[Cwgrad-announcements] Feminisms and Intersectionalities in the 21st Century Conference @ UCR

[Ching-In Chen]

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.

Feminisms and Intersectionalities in the 21st Century
University of California, Riverside
May 21 to May 23, 2009

SCHEDULE

** PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS AT UCR CAMPUS **

Wednesday 5/20 2-4pm: FILM SCREENING: Stranger Inside (HMNSS 1500)

Thursday 5/21 12-2pm: FILM SCREENING: Angela Davis Project (INTN 2043)

** CONFERENCE – University Extension Center, Room E **

(For Directions, see
http://www.extension.ucr.edu/files/conferencing/conf-directions.pdf for or
see http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu for more info)

Thursday 5/21

3-6pm: Feminist Film-Making: Theorizing Praxis and Visions of Radical
Intersectionality
Keynote Speaker: Cheryl Dunye
Chair/Moderator: Keith Harris (UCR English and Media and Cultural Studies)
Discussants:
H. L. T. Quan (filmmaker)
Crystal Griffith (ASU Film and Media Production)
Erika Edwards (UCR English)

6-8pm: Reception

Friday 5/22

9-11:30am: Undoing Academia: Creativity, Dissidence, and Feminism
Keynote Speaker: Nawal El-Saadawi
Chair/Moderator: Margie Waller (UCR Women’s Studies and Comparative
Literature)
Discussants:
Yenna Wu (UCR Comparative Literature)
Sherine Hafez (UCR Women’s Studies)
Jeff Sacks (UCR Comparative Literature)

2-4:30pm: Archive, Affect, and the Everyday: Queer Diasporic Re-Visions
Keynote Speaker: Gayatri Gopinath (Gender and Sexuality Studies, New York
University)
Chair/Moderator: Jane Ward (UCR Women’s Studies)
Discussants:
Keith Harris (UCR English and Media and Cultural Studies)
Caroline Tushabe (UCR Women’s Studies)
Lan Duong (UCR Media and Cultural Studies and SEATRiP)

4:30-5pm: Wine & Cheese Reception

5-6 pm: Performance by Monica Palacios
http://www.monicapalacios.com

Saturday 5/23

9–11:30am: Feminist Critiques of the War on/of Terror
Keynote Speaker: Nadine Naber (American Studies and Women’s Studies,
University of Michigan)
Chair/Moderator: Jodi Kim (UCR Ethnic Studies)
Discussants:
Sondra Hale (UCLA Anthropology and Women’s Studies)
Setsu Shigematsu (UCR Media and Cultural Studies)

11:30am–1:30 pm BUFFET LUNCH

1:30–4:00pm: Spectral Femininities: Labor, Materiality and Temporality
Keynote Speaker: Thu-huong Nguyen-Vo (Southeast Asian and Asian American
Studies, UCLA)
Chair/Moderator: Mariam Beevi Lam (UCR Comparative Literature & SEATRiP)
Discussants:
Laura Kang (UC Irvine, Women’s Studies)
Amalia Cabezas (UCR Women’s Studies)
Tamara C. Ho (UCR Women’s Studies & SEATRiP)

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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.

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.

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.

Events are free and open to the public.
Parking at UCR University Extension is $5 per day.



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Ching-In Chen
THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press 2009)
www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp
www.chinginchen.com
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