Speaker Series
The Women & Leadership Archives is pleased to provide interested faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students with this forum to highlight interdisciplinary scholarship on women and gender. This is a unique opportunity for individuals to present their work to their colleagues in a comfortable and encouraging setting.
Presentations take place once a month on weekday afternoons for an hour. Dates for presentations are flexible and all are brown bag lunch optional. Presenters are expected to speak for approximately thirty to forty minutes, with the remaining time devoted to a discussion of the work.
We hold open submissions throughout the year, and have presentation slots available for the 2011-2012 academic calendars. We welcome students and faculty from any discipline and any department at Loyola. A highlight of our diverse past presenters is available below.
Interested parties should submit a one-page abstract to the Women & Leadership Archives wlarchives@luc.edu or Beth Loch at eloch@luc.edu. Abstracts need to include a description of the paper, a summary of the argument, and any additional materials needed to present, i.e. projector, VCR, power-point hook up, Internet.
2010-2011 Speakers:
Megan Stout Sibbel, "Sisters in the South: Roman Catholic Nuns in African American Communities, 1935-1970."
Amanda Furiasse, "Who Said Mary has to be a Virgin? The Social Construction of Mary's Virginity."
Christopher Ramsey, "From Rolling Pins to Podiums: The Changing Role of Women in Neighborhood Resistance: Chicago, 1953-1983."
Mia Gutsell, "Marie Curie: Woman, Scientist, Subtle Feminist."
Cynthia Wallace, "Choosing Something New: A Contemporary Literary Ethics of Women's Suffering and Self-Sacrifice."
Stella Ress, "Gold Diggers and Sugar Daddies: Intergenerational Romance and the Challenge to Age/Gender Norms, 1900-1930."
2009-2010 Speakers:
Lisa Marie Belz, OSU, "Philo and Eve: The First Woman and the Source of Human Happiness."
Nicole Desiree Ortegon, "The Feminization of Teaching in Nineteenth Century United States of America: Impetuses, Consequences, and Agency."
John Krenzke, "Political Capital: The Investment Strategies of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough."
Donald Wallenfang, "Our Mother, who Art in Earth: Refashioning Nomenclature and Prediction of Divinity."
2008-2009 Speakers:
Lisa Marie Belz, OSU, "Is Only Woman to be Subordinate? Examining the Subtle Corrective of Ephesians, 5:21-33."
Donald Wallenfang, "The Taboos of Otherness: A Study of the Ritual Purification Codes Surrounding Childbirth and Menstruation in the Book of Leviticus."
Winifred Whelan, PhD "New Postmodern Horizons for Mary Magdalene."
Melissa Browning, "HIV/AIDS Prevention and Sexed Bodies: Rethinking Abstinence in the Light of the African AIDS Pandemic."
2007-2008 Speakers:
Alexandra DeMonte, "Picturing Sisterhood: The Representation of Feminism in Teen and Women's Magazines, 1970-1976."
Rachel Richard, "From the Runway to the Office: How Women's Professional Roles were Influenced by the Fashion Industry."
Lisa Marie Blez, OSU, "Women Members of the Association(s) Behind Qumran Scrolls: In Search of a More Credible Paradigm."
Liz Matelski, "Bonde or Bust: Marilyn Monroe & the Rise & Fall of the 1950s Blonde Archetype."
Kathleen Pacyna, "Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives: Five Catholic Women & Their Strategies for Social Justice."
Jeanine Viau, "What Does Jesus Want of a Woman? The Apostleship of the Samaritan Woman in John 4:2-42."
Ann Shanahan, "Blocking Medea and Hedda: Applying Feminist Dramatic Theory to Staging two Classic Plays about Women."
2006-2007 Speakers:
Elizabeth A. Myers, PhD "Mini-skirts & Maxi-politics: Women's Dress in the 1960s and 1970s."
Andrea Hollingsworth, "Ecstasy & Empowerment: Feminist Theology and the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit."
Melanie Beaudette, "(John) Radclyffe Hall: Lesbianism, the New Woman, and Modernist Feminism."
Ann Mattis, "Disavowing Dirty Work: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Domestic Service Reforms."