Feminist Research Colloquium
This event is free and open, and showcases the work of undergraduate honours and graduate students at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.
FRC 2019 website: https://frcmcgill.blogspot.com
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March 23, 2019
The Feminist Research Colloquium showcases the student research conducted through McGill University's Institute of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.
This year's colloquium is on April 15 and 16 at Research Common Room A at McLennan Library of McGill University.
Seven honours students in the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies major and thirteen graduate students in the Option in Women and Gender Studies will present their work.
Day 1: April 15
Opening Remarks and Pastry: 9:00- 9:15
Alex Ketchum and Vanessa Blais- Tremblay
Panel 1: 9:30-10:30 Labour
Chair: Alanna Thain
Dominique Grégoire: From Fashion Magazine to Activist Community: How Diverse Storytellers Changed Teen Vogue's Storytelling
Fraea Graziani: Understanding Sex Work: Why Representation Matters for Sex Workers
Catherine Jeffery: Liberating Labour: Critical Utopianism and the Future of Work
Panel 2: 10:45-12:15 Gender and Colonialism: Missing Histories, New Analyses
Chair: Vrinda Narain
Viviane Cottle: Public Perception of Restorative Justice in Canada: The Case of Terri-Lynne McClintic
Chung-Chih Hong: An Unheard Story: The Impact of Christianity on the Pangcah Women’s Traditional Power
Heather Porter: Linking Genealogies of Islamophobia and Gendered and Racialized Colonial Hierarchies in the Americas
Lunch: 12:15-1:15
Panel 3: 1:15-2:35 Histories of Sexualities, Genders, and Embodiments
Chair: Nicole de Brabandere
Hosanna Galea: Nature as Divine: An Analysis of the Feminine in Hildegard of Bingen
Emma Chambers: The Greatest Social Taboo: The Discursive Production of Child Sexuality As The Ultimate Oxymoron
Ben Kirsebom: Reconstructing AIDS Narratives: Race, Space, and Queer Politics in Oakland, California in the 1980s and 90s
Kyle Stewart: Locating Ideology in the Fat Body
Coffee Break
Panel 4: 3:00-5:00 Addressing Gender-Based and Sexual Violence in Educational Settings
Chair: Marc Ducusin
Anuradha Dugal: Bringing a Critical Race Framework to On-Campus Efforts to End Sexual Violence
Esther Armaignac: The Pedagogical Power of Fiction: Addressing Gender- and Sexuality-Related Issues through Popular Culture and Fiction Writing
Natalia Incio Serra: Peruvian Indigenous Female Student Lives: An Exercise of Resilience
Day 2: April 16
Panel 5: 9:30-11:00 Gender, Sexuality, and Belonging
Chair: TBD
Yasmeen Shahzadeh:Idle Citizenry: Investigating the Representation of Women in Jordanian Civic Education Textbooks
Abbey-Leigh Heilig: Sexuality, Sport, and the City: A Literature Review
Kiersten van Vliet: Disco, Affect, and Public Cultures in Montreal’s Gay Village
Panel 6: 11:15-1:15 Constructing Gendered Identities Through Music and Culture
Chair: Lisa Barg
Marta Beszterda: Women Composers in (Post)-Communist Poland: Challenges for Feminist Research in Polish Musicology
Kate Glen: Life After Death Star: Masculinity and Misogyny Through Musical Mashup
Megan Batty: Gender Performativity and Embodiment in the Lindy Hop
Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson: Human Aesthetics, Virtual Bodies: The Construction of Pop Avatar Miquela
Final Remarks
Vanessa Blais- Tremblay and Alex Ketchum