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Graduate Student Conference

Feminist Visions in Times of Apocalypse: Collectively Evoking Joy, Love, & Healing 

✨31st Annual Emerging Scholarship in Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Student Conference, at The University of Texas at Austin.✨

Tuesday & Wednesday: March 26-27, 2024

All sessions will be held in RLP 1.302B

Full website here.

 

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 

Check-In

9:30am 

Pre-Conference 

10:00am-11:30am 

Moderator: Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus 

  • Amara Kwiatkowski (she/her/hers) - Capitalism, Morality, and Christopher Nolan: A Feminist Perspective 

  • Mustafa Ayçiçeği (he/they) - Women Rising: Acts of Female Defiance against Patriarchy and Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East  

  • Dana Phillips (she/her) - Looking Forward to Liberation: Vision Work as Black Feminist Praxis 

  • Holly Genovese (they/them) - Black Women's Prison Poetry and the Alabama Prison Arts and Literature Project 

  • Evalyn Stow (she/her) - Keep Austin Queer: Preserving ATX LGBTQ+ Oral Histories 

Break 

11:30am-12:00pm 

Panel 1 

12:00pm-1:30pm  

Moderator: Jackie Pedota 

  • Javier Ramirez (he/him) - LGBTQ+ Chapter Leadership: Negotiating Homonormativity While Navigating Heteronormative Sorority/Fraternity Life Spaces 

  • Nagaharini Venkoba Rao (she/her) -Margam: Navigating Tradition, Femininity, and Self-Discovery in Bharatanatyam 

  • Rebecca Baumler - The effects of all-gender signage on attitudes toward trans and non-binary individuals: Exploring the mediating impact of gender salience 

Lunch 

1:45pm 

Welcome 

2:00pm 

Keynote 

2:15pm-4:15pm 

 Dr. Sami Schalk - Studying Pleasure Spaces for Multiply Marginalized People

Break 

4:15-4:20pm 

Panel 2

4:30pm-6pm 

Moderator: Jackie Pedota 

  • Katie Galyon (she/her/ella) - Freedom of Expression or new layers of linguistic colonization? Perceptions of lenguaje inclusivo from bilingual Quechua speakers in Cuzco 

  • Hannah Jensen (they/she) - The Marvelous Feminine: Examining Constructions of Femininity, Feminism, and Commodity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe 

  • Anne Wooten (she/her) - Leveraging Queer Space in a Heteronormative Comedies: The Case of German Cinema 

Zine Making Workshop/Social (RLP) 

6:30pm 

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2024 

 

Check-In

10:30am 

Panel 1 

11am-12:30pm 

Moderator: Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus 

  • Leo Briggs (they/he) - Egg Discourse 

  • Yunina Barbour-Payne (she/her) - From Hey Ya to Holy Shit; Familial Healing in Martha Redbone’s Bone Hill 

Lunch 

12:45pm 

Panel 2 

1:15pm-2:45pm 

Moderator: Alfredo J. Vasquez 

  • Kristina Brüning (she/her) -Embracing Ambivalence: The Affective Power and Transformative Limits of Popular Feminism in Hollywood  

  • Hnin Hnin Oo (she/her) - The Burmese Military's Push of ABSDF Soldiers to Amarillo, Texas 

  • Lynette Kwaw-Mensah (they/she) - Perception is Everything. Black Autistic Existence: Existing In a Society That Seeks to Erase Us 

Break 

2:45-3:00pm 

Panel 3

3:00pm-4:30pm 

  • Raquel Santos Fontes (she/her) - Advancing Rights Across Borders: A Case Study of CLADEM's Socio-Juridical Work in Latin America and the Caribbean 

  • Savneet Bains (she/her) & Wajiha Saqib (she/her) - Gender, Leadership, and Religion: An Enrollment Crisis in Higher Education 

  • Parker Kirlew (she/her) - The Angry Black Woman Stereotype in Reality Television 

Reception 

4:30-5:30pm 

Location: RLP 1.302B patio

 

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