Past No Limits Student Research Conferences

Year

Title and Location

Keynote Speaker & Presentation

2024 Building Communities, Resisting Oppressions
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Dr. Taylor Brorby, University of Alabama

"Raising Hell on the Great Plains"

2023 Reflecting on the Past, Envisioning the Future
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Dr. Lorna Bracewell
2022 Writing as Resistance
UNL
SJ Sindu
"Inheriting Resistance"
2021 Women's and Gender Studies: Shaping Worlds, Shaping Futures
University of Nebraska-Omaha
WGS Graduates from UNO
2020 Reproductive Justice in a Red State
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Lindsay Churchill
2019 Being the Future, Riding the Next Feminist Wave
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Shireen Ghorbani
“We are the Leaders”
2018 Gender and Activism in These Times
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
2017 The Politics of Hate: From the Mainstream to the Far Right
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Abby Ferber
2016 Sexuality and Gender in the Digital Age
UNL
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
"Pleasure & Danger: Sex, Violence, and Ethics in the Age of Digital Media"
2015 Talking Leadership
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Mary S. Hartman
“Talking Leadership”
2014 Intersectionality: Gender, Race & Class
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Shireen Roshanravan
“Intersectionality, Integrity & Coalitional Becomings”
2013 Science & Gender Matters
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Janet Kourany
“But What Happens When the Scientists Are Women?”
2012 Beyond Violence: Dare To Speak
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Michael Kimmel
“Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men”

*Additional information regarding Michael Kimmel here
2011 Eco-Feminism & Artful Healing
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Performance by Haitian-American Lenelle Moise
2010 Global Issues, Local Voices
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Obioma Nnaemeka
“Captured in Translation: Feminisms in a World in Motion”
2009 Feminisms, Environments and New Media
University of Nebraska-Omaha
"Collaging the Gendered Self: Using media to give voice to lived experience”; “A Sense of Wonder”; and "UNO Women's Centennial Luncheon”
2008 Transnational Feminism
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Inderpal Grewal
“Transnational Feminism: Problems and Possibilities”
2007 The Personal, the Political, and the Patriotic
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
tatianna de la tierra
“Dreaming of Lesbos in Times of Holy Terror”
2006 Riding the Waves: Feminism Across Generations, Difference, and Community
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Valda Ford
2005 Erasing Borders: Women's Studies in the New Millennium
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Margaret Anderson, Ann Goetting and Tres Vidas
2004 Imagining Change: Women as Agents for Social Justice
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lourdes Portillo and Wendy Smooth
2003 Geographies of Women and Gender-Intimate and Vast
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Judy Gorman and Jenny Gruber
2002 I am That I am...: Women Challenging 21st Century Boundaries
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Elisabeth Kopp, Adilah Barnes and Barbara Lounsberry
2001 Can We Dismiss Identity?
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Canyon Sam and Toi Derricotte
2000 Feminist Visioning: Re-Imagining, Re-Creating, and Re-Telling
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Nomy Lamm, Manjira Datta and Larry Kirkwood
1999 No Records Found
1998 International Women: Continuing Our Traditions of Resistance
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Emilia Gonzalez-Clements, Jennifer Shute and Mahnaz Afkhami
1997 Transgenderism: Negotiating Gender Boundaries
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
None
1996 We Are the Stories: We Tell Celebrating Women in Science & Theory
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Londa Schiebinger
1995 Reclaiming Women's Voices
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Laureen Reidesel
1994 First Annual No Limits Conference on Women's Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Pat Mora

Over the decades, No Limits has hosted hundreds of undergraduate and graduate student presentations on topics related to women, gender, and sexuality and brought in renowned scholars, writers, performers and activists to serve as the conference keynote.