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Friday Nov. 22 | Saturday Nov. 23

Advance registration for the conference is required due to limited seating.

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FRIDAY  
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast/Registration, Jamail Pavilion
9:00-9:15 am

Welcome:
Zipporah B. Wiseman, University of Texas Law School

9:15-10:45 am

ROUND TABLE: Subversive Legal Moments?
2.306 Eidman Courtroom
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Karen Engle, University of Texas School of Law, Moderator
Nathaniel Berman, Brooklyn Law School
Adrienne Davis, University of North Carolina School of Law
Janet Halley, Harvard University Law School
Vicki Schultz, Yale Law School
Elizabeth M. Schneider, Brooklyn Law School

10:45-11:00 am Coffee Break, Jamail Pavilion
11:00-12:15 pm PANELS: SESSION A

A1. Challenging Exclusion/Confronting Violence: Immigrants, Gender and the Negotiation of Communal Boundaries
3.140 Jeffers Courtroom
Marianne Constable, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric, Chair
Mary E. Odem, Emory University, Women's Studies and History
  -"Confronting Domestic Violence: Community Activism of Immigrant Women"
Lucy E. Salyer, University of New Hampshire, History
  -"The Citizen Soldier: Race, Gender and Military Service in WWI"

A2. Leave No Woman Behind: Feminist Subversions in Law
3.124 Classroom
Judy M. Cornett, University of Tennessee College of Law
  -"The 'Old Bachelor' of Polk County: Archival Legal Research as a Feminist Subversive Strategy"
Joan MacLeod Heminway, University of Tennessee College of Law
  -"Failed Subversion in Securities Regulation"
Deseriee A. Kennedy, University of Tennessee College of Law
  -"Ought To Be A Woman: Everyday Racism and the Limits of Power Feminism"
Barbara Stark, University of Tennessee College of Law
   -"Crazy Jane and the Bishop: Political and Social Constructions of Abortion"
Paulette J. Williams, University of Tennessee College of Law
  -"Teaching About Domestic Violence Across the Law School Curriculum"

A3. Workplace and the Family
2.111 Sheffield Room
Daniel Greenwood, University of Utah College of Law
  -"Gendered Workers/Market Equity"
Laura Kessler, University of Utah College of Law
  -"Transgressive Caregiving"
Martha McCluskey, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law
  -"From Affluent Husband Care to Worker Care: Subverting the Dilemmas of Dependent Care Support"
Rachel Arnow-Richman, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
  -"Can the New Workplace Accommodate Caregiving? Subverting Developing Norms in the Economy"
Michelle A. Travis, Lewis and Clark Northwestern School of Law
  -"The Virtual Workplace"

12:30-2:00 pm Lunch, Law School Atrium
2:00-3:30 pm PANELS: SESSION B

B1. The Struggle for Sex Equality in Women's Sports and the Theory of Title IX
2.140 Classroom
Deborah Brake, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Chair
Norma Cantú, University of Texas at Austin, Law and Education
Donna Lopiano, Women's Sports Foundation, Executive Director

B2. Sexual Harassment
2.111 Sheffield Room
Christine L. Williams, University of Texas at Austin, Sociology, Chair
Margaret Crouch, Eastern Michigan University, Philosophy
Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
Vicki Schultz, Yale Law School

B3. Intimacies
3.140 Jeffers Courtroom
Mary Anne C. Case, The University of Chicago, The Law School
  -"What Stake to Straight Women Have in the Same Sex/Marriage/Civil Union /Domestic Partnership Debates"
Martha Ertman, University of Utah College of Law
Bernie D. Jones, Cornell Law School
  -"Women's Bodies as Subversive Spaces: Single Motherhood by Choice"

3:00-3:45 pm Coffee Break, Jamail Pavilion
3:45-5:00 pm

ROUND TABLE: Subversion in Literature and Film
2.306 Eidman Courtroom
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Susan Heinzelman, University of Texas at Austin, English, Chair
Kristin J. Brandser, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Lisa Moore, University of Texas at Austin, English
Domino Perez, University of Texas at Austin, English
Janet Staiger, University of Texas at Austin, Radio, Television and Film, Director of Women's Studies

6:30-7:30 pm Reception, Jamail Pavilion
7:30 pm Dinner, Law School Atrium
Welcome: Dean William C. Powers, Jr.
8:30 pm

The Terrell Centennial Lecture
Introduction: Prof. Sarah Weddington, University of Texas at Austin
Prof. Susan Estrich, University of Southern California School of Law

SATURDAY  
8:30-9:15 am Breakfast, Jamail Pavilion
9:00-10:30 am PANELS: SESSION C

C1. Feminist Views on Autonomy, Dependence and Difference
2.111 Sheffield Room
Jane M. Cohen, University of Texas School of Law, Chair/Commentator
Gretchen Ritter, University of Texas at Austin, Politics
  -"Women's Citizenship and the Problem of Legal Personhood in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s"
Nancy Hirschmann, University of Pennsylvania, Political Science
   -"Means and Ends in Stem Cell Research"
Ruth O'Brien, Jay College of Criminal Justice, Government; and Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  -"Bodies in Revolt: Feminism, Disability, and an Alternative Ethic of Care"

