10:00am - 11:00am EST: Concurrent Symposia 

11:15am - 12:00pm EST: Feminist Pedagogy Roundtable 

12:00pm - 1:00pm: Mix and Match Luncheon 

1:00pm - 2:00pm EST: Keynote Address by Dr. Myisha Cherry

2:15pm - 3:00pm EST: Concurrent Symposia 

3:15pm - 4:00pm EST: Zoom Break - a perfect time to take a look at the poster presentations! 

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Readings and Performances

10:00am - 11:00am EST: Interactive Bodymapping Session

11:15am - 12:30pm EST: Concurrent Symposia 

12:30pm - 1:30pm EST: Lunch and Live Q and A with Poster Presenters

1:30pm - 2:45pm EST: Concurrent Symposia 

3:00pm - 4:00pm EST: Concurrent Roundtables

4:00pm - 5:00pm EST: Keynote Address by Dr. Amira Rose Davis

5:00pm - 6:00pm EST: Continuing Conversation Happy Hour

10am-11am EST: Concurrent Session A

COVID-19 and Transnational Feminisms (3):

(1) “Why does my mother think I am a boy and punish me like a boy?” Issues of maltreatment in the time of COVID

Presented by: Jue Wang (The Pennsylvania State University)

(2) Risk, Respect, & Unspeakable Acts

Presented by: Frida Storm (Karlstad University, SWE)

(3) Indigenous Women and Challenges of Covid-19 in South Asia

Presented by: Dr. Santosh Bharti (University of Delhi)

Textual Feminist Analysis (4):

(1) Hyper-empathy and incarceration—Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower as a tool for social change

Presented by: Jenna Wilson (San Diego State University)

(2) The Queer Gaze: Multiple Desires in "The Miseducation of Cameron Post"

Presented by: Kathryn Kurlychek (The Pennsylvania State University)

(3) The Ambiguity of Childcare

Presented by: Madeline Brenchley (Utah Valley University)

(4) dis/erupted emotion(s)? Anthropological approaches to the phenomenon of revenge 

Presented by: Manuel Bolz (University of Hamburg)

11:15am-12:00pm EST: Feminist Pedagogy Roundtable

Feminist Pedagogy: Walking on the Edge

Moderated by: Dr. Jill Wood (The Pennsylvania State University)

Panel: Chanel Lange-Maney, Sophie Kandler, Lauren Stetz, Melissa Leaym-Fernandez, Elham Hajesmaeili (The Pennsylvania State University)

12:00-1:00pm EST: Mix and Match Lunch

Participants, when registering, can sign up to be part of the luncheon. We will take all of the names and randomly generate small zoom groups (this will depend on how many want to participate) so that participants can meet one another during the lunch break. This is, of course, optional, and participants can choose to just lunch on their own and take a zoom break.

1:00-2:00pm EST: Keynote Address by Dr. Myisha Cherry

2:15-3:00pm: Concurrent Session B

Transnational Feminisms (2):

(1) Puerto Rico in Crisis: Leveraging Global Human Rights from the Grassroots

Presented by: Malia Lee Womack (The Ohio State University)

(2) Local Disrupting National - Women and Resistance at the Shaheen Bagh Protests, India

Presented by: Sruthi V S (University of Delhi)

Trans* Feminisms (2)

(1) Lin Loo: A TrAns Orientation

Presented by: Su Young Lee (The Pennsylvania State University)

(2) TERFism: Whiteness, White "Feminism," and the Moral Panic of Anti-Trans "Pro-Lesbian" Discourse

Presented by: Cora Butcher-Spellman (The Pennsylvania State University)

Media (2)

(1) "The Social Dilemma": Advocating for Anti-Democratic Solutions to the Anti-Democratic Internet

Presented by: Cora Butcher-Spellman (The Pennsylvania State University)

(2) Incels and Disruptive Identity

Presented by: Ellen O’Sullivan (University of College Cork)

Feminist Theory (2):

(1) Feminist Theory in a System That Suffocates It

Presented by: Deborah Grace (The Pennsylvania State University)

(2) “Interconnected Stories of Eco/Feminisms: Sociological Imaginations of Caring Ethics, Radical Aesthetics and Relational Subjectivities”

Presented by: Anastasia Christou (Middlesex University)

4:00-5:30pm EST: Readings and Performances

Readings, Art, and Performances (7):

Pink Protection

By Sarabeth Bowmaster (The Pennsylvania State University

Black Femme Magic

By Lindsay Young

We Are Already in the Time of Fires #Blackmatics

By Richard Daily (The Pennsylvania State University)

Shattering Patriarchy

By Anamika Singh

Body Archive

By Kelsey L. Smoot (College of William and Mary)

Heirlooms (A Reading of Short Fiction)

By JoAnn Michel (The Pennsylvania State University)

We brown, we power, we flower

By Maria F. Vivanco (The Pennsylvania State University)

10:00-11:00am EST: Interactive Bodymapping Session

Stress Reduction through Bodymapping

Presented by: Dr. Rosemary J. Jolly (The Pennsylvania State University), Dr. Hyunji Kwon (University of South Carolina)

Click here for materials! 

