WGS Network of NC Symposium – New Directions in Women’s and Gender Studies

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

WGS Network of NC Symposium – New Directions in Women’s and Gender Studies

Posted on 04/12/2019

 
Over the past year and a half, WGS programs and departments from colleges and universities around the state have come together to create the WGS Network of North Carolina, and on April 12, we’ll have a symposium featuring work from faculty in those departments and programs that will be hosted at UNCG.  This event is a chance to meet faculty from across the state and to help build and strengthen intellectual community.
The schedule for the symposium is below.
 
There will be dinner, around 5:30pm, after the symposium.  Please RSVP with Dr. Mark Rifkin if you’d like to attend.
 
(The schools in the network are UNCG, NC A&T, Bennett College, Guilford College, Elon University, High Point University, Wake Forest University, Davidson College, UNC Charlotte, Appalachian State University, Duke University, NC State, and UNC Chapel Hill.)

11-12:30 – Innovations, Returns, and the Question of Feminist Praxis

Kimberly Lamm (Duke University), A Classic Dismissal: Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” and the Splitting of Contemporary Feminism

Michael Eng (Appalachian State University), Once More, With Feeling! Affective (Re)Turns and the Neoliberalization of the University

Sarah Colonna (UNC Greensboro) and Carrie Hart (Appalachian State University), Feminist Space Invaders: Pedagogical Collaborations Between Two Feminist Theory Courses in the UNC System

12:30-1:30 – Lunch

(Provided by the WGS Program in Kirkland.)

1:30-3:15 – Feminist Translations, Transnationalisms, and Decolonial Imaginings

Sushmita Chatterjee (Appalachian State University), Mapping Queer Transnationalism

Melissa González (Davidson College), How Latinx-American Trans* Thinkers “Let Others Be Normal” in the Transnational Age of Gay Marriage

Elisabeth Paquette (UNC Charlotte), The Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop

Mark Rifkin (UNC Greensboro), Indigeneity as Setting: Speculations on Postcolonial Nationhood, Subaltern Impasses, and the Politics of Peoplehood

3:15 – 4:45 – Closing conversation

Facilitated by Janaka Lewis (UNC Charlotte)

(coffee and snacks)

When: Apr 12, 11:00 am - 4:45 pm

Location: Kirkland Room, EUC