The interdisciplinary conference “Feminisms and Intersectionalities in the 21st Century” will reflect on how feminist epistemologies and intersectionality challenge hegemonic positions within knowledge production and cultural practice.<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br>Feminisms and Intersectionalities in the 21st Century<br>University of California, Riverside<br>May 21 to May 23, 2009<br><br>SCHEDULE<br><br>** PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS AT UCR CAMPUS **<br><br>Wednesday 5/20 2-4pm: FILM SCREENING: Stranger Inside (HMNSS 1500)<br>
<br>Thursday 5/21 12-2pm: FILM SCREENING: Angela Davis Project (INTN 2043)<br><br>** CONFERENCE – University Extension Center, Room E **<br><br>(For Directions, see <a href="http://www.extension.ucr.edu/files/conferencing/conf-directions.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.extension.ucr.edu/files/conferencing/conf-directions.pdf</a> for or see <a href="http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu" target="_blank">http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu</a> for more info)<br>
<br>Thursday 5/21<br><br>3-6pm: Feminist Film-Making: Theorizing Praxis and Visions of Radical Intersectionality<br>Keynote Speaker: Cheryl Dunye<br>Chair/Moderator: Keith Harris (UCR English and Media and Cultural Studies)<br>
Discussants:<br>H. L. T. Quan (filmmaker)<br>Crystal Griffith (ASU Film and Media Production)<br>Erika Edwards (UCR English)<br><br>6-8pm: Reception<br><br>Friday 5/22<br><br>9-11:30am: Undoing Academia: Creativity, Dissidence, and Feminism<br>
Keynote Speaker: Nawal El-Saadawi<br>Chair/Moderator: Margie Waller (UCR Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature)<br>Discussants:<br>Yenna Wu (UCR Comparative Literature)<br>Sherine Hafez (UCR Women’s Studies)<br>Jeff Sacks (UCR Comparative Literature)<br>
<br>2-4:30pm: Archive, Affect, and the Everyday: Queer Diasporic Re-Visions<br>Keynote Speaker: Gayatri Gopinath (Gender and Sexuality Studies, New York University)<br>Chair/Moderator: Jane Ward (UCR Women’s Studies)<br>Discussants:<br>
Keith Harris (UCR English and Media and Cultural Studies)<br>Caroline Tushabe (UCR Women’s Studies)<br>Lan Duong (UCR Media and Cultural Studies and SEATRiP)<br><br>4:30-5pm: Wine & Cheese Reception<br><br>5-6 pm: Performance by Monica Palacios<br>
<a href="http://www.monicapalacios.com" target="_blank">http://www.monicapalacios.com</a><br><br>Saturday 5/23<br><br>9–11:30am: Feminist Critiques of the War on/of Terror<br>Keynote Speaker: Nadine Naber (American Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan)<br>
Chair/Moderator: Jodi Kim (UCR Ethnic Studies)<br>Discussants:<br>Sondra Hale (UCLA Anthropology and Women’s Studies)<br>Setsu Shigematsu (UCR Media and Cultural Studies)<br><br>11:30am–1:30 pm BUFFET LUNCH<br><br>1:30–4:00pm: Spectral Femininities: Labor, Materiality and Temporality<br>
Keynote Speaker: Thu-huong Nguyen-Vo (Southeast Asian and Asian American Studies, UCLA)<br>Chair/Moderator: Mariam Beevi Lam (UCR Comparative Literature & SEATRiP)<br>Discussants:<br>Laura Kang (UC Irvine, Women’s Studies)<br>
Amalia Cabezas (UCR Women’s Studies)<br>Tamara C. Ho (UCR Women’s Studies & SEATRiP)<br><br>******************<br>Feminisms and intersectionalities — both imply plurality and multiplicity, offering various ways to question universalizing frames. This conference will explore how diverse feminists in the 21st century are creating alternative forms of knowledge and new ways of producing culture. Distinguished scholars and artists will discuss how factors such as race, sexuality, class, religion, and nation affect our understanding of “feminisms,” gender, and social justice. From May 21 to May 23, roundtable discussions will explore different approaches to decentering patriarchal heteronormativity and colonizing forms of knowledge production.<br>
<br>Before the conference, there will be two film screenings on UCR campus: Cheryl Dunye’s The Stranger Inside and The Angela Davis Project. Dunye’s 2001 award-winning film is based on four years of research and dramatizes the lives and complex relationships among incarcerated women. The Angela Y. Davis Project, co-directed by H.L.T. Quan and Professor Crystal Griffith (Film and Media Production, Arizona State University), is a work-in-progress: a unique documentary highlighting women of color’s cultural activism by featuring conversations between UC Professor and activist Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama, Japanese American community activist and former confidant of Malcolm X.<br>
<br>The conference will officially commence on Thursday afternoon with Dunye, Griffith and Quan discussing their respective films and participating in a public roundtable conversation with UCR faculty. Friday’s events feature Egyptian writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi, Professor Gayatri Gopinath, and performance artist Monica Palacios. El Saadawi will be discussing creativity, dissidence, and feminism. Professor Gopinath (Social and Cultural Analysis, American Studies, NYU) will be exploring the interface of archive, affect, and the everyday in the works of queer diasporic visual artists Allan deSouza and Chitra Ganesh. A Friday evening performance by Palacios will allow audiences to experience righteous rants of nationality, sexuality, gay marriage mania and middle age flab from one of the most respected queer Chicana soloist working today. On Saturday, Professor Nadine Naber (American Culture and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan) will analyze anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism post-9/11; the subsequent discussion, also featuring Sondra Hale (Anthropology and Women’s Studies, UCLA), will explore fraught transnational issues of occupation, war, and settler colonialism. The final panel, featuring keynote speaker Professor Thu-huong Nguyen-Vo (Southeast Asian and Asian American Studies, UCLA) and Professor Laura Kang (Women’s Studies, UC Irvine), will explore time and spectral femininity by focusing on stories and material practices of rural and working-class women in global production and garment work.<br>
<br>Events are free and open to the public.<br>Parking at UCR University Extension is $5 per day.</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>~~~~~<br>Ching-In Chen<br>THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press 2009)<br>
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