This document provides an overview and schedule for a symposium on race, class, gender, and sexuality. The symposium includes various panel discussions on topics related to those themes, such as unfit bodies, mood disorders and disability studies. One panel discusses gendering Asian diasporas, while another looks at intersectional approaches to gender in cross-cultural education and physics education. The keynote speaker is Juana María Rodríguez, a professor focusing on gender and women's studies, LGBTQ issues, and intersectionality. The symposium is sponsored by several university departments and programs and aims to highlight new identities, oppressions, and coalitions formed during the neoliberal era.

1. Race,
Class,
Gender,
Sexuality
Symposium
2:30-­‐3:40
Panels
Unfit
Bodies:
Mood
Disorders,
Disability
Studies
and
the
Biopolitical
Chair:
Lisa
Weems
(Bystrom
Reid)
• “Moral
Values
of
Athleticism:
Classing
the
Body
in
Elite
Institutions”
Kate
Mason,
Miami
University
• “Biopolitical
Rape
Scenes:
Emasculated
States/
Sovereignties”
Jana
Evans
Braziel,
University
of
Cincinnati
• “‘Cripping
Madness
(or)
F—k
the
Heroic
Ideal
of
Overcoming
Mood
Disorders”
Madelyn
Detloff,
Miami
University
“Reading
Improbable
Pleasures
in
Vanessa
del
Rio:
50
Years
of
Slightly
Slutty
Behavior”
Abstract:
Using
the
autobiography,
Vanessa
del
Rio:
Fifty
Years
of
Slightly
Slutty
Behavior
as
the
primary
text,
this
paper
investigates
how
an
embodied
understanding
of
race
and
class
alters
our
interpretations
of
gendered
experiences
of
violence
and
pleasure.
It
asks,
what
happens
when
the
life
experiences
of
an
aging
Afro-­‐Latina
porn
star
are
positioned
at
the
very
heart
of
feminist
investigations
into
the
relationship
between
experience
and
knowledge
production?
In the
process,
this
paper
reflects
on
how
images
and
text
function
as complicated
triggers
for
the
attachments,
identifications,
desires, and
traumas
of
our
own
corporeal
embodiments
and
sexual
histories.
4:15-­‐5:30
Keynote
After
the
keynote,
please
join
us
for
a
reception
in
the
Anna
Symmes
Harrison
and
Caroline
Scott
Harrison
Rooms.

2. 2015
Symposium
Overview
This
year’s
theme,
Coalitions
In
Crisis:
Intersectional
Formations
in
a
Neoliberal
Era,
highlights
new
formations
of
identity,
oppression,
and
coalition
during
an
era
of
neoliberal
cultural
change.
In
particular,
how
might
we
draw
upon
theories
of
intersectionality,
native
feminisms,
women
of
color
feminisms,
and
transnational
feminisms
in
order
to
critique
the
material
and
ideological
changes
wrought
by
neoliberalism?
Keynote
Speaker:
Juana
María
Rodríguez
is
Professor
in
the
Gender
and
Women's
Studies
Department
at
UC
Berkeley,
where
she
is
also
affiliated
faculty
with
the
Department
of
Theater,
Dance
and
Performance
Studies;
the
Berkeley
Center
for
New
Media;
the
Center
for
Race
and
Gender;
and
the
Center
for
the
Study
of
Sexual
Cultures.
She
is
one
of
the
founding
members
of
the
Haas
Institute's
Center
for
a
Fair
and
Inclusive
Society's
LGBTQ
Citizen
Cluster,
and
currently
serves
on
the
UC
President’s
Advisory
Council
on
LGBT
Students.