11:15-12:30pm EST: Concurrent Session C

Feminist Methods (3):

(1) Disrupting the Archive: Dust and Radical Pedagogy

Presented by: Kathleen Quaintance (University of Oxford)

(2) Making Things Up: Telling Imaginary Stories as a Research Method

Presented by: Hannah Ascough (Queen’s University)

(3) Walking, talking, and imagining a better society for sex workers.

Presented by: Doris Murphy (University College Cork)

Black Feminisms (3):

(1) The Shared legacy of the Black Womxn: Resistance Writing in Black Womxn’s 20th Century Literature

Presented by: J. Norma Watson (The Pennsylvania State University)

(2) Black feminisms as an ethical-political praxis: a non-contemplative epistemology for the subversion of science[s]

Presented by: Rosimeire Barboza da Silva (Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)

(3) Black Feminism/Africana Womanism

Presented by: Gabriella Simpson (University at Albany)

12:30-1:30pm EST: Lunch and Live Q and A with Poster Presenters

1:30-2:45pm EST: Concurrent Session D

COVID-19 (4):

(1) COVID-19 as Glitch: Disrupting the System through Creative Narrative

Presented by: Lauren Stetz (The Pennsylvania State University)

(2) Contextualizing 2S-LGBTQ Older Adults Experiences with Accessing Remote Service Provisions during the Global Pandemic

Presented by: Stephanie Jonsson (York University), LEZlie Lee Kam (York University)

(3) Impact of gendered educational outcomes due to COVID-19 on long term female labour force participation rates

Presented by: Sri Ranjani Mukundan (National University of Singapore)

(4) The Reach and the Permeability of the Body: Thinking Vulnerability, Suffering, and Histories of Injustice in COVID Times

Presented by: Kristen Kolenz (The Ohio State University)

Psychological Inquiry of Masculinity and Femininity (4):

(1) Country-level and Individual-level Predictors of Men's Support for Gender Equality in 42 Countries.

Presented by: Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka and Jurand Sobiecki (University of Gdansk)

(2) Climate Change Denial: The Roles of Racial and Gender Identification

Presented by: Trevor Lies (University of Kansas), Glenn Adams (University of Kansas)

(3) Femininity Concerns and Feelings About Menstruation Cessation among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Women: Implications for Menopause

Presented by: Mary Kruk (The Pennsylvania State University), Jes Matsick, and Brit Wardecker (The Pennsylvania State University)

(4) The (Not So) Silent Majority: Exploring White Men's Support for Aggressive Politics

Presented by: Adam Stanaland (Duke University), Sarah Gaither (Duke University)

3:00-4:00pm EST: Concurrent Session E (Roundtables)

Are We Penn State? Feminist Research and the R1 Institution

Presented by: Miriam Gonzales, Yi-Ting Chang, Mercer Gary, Elham Hajesmaeili, Hannah Whitley (The Pennsylvania State University)

Steppingstones: Bridging Francophone Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies through Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Presented by: Katherine Ellis, JoAnn Michel, Brooke Tybush (The Pennsylvania State University)

A Zine at the Table: Coming Together in a COVID-19 Year

Presented by: Zoe Meletis (University of Northern British Columbia), Asmita Bhutani (University of Toronto), Ileana I. Diaz (University of Waterloo), Nasya S. Razavi, Laurence Simard-Gagnon (York University)

4:00-5:00pm EST: Keynote Address: Dr. Amira Rose Davis

5:00-6:00pm EST: Continuing Conversation Happy Hour

Our conference will conclude with informal, participant-led happy hours. Throughout the conference, we will send around a link for participants to sign up to "host" a happy hour around a certain topic/presentation/other that they would like to keep talking about! Right before Dr. Amira Rose Davis's talk, we will send out the happy hour information to all registered participants and anyone can join a happy hour zoom that they are interested in! 

Sign up to host a continuing conversation happy hour!