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Queer Feminisms Symposium: Final Schedule & Registration

Final Schedule for Queer Feminisms Symposium

Date: Friday 6 June, 2008
Location: Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish, Montreal, QC
(see map below)

Schedule

12pm – 12:30pm
Registration

12:30pm – 1:30pm
Welcome Lunch

1:30pm - 3pm
Panel 1
- Melissa Autumn White
“Mobilizing Desire: On Affect, Regulation, and Transnational Queer Migration”
- KelleyAnne Malinen
“Butler’s ‘Lesbian Phallus’: Theorizing woman-to-woman sexual assault”
- Zanele Muholi
“Being 

… an insider … making of radical black lesbian visibility in the post-post Apartheid South Africa”

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

3:15pm - 4:30pm
Panel 2
Queer Performance
Panelists: Ignacio Rivera & Osama bin Thuggin

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

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

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TO REGISTER
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Please email: ggfs.mcgill@gmail.com with the following information:
- Name
- Email
- Telephone Number
- Institutional Affiliation
- Dietary Restrictions/Preferences
- Accessibility Requirements

Please Note that the symposium is open to the public and free of charge, however we strongly encourage participants to register in advance so that we can ensure that there is enough food and refreshments.

Thomson House is wheelchair accessible. Please contact us before Monday 2 June 2008 if you require whisper translation into French.



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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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