Sponsors:
Women’s,
Gender
and
Sexuality
Studies
Program,
Wright
State
University,
Humanities
Center,
Department
of
English,
Department
of
Philosophy,
Department
of
Teacher
Education,
Department
of
Educational
Leadership,
Department
of
Spanish
and
Portuguese,
Department
of
Sociology
&
Gerontology,
Program
in
Asian/
Asian
American
Studies,
Center
for
American
and
World
Cultures
Schedule:
8:30-­‐9:40
Panels
1-­‐3
10:00:-­‐11:10
Panels
4-­‐6
11:30-­‐12:40
Panels
7-­‐10
1:00-­‐2:10
Panels
11-­‐13
2:30-­‐3:40
Panels
14-­‐16
4:15-­‐5:30
Keynote
5:30-­‐6:30
Reception
2:30-­‐3:40
Panels
Gendering
Asian
Diasporas
Chair:
Yu-­‐Fang
Cho
(Dolibois
A)
• “Asian/
American
Vulnerabilities,
the
Bystander
and
Human
Rights”
Lynn
Mie
Itagaki,
The
Ohio
State
University
• “Mothers
and
Mobility
in
Ilo
Ilo”
Cheryl
Narumi
Naruse,
University
of
Dayton
• “Linda
Sansei:
Portuguese-­‐speaking
Idols
in
Japan”
Zelideth
Maria
Rivas,
Marshall
University
Beyond
Binaries:
Intersectional
Approaches
to
Gender
in
Cross
Cultural
Education,
Physics
Education
and
Student
Affairs
Chair:
Ann
Fuehrer
(Dolibois
B)
• “Promoting
International
Students’
Effective
Learning
through
Teacher’s
Transformational
Leadership
in
Cross
Cultural
Classes”
Shoabing
Li,
Miami
University
• “Hegemonic
Media:
Literary
Explorations
of
Intersectionality
and
How
to
Support
Students”
Dave
Mooring,
Miami
University
• “Enriching
Gender
in
Physics
Education
Research:
A
Binary
Past
and
A
Complex
Future”
Jennifer
Blue,
Miami
University
and
Adrienne
Traxler,
Wright
State
University
Gendered
“Oriental
bodies”:
Exhibition,
Performance
and
Spectacle
in
Asian
America
Chair:
Christina
Owens
(Dolibois
C)
• “The
Secret
Life
of
Asian
Girlz,”
Christine
Mok,
University
of
Cincinnati
• "De/militarized
Garden
of
Feelings:
Jihae
Hwang's
DMZ
Forbidden
Garden.”
Terry
Park,
Miami
University
• “China
Dolls
and
Forbidden
Belonging
in
World
War
II
Asian
America”
Nicolyn
Woodcock,
Miami
University

3. 8:30-­‐9:50
Panels
Cultural
Representation
and
the
Production
of
the
Neoliberal
Subject
Chair:
Sande
Garner
(Dolibois
A)
• “Irreplaceable:
Focus
on
(White)
Fatherhood”
Rita
Trimble,
The
Ohio
State
University
• “Staging
Resistant
Subjectivity
in
Kenyan
Film:
Nairobi’
Half
Life’s
Cultural
Aesthetic”
RaShelle
Peck,
The
Ohio
State
University
• “
‘Say
Yes!’
The
College
Republic
National
Committee
and
the
Appropriation
of
Popular
Culture”
Sandra
Garner,
Miami
University
Critical
Pedagogy
for
an
Essentialist
Generation:
Graduate
Students
Reflect
on
their
Experiences
Working
Toward
Social
Justice
Outcomes
Chair:
Rebecca
Howard
(Dolibois
B)
Discussants:
Rachel
Radina,
Miami
University
Tiffany
Williams,
Miami
University
Johnnie
Jackson,
Miami
University
Vaudeville,
Cowboys
and
the
Undead:
Queer
Performance
on
the
Stage
and
Cinema
Chiar:
Paul
Jackson
(Dolibois
C)
• “‘America’s
Greatest
Male
Impersonator’
Kitty
Doner
and
the
Feminization
of
Male
Impersonation
Acts
in
American
Vaudeville,
1914-­‐1933”
Emma
Squire,
Miami
University
• “‘No
Future:
Unliving,
Undead,
&
Queer
Bodies
in
Contemporary
Film"
Nicole
Cannon,
Miami
University
• “Bisexuality
in
Popular
Media:
An
Analysis
of
Brokeback
Mountain
and
Chasing
Amy”
Robert
DelVechio,
Wright
State
University
1:00-­‐2:10
Panels
Activism
&
Recuperative
Tactics:
Non-­‐Western
Strategies
of
Resistance
Chair:
Anne-­‐Marie
Butler,
SUNY
Buffalo
(Dolibois
A)
• “Resist
with
Tenacity,
Not
With
Swear
Words:
A
Feminist
Intervention”
Elif
Ege,
SUNY
Buffalo
• “Hand
Grenades
as
Recuperative
Praxis:
The
Art
of
Shadi
Ghadirian,
Leila
Shawa
and
Esin
Turan.”
Anne-­‐Marie
Butler,
SUNY
Buffalo
• “Diasporic
Fandom,
Cross
Racial
Readership
and
the
Muslim
Ms.
