Schedule
Fourth Kentucky Gender and Women's Studies Conference Schedule
Day 2: February 25, 2022
10:00-10:10 AM: Opening Remarks
10:10-10:55 AM: Keynote Talk by Dr. P. Carl (30 minutes talk + 15 minutes Q&A)
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Panel Discussions
Feb 25, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Moderator: Dr. Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, University of Kentucky
Panel 5: The Gendering of Nationalist and Right-Wing Movements
Panelists:
- Dr. Swati Dyahadroy (Faculty, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India), Understanding Politics of Right-Wing Women: Through Life and Times of Aparna Ramtirthkar
- Nupur Jain & Sayali Shankar (Graduate Students, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India), No Way Home: Bollywood Hero-Cop Universe Rescuing the Nation State
- Susanna Hansel (Graduate Student, University of Kentucky), Double Standards through the Lens of Gender in the Weimar Republic), Double Standards through the Lens of Gender in the Weimar Republic
Feb 25, 12:00-1:00 PM
Panel 6: Insurgency: Navigating the Political Sphere as Black Women
Moderator: Dr. Aria Halliday, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Panelists:
- Madison Givens (Graduate Student, Loyola University of Chicago), Female Blackness in an Abyss of Racism, Sexism, and The Black Panther Party
- Deborah Daley (Graduate Student, University of Kentucky), Reclaiming ‘I’ in Nicole Goodwin’s War Poetry
- Shawnika Johnson (Graduate Student, Claremont Graduate University), African American Female Legislative Behavior in Georgia State Legislature: Position, Policy and Power
Feb 25, 1:00-2:00 PM
Panel 7: The Emancipatory Potentiality of Affect, Erotics, and Desire
Moderator: Dr. Anastasia Todd, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Panelists:
- Katrina Solomon, (Graduate Student, Eastern Michigan University), Consent and Pleasure
- Shawna Irissarri (Graduate Student, University of Kentucky), Foucault, Power and Pornography: Scientia Sexualis, Pornography Studies, and Black Feminist Critiques
- Sayali Shankar (Graduate Students, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India) Battle of Ages: Unpacking ‘Age at Marriage Bill’
Feb 25, 2:00-3:00 PM
Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Hunt, Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Panel 8: Critical Sexuality Studies, Necropolitics and Social Media: Workshop
Panelists:
- Allison Grossman, Jermisha Frazier, Natashia Fuksman, and Emily Owens-Edington, (Graduate Students, California Institute of Integral Studies)
Feb 25, 3:00-3:15 PM: Wrap Up Day 2 and the Conference
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Day 1: February 24, 2022
10:00-10:10 AM: Opening Remarks
10:10-10:55 AM: Keynote Talk by Dr. Carol Mason (30 minutes talk + 15 minutes Q&A)
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Panel Discussions
11:00 AM-12:00 PM - Panel 1: Embodiment, Autonomy, and Spaces
Moderator: Dr. Elizabeth W. Williams, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Panelists:
- Dr. Jennifer L. Brinkley & Dr. Nicole Niebuhr, (Faculty, University of West Florida), Period Poverty and Life Strains: Efforts Made to Erase the Stigma Surrounding Menstruation and to Expand Access to Menstrual Hygiene Products
- Sancharini Mitra, (Graduate Student, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) “Resisting ‘stigma’: Menstrual activism in contemporary India
- Tannaz Zargarian, (Faculty, University of Manitoba, Canada) Body Autonomy in Spaces
Feb 24,12:00-1:00 - Panel 2: Agency and the Subversive Potential of Trans Bodies
Moderator: Dr. Melissa N. Stein, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Panelists:
- G Angel (Graduate Student, Indiana University Bloomington), Painted as a Monster: Monstrosity and its Impacts on Trans Bodily Autonomy
- Finn Johnson (Graduate Student, Oregon State University), The Trans Panic Defense and the Biopolitics of Transphobia
- Philesha Colquitt (Graduate Student, Arizona State University), He Didn’t Do Her; She Did Him: Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Trans Cartographies of Space Makings and Meanings
1:00-2:00 PM - Panel 3: Transnational Movements and Neoliberal Exploitation
Moderator: Dr. Karen Tice, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Panelists:
- Tatiana Ruiz (Graduate Student, George Washington University), ‘Un Violador en Tu Camino’: A Postcolonial and Feminist Analysis of Contemporary Chilean Feminist Movements
- Alexandra Maris (Graduate Student, University of Toronto), Biopower and Biopedagogies in the Healthified Spaces of a Martial Art Destination Training Camp in Thailand
- Jessica Tjiu (Graduate Student, The Ohio State University, Columbus), The Politics of Legibility for Sex Trafficking Victims: The Intersections of Immigration Apparatus and Human Trafficking
2:00-3:00 PM - Panel 4: Queering Family and Kinship
Moderator: Dr. Frances B. Henderson, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Panelists:
- Lauren Swain (Graduate Student, Eastern Michigan University), The Diary of a Prison Wife
- Madison Givens (Graduate Student, Loyola University of Chicago), Black Reproduction: Slavery, Eugenics, and Birth Control
- Yelena Dzhanova (Graduate Student, The CUNY Graduate Center), Excavating Abortion Narratives to Document the Human Psyche
Feb 24, 3:00-3:15: Wrap-Up Day 1