The Eighth Annual Gender Matters Symposium

California State University, Bakersfield's Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Club GEN (Gender Equality Now!) Present the Eighth Annual Gender Matters Symposium on Friday, May 13, 2016 in the Multipurpose Room, Student Union

Coffee & Welcome (8:30 am)

Dr. Debra Jackson (Philosophy, CSUB)

Artwork, Research Posters (9:00 am)

Moderator: Samantha DeLaCruz (Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUB)

• “My Body, My Dress” Chyna Parker (Psychology, CSUB)
• “Gender and Computer Mediated Communications: A Content Analysis of the Language Expressed in Twitch Broadcasts” Kristina Garibay (Sociology, CSUB)
• “Rape Empathy: Clinicians’ Attitudes Towards Sexual Offenders” Casey Harris (Psychology, CSUB)
• “Gender in Horror Films” Althea Martinez (English, CSUB)

Community Resource Fair (9:00 am)

CSUB Center for Career Education and Community Engagement,  CSUB Advocacy Services, CSUB Safe Zone, CSUB Title IX Advisory Board, Bakersfield PFLAG, Democratic Women of Kern

Gender & Sexuality in Religious Contexts (10:15 am)

Moderator: Jai Bornstein (Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies, CSUB)

• “On a Scale of Faith: Muslim American Attitudes towards Homosexuality” Hala Alnajar (Sociology & Religious Studies, CSUB)
• “Exclusively Male Gendered God-Language is Problematic: Why Religious Feminists are Proposing Change” Kait Kretsinger (Religious Studies, CSUB)

Keynote Address (11:30 am)

Moderator: Jennifer Valencia (Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUB)

“Glitter. Power. Love:A (Re)Introduction to Gender” by Jacob Tobia, GenderQueer Advocate

Gender in Literature (1:30 pm)

Moderator: Max Flint (Finance, CSUB)

• “Men and ‘Scribbling Women’: Changing Places in Captivity” Mallory DeGregori (English, CSUS)
• “The Gilded Cage of Feminine Beauty in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth” Jessica Flores (English, CSUB)
• “The Game of Marriage in David Fincher’s Gone Girl” Tiffany Dauner (English, CSUB)
• “Flight of a New Era and a New Woman” Jack Dodd (History, CSUB)

Negotiating Gender Roles (3:00 pm)

Moderator: Josh Lofy (Physics, CSUB)

• “To Ama, From Your Forgotten Daughter” Sylvia Brown (Political Science, CSUB)
• “Por que naci mujer? Why was I born a woman? How gender plays into the life of an immigrant woman” Delfina Duarte (Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUB)
• “Women in Buddhist Thailand” Ruby Castillo (Sociology, CSUB)

Walter Presents: Brian Evenson

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 7:00, The Walter Stiern Library presents the author Brian Evenson, the author of a dozen works of fiction.  The New Yorker published an insightful overview of his work titled "The Dark Fiction of an Ex-Mormon Writer," and you can read one of his stories, "Younger," by following the link.