7:15 – 8:15

8:15

Keynote Address: John Peters, University of Iowa
"Obscenity, Offense, and Monotheistic Jealousy"
Introduction:  Loren Glass, University of Iowa

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Reception

1. Quantitative Methods Penn State Room 337 IMU

Chair: Charles Williams , University of Iowa
“The Nursery, the Gutter, or the Anatomy Class? Implications of Obscene Expression for Consumer Health” – Catherine Arnott Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“"Obscenity" as Constructed by Contemporary Discourse: A Cluster Analysis of Popular Print Media” – Mark Glantz & Steve Clements, University of Missouri-Columbia
“The Polarity of Obscenity: Men.........Women.” – John Curtis, Purdue University

2. Religion and Secularism Indiana Room 346 IMU

Chair: John Peters, University of Iowa
“Controversy on the Commons: The Discourse of Debate Over the Prophet Muhammad Cartoons” – Rick Kenney, University of Central Florida
“Inventing Fragile Readers: The Origins of Secular Obscenity Law in the German States, 1788-1830” – Sarah Leonard, Simmons College
“Vulgarity, Indecency and Scatological language in Buddhist literature” – Andrew Skilton, McGill University and School of Oriental and African Studies

3. Obscenity in Contemporary Europe Michigan State Room 349 IMU

Chair: Gyorgy Toth, University of Iowa
“Migrant Maternity and the Gestating Other” – Deirdre Egan, University of Iowa
“When shame became honor” - Matti Mäkelä, University of Tampere
"How We Screwed Up - 'Big Time': Obscenity in Contemporary Hungarian Political Discourse and Action" - Gyorgy Toth, University of Iowa

4. Mexican Obscenities Michigan Room 351 IMU

Chair: Erica Hannickel, University of Iowa
“Cuando Juegue el Albur: Sexually Aggressive Verbal Play Among Mexicanos in Popular Media” - Rachel Gonzales Gomez, Indiana University
“Pinche Bola de Ratas: Scandalous Language in Contemporary Mexican Politics” – Daniel Suslak, Indiana University
“Doble Sentido and the Dialectic of Desire and Respect in Greater Mexico” - Peter Haney, Colorado College

5. Shit Minnesota Room 347 IMU

Chair: Brad Parsons, University of Iowa
“Toxic Sludge or Beneficial Biosolids? The Environmental Politics of Poop in the United States” - Marisol Cortez, University of California - Davis  
“Tlaçolteotl is Dead: The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Captain Bourke’s Scatalogic Rites of All Nations” - Daniel Gerling, University of Texas @ Austin
“All Stinks Considered: The News Media, the Bathroom, and Fear of Matter Out of Place” - Dave Praeger, PoopReport.com

1. Terror and Torture Minnesota Room 347 IMU

Chair: Charles Williams, University of Iowa
“Male Fantasies of Impenetrability and Destruction: Rethinking the Obscene in Terms of the Psychodynamics of the ‘War on Terror’” – Gregory Spicer, California University of Pennsylvania
“Titillating Torture: Interpreting the Abu Ghraib Photographs as Obscenity” - Charles Goehring, University of Iowa

2. Comedy and Obscenity Michigan Room 351 IMU

Chair: Chad Hines, University of Iowa
“The Distances Appropriate to Humor: Success & Failure on the Stand-Up Comedy Stage” - Susan Seizer, Indiana University
“Serious Backlash: Negotiation of Obscene and Racist Humor” – Nathan Wilson, University of Iowa
“Intransigence as a Prerequisite of Bawdy: Psychoanalysis and ‘Party Records’” - David H. Lee, University of South Florida

3.   Bad Language Michigan State Room 349 IMU

Chair: Adi Hastings, University of Iowa
“Pecunia Olet: Obscene Amounts of Money” – Mikita Brottman, Maryland Institute College of Art
“Be a Fucking Good Sport” – Linda Horwitz, Lake Forest College

4.  Japanese Obscenities Penn State Room 337 IMU

Chair: Danielle Rich, University of Iowa
“A Comparative cultural analysis of the concepts of “Obscenity” in the U.S. and Japan: Historical observation of court opinions reflecting changes in society” - Yuri Obata, Indiana University South Bend
“Nakedness and Obscenity in Onna-yu (women’s section of a bathhouse in Japan)” - Kimiko Akita, University of Central Florida 
“Censorship and Japanese Manga in the U.S.” – Danielle Rich, UI American Studies

5.  The N-Word Indiana Room 346 IMU

Chair: Aaron Sachs, University of Iowa
“American Gray Space” – Andre Perry, University of Iowa
“Strictly for My Ninjas” – Brian Goedde, University of Iowa
“Retheorizing the ‘Freudian Slippage’: Hearing the Obscene” – Kim Nguyen, University of Iowa

Keynote – David Levi Strauss (Art Building West Auditorium)
Introduction: Jon Winet, University of Iowa
“Breakdown in the Gray Room: Reconsidering the Images from Abu Ghraib”

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Chair, Priya Kumar, University of Iowa
Lamia Karim, “Reading ‘Obscenity’: National, Transnational and Sexual Politics of Reading Feminist Author Taslima Nasrin”
Jyoti Puri, “Obscenity, Sexuality and the State in India”

1.  Understandings of Indecency and Obscenity in Abrahamic Religions Minnesota Room 347 IMU

Chair, Raymond Mentzer, University of Iowa
“Profanity and the Ontological Orientation of Language and Actions in the Jewish Tradition” – Steven Sacks, Cornell College
“Blasphemy Against Our Lord: Religious Crimes of Obscenity in the Early Modern Tradition” – Victoria Christman, Luther College
“Obscenity in Islamic Law and Cultures” – Ahmed Souaiaia, University of Iowa

