Apr 15, 8:00 AM: Engendering Change | Conference

In 2017, Northwestern is hosting the Engendering Change Graduate Student Conference. The purpose of this conference is to provide a space for graduate students working on research in gender and sexuality, with a focus this year on racial and gender justice, to present their work, get feedback from faculty and other graduate students, and network. Engendering Change is an annual conference that rotates host locations between University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, and University of Chicago. Saturday, April 15th: Conference (University Hall 201) 8:00 – 8:45 AM: Breakfast 9:00 – 10:30: Panel 1 – Precarity in the Current Political Moment: Where are we now? Chris Russell, (Northwestern): “‘You’re Messing with meme Magic:’ Trump Memes, the Alt-Right, and Online Political Discourse” E . Jax Witzig, (DePaul): “The ‘Femme Phenomenon:’ (Mis)using Terminology to Locate the Genderqueer Self” Andrea Ford, (U Chicago): “(Anti)Institutional Menses: Our Blood, Our Business” Shana Bahemat, (DePaul): “Exploring Vulnerability and Trauma in the Iranian Diaspora 10:45 – 12:15: Panel 2 – Producing Precarity: Institutionalizing Forms of Knowledge Aaron Clarke, (Northwestern): “Ontological Precarity: Racial Discipline at the Ends of the University” Malia Bowers, (Northwestern): “Feminist Sickness and Temporal Orientations: A Nietzchean Interpretation” Becky Bivens, (UIC): “The V-Girls: Political Conviction and Group Action after Post-Structuralism” 12:15 – 1:15 PM: Lunch (provided) 1:15 – 2:45: Panel 3 – State, Structures, and Stigma: Policy Implications Sameena Azhar, (U Chicago): “Postcolonial Feminist Interpretations of HIV Stigma among Hijras/Transgender Women Living with HIV in Hyderabad, India” Cal Lee Garrett, (UIC): “(Institutional) Barrier Methods: HIV/AIDS Public Health, LGBTQ Community, and the Myth of Safe Sex” Madeleine Pape, (UW Madison): “Gendered Expertise and the Institutional Reproduction of Sex Difference” Alysia Carey and Jenn M Jackson, (U Chicago): “Queering Black Freedom: Black mothering under state repression in the African Diaspora” 3:00 – 4:30: Panel 4 – Mapping Precarity: The Making of Spaces, Places, and Worlds Sarah Scriven, (DePaul): “Pauli Murray as a Black Eccentric Performer: History and Queer World Making” Meagan McChesney, (Loyola Chicago): “Exhibiting Sovereignty: Tribal Museums in Great Lakes Region, 1975-2010” Lauren Dean, (UIC): “Gender, informality, and unmapping with the Mumbai Suburban Rail System” 5:00 – 6:30 PM: Conference Roundtable (University Hall 201) For a full schedule of events and directions to the Northwestern campus, visit http://sites.northwestern.edu/engenderingchange2017/

Date: April 15, 2017
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM

See:http://sites.northwestern.edu/engenderingchange2017/