Student panelists and keynote speaker, Margot Canaday, address gender and sexuality in culture, history, the workplace and literature.
This event is free and open to the Rider community, including parents. All events take place in Lynch Adler Hall 202. If you have any questions or are interested in becoming a Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) minor, please contact interim program director Dr. Justin Burton at [email protected].
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Schedule of Events
9:45 - 10:45 a.m. | Historicizing Sex & Gender, moderated by Dr. Megan Titus
- Madison Augustyn, “Challenging Stereotypes: Women's Voices in Magazines, 1940s to 1960”*
- Cathleen Kane, “Two Sides of the Same Coin: An Observance of the Strategies Utilized in the Women’s Suffrage Movement in 20th Century America”*
- Vincent Lee., “Women in Combat Sports: Intersectionality Report”
1:10 - 2:40 p.m. | Keynote Address and Awards Presentation
Awards
- 2024 Ziegler-Gee Award presented to Juanita Carroll, Administrative Specialist (Norm Brodsky School of Business), Tapestry Advisor
- 2024-2025 Virginia J. Cyrus Scholarship presented to Saraih Reaves, ‘26
Keynote: Margot Canaday, “Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America”
Margot Canaday is an award-winning historian who studies gender and sexuality in modern America. She holds a B.A. from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Her first book, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton, 2009), offers a history of how the federal government first encountered homosexuality, decided this was a social problem, and developed policies to regulate it. Her second book, Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America (Princeton, 2023), explores the ways that the workplace has mattered for queer people over time, both as a site of vulnerability and exploitation but sometimes also of deep meaning. The two works complement each other, in that the first book is about the state discovering queer people and writing anti-homosexualism into the law, while the second book is about capital taking advantage of that aggressive state policing. It is about the systematic exploitation of state-created legal vulnerabilities, in other words.
2:50 - 3:20 p.m. | Navigating Career Paths: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Student Job Search Experiences
This workshop, provided by Sugenny Santiago, Karl Craft, and Christopher Young from Rider’s Career Development & Success office, focuses on tools and supports available to LGBTQIA+ students as they consider and pursue career opportunities.
3:20 - 4:20 p.m. | Literary Constructions of Gender, moderated by Melissa Hofmann
- Klaudine Bessasparis, “A Secret Well Kept”
- Talia Hincks, “Error 404: Too Many Conclusions Found”
- Amanda Steele, “Crimes Against Femininity: A Rebuke of Popular Interpretations Concerning Gender Roles in Shakespeare’s Macbeth”
4:30 - 6 p.m. | Intersectionality and Representation in Pop Culture, moderated by Justin Burton
- Alessia Bradley, “The Dilemmas of Demographical Research and Masking on Autism”*
- Sophia Fleischer, “The Anti-Drag Movement: A Chicken Without a Head”
- Sophia Matthews, “It’s All in the Hair: How Rapunzel’s Commodification Caused Her to Stray from Feminist Ideals”
- Ashley Morales, “The Cosa Nostra, How Made Men make Women: A Feminist and Psychoanalytic Look into The Sopranos”
- Brigid Rizziello, “The Evolution of Gender Representation in Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek Franchise”
*Student panelists who will present their work at the New Jersey Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium Colloquium at Drew University on April 12, 2024.