Schedule

Fourth Kentucky Gender and Women's Studies Conference Schedule

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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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