Agenda
The conference is held in the Baker Center Theater.
Friday, Sept. 6
9-9:15 a.m. | Baker Center Theater
Land Acknowledgment and Opening Remarks
- Katherine Jellison (Ohio University)
- Matthew Ando (Ohio University)
9:15-10:30 a.m.
Friday Keynote
Introduction: Katherine Jellison (Ohio University)
“Monuments to Midwestern Pioneer Mothers and Native Women”
- Cynthia C. Prescott (University of North Dakota)
10:30-11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in the Early Midwest
- Chair: Brian Schoen (Ohio University)
“Beyond Maria Monk: Clericalism, Gender, and Power on the Catholic Frontier”
- Kara French (Salisbury University)
“A Comfortable Place to Have Sects: The Midwest’s Role in Institutionalizing Shaker Celibacy and Mormon Plural Marriage”
- Stewart Davenport (Pepperdine University)
12:30-2 p.m.
Lunch Break
2-4 p.m.
Gendered Bodies at Risk
- Chair: Uzoma Miller (Ohio University)
“From Breeding and Sterilization to the Maternal and Infant Health Crisis: The Manipulation and Control of Black Women’s Bodies”
- Amanda Flowers (RTI International)
“Lynching in Ohio and Concepts of Masculinity and Femininity”
- Jordan Zdinak (Ohio University)
“Taking a Victim-Centered Approach to the History of Sexual Violence and Exploitation: A Case Study in Early North Dakota”
- Nikki Berg Burin (University of North Dakota)
4-4:30 p.m.
Break
4:30-6 p.m.
Gender, Religion, and Entrepreneurship in the Midwest
- Chair: Kimberly Little (Ohio University)
“God First, Family Second, Career Third: Mary Kay and the Creation of a Female Values-Based Company”
- Cassandra L. Yacovazzi (University of South Florida)
“Anabaptist Women and Multi-Level Marketing/Direct Sales: Performing Gender and Faith in Culturally Acceptable Business Ventures”
- Jewel Yoder Kuhns (John Carroll University)
6-7:30 p.m.
Dinner
7:30-9 p.m.
Book Talk
- Introduction: Micah McCarey (Ohio University)
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
- Taylor Brorby (University of Alabama)
Saturday, September 7
9:00-9:15 a.m. | Baker Center Theater
Saturday Welcome
- Katherine Jellison (Ohio University)
9:15-10:30 a.m.
Saturday Keynote
- Introduction: Paul Jones (Ohio University)
“Memorializing Willa Cather in Cold War Nebraska: How the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Navigated Questions of Gender and Sexuality”
- Melissa Homestead (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
10:30-11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
LGBTQ+ Midwesterners in Urban, Rural, and Small-Town Settings
- Chair: Risa Whitson (Ohio University)
“Only ‘In the Big City’: Isolation, Rurality, and Leisure in Lesbian Chicago, 1971-1996”
- Hannah Fuller (Loyola University Chicago)
“Sustaining Bonds, Creating Bonds: Debates about Sexuality and the Reshaping of Midwestern Religious Communities”
- David Mislin (Temple University)
12:30-2 p.m.
Lunch
2-3 p.m.
Exhibit Talk
- Introduction: Mariana Dantas (Ohio University)
“Out of the Closet”
- Ron Scott, Jr. (Wheeling, WV, YWCA)
3-3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Gender and Sexuality in the Hoosier State
- Chair: Jack Marchbanks (Ohio Department of Transportation)
“Gender Rubble: Attempting Equality in Robert Owen’s New Harmony Experiment”
- Ashley Rattner (Jacksonville State University)
“Black Women’s Philanthropy in Early Twentieth-Century Indianapolis”
- Tyrone McKinley Freeman (Indiana University Indianapolis)
“’A Real He-Man’? Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Sexuality in the Political Career of Indiana Governor Paul V. McNutt”
- Dean J. Kotlowski (Salisbury University)
5:30-5:45 p.m.
Closing Comments
- Katherine Jellison (Ohio University)