"OUTSIDERS & MONSTERS IN AMERICAN CULTURE" - Virtual Student Research Panels, 9th Annual American Studies Conference
Date: 03-28-2022
Time: 05:50 PM
Location: https://Fairfield.zoom.us/j/91418006041
MONDAY 3/28, 5:50-6:50pm:
Panel 1: Reclaiming Space, Transforming Narratives of the “Other”
- Mormon Infamy: The Ordinance of Posthumous Baptism - Presenter: Arden Massoia
- The New “Old” West – Uncovering the Other in the Shaping of the Frontier - Presenter: Felicia Horn
- Carrie Mae Weems – Counter-Hegemony Through Photography - Presenter: Samuel Raffalli
- Positions and Predicaments of Blackness – Poetry Reading - Presenter: Adam Boaz
Moderator: Anna Lawrence, Associate Prof, History, Fairfield University
MONDAY 3/28, 7:00-8:00pm
Panel 2: Sites of Otherization: Politics, Religion, and Sexual Identity
- Confirming “Monsters”: The Supreme Court Confirmation Process after Robert Bork - Presenter: Vincent Gritzuk
- The Republican Religion: Mitt Romney and the Conservative Evangelical Ethos - Presenter: Madeline Hossler
- Mormonism and Same-Sex Attraction - Presenter: Danielle Sondgeroth
- Log Cabin Republicans & the Construction of Male Citizenship in the GOP - Presenter: Molly Lamendola
Moderator: Lydia Willsky-Ciollo, Assoc. Prof, Religious Studies, Fairfield University
For more information, contact Dr. Gwendoline Alphonso / 2032544000 ext (2861) / galphonso@fairfield.edu