Queer Feminisms Symposium

GGFS is organizing our third day-long symposium on June 6, 2008 at Thomson House. The symposium is intended to stimulate discussion of graduate students’ work in feminist, gender, sexuality, and women’s studies.

Papers will be presented on the topic of Queer Feminisms. Panel themes include: (1) Immigration, Citizenship and Movement; (2) Identity, Embodiment and Desire; (3) Queer Performance. With no concurrent sessions and respondents for each paper, this will be an intimate symposium conducive to workshop-style interaction between presenters and audience. There is no charge to attend the symposium and the anticipated attendance is in the range of 50 people.

The event will also feature a keynote address by renowned postcolonial feminist scholar Professor M. Jacqui Alexander (Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Toronto). As an expert on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, Dr. Alexander will be speaking on her work on transnational feminism. Her research explores North American feminism, queer studies and the transnational frameworks that foreground questions of colonialism, political economy, and racial formation. Dr. Alexander’s address, which will be open to the public, will help stimulate discussion of these timely issues.

Schedule

10am - 12pm
Panel 1 (2hrs, 3-4 speakers)
Immigration, Citizenship & Movement

12pm - 1:30pm
Lunch

1:30pm - 3pm
Panel 2 (1.5 hrs, 2-3 speakers)
Identity, Embodiment & Desire

3pm - 3:15pm
Break (15min)

3:15pm - 4:30pm
Panel 3 (1h15min, 2-3 speakers)
Queer Performance
Panelists: Ignacio Rivera & Osama bin Thuggin

4:30pm - 5pm
Break (30min w/ snack)

5pm - 6:30pm
Keynote
Dr. Jacqui Alexander
Professor of Women’s Studies
University of Toronto

Call For Papers - Queer Feminisms Symposium

Call for Papers

QUEER FEMINISMS SYMPOSIUM
3rd Mapping Feminist Scholarship Symposium, Graduate Group for Feminist Scholarship

Friday 6 June, 2008
10am-6:30pm
Thomson House Ballroom
3650 McTavish
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec

This symposium is intended to stimulate discussion of graduate students’ work in feminist, gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. We approach Queer Feminisms broadly as interdisciplinary work, theory and activism synthesizing queer and feminist perspectives and approaches.

This will be an intimate symposium, conducive to workshop-style interaction between presenters and audience. The symposium is comprised of a series of panels throughout the day, followed by a keynote address. Lunch and refreshments will be available for participants. In efforts to make the symposium accessible, this event is free of charge.

Our Keynote address will be given by renowned postcolonial feminist scholar Professor M. Jacqui Alexander (Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Toronto). As an expert on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, Dr. Alexander will be speaking on her work on transnational feminism. Her research explores North American feminism, queer studies and the transnational frameworks that foreground questions of colonialism, political economy, and racial formation.

We are seeking paper proposals for 2 panels on the following themes and possible (though not exhaustive) subtopics:

(I) Immigration, Citizenship & Movement
- migration, immigration, diaspora, transnationalism,
- social movements, activism, solidarity, resistance, law
- deportation, policing, borders/border control, documentation, passports and papers
- No One is Illegal, Sans Papiers, No Borders, Open Borders, etc.

(II) Identity, Embodiment & Desire
- media, policy, representation
- sexuality, bodies, class, race, (dis)ability
- desires, fetishization, exotification, sex work
- performativity, drag, passing, medicalization

Proposals should be no more than 500 words and sent to ggfs.mcgill@gmail.com by Monday 14 April 2008. Please include the panel theme your paper is best situated within and a short bio.


Proposals in French will be accepted, however the symposium will primarily be held in English.
Whisper translation will be available upon prior request.
Transportation expenses will not be covered by the symposium.
Thomson House is a wheelchair accessible location.

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