McGill Feminist Research Colloquium 2024-2025

Please register to attend the FRC

April 8th will include a full day of student presentations. The events will take place in McGill's IGSF seminar room (3487 Peel, 2nd floor). 

The undergraduate honours students will present their thesis projects. The graduate students from WMST 602 will discuss their ongoing research projects.

Here is the schedule. For more information about the abstracts, please consult our website.

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10:45 Introductions and Opening Remarks 

by conference organizers Dr. Alex Ketchum and Dr. Twisha Singh

11:00- 12:23: Graduate Panel 1: Feminist Worldmaking through Diaspora, Childhood, and Textual Recovery

Chair: Dr. Alex Ketchum

11:00 – 11:15 AM: Abena Somiah, "Sounding and Feeling Africa in Japan: The New Place of Afrobeats in Japanese Youth Culture"

11:16 – 11:31 AM: Martha Pitre, “To Be Worshiped is Not Freedom”: Reviving Child Liberation for the 21st Century" 

11:32 – 11:47 AM: Hind Alessa, "In Search for a Feminist Arabic Editorial Tradition: Female Editors of Arabic Manuscripts and the Recovery of Medieval Women’s History in the Twentieth Century (1920s–1990s)"

11:48 – 12:03 PM: Riley Lewicki, "Hannah Arendt and the Natal Miracle of Transness" 

12:03 – 12:23 PM: Question and Answer Period

Lunch 12:23-1:15 

provided by the IGSF

1:15-2:17: Graduate Panel 2: Gender Backlash, Patriarchy, and Feminist Responses to Systemic Control

Chair: Dr. Bobby Benedicto

1:15 – 1:30 PM: Helena Villa Cardona, "Book Banning: The Parental Rights Movements and Gender Backlash in North America"

1:31 – 1:46 PM: Rabia Salihi, "Gendered Geographies of Exclusion: A Feminist Analysis of Taliban's Control over People and Places"

1:47 – 2:02 PM: Brittany O’Shea, "A Deficit of Attention on the Gendered Inequities in ADHD: A Techno-Feminist Study"

2:02 – 2:17 PM: Question and Answer Period

2:17-2:30 Snack and Coffee Break

provided by the IGSF 

2:30-3:33: Undergraduate Panel 1: Politics, Media, and Power

Chair: Dr. Maria Hwang

2:30- 2:40: Bela Sullivan, "Broadcasting Power: How Abortion Disinformation in the 2024 Election Reinforced Patriarchy and Political Control"

2:41-2:51: Julia Winterhalder, “Just get confident!”: Uncovering the societal barriers to women’s financial education in Canada"

2:52-3:02: Quinn Hunt, "Well-Behaved Sugar Babies: Relational Work and Regulatory Practices in Sugar Dating"

3:03-3:13: Colin Parker Griffiths, "The Making of the Modern Incel: A Genealogical Mapping of the Incel Community in the Digital Age"

3:13-3:33 Question and Answer Period

3:33-3:45 Snack and Coffee Break

provided by the IGSF 

3:45-4:4 : Undergraduate Panel 2: Identity and Environment

Chair: Dr. Twisha Singh

3:45-3:55: Céleste Pepin, "White Women at War: Understanding The Role of White Womanhood in Canada’s Military Occupation of Iraq"

3:56-4:06: Carly Rabie, "Exploring Bisexual Erasure Through the Lens of Bisexuals on Social Media"

4:07-4:17: Elsie Yang, "Leadership, Agency, and Embodied Citizenship: The Role of Female Water Coordinators in Panamanian Informal Settlements"

4:18-4:28: Eva Elbert, "Pastures of Promise: Imagining a Future in the Red Cedar Watershed" (hybrid)

4:28-4:48 Question and Answer Period

4:48-5 Concluding Remarks and Wrap Up