PCA/Fat Studies info for Carla and other interested NE folks

[butch]

Hi all,

Just got an email and a request to share it widely to those in the greater Boston Area. It's the schedule of fat studies panels for the Popular Culture Association Conference (popularculture.org) April 4-7 in Boston. I've been told it only costs $5 a day to come and hear all the nerdy panels you could ever dream of in one place.

Anyway, if you have any questions, let me know. Its at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, btw. And feel free to send this on to anyone you know who might be interested.

Oh, one more thing-I'm presenting in the first panel, and hate my title. But if you love Margaret Cho or M. Butterfly, you might like my paper.

2007 PCA/ ACA Fat Studies Area Panels
Stefanie Snider and Lesleigh Owen, Co-chairs

Fat Studies I: Social Identities and Fatness in the United States
Thursday, April 5, 12:30–2:00 p.m.; Hospitality Suite 3: Rm. 3314
Panel Chair: Lesleigh Owen

A Sociological Analysis of Anti-Fat Hysteria
Sherie Sanders, International Academy of Design and Technology, Chicago

Places I Don’t Fit
Lori Don Levan, Kutztown University

Too Thin to be American? A Preliminary Examination of the Relationship Between Asian-Americans and Fatness
Julia McCrossin, George Washington University


Fat Studies II: Religion, Politics, and Fat in the Social Sphere
Thursday, April 5, 2:30–4:00 p.m.; Hospitality Suite 3: Rm. 3314
Panel Chair: Lesleigh Owen

Gluttony and Crisis: Excessive Eating During the Protestant Reformation and Post 9/11
Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa

Framing Fat Left, Right and Center: Sketching the Social Map of Fat Phobia
Lynne Gerber, Graduate Theological Union and Sarah Quinn, University of California, Berkeley

Consuming Bodies: Fatness, Sexuality, and the Protestant Ethic
Lesleigh J. Owen, University of California, Santa Cruz

Fat Studies III: Gender, Sexuality, Fatness and Embodied Identities
Thursday, April 5, 4:30–6:00 p.m.; Hospitality Suite 3: Rm. 3314
Panel Chair: Sheana Director

Suitable Fat Bodies: Representing Fatness through Fat Suits
Amy Gullage, University of Toronto

Sweet Death: Narrativizing the Obese Body
Zeynep Atayurt, University of Leeds

An Ethnography of a Social Club for Big Gay Men and their Supportive Others
Jason Whitesel, Ohio State University

XXL in XXX: Representations of Fat Women’s Sexuality in Pornography and Erotica
Sheana Director, San Diego State University


Fat Studies IV: Global Perspectives on Fatness, Politics, and “Health”
Thursday, April 5, 6:30–8:00 p.m.; Hospitality Suite 3: Rm. 3314
Panel Chair: Emily Yates-Doerr

Oversized Baggage: How Fat Travels in Contemporary Europe
Tina Mahle, Antioch College

“I'm just concerned for your health!” Popular Beliefs and Representations of the Relationship Between Fat and Health
Virginia Dicken, Southern Illinois University

Corporal Transitions: Nutritional Health and Body Image in Guatemala
Emily Yates-Doerr, New York University


Fat Studies V: Fat in Art and the Media
Friday, April 6, 2:30–4:00 p.m.; Hospitality Suite 2: Rm. 3306
Panel Chair: Cookie Woolner

Fat Masculinity: Brando’s Fat and Other Challenges to Masculinity
Heather D. Surface, Bowling Green State University

Jenny Saville and the Embodied Experience of the Abject Female Body
Jaime May, University of Iowa

Fat on Stage Gets Under an Audience’s Skin
Pamela Jean Monaco, University of Maryland University College

American Excess: Lillian Russell on the Turn of the Century Stage
Cookie Woolner, San Francisco State University


Fat Studies VI: Activism in the Fat Studies Reader
Friday, April 6, 4:30–6:00 p.m.; Hospitality Suite 2: Rm. 3306
Panel Chair: Esther Rothblum

Fat Stories in the Classroom: What are they Saying about what has been Written about Us?
Susan Koppelman, Writer

Aerobics for Fat Women Only
Jennifer Ellison, York University

Fat Women and Political Activism
Esther Rothblum, San Diego State University and Elana Dykewomon, Writer

Fat Studies VII: Strategies for Fat Activism and Acceptance
Friday, April 6, 6:30–8:00 p.m.; Hospitality Suite 2: Rm. 3306
Panel Chair: Marina Wolf Ahmad

The Gladstone Hotel: A Space for Fat Resistance
Chelsey Lichtman, York University

Nothing to Lose
Robert Chang, New York University

Dispute, Distract, or Dance Your Ass Off: Strategies of Size-Diverse Dancers for Creating and Performing in a Fat-phobic World
Marina Wolf Ahmad, Big Moves Dance Company


Fat Studies VIII: Children & Young Adults
Saturday, April 7, 12:30-2:00 p.m.; Northeastern
Chair: Lesleigh J. Owen, University of California, Santa Cruz

Chicken or Eggs-over-easy?: A Discussion of Catherine Forde’s Fat Boy Swim
Jean Webb, University of Worcester

Physical Education Teachers’ Perceptions of the Obese Child
Derek M. Peters, University of Worcester

Half a Hundred Masks But Not a Chance: Fat Characters in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
Rebecca Rabinowitz, Writer


Fat Studies IX: Popular Culture in the Fat Studies Reader
Saturday, April 7, 2:30–4:00 p.m.; Northeastern
Panel Chair: Esther Rothblum

"Having a Whale of a Good Time": Tourist Postcards, Sexuality, and the (No)Place of the Fat Woman in 20th Century American Culture
Amy Farrell, Dickenson College

Fat Heroines in Chick-Lit: Gateway to Acceptance?
Lara Frater, Writer

Fat Women as ‘Easy Targets’: Achieving Masculinity through Hogging
Jeannine Gailey, University of Alabama

** Susan Stinson, informal reading


**Also of Interest**
Open Discussion: Was That Hate Speech Meant for ME?: Responding to Bigots in the Classroom, on Campus, in Restaurants, on the Sidewalks, and Everywhere
Thursday, April 5, 2:30–4:00 p.m.; Clarendon
Session Presenter/Facilitator: Susan Koppelman
Presenters:
Virginia Bemis, Ashland University, Disability Studies
Frederick J Augustyn, Jr., Library of Congress, Senior Studies
Brandon Wallace, Purdue University, African-American, Gay, & Fat Studies
Dan Richardson, Roxbury, Massachusetts, Civil Rights Activist, Community
Organizer
Gypsey Teague, Gunnin Architecture Library, Clemson University, Women’s
& Transgender Studies
Lori Don Levan, Kutztown University, Fat Studies

 

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