Marvel”
Nona
Landis,
Miami
University
From
Chick
Lit
to
English
Teachers
Abroad:
The
Gendering
of
Transnational
Communities
Chair:
Sammani
Perera
(Dolibois
B)
• “Filipinas
as
Feminized
Labor
Threat:
Yellow
Peril
Discourses
in
Japan’s
English
Teaching
Industry”
Christina
Owens,
Miami
University
• “Neoliberal
Transformations:
Girls
of
Riyadh
as
American
Chick
Lit”
Rachel
Schaefer,
Miami
University
• “Love
Marriage
and
Mnemonic
Archives
in
Sri
Lankan
American
Women’s
Fiction”
Dinidu
Karunanayake,
Miami
University
Contested
Sexualities:
Embodied
Practices
in
the
Americas
Chair:
Kate
Mason
(Dolibois
C)
• “Against
Corporeal
Integrity:
Transsexuality,
Military
Repression
and
the
International
Scientific
Community
in
Sao
Paulo”
Jose
Amador,
Miami
University
• “Urban
Blight
and
the
Making
of
the
‘Straight’
Haight
Theater”
Damon
Scott,
Miami
University
• “Aztlan
Unprotected:
Reading
Gil
Cuadros
in
the
Aftermath
of
a
Pandemic”
Julie
Avril
Minich,
University
of
Texas
at
Austin

4. 10-­‐11:10
Panels
Roundtable
Discussion
of
Yu-­‐Fang
Cho’s
Uncoupling
America
Chair:
Gaile
Pohlhaus,
Miami
University
(Dolibois
A)
Discussants:
Tempest
Henning,
Miami
University
Nona
Landis,
Miami
University
Christine
Mok,
University
of
Cincinnati
Michele
Navakas,
Miami
University
Respondent:
Yu-­‐Fang
Cho,
Miami
University
Personal
Transformation
in
the
Service
of
Social
Justice:
The
Journey
of
Understanding
Power,
Privilege
&
Oppression
Chair:
Rachel
Radina,
Miami
University
(Dolibois
B)
Panelists:
Kellie
DiNapoli,
Rachel
Cacchione,
Corrine
Brown
–
Miami
University
Consuming
Race:
Neoliberalism
and
the
Branding
of
Difference
Chair:
Kimberly
Hamlin
(Dolibois
C)
• “Kanye
West’s
New
Slave
Daguerreotype:
Race,
Consumerism
and
the
Prison-­‐Industrial
Complex”
Brian
Michael
Murphy,
Miami
University
• “Branding
Guilt:
American
Apparel
Inc.
and
Latina
Labor
in
Los
Angeles”
Hannah
Noel,
Miami
University
• “Reclaiming
Bravo’s
Ironic
Wink:
Self-­‐Effacing
Humor,
Swearing
and
Shit-­‐Talking
in
Brandi
Glanville’s
Memoirs”
Allison
Nettnin,
Miami
University
#intersectional
feminisms
and
#geeks:
hashtags,
social
media
and
the
possibilities
of
outrage
Chair:
Jen
Malkowski,
Miami
University
(Dolibois
A)
• “Hashtag
Feminists
and
Twitter
Killjoys”
Theresa
Kulbaga,
Miami
University
• “Communication
Issues
Across
Generations:
Looking
into
African
Americans
and
their
Preferred
Mode
of
Raising
Awareness”
Jade
Taylor,
Miami
University
• “Quit
Hittin’
Yourself:
Marginalization
of
Geek
Culture
From
Within”
Patrick
Harris,
Miami
University
Bodies
in
Crisis:
Legislation,
Women’s
Bodies
and
Race
Chair:
Roxanne
Ornelas
(Dolibois
C)
• “The
Legacy
of
Black
Women’s
Reproduction
and
Continual
Policing
of
Bodies
of
Color”
Denise
A.
Harrison,
Kent
State
University
• “Hatred
and
Violence:
Acid
Attacks
on
Iranian
Women”
Leila
Chamankhah,
Miami
University
• “A
Critical
Race
Look
at
General
Mills’
Depiction
of
Multiraciality”
Vicka
Bell-­‐Robinson,
Miami
University
Windup
Girls
and
Nazis:
Spaces
of
Creativity
and
Female
Agency
Chair:
Alandis
Johnson
(Bystrom
Reid)
• “‘To
look
almost
human,
to
be
nearly
respected’:
Ethical
Consideration
and
Sexual
Agency
in
Paolo
Bacigalupi’s
Windup
Girl”
Elizabeth
Shoppelrei,
Wright
State
University
• “From
Resistance
to
Acceptance:
Ariadne’s
Journey
to
Utopia
in
Hella
Hasse’s
A
Thread
in
the
Dark”
Sirithorn
Siriwan,
Miami
University
• “The
Subversive
Aesthetic
of
Leni
Riefenstahl”
Abigail
Sorensen,
Wright
State
University
11:30-­‐12:50
Panels
11:30-­‐12:50
Panels
Dead
Weight?
Addressing
On-­‐Campus
Racial
Politics
in
the
Class
room
in
the
Wake
of
the
‘Concerned
Faculty
Member’
Letter
Chair:
Aaron
Kashtan
(Dolibois
B)
Discussants:
Aaron
Kashtan,
Lilian
Mina,
Amir
Hasan,
Hoa
Bui,
Ancilleno
Davis,
Tony
Cimasko
–
Miami
University