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Conference Programme

 Breaking Silos: building solidarities in gender research

 

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8.30 - 9.00am: Registration - with tea, coffee, and biscuits (Centre Building 1.05)

9.00 - 9.30am: Opening Remarks from Professor Sumi Madhok and Professor Bingchun Meng (Centre Building 1.03)

9.30 - 11.00am: Session One (Centre Building 1.03 & 1.04)

  • Panel 1A: Decolonizing Solidarities, Imagining Communities - (CBG 1.03) Moderated by Ting-Sian Liu (LSE) 
    • Hannah El-Slimy (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) - At the Borderlines of Activism and Academia: the Limits and Potential of Community-Based Decolonial Feminist Research for Early Career Researchers
    • Kanwal Hameed (University of Exeter) & Esraa Al-Muftah (Qatar University) Colonialism, Capitalism and Archives in the Gulf
    • Luana Paloma Sacristán (Independent Researcher) - Reimagining Transitional Justice From Abya Yala: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis of ‘Nature as a Victim of Conflict’
  • Panel 1B: Breaking the Silence: Survivor-Centered Approaches to Sexual Violence - (CBG 1.04) Moderated by Aynura Akbas (LSE)
    • Francesca Baldwin (University of Reading) ‘Which Suffering Do You Tell?’: Building Solidarities Amongst Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV)
    • Molly Ackhurst University of (University Greenwich) - Interrogating the Ethics and Risks of a Survivor-Led Feminist Politics
    • Kay Grygier (University of Sussex) - How do childhood sexual abuse survivors experience and resist stigmatisation? A survivor community led conceptualisation
    • Julieta Baker (Brunel University) Abortion and Sexual Embodiment Across Cultures

11.15am -12.45pm: Session Two (Centre Building 1.03 & 1.04)

  • Panel 2A: Digital Drives of Queer Desire: Fugitive Affects & Dangerous Complicities -  (CBG 1.03) Moderated by Luma Mantilla Garino (LSE)
    • Nikhil Dharmanaj (Cambridge University) - Homonationalist HCI: A Trans-of-Color Critique of Zionist Complicity within Grindr
    • Ekabali Ghosh (SOAS) - Kink and LGBTIQ+ Solidarities in India: a Tapestry of Desire and Resistance
    • Abel Guerra & Lumichi Okamoto (LSE) - Death Becomes Them: Metaphorising Grief in (de)humanised Trans Lives
    • Tanvi Kanchan (SOAS) - “Instagram is like a karela”: Transnational digital queer politics and online censorship and surveillance in India
  • Panel 2B: Abolition, Borders & Carcerality - (CBG 1.04) Moderated by Lizzie Hobbs (LSE)
    • Anna Monro (LSE) - Criminality Beyond Crime? The Case of California's Three Strikes Law
    • Jaspreet Nijjar (Brunel University) - Female Masculinity and Transgressive Temporality: How Orange is the New Black Recontextualizes Prisoner Agency
    • Radhika Pradhan (LSE) - Home as a Prison: In-home Incarceration of Domestic Violence Survivors through the Legal System in India
    • Aine Bennet (Royal Holloway, University of London) - Exceeding homonationalism? Bisexual+ asylum and undermining bordering

12.45 - 2.00pm: Catered lunch (Centre Building 1.05)

  • Digital art piece by Anna Rohmann (Goldsmiths University)

2.00 - 3.30pm: Session Three (Centre Building 1.03 & 1.04)

  • Panel 3A: Labours of Coping, Caring, and Life-Giving -  (CBG 1.03) Moderated by Malena Bastida-Antich (LSE)
    • Carina Uchida (Oxford University) Doing the Dirty Work: Social Reproductive Labour in Armed Rebel Organization
    • Sophie Legros & Chiara Chiaravoli (LSE) - Diverse motherhood experiences in contexts of violence in Antioquia Colombia
    • Daryn Howland (SOAS) Reproducing Racial Capitalism: Interrogating Racialized Labour Migration and Social Reproduction in the Arab Gulf
    • Fathima Zehba (University College London) - Empowered Pathways: The Daily Mobility of Underprivileged Women Workers in Urban Space: A Case Study of Kochi, Kerala, India
  • WORKSHOP: This is NOT a Book Club: Abolitionist Visions and Collective Organising (CBG 1.04) 
    • Led by the Abolitionist Book Club members (Baljit Kaur (she/her), Nadia Buyse (she/her/they/them), Charlotte Fraser (she/her), Katharina Hendrickx (she/her), Joy Stacey (she/her/they/them) & supported by the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies.

3.45 - 5.15pm: Session Four (Centre Building 1.03 & 1.04)

  • Panel 4: Feminist Knowledges, Otherwise -  (CBG 1.03) Moderated by Senel Wanniarachchi (LSE)
    • Suraiya Asmau Maisutura Banu (SOAS) Queer Intimacies, Matricentricity and the Home in Northern Nigeria
    • Daniela Meneses (Cambridge University) & Rachel Randall (Queen Mary, University of London) - Creative interventions in the archive: Recuperating photographs of wet-nurses in the Courret Archive
    • Blanca Larraín (Cambridge University) From #Metoo to the feminist funa in Chile. Online public shaming as a feminist practice for social change: a critical analysis of current feminist movements in LA
    • Phoebe Martin (King’s College London) - The body as methodology in feminist research Fathima Zehba (University College London) - Empowered Pathways: The Daily Mobility of Underprivileged Women Workers in Urban Space: A Case Study of Kochi, Kerala, India
  • Performance Workshops (CBG 1.04) 
    • 15:45 - 16:25: Kinti Orellana Matute (Queen Mary, University of London) - Kari-warmi: an embodied cosmological reflection on ‘gender’
    • 16:25 - 16:35: BREAK
    • 16:35 - 17:15: Lina Ashour (SOAS) - Extra-phenomenal knowing and othered being

5.30 - 7.00pm: Evening Roundtable: Breaking the Silos of Solidarity: Palestinian Liberation and the Commitment to Resistance - (Wolfson Theatre LG.01, Chen Kin Ku Building)

  • Moderated by Alia Amirali (LSE)
    • Howie Rechavia-Taylor (LSE) 
    • Sarona Bedwan (Makan) 
    • LSE Palestine Society
    • Jasmin Panesar (Goldsmiths for Palestine)
    • Akanksha Mehta (Goldsmiths for Palestine)

7.00 - 8.15pm: Reception (8th floor, Chen Kin Ku Building)

  • DJ set/performance (titled ‘Black Creative Praxis’) by Christiana (Roni) Ajai-Thomas (she/her)