The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Women’s and Gender Studies Program will host the No Limits Student Research Conference, “Sexuality and Gender in the Digital Age” on March 11. The conference will feature 40 projects on a wide variety of topics and students from across the region will present in the Nebraska Union.
The keynote address, “Pleasure and Danger: Sex, Violence, and Ethics in the Age of Digital Media,” by Dr. Meenakshi Gigi Durham will be at 5 p.m. on March 11 in the Nebraska Union, Auditorium. This address will kick off the Women’s and Gender Studies Spring 2016 Colloquium Series.
Durham is professor of journalism and mass communication and gender, women’s and sexuality studies at the University of Iowa. Her work centers on media and the politics of the body, and her research emphasizes issues of gender, sexuality, race, youth cultures and sexual violence.
Durham is the author of the book “The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It,” which was published in 2008 and appeared in the documentary “Miss Representation.”
A reception hosted by the University of Nebraska Foundation will follow Durham’s talk.
No Limits is an annual student conference dedicated to crossing boundaries between disciplines and exploring a wide range of women’s and gender issues. It is sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies programs at UNO, UNK and UNL. This year’s conference is co-sponsored by UNL’s Students Advocating Gender Equality; the Academic Senate Convocations Committee; Research Council; Pepsi Endowment Fund; the University Program Council and a wide variety of programs, colleges and departments across the university.
The conference is free and open to the public.
For more information about the conference, visit http://www.unl.edu/wgs/no-limits-2016.
For more information about the Women’s & Gender Studies Spring 2016 Colloquium Series, visit http://www.unl.edu/wgs/colloquium-series.
