Organizer: Kristin Pitt, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - MLA Commons

Program:

	Friday, March 20, 2020 Sheraton - Arkansas
	The Betrayal of Literature: Literary Violence and Agency in Fang Si-chi’s First Love Paradise Yuhan Huang, Rochester Institute of Technology
	Reframing the Female Grotesque in Sri Lankan Cinema: Asandhimitta Revisited Kanchanakesi Warnapala, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
	Sexualized Violence and Nigerian Film: Interrogating October 1 Olayinka Oladosu, Bowling Green State University
	Rape Culture and Sexual Empowerment in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah Hakyoung Ahn, Texas A&M University
	Saturday, March 21, 2020 Sheraton - Bridgeport
	Challenging Immolation through Self-Immolation: Mariana Enriquez and Protesting Feminicide Kristin Pitt, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
	When Women Are Just Female Bodies Kathleen Komar, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
	Intimate Frames: Gendered Violence in Ana Mendieta’s 1973 Performance Pieces Alexandra Trnka-MacGillivray, McGill University
	Whoring Around: Nelly Arcan and the Language of Sex Myra Bloom, York University
	Saturday, March 21, 2020 Sheraton - Bridgeport
	Can You Rape a Puppet?: Tadeusz Kantor’s Actors, Performing Objects, and Representations of Gendered Sexual Violence Jacob Juntunen, Southern Illinois University
	The Onslaught of Amnesia: The Distorted Post-WWII Memory in Eine Frau in Berlin (2009) Shuyu Guo, University of Connecticut
	Ovid’s Handbook on Rape Culture: Arachne in the Metamorphoses Darah Vann Orr, University of Houston

Wikipedia: Sex and the law: Sexual violence