C2. Women's Trials
3.140 Jeffers Courtroom
Susan Heinzelman, University of Texas at Austin, English, Chair
Marianne Constable, University of California at Berkeley, Rhetoric
  -"The 'New Unwritten Law': Husband-Killing in Chicago, 1870-1930"
Laura H. Korobkin, Boston University, English
  -"Legal Cross-Dressing: Role Reversals in Female-Plaintiff Criminal Conversation Cases"
Martha Merrill Umphrey, Amherst College, Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought
  -"The Woman in the Case:Subversive Self-Fashionings and the Melodrama of the Unwritten Law"

C3. Other Feminisms
3.142 Classroom
Karen Engle, University of Texas School of Law, Chair/Commentator
Pamela Brooks, Oberlin College, African American Studies
  -"Crossing Borders, Subverting Paradigms: Montgomery and Johannesberg Women Acting in Feminist Movement"
Valerie Vodjik, University of Capetown, South Africa
  -"Transformative Justice and Gender Equality in Post-Apartheid South Africa "

10:30-10:45 am Coffee Break, Jamail Pavilion
10:45-12:00 pm PANELS: SESSION D

D1. Violence Against Women
3.140 Jeffers Courtroom
Sarah Buel, University of Texas School of Law, Commentator
Beverly Horsburgh, St. Thomas University School of Law
  -"Psychology and Male Battering"
Bob Jensen, University of Texas at Austin, Journalism
  -"Blow Bangs and Cluster Bombs: The Cruelty of Men and Americans"
Beverly McPhail, University of Texas at Austin, School of Social Work
  -"Gender-Based Hate Crimes: A Subversive Strategy for Addressing Violence Against Women?"
Renée Römkens, Columbia University, Sociology/Institute for Research on Women and Gender
  -"The Paradox of Protection"

D2. Subversion through Pedagogy: the Legacies and the Future
3.142 Classroom
Zipporah B. Wiseman, University of Texas School of Law, Chair
Patricia Cain, University of Iowa College of Law
  -"Subversive Moments: Challenging the Traditions of Constitutional History"
Linda K. Kerber, Lecturer in Law, University of Iowa, History
  -"Subversive Moments: Challenging the Traditions of Constitutional History"
Ann Shallek, American University, Washington College of Law
  -"The Limits and Possibilities of Pedagogical Subversion: Feminist Pedagogy in the Teaching of Domestic Violence and Intellectual Property"
Debora L. Threedy, University of Utah, College of Law
  -"Legal Archeology: Unearthing Subversion"

D3. Gendered Internationalisms
2.111 Sheffield Room
Dan Danielsen, Northeastern University, Chair/Commentator
Brenda Cossman, Harvard Law School
  -"Sexing Citizenship, Privatizing Sex"
Chantal Thomas, Fordham University
Nathaniel Berman, Brooklyn Law School
  -"The Appeals of the Orient"
Kerry Rittich, University of Toronto
  -"Engendering Development: Reinventing gender equality"

12:00-2:00 pm Lunch, Law School Atrium
2:00-3:30 pm PANELS: SESSION E

E1. Feminism and Masculinity
3.140 Jeffers Courtroom
Susan Heinzelman, University of Texas at Austin, English, Chair
Susan Ayres, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
  -"Cixoux's (sic) The Perjured City: A Mother's Challenge to Failed Justice"
Larry Cata Backer, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law
  -"Disciplining the Female by Proxy: The Political Economy of Intra-Masculinity and Sex Crimes"
Lisa R. Pruitt, University of California at Davis School of Law
  -"Her Own Good Name: A Feminist Critique of Defamation Law"
Brooke Rollins, University of South Carolina, English
  -" 'Some Kind of Man': Touch of Evil's (De)Construction of Classical Masculinity"

E2. Domestic Violence: Race, Gender and Power
2.111 Sheffield Room
Sarah Buel, University of Texas School of Law, Moderator
Zanita Fenton, Wayne State University Law School
Shelby Moore, South Texas College of Law
Elizabeth M. Schneider, Brooklyn Law School

E3. Gendered Legal Histories of Women's Citizenship
3.142 Classroom
Gretchen Ritter, Politics, University of Texas at Austin, Chair/Commentator
Adrienne Davis, University of North Carolina School of Law
  -"Slavery and the Roots of Sexual Harassment"
Ariela R. Dubler, Columbia University School of Law
  -"In the Shadow of Marriage: Single Women and the Legal Construction of the Family and the State"
Jill Elaine Hasday, The University of Chicago, The Law School
  -"The Principle and Practice of Women's 'Full Citizenship': A Case Study of Sex-Segregated Public Education"
Leti Volpp, American University, Washington College of Law
  -"Dependent Citizens and Marital Expatriates"

3:30-3:45pm Coffee Break
3:45 pm

ROUND TABLE: Is Subversion Subversive?
2.306 Eidman Courtroom
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Zipporah Wiseman, University of Texas Law School, Moderator
Kathryn Abrams, University of California at Berkeley School of Law
Katherine Franke, Columbia University School of Law
David Kennedy, Harvard Law School
Gretchen Ritter, University of Texas, Politics

5:00 pm Reception for panelists

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