Past Conferences > Media, Technology and Gender: Emerging and Enduring Issues
(October 4-5 2001)

Session I of Media, Technology and Gender: Emerging and Enduring Issues featured an all day film screening of film and video exploring issues of media and gender. Films included Jean Kilbourne’s, Killing Us Softly III; Tough Guize: Men, Media and Masculinity; Dreamworlds 2; December 31, 2001; Grrlyshow; Off the Straight and Narrow; Writing Desire; Beyond Killing us Softly; The Righteous Babes; and Game Over.

Session II featured Keynote Speakers, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, authors of the best selling ‘Third Wave” book, Manifesta.

Session III featured a student panel: Jessica Mills, Jessica Miller, Diana Cho, Julie Stewart, Khury Peterson-Smith and a conversation with Baumgardner and Richards.

Session IV was comprised of two panels of scholars exploring Media technologies and gender, including Lee Quinby, Betty Bayer and b.h. Yael on Women, Feminism and Media Technology, and Walter John Carl III, Michael J. Mazanec, and David R. Neumann, presenting papers on Media, Technology and Organizational Communication: Representations of Masculinity.

The conference ended with high tea and a tour of the Susan B. Anthony House.