We are still working on making minor adjustments to this schedule as it is not completely finalized.

Registration: 8:30-9:00

Session 1: 9:00-10:10

Sex and the Body: Sarah Symonds (Vice President, Graduate Professional Council), Session Chair
Katy Frederick-Hudson (Biological Sciences), “Why not mate with just anybody?  A Katydid Perspective.”
Sarah Heston (English), “Rabbit Vibrators and a Vessel of Jokes”
Scott Mitchell (English), “Speaking the Unspeakable: Articulating Sexuality through the Body in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy.”

The Dead Body: Dan Hooley (Dept. of Classical Studie), Session Chair
Lokke Heiss (Student Health Services), “Theaters of the Dead: the Paris Morgue, and Bodies-The Exhibition.”
Chad Parmenter (English), “Achilles Without Organs: Shakespeare’s Erasure of the Heroic Body in the Rape of Lucrece.”
Penny Smith-Parris (English), “Mourning the Body: Butler’s Melancholic Subjects of Desire.”

Technology and Becoming Post-body: Ken Ogawa (MU Medical School), session chair
Jarod Giger (Social Work), “Technology and the Human Body.”
Svitlana Matviyenko (English), “Cyber-Prosthesis: What Is My Avatar to Me?  What Am I to My Avatar?”
Matt Shouse (History), “Transhumanism”

Faculty Plenary: 10:10-10:55

Introduced by Claire Schmidt (English), Conference Organizer
Dr. Judy Miles, Division of Medical Genetics
"Where is autism--Body or Mind?"

Session 2: 11:05-12:15

Food and the Body: Kate Anderson (MU Libraries), Session Chair
Ashley Daniel (Pathology and Anatomical Sciences) , “Effects of Dietary Properties on Jaw-Muscle Growth, Proprtions and Biochemistry.”
Robin Mabry Hubbard (Rural Sociology), “Nutrition and the Body: Food, Culture, and Identity.”
 Rachel Menegaz (Pathology and Anatomical Sciences), “A Lifetime of Chewing: The Influence of Diet on Craniofacial Growth and Form.”

The Healthy Body: Jim Scott (MU International Center), Session Chair
Nick Gage (Public Administration) , “Mediated Identities: Assistive Technology and their Personal and Social Meaning for Youth with Disabilities.”
Katharine McIntyre (English), “Elizabeth Gray.”
Ashley Siegel (Biological Sciences), “The bulk of your BODY.”
Poster Presentation: K.K. Pope (Pathology and Anatomical Sciences), S.E. Christ, A.J. Moffit, D. Peck, and K. Aldridge, “Effects of Metabolic Disorder on Cerebellar Development and Morphology.”

The Politicized Body: Mary Jo Neitz (Women's and Gender Studies), Session Chair
Amanda Garrison (Rural Sociology), “Safety and Body Policy”
Crystal Kroner (Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis), “Policy as Spectacle: Children’s Bodies as Symbols of the New Capitalist Community.”
Sarah Zurhellen (English), “Sarah Palin and Folk Humor.”

Lunch: 12:15-12:45

Graduate Student Plenary: 12:45-1:30

Introduced by George Justice, Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Maggie McDermott, English
"Rhetoric and Women's Bodies"

Session 3: 1:40-2:50

The Ghosts of Intimacy: A Reading of the Body
Sarah Heston (English), Creative nonfiction
Mark McKee (English), Poems
John Nieves (English), "In Violent Light"

The Female Body: Elaine Lawless (Folklore Program), Session Chair
Darcy Holtgrave (English), “What’s a Girl to Do?  The Function of the Imaginary Romance.”
Wendy McBurney (Romance Languages) , “The Female Body in Limón Reggae by Ana Christina Rossi."
Marly Ramsour (History), “Christian Fundamentalists and Worries Over Women’s Bodies in Early Twentieth Century America.”

Cognition and the Body: Carol Ward (Anthropology), Session Chair
Daniel Fresen (Mathematics) , “Abstract Spaces and the Mass Distribution of Convex Bodies."
David Heise (Electrical and Computer Engineering), “The Body of Sound: Separating Sources in Musical Audio.”
Poster: I.D. George (Pathology and Anatomical Sciences), R.H. Blanks, C.C. Sherwood, R.C. McCarthy, D.C. Broadfield, “Relative Prefrontal Cortex Surface Area in Pan troglodytes and Homo sapiens.”

Session 4: 2:50-4:00

The Body Politic: Andrew Hoberek (English), Session Chair
Joseph Cobetto (Political Science) and Lingyu Lu, “Bureaucratic Agency Growth and the Influence of Presidential/Congressional Partisanship.”
Patricia Jones (English) , “Confronting the United States Judicial System’s Ideal of Fairness with Burke’s Philosophy of Language as Action and Current Developments in Trauma Theory within the Rhetorical Frame of Courtroom Space.”
Kathleen Krueger (Sociology), “The Unexpected Consequences of Hegemony.”

Poetics and the Body: Alex Socarides (English), Session Chair
Stephanie Wortman (English), “Elegy and the Body.”
Juliet Rodeman (English), “The Body of Work: Todos Los Pobres.”
Katy Didden (English), “Organic Form: Body Poetics.”

Bodies of Knowledge: Bill Bondeson (Center for Arts and Humanities), Session Chair
John Estes (English), "Adonis is Dead: Elegy, Ecology, and the World's so-called Body."
Tom Heitmann (Research Reactor) , “What Does Superconductivity Have to Do with the Body?”
Kate Hertweck (Biological Sciences), “Botany, History, & Spaces of Scientific Knowledge.”

Session 5: 4:00-5:00

Body Imaging: Sam Bullington (Women's and Gender Studies), Session Chair
Julie O’Brien (Journalism), “World of Warcraft.”
Jihun Yoo (English), “A Study of Restrooms and Restroom Graffiti in Korean Universities: Graffiti Humor as Catharsis.”
Poster: Ashley S. Hammond (Pathology and Anatomical Sciences), “Modeling the Body in 3D Virtual Space.”           
Poster: Roslyn Fraser (Rural Sociology), “Being a Child of Plastic Surgery.”

The Body as Subject: Pat Okker (English), Session Chair
Jessica Allen (English), “Bodily Resistance and African American Subjectivity in Margaret Walker’s Jubilee.”
Alexis Katchuk (English), “The Quest for the Perfect Profile Picture.”
Gregory Specter (English), “‘After seeing the photograph it is hardly necessary to say that Jo and L.M.A. are not one’: Louisa  May Alcott and the Problems of Photographic Representation.”