2. Neo-con Morality Michigan Room 351 IMU

Chair: Ryan Clark, University of Iowa
“Obscenity and the Politics of National Fantasy: United States v. Extreme Associates” - Chadwick Roberts, Bowling Green State University
“Subjective and Offensive;Using the FCC Enforcement of Indecency as the Basis for the Creation of New Content Guidelines” - Christopher Terry, UW-Madison
“Teen Oral Sex in Mass Media: The Reiteration of Race, Gender, and Class Hierarchies” – Amy Hasinoff, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3. Queer Studies Michigan State Room 349 IMU

Chair: Rob Latham, University of Iowa
“Homo-Sex and Homo-Sexuality: Protecting "Words that Wound" - Sanjay Hukku, University of California, Berkeley
“You Can’t Eat Tacos and Hotdogs: The (Mis)Understanding of Bisexuality” - April Callis, Purdue University
“Stars Get in Our Eyes: The Gay Male Spectator and Barebacking Pornography” – David Harvey, New York University

4. Beyond Either/Or Penn State Room 337 IMU

Chair: Kim Marra, University of Iowa
“Public Recognition and Obscene Disfiguration: The Case of Aileen Wuornos” – Megan Foley, University of Iowa
“From the Great Refusal to the Great Fuck You: Billingsgate as Simulated Resistence” – Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago
“Pornutopia and Its Discontents” - Nancy Bauer, Tufts University

5. Obscenity in Contemporary Cinema Indiana Room 346 IMU

Chair: Rosalind Galt, University of Iowa
“Watching the "Unwatchable": Plato, Irigaray, and Catherine Breillat's Anatomy of Hell” - Jennifer Pranolo, Yale University
“Obscene Liberty: The Political Use of Obscenity in John Cameron Mitchell’s ‘Shortbus’” – Allison McGuffie, University of Iowa

6. Obscenity in the Modern Era Purdue Room 341 IMU

Chair: Lisa Heineman, University of Iowa
“What’s new about morality policy? Obscene mails and the governance of “inner life” in the 19th century” - Mihaela Popescu, California State University - San Bernardino
“Guessing Oneself Into Jail: Morris Ernst and the Assault on American Obscenity Laws in the 1930’s” – Brett Gary, New York University
“Taking it Personally: How the ACLU Mobilized the Masses Against Censorship” - Leigh Ann Wheeler, Bowling Green State University

1.   The Constitutionalization of Obscenity Minnesota Room 347 IMU

Chair: Wanda Raiford, University of Iowa
“Obscenity law against political dissent: The life and death of an underground newspaper” - Carolyn Dyer, University of Iowa
“The Eros Event--Nationalism and Obscenity” - William Smith, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Private (p)Arts in Public Law” – Paige Nelson, University of Iowa

2.   Feminism and Pornography Michigan Room 351 IMU

Chair: Lisa Heineman, University of Iowa
“In Love With a Stripper: The Limits of Anti-Porn and Sex-Positive Feminist Politics” - Jayne Swift, Formerly - University of Iowa
“Beauvoir, Stylistic Excess and the Porn Wars” - Kristina Grob, Loyola University Chicago
“Expanding (sexual) horizons: fat women in American Internet pornography” - Margaret Sullivan, Annenberg School of Communication

3. Medieval Obscenities Michigan State Room 349 IMU

Chair: Kathy Lavezzo, University of Iowa
“The Minister and the Privy” – Kathy Lavezzo, University of Iowa
“Beowulf and the employment of obscenity” - Chris Vinsonhaler, University of Iowa
"Obscenities at Court: Alfonso X and the Cantigas de escarnio" - Denise Filios, University of Iowa

4. New Media/New Frameworks Penn State Room 337 IMU

Chair: Mark Andrejevic, University of Iowa
“Bastard Media: New Media, Obscenity, and Public Access” – Steven John Thompson, Clemson University
“Trading “Money” for “Sex” or, What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Sex?: The linguistic displacement of sex in regulatory discourse” - Brittany Griebling, Annenberg School of Communication
“Pornography Addiction: The Medicalization of Obscenity” - Jay Clarkson, Indiana State University

5. Obscene Bodies Indiana Room 346 IMU

Chair: Megan Bygness, University of Iowa
“Obscenity and the Post-Human Body” – Jacob Gaboury, New York University
“Cycles of Horror: Menstrual Abjection and Feminism” - Rebecca Scott, Simon Fraser University
“Speaking Bare or Barely Speaking: The Rhetorical Performance of Naked Protest” - Audrey Kali, Framingham State College

6. Obscenity and Literature Purdue Room 341 IMU

Chair: Douglas Dowland, University of Iowa
“Poison by Portraiture: Obscenity and the Materials of the Artist in The Picture of Dorian Gray” - Sophia Estante, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Obscenities of the "Fake" Memoir” - Douglas Dowland, University of Iowa
“Nobel Obscenity: Elfriede Jelinek’s 'Lust' and the Pornography Debate” - Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa  

Keynote Address – Linda Williams, UC Berkeley (Iowa Room, 335 IMU)
"Hard Core Art Film: The Contemporary Realm of the Senses"
Introduction:  Lisa Heineman

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Keynote Address – Laura Kipnis, Northwestern University (Iowa Room, 335 IMU)
“I’m Offended”
Introduction:  Loren Glass, University of Iowa

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Keynote Address – Nadine Strossen, New York Law School
(Shambaugh Auditorium, Library)
"Defending the F-Word: Freedom!"
Introduction: William Buss, University of Iowa School of Law