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
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
posted by Graduate Group for Feminist Scholarship, McGill at 5:53 PM
2 Comments:
Dear Madam/Sir
I have been working for gender equality, women advancement, social inclusion, pro-women programme since 1989.
Currently I have been working as a Gender Specialist in Decentralization Local Governance Support Program -Nepal, since August 2005. We have 654237.00 members in Community Organizations (COs). Among them female: 349826 (53.5%) and male: 304411 (46.5%). According to the ethnic classification dalit are; 111,220 (17%), Janajatis (aborigines of nepal)are; 261,695 (40%) and others are; 281,322 (43%).
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Manju Thapa
Gender Specialist
Decentralised Local Government Support Programme (DLGSP)
Tel: 977-1-5545077
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Email: manju_dlgsp@wlink.com
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Coming soon...the latest issue of id21 insights on Sexuality and Policy (a 6 page publication reporting research findings). A fantastic resource for delegates attending the Queer Feminisms Symposium. Printed and online copies will be available for free from the end of June.
What do sexuality and policy have to do with each other? Isn’t sexuality personal, private, and more to do with your body than your politics? Of course on one level it is. However, if we consider our sexual relations in just a little more depth, we discover a whole host of policies and politics set up the terms of these interactions: social norms and gender dynamics, national policies and international relations.
What sets up the dynamics of sexual relationships between people - whether they are, for instance, spouses, lovers or sex workers? What influences how they feel about the contact they experience? And what will the consequences be? This issue of id21 insights considers the policies and politics which start to answer these questions.
This issue is guest edited by Susie Jolly, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK, with academic advice provided by Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA.
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I very much look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks,
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Programme Assistant
id21 & Health Development and Information Teams
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