IGSF EVENTS

Program of "Whose Business Is Risk?"

The conference “Whose Business is Risk?” seeks to critically respond to current deployments of risk, the notion of risk society, and the conceptualization of “at risk” populations.
Jointly organized by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) at McGill University, Media@McGill, The HTMlles 10, and Studio XX, this day-long graduate and post-graduate interdisciplinary conference will explore the themes of the RISKY BUSINESS festival through panel presentations: Risking the Queer Body; Landscapes of Boom and Doom; Axes of Risk--Finance Capital, Waste, and the Gendering of Crisis; and The Carceral State and the Politics of Rebellion.

Program of "Risky Business"
Pedestrian web map from Roddick Gates, McGill to Studio XX, 4001 Berri, suite 201

Highlighting IGSF special event:

Talk and tour by Zach Blas
Monday, 12 November, 2012
2pm - 4pm
Studio XX, suite 201, 4001 rue Berri, Montreal.

Visiting artist Zach Blas, who is an IGSF featured participant in the Risky Business festival, offers his installation work: The Facial Weaponization Suite. The Facial Weaponization Suite is a response to studies that link determining sexual orientation through facial recognition and a growing culture of technologically-driven identification calculation. The suite provides sets of masks for public intervention. One mask, the Fag Face Mask, is generated from the biometric facial data of many gay men's faces, attempting to evade detection by mechanisms of capture and recognition-control.

Zach Blas also leads a talk and tour of the 4001 Berri installations. Co-hosted by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), Media@Mcgill, the Encounter is intended to create a contemplative space for personal reflection and facilitated discussion on the themes presented in the artworks.
Free admission/ registration required; readings may be assigned.

Featuring:
A public talk entitled “Feminist Theory and the Non-Human”
By Myra Hird, Professor, School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University
North American Editor, Feminist Theory
and
A Panel Discussion: “The Future of Feminist Theory: Publishing, Networks, and Conferences”
With Professors Ann Braithwaite, Anna Feigenbaum and Stacy Gillis

Schedule:
Panel Presentations and Q&A ................................................................. 1:00-2:30pm
Break for Refreshments ............................................................................ 2:30-3:00pm
Public Talk ................................................................................................ 3:00-4:15pm
IGSF Social Hour (At IGSF, 3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor, seminar room) ........ 4:30-5:30pm

Speakers and Panel Participants include:
Ann Braithwaite, Women’s Studies (University of Prince Edward Island)
Anna Feigenbaum, The Media School (Bournemouth University, UK)
Stacy Gillis, English Literature (Newcastle University, UK); IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar (McGill University); Editior, Feminist Theory

Panelists will discuss new developments in Women’s and Gender Studies and current trajectories for publishing and career development with an eye toward both established and alternative publishing venues. The Q&A period will provide a significant opportunity for emerging scholars to pose questions directly to the panelists, based on their experience in feminist research and the publishing process.

For the first time, Edgy Women invites academics, artists and other free-thinkers to participate in an afternoon of exchange in an unconventional setting. The Edgy Colloque invites featured guests into the ring of the Chat Bleu Boxing Club to lead a series of conversational, performative lectures about sport, art and gender politics. Among other presentations, competitive boxer, anti-oppression champion and genderqueer activist Janaya Khan will be discussing boxing and gendered expectations of competition. Kristin Grey/Justin Credible, a genderqueer artist and storyteller will deliver Out of Bounds, a performative lecture about sporting bodies in the media and public eye. Boxer and “theatre chick” Savoy Howe will combine her two vocational loves by performing The Flower Garden, a 10 minute performance piece about planting the seeds of female aggression. She is the head coach and owner of the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club, Canada’s only all-female and trans-positive boxing association. The Colloquium is part of the week-long Edgy Women Festival (March 1-10). This year’s theme is Art/Gender/Sports: We live in a world that promotes a rhetorical opposition between art (sensitivity/subculture/femininity) and sports (strength/mainstream/masculinity). Let's see what happens when we mix it up! For details about the colloquium and more information about the festival, check out http://www.edgywomen.ca .

Panels:

• 1pm Welcome and Opening Remarks
• 1:15-2:05pm Engaging Citizens: Policies of Ethics and Empowerment
• 2:05-2:15pm Break
• 2:15-3:35pm Sex, Love, and Philosophers
• 3:35-3:45pm Break
• 3:45-4:40pm Fighters and Feminist: Exploring Representations in Media
• 4:40-5pm Closing Remarks

click for detailed schedule of RE: Framing Feminism

This workshop will help to sift through some of the new problems that members of diverse minorities experience in the workplace. More specifically, it tackles the myth that "the glass ceilings" have been destroyed in organizations and that jobs are available to anyone who wants them. The event combines speakers on the topics of job segregation and office-place discrimination, followed by workshops on job interviewing and discrimination "spotting." Complementary snacks served afterwards. 

How do social movements resist and react to new measures for legal equality? This interdisciplinary panel tackles this question via resistance to intersectional state violence, transgender people's legal consciousness, and race-based critiques of rights.
Organized by Robert Leckey, William Dawson Scholar, Faculty of Law, in collaboration with IGSF, funded by a SSHRC Connection Grant.

Dangerous Geographies:  The Social Abandonment of Racialized Women and Containment Zones in Los Angeles and Vancouver
Jenny Burman
Associate Professor
Department of Art History and Communication Studies
DATE: Tuesday, October 30^th 2012, 12:30pm

Performing the Lost Generation: The Malleable Addict in China
Sandra Hyde
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
DATE: Tuesday, November 20^th 2012, 12:30pm

Policing Boundaries: Gender and Genre in Early British Detective Fiction
Stacy Gillis
Professor
Modern and Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University, UK
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
DATE: Tuesday, December 4^th 2012, 12:30

The Family Romance of the South African Revolution
Jon Soske
Assistant Professor
Department of History and Classical Studies
DATE: Wednesday, January 30^th 2013, 12:30

Laura Secord and the Body of Evidence
Elsbeth Heaman
Assistant Professor
Department of History and Classical Studies
DATE: Wednesday, February 27^th 2013, 12:30

Excessive Presences? Class, Gender, Sexuality and the 'Fit' to Place
Yvette Taylor
Professor
Social and Policy Studies, London South Bank University, UK
IGSF Visiting Scholar
DATE: Wednesday, March 20^th 2013, 12:30