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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.

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March 23, 2019

The Feminist Research Colloquium showcases the student research conducted through 91社区's Institute of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.

This year's colloquium is on听April 15 and 16 at听Research Common Room A听at McLennan Library of 91社区.

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听

Opening Remarks and Pastry: 9:00- 9:15
Alex Ketchum and Vanessa Blais- Tremblay

Panel 1: 9:30-10:30 Labour听

Chair: Alanna Thain

Dominique Gr茅goire:听From Fashion Magazine to Activist Community: How Diverse Storytellers Changed Teen Vogue's Storytelling

Fraea Graziani:听Understanding听Sex Work: Why Representation Matters for Sex Workers听

Catherine听Jeffery:听Liberating Labour: Critical Utopianism and the Future of Work听

Panel 2: 10:45-12:15听Gender and Colonialism: Missing Histories, New Analyses听

Chair: Vrinda Narain

Viviane Cottle:听Public Perception of Restorative Justice in Canada: The Case of Terri-Lynne McClintic
Chung-Chih Hong:听An Unheard Story: The Impact of Christianity on the Pangcah Women鈥檚 Traditional Power听
Heather Porter:听Linking Genealogies of Islamophobia and Gendered and Racialized Colonial Hierarchies in the Americas听

Lunch: 12:15-1:15

Panel 3: 1:15-2:35 Histories of Sexualities, Genders, and Embodiments

Chair: Nicole de Brabandere

Hosanna Galea:听Nature as Divine: An Analysis of the Feminine in Hildegard of Bingen

Emma Chambers:听The Greatest Social Taboo: The Discursive Production of Child Sexuality As The Ultimate Oxymoron

Ben Kirsebom:听Reconstructing AIDS Narratives: Race, Space, and Queer Politics in Oakland, California in the 1980s and 90s

Kyle Stewart:听Locating Ideology in the Fat Body

Coffee Break

Panel 4: 3:00-5:00听Addressing Gender-Based and Sexual Violence in Educational Settings

Chair: Marc Ducusin

Anuradha Dugal:听Bringing a Critical Race Framework to On-Campus Efforts to End Sexual Violence听
Esther Armaignac:听The Pedagogical Power of Fiction: Addressing Gender- and Sexuality-Related Issues through Popular Culture and Fiction Writing听
Natalia Incio Serra:听Peruvian Indigenous Female Student Lives: An Exercise of Resilience

Day 2: April 16

Panel 5: 9:30-11:00听Gender, Sexuality, and Belonging

Chair: TBD

Yasmeen Shahzadeh:Idle Citizenry:听Investigating the Representation of Women in Jordanian Civic Education Textbooks
Abbey-Leigh Heilig:听Sexuality, Sport, and the City: A Literature Review听
Kiersten van Vliet:听Disco, Affect, and Public Cultures in Montreal鈥檚 Gay Village

Panel 6: 11:15-1:15听Constructing Gendered Identities Through Music and Culture听

Chair: Lisa Barg听

Marta Beszterda:听Women Composers in (Post)-Communist Poland: Challenges for Feminist Research in Polish Musicology
Kate Glen:听Life After Death Star: Masculinity and Misogyny Through Musical Mashup
Megan Batty:听Gender Performativity and Embodiment in the Lindy Hop
Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson:听Human Aesthetics, Virtual Bodies: The Construction of Pop Avatar Miquela

Final Remarks

Vanessa Blais- Tremblay and Alex Ketchum