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Welcome – 9:00 am
Panel I — 9:15 am – Moderator: Prof. Jinee Lokaneeta (Drew)
- Rachel Smith (TCNJ) “’The Internet is for Porn’: A Postmodern Reimagining of Erotic Labor”
- Nicole Tota (Rowan) “We Should Have Shocked the ‘New Woman’: Mina, Lucy and the New Vampire in ‘Dracula’”
- Caelum Hamilton (Rider) “Moonlight Metamorphosis”
- Haylee Vitale (Georgian Court) “La Malinche: From Barbarism to Baptism, Malinche’s Beckoning and Betrayal”
- Kate DeLong (Rider) “Deciphering History: White Projections of Native American Women in the Pocahontas Myth and in Our Modern American Culture”
Panel II — 9:15 am – Moderator: Prof. Jennifer Olmsted (Drew)
- Alyssa Sileo (Drew) “Ruined and Women’s Resistance”
- Marina Ford (Rutgers) “We Believe You: An Introduction to On and Off-Campus Resources for Survivors at Rutgers”
- Connor Daisy (Brookdale) “Sexual Violence” Pamphlet
- Jamie Frederickson (ACCC) “Concert across America”
Panel III – 10:45 am – Moderator: Prof. Marie-Pascale Pieretti (Drew)
- Katerine Blume (NJCU) “The Unexpected Pressures of Girlhood and the Source of Those Pressures”
- Amanda Molina (Ramapo) “Normalizing the Topic of Menstruation through the #Prideintheperiod Campaign”
- Jessica Scull (ACCC) “Make-Up and Self Image”
- Aeryn Gilmore (Rider) “Bridging the Gap: A Proposed Solution for the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM”
Panel IV – 10:45 am – Moderator: Carolina Arango-Vargas (Drew)
- Julia Lloyd (TCNJ) “Bodies and Bathrooms: No Longer Minding Your Own Business in the Public Sphere”
- Alex Freeman (Rutgers) “The Transition Regime: Constructing and Policing the Trans-Normative”
- Sierra Wallace (Rowan) “An Autoethnography: Am I Queer?”
- Corine Tamayo (Rutgers) “Diasporic Masculinities: Young Filipino-American Men between Immigration and Assimilation”
- Brittany Houlis (Brookdale) “We Are the Fourth Wave: The Contributions and Effects on the Implementation of Social Media Regarding Fourth Wave Feminism and Modern Society”
Lunch Break – 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Keynote Address – 1:15-2:15 pm
Kimberly Peeler-Allen,
Visiting Practitioner, Center for the American Woman in Politics, Rutgers University
Kimberly Peeler-Allen has been working at the intersection of race, gender and politics for almost 20 years. Kimberly is the Co-founder of Higher Heights, a national organization building the political power and leadership of Black women from the voting booth to elected office.
Panel V – 2:30 pm – Moderator: Prof. Sandra Jamieson (Drew)
- Allie Fountaine (TCNJ) “Analyses of Contemporary U.S. Welfare Policy: A Materialist Feminist Approach”
- Nicole Fischer (Georgian Court) “TJMAXX through the Feminist Lens”
- Katja Zengel, Lina Campos, Nora Anton, Anya Chachkes and Martina Cruz Mora (Drew) “Effects of Immigration on Women”
- Felicia Russell (Brookdale) “Louisa May Alcott Podcast”
Panel VI — 2:30 pm – Moderator: Prof. Kim Rhodes (Drew)
- Nicholas Matousch (Stockton) “From Grandmom: The Experience and Significance of Grandmothers in Magical Realism”
- Alexa Weaver (Stockton) “Frayed”
- Rhys Ancheta (ACCC) “Explication of ‘my miracle now’”
- Grace Lobascio (Drew) “Villette and Jane Eyre: An Analysis of Converging Female Gothic Heroines”
Awards Ceremony – 3:45 pm