personal
Reflection on a Murder Unsolved&1xbet best casino website ;
Session 12: U212, Misreading and Violence in Cultural Texts, Michele
Janette (KSU), moderator
Helena Simonett (Antioch, TN), &1xbet best casino website ;'Los gallos valientes': Examining
Violence in Popular Mexican Music&1xbet best casino website ;
Andrew Beck (San Diego St U), &1xbet best casino website ;'Scorched Earth' Campaigns:
US Pop Culture in the Guatemalan Highlands&1xbet best casino website ;
Helen Kapstein (Columbia U), &1xbet best casino website ;A Town Called Nobody: Witchcraft
and Violence in South Africa&1xbet best casino website ;
7:00-8:30 p.m., Union 212
Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Law, Political Science, and Women's Studies,
Rutgers University: &1xbet best casino website ;Language Rights at the Heart of Freedom&1xbet best casino website ;
**Reception 8:30-10:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, March 14, 1998
8:15-9:30 a.m.
Session 13: U204, Women Writing Through Violence, Carol Franko (KSU),
moderator
Anna Lott (U of North AL), &1xbet best casino website ;Revolutionary Violence in Elizabeth
Inchbald's A SIMPLE STORY&1xbet best casino website ;
Marya McFadden (U of Southern CA), &1xbet best casino website ;Queerness at Shrews-bury,
or '...What Lived in Academic Towers': Danger and Homoerotic Desire in
Dorothy L. Sayers' GAUDY NIGHT&1xbet best casino website ;
Eluned Summers-Bremner (U of Auckland), &1xbet best casino website ;Subduing the Body's
Knowledge: Sexual Anxiety in Patricia Cornwell's Fiction&1xbet best casino website ;
Session 14: U212, Policing Identities and the Violence of Law, Lyman
Baker (KSU), moderator
Daniel Shea (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;Efficiency and Violence in the NYPD&1xbet best casino website ;
Caren Irr (PA St U), &1xbet best casino website ;UNITED STATES V. NIXON: White Collar
Violence and the Act&1xbet best casino website ;
Richard Schur (KU), &1xbet best casino website ;The Violence of Legal Identities: I AM
NOT STILLER! and Performing Identity&1xbet best casino website ;
9:45-11:00 a.m.
Session 15: U212, Handling Trauma, Christina Hauck (KSU), moderator
David Mazella (U of Houston), &1xbet best casino website ;Post-Traumatic Cynicism: Two
Crashes&1xbet best casino website ;
Sara Murphy (New York U), &1xbet best casino website ;Training in Trauma: Rape Crisis
Videos and Female Adolescence&1xbet best casino website ;
Carrie Rentschler (U of IL at Urbana-Champaign), &1xbet best casino website ;The Politics
of Resentment in the American Victims' Rights Movement&1xbet best casino website ;
11:15-12:15, U212
Robert Schaeffer, Associate Professor of Global Sociology, San Jose State:
&1xbet best casino website ;Violent Memories, Virtual Realities&1xbet best casino website ;
[Lunch 12:15-1:30 p.m.]
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session 16: U204, Tough Love, Margaret Conrow (KSU), moderator
Karmen MacKendrick (Gettysburg College), &1xbet best casino website ;Taking it From The
Top&1xbet best casino website ;
Terry Hoople (Concordia U), &1xbet best casino website ;SM Asceticism and the Ethics of
Violence&1xbet best casino website ;
Susan Palwick (U of NV - Reno), &1xbet best casino website ;When Worlds Collide: The Failure
of Utopia in Anne Rice's EXIT TO EDEN&1xbet best casino website ;
Session 17: U212, Dismembered Women, Miriam Shadis (Ohio U), moderator
M. Diane Brown (Portland St U), &1xbet best casino website ;Asceticism and Secret: THE
BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE and Contemporary Culture&1xbet best casino website ;
Angela Smith (U of MN), &1xbet best casino website ;Dismembering the Normative Body, Rendering
it Deviant: The Photography of Cindy Sherman&1xbet best casino website ;
Nancy Cervetti (Avila College), &1xbet best casino website ;The Legacy of William Hunter's
GRAVID UTERUS: Institutionalizing Violation&1xbet best casino website ;
3:15-4:45 p.m.
Session 18: U204, Channelling Violence: Exclusion, Discipline, Iteration,
Anne Phillips (KSU), moderator
Gregory Eiselein (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;Bisexual Violence&1xbet best casino website ;
Alpha Selene Anderson (Seattle, WA), &1xbet best casino website ;Familial Territory: Representations
of Domestic Violence in Contemporary North American and Irish Fiction&1xbet best casino website ;
Jennifer Thompson (U of CA - Irvine), &1xbet best casino website ;Performativity and Sexual
Violence&1xbet best casino website ;
Session 19: U212, Recovering Violence in US History, Gil Rodman (U
of S. Florida), moderator
Fred Whitehead (KU), &1xbet best casino website ;Violence and Liberation: The Struggle
for Emancipation in Ohio and Kentucky, 1845-1865&1xbet best casino website ;
Jeffory Clymer (Duke U), &1xbet best casino website ;'Bomb Talking': The Cultural Work
of Imagined Terrorist Conspiracies in the 1886 Chicago Haymarket Bombing&1xbet best casino website ;
Tim Dayton (KSU), &1xbet best casino website ;'These are the proportions of a war': Muriel
Ruykeyser's THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, Marxism, and History&1xbet best casino website ;
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Union Room 212
POETRY READING: Frances Driscoll, Chris Cokinos, Christina Hauck