¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ

GSFS AdvisingÌý

Event

Feminist Research Colloquium

Monday, April 15, 2019toTuesday, April 16, 2019
McLennan Library Building Research Commons Room A, 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA

This event is free and open, and showcases the work of undergraduate honours and graduate students at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.

FRC 2019 website:ÌýÌý
Facebook event:Ìý

March 23, 2019

The Feminist Research Colloquium showcases the student research conducted through ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University's Institute of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.

This year's colloquium is onÌýApril 15 and 16 atÌýResearch Common Room AÌýat McLennan Library of ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ

Seven honours students in the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies major and thirteen graduate students in the Option in Women and Gender Studies will present their work.

Day 1: April 15Ìý

Opening Remarks and Pastry: 9:00- 9:15
Alex Ketchum and Vanessa Blais- Tremblay

Panel 1: 9:30-10:30 LabourÌý

Chair: Alanna Thain

Dominique Grégoire:ÌýFrom Fashion Magazine to Activist Community: How Diverse Storytellers Changed Teen Vogue's Storytelling

Fraea Graziani:ÌýUnderstandingÌýSex Work: Why Representation Matters for Sex WorkersÌý

CatherineÌýJeffery:ÌýLiberating Labour: Critical Utopianism and the Future of WorkÌý


Panel 2: 10:45-12:15ÌýGender and Colonialism: Missing Histories, New AnalysesÌý

Chair: Vrinda Narain

Viviane Cottle:ÌýPublic Perception of Restorative Justice in Canada: The Case of Terri-Lynne McClintic
Chung-Chih Hong:ÌýAn Unheard Story: The Impact of Christianity on the Pangcah Women’s Traditional PowerÌý
Heather Porter:ÌýLinking Genealogies of Islamophobia and Gendered and Racialized Colonial Hierarchies in the AmericasÌý

Lunch: 12:15-1:15

Panel 3: 1:15-2:35 Histories of Sexualities, Genders, and Embodiments

Chair: Nicole de Brabandere

Hosanna Galea:ÌýNature as Divine: An Analysis of the Feminine in Hildegard of Bingen

Emma Chambers:ÌýThe Greatest Social Taboo: The Discursive Production of Child Sexuality As The Ultimate Oxymoron

Ben Kirsebom:ÌýReconstructing AIDS Narratives: Race, Space, and Queer Politics in Oakland, California in the 1980s and 90s

Kyle Stewart:ÌýLocating Ideology in the Fat Body

Coffee Break

Panel 4: 3:00-5:00ÌýAddressing Gender-Based and Sexual Violence in Educational Settings

Chair: Marc Ducusin

Anuradha Dugal:ÌýBringing a Critical Race Framework to On-Campus Efforts to End Sexual ViolenceÌý
Esther Armaignac:ÌýThe Pedagogical Power of Fiction: Addressing Gender- and Sexuality-Related Issues through Popular Culture and Fiction WritingÌý
Natalia Incio Serra:ÌýPeruvian Indigenous Female Student Lives: An Exercise of Resilience


Day 2: April 16

Panel 5: 9:30-11:00ÌýGender, Sexuality, and Belonging

Chair: TBD

Yasmeen Shahzadeh:Idle Citizenry:ÌýInvestigating the Representation of Women in Jordanian Civic Education Textbooks
Abbey-Leigh Heilig:ÌýSexuality, Sport, and the City: A Literature ReviewÌý
Kiersten van Vliet:ÌýDisco, Affect, and Public Cultures in Montreal’s Gay Village

Panel 6: 11:15-1:15ÌýConstructing Gendered Identities Through Music and CultureÌý

Chair: Lisa BargÌý

Marta Beszterda:ÌýWomen Composers in (Post)-Communist Poland: Challenges for Feminist Research in Polish Musicology
Kate Glen:ÌýLife After Death Star: Masculinity and Misogyny Through Musical Mashup
Megan Batty:ÌýGender Performativity and Embodiment in the Lindy Hop
Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson:ÌýHuman Aesthetics, Virtual Bodies: The Construction of Pop Avatar Miquela

Final Remarks

Vanessa Blais- Tremblay and Alex Ketchum

Back to top