Conference Programme

Sisterhood in Action, Face-to-Face with Feminism

The eight edition of the Sisterhood in Action conference is an event by and for the CWS community. This year the conference will take place in the Treehouse Berrick House Saul Building. Please find more details below.

February 10th, 2023

11:00 - 11:15 Arrival and registration

11:15 - 11:25 Introduction

11:25 - 11:45 Icebreaker

11:45 - 12:30 Keynote Speaker by Kai Tsao, Equality and Diversity Coordinator at University of York

12:30 - 13:15 Panel I - Gender Roles (and Status)

Chaired by: Loren Sandoval Arteaga 

• Harriet Foreman: “You’re not married, so they kind of count you as irrelevant”: marriage and the military in 21st century Britain. 

• Yue Liu: Renegotiating the Empowerment of Only Daughters in Urban China

13:15 - 14:15 Lunch

14:15 - 15:15 Panel II - Lived Experiences as Feminist Knowledge

Chaired by: Caterina Lisi

• Lizzie Merrill: “Existing in a way that I feel I don’t exist”: Afterlife and ghostly embodiment in Anne Boyer’s The Undying 

• Francesca Lewis: Looking from within the Jar: lived experience research and writing the encounter 

• Daisy McManaman: Complicated Empowerment: Art making as a conduit for reclaiming and subverting sexualised femininities found in Playboy

15:15 - 15:45 Interactive Activity 

15:45 - 16:45 Panel III - Gender, Culture and Representation

Chaired by: Mariam Topchishvili

• Zishu Chen: Feminists, but fancy a “misogynist” culture: female dan mei fans’ identity negotiation 

• Zahra Hashemi: An Investigation into the Effects of #MeToo Movement on Gender and Sexuality Representation in English Children’s Books 

• Sanna Erkison: Motherhood as middle-class women’s citizenship in the Chinese TV drama ‘A Love for Dilemma’

16:45 - 18:00 Open Mic