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Agenda

The conference is held in the Baker Center Theater.

Friday, Sept. 6

9-9:15 a.m. | Baker Center Theater

Land Acknowledgment and Opening Remarks

• Katherine Jellison (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ)
• Matthew Ando (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ)

9:15-10:30 a.m.

Friday Keynote

Introduction: Katherine Jellison (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ)

“Monuments to Midwestern Pioneer Mothers and Native Women�

• Cynthia C. Prescott (University of North Dakota) 

10:30-11 a.m.

Break

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in the Early Midwest 

• Chair: Brian Schoen (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ)

“Beyond Maria Monk: Clericalism, Gender, and Power on the Catholic Frontier�

• Kara French (Salisbury University)

“A Comfortable Place to Have Sects: The Midwest’s Role in Institutionalizing Shaker Celibacy and Mormon Plural Marriage�

• Stewart Davenport (Pepperdine University) 

12:30-2 p.m.

Lunch Break

2-4 p.m.

Gendered Bodies at Risk

• Chair: Uzoma Miller (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ)

“From Breeding and Sterilization to the Maternal and Infant Health Crisis: The Manipulation and Control of Black Women’s Bodies�

• Amanda Flowers (RTI International)

“Lynching in Ohio and Concepts of Masculinity and Femininity�

• Jordan Zdinak (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ)

“Taking a Victim-Centered Approach to the History of Sexual Violence and Exploitation: A Case Study in Early North Dakota�

• Nikki Berg Burin (University of North Dakota) 

4-4:30 p.m.

Break

4:30-6 p.m.

Gender, Religion, and Entrepreneurship in the Midwest

• Chair: Kimberly Little (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ) 

“God First, Family Second, Career Third: Mary Kay and the Creation of a Female Values-Based Company�

• Cassandra L. Yacovazzi (University of South Florida)

“Anabaptist Women and Multi-Level Marketing/Direct Sales: Performing Gender and Faith in Culturally Acceptable Business Ventures�

• Jewel Yoder Kuhns (John Carroll University) 

6-7:30 p.m.

Dinner

7:30-9 p.m.

Book Talk

• Introduction: Micah McCarey (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ)

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

• Taylor Brorby (University of Alabama)

Saturday, September 7

9:00-9:15 a.m. | Baker Center Theater

Saturday Welcome 

• Katherine Jellison (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ) 

9:15-10:30 a.m.

Saturday Keynote

• Introduction: Paul Jones (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ)

“Memorializing Willa Cather in Cold War Nebraska: How the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Navigated Questions of Gender and Sexuality�

• Melissa Homestead (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 

10:30-11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

LGBTQ+ Midwesterners in Urban, Rural, and Small-Town Settings 

• Chair: Risa Whitson (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ)

“Only ‘In the Big City’: Isolation, Rurality, and Leisure in Lesbian Chicago, 1971-1996�

• Hannah Fuller (Loyola University Chicago)

“Sustaining Bonds, Creating Bonds: Debates about Sexuality and the Reshaping of Midwestern Religious Communities�

• David Mislin (Temple University) 

12:30-2 p.m.

Lunch

2-3 p.m.

Exhibit Talk

• Introduction: Mariana Dantas (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ) 

“Out of the Closet�

• Ron Scott, Jr. (Wheeling, WV, YWCA) 

3-3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30-5:30 p.m.

Gender and Sexuality in the Hoosier State

• Chair: Jack Marchbanks (Ohio Department of Transportation) 

“Gender Rubble: Attempting Equality in Robert Owen’s New Harmony Experiment�

• Ashley Rattner (Jacksonville State University)

“Black Women’s Philanthropy in Early Twentieth-Century Indianapolis�

• Tyrone McKinley Freeman (Indiana University Indianapolis)

“’A Real He-Man’? Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Sexuality in the Political Career of Indiana Governor Paul V. McNutt�

• Dean J. Kotlowski (Salisbury University) 

5:30-5:45 p.m.

Closing Comments

• Katherine Jellison (ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ)