Here is the schedule – some paper titles are TBA (ETA Wednesday 18/11)
trans/forming feminisms: media, technology, identity
23rd November / day one
keynote one: tracey mcintosh (the university of auckland) 8.45am – 10.15am
Transgress, translate, transcend, transform? Criminalised women and creative writing
morning tea: 10.15am – 10.30am
session 1: 10.30am – 12noon
Fans and Fandoms
chair: Catherine Fowler
Tag Hooper (contact@taghooper.com):
‘Female Dominated Narratives, Online Fan Culture, and the Gravitation Towards Jupiter Ascending’
Jessie Hunt (The University of Wollongong, jmah974@uowmail.edu.au):
‘“Us KatyCats”: Gender, Interaction and Sororarchy on the Katy Perry Forum’
Jean Sergent-Shadbolt (Victoria University, jeansergent@gmail.com)
‘I Will Go Down With This Ship: Gay Slashfiction as a Manifestation of Women’s Eroticism’
What are we talking about when we talk about rape cultures?
chair: Karly Burch
Melanie Beres (University of Otago, melanie.beres@otago.ac.nz)
‘The limits of consent for sexual violence prevention’
Carol Harrington (Victoria University Carol.Harrington@vuw.ac.nz)
‘Online accounts of rape and sexual violence’
Sophie Sills (University of Auckland, ssil028@aucklanduni.ac.nz), Chelsea Pickens (chelseaislost@hotmail.com), Karishma Beach and Lloyd Jones
‘Young People Resisting Rape Culture: Social Media as a Counterpublic Space’
Design for Change: Design and Activism Workshop
Convenor: Gala Hesson (University of Otago, gala.hesson@otago.ac.nz)
session 2: 12noon – 1.30pm
Activating New Medias
chair: Paul Kirkham
Rachel Loney-Howes (La Trobe University, reloney-howes@students.latrobe.edu.au)
‘Spreading the anti-rape message: from vigilante street politics to online activism’
Cat Pause (Massey University, C.Pause@massey.ac.nz)
‘Breaking the Internet: Fat asses and social justice in Web 2.0’
Paula Ray (The University of Auckland, pray017@aucklanduni.ac.nz)
‘Online Activism and Fourth Wave Feminism’
Tensions / Triggers: trigger warnings discussion
chair: Rosemary Overell
Catherine Dale (University of Otago, catherine.dale@otago.ac.nz)
Rebecca Stringer (University of Otago, rebecca.stringer@otago.ac.nz)
Rape Crisis Dunedin Skillshare: Sexual violence and social media – the aspirations and challenges of rape prevention education and supporting survivors in the face of social media
Convenors: members of the Rape Crisis Dunedin collective (rcrisis@xtra.co.nz)
lunch: 1.30pm – 2.30pm
session 3: 2.30pm – 4.00pm
Mediations: film & tv
chair: Annabel Cooper
Kevin Fletcher (University of Otago, kevinalanfletcher@gmail.com)
‘Of Alicorns and Unicorns’
Jessica Ford (University of New South Wales, j.a.ford@unsw.edu.au)
‘Conceptualising Contemporary American Television Feminisms and the case of Lena Dunham and Girls’
Jessica Kean (University of Sydney, jessica.kean@sydney.edu.au)
‘Femininity, Sex, Pedagogy: The Case of 50 Shades of Grey’
Feminist Voices
chair: Catherine Fowler
Rosie Howells (rosiehowells92@gmail.com)
‘“The Novelty Factor”: Finding Your Voice as a Woman in Comedy’
Catherine Dale (University of Otago, catherine.dale@otago.ac.nz)
‘?’
3 words comic collective workshop
Convenors: Rae Joyce (?); Sarah Laing (?) and Indira Neville (indiraneville@gmail.com)
http://threeword3.blogspot.co.nz/
session 4: 4.00pm – 5.30pm
Feminist Mediations: popular media / intermedia
chair: Kevin Fisher
Maud Ceuterick (University of Otago, maud.ceuterick@otago.ac.nz)
‘?’
Catherine Fowler (University of Otago, catherine.fowler@otago.ac.nz)
‘?’
Rosemary Overell (University of Otago, rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz)
‘?’
Intersectional research
chair: Davinia Thornley
Sylvia Frain (University of Otago, sylviacfrain@gmail.com)
‘Artistic and Nonviolent Resistance in Micronesia: Maga’håga (female leaders) verses the United States Military in the Mariåna Archipelago’
Nikki Aaron (University of Otago, patricianicoleaaron@gmail.com)
‘Rethinking feminism in the face of intersectionality’
Massimiliana Urbano (University of Otago, massimiliana.urbano@gmail.com)
‘Resisting methods: doing research with, for and on social movements’
Using focus group methods in research on gender and sexuality from feminist or Queer standpoints
Convenors: Gareth J. Treharne (The University of Otago, gtreharne@psy.otago.ac.nz) and Virginia Braun (The University of Auckland, v.braun@auckland.ac.nz)
Opening reception @ blue oyster art project space (16 Dowling Street) featuring a dance by Hahna Briggs and a celebration of Sonja Vivienne’s book Digital Identity and Everyday Activism (Palgrave 2015)
trans/forming feminisms: media, technology, identity
24th November / day two
keynote two: Audrey Yue (The University of Melbourne) 9am – 10am
“Of all the continents in the world, Asia is the gayest!”: Some Notes on Queer Asia as Method
morning tea: 10.00am – 10.30am
session 5: 10.30am – 12noon
Transforming Activism
chair: Alex Thong
Jessamy Gleeson (Swinburne University, jessgleeson@swin.edu.au)
‘SlutWalk Melbourne: Negotiating feminisms, organising feminists’
Susan Hopkins (The University of Southern Queensland); Jenny Ostini (Jenny.Ostini@usq.edu.au, The University of Southern Queensland); Stephen Seymour and Helen Farley (The University of Southern Queensland)
‘Beyond Violence, Victimisation and the Penal State: Empowerment Pathways for Female Incarcerated Students’
Stevie Jepson (The University of Otago, stevie.s.jepson@gmail.com)
‘Reconsidering utopia: The Dialectic of Sex (and contemporary feminist activism’
Mediations: literature
chair: Catherine Dale
Olivia Hall (The University of Otago, olivia.c.e.hall@gmail.com)
‘The spoken word scene and feminism’
Siobhan Hodge (siobhan.c.hodge@gmail.com)
‘Sappho in Cyberspace: Poetics and Power Struggles’
Christine Runnel (chrisrun@internode.on.net)
‘Gendering Will and Configuring the Child in Research-through-writing: the significance of Ponyo and Iphigenia’
Feminist, trans*-friendly, self-defence workshop part 1
Convenor: Bell Murphy (selfdefencegrrrl@gmail.com)
session 6: 12noon – 1.30pm
Religious Transformations
chair: Holly Randell Moon
Rohana Arrifin (rohanaariffin@yahoo.com)
‘Living the Experience in the Public Domain: New Media and Public Perception of Women in Malaysia’
James P. Mirrione (Qatar University, jmirrione@qu.edu.qa)
‘Women as Men and Men as Made by Women: Transgressive and Transforming Images of Beauty of 19th Century Qajar Women in Iran.’
Tha Era Yousef (The University of Otago)
‘Patriarchy, Women and Islam: Narrative Framing of Sisters in Islam’
Mediations: art
chair: Chloe Geoghegan
Lucinda Bennett (lucindajbennett@gmail.com)
‘I see you baby/ do you see me: The Problem of Being Female in Post Internet Art’
Leigh Paterson (Otago Polytechnic, giveleighajob@gmail.com)
‘Designer Pussy: The role of design as an arbiter of gender representation within consumer culture’
Fresh & Fruity collective: manifesto reading / screening of Give me ur attention
Feminist, trans*-friendly, self-defense workshop part 2
Convenor: Bell Murphy (selfdefencegrrrl@gmail.com)
lunch: 1.30pm – 2.30pm
session 7: 2.30pm – 4pm
Mediations: music discussion
chair: Sally Ann McIntyre
Millie Lovelock (Astro Children, millielvlck434@gmail.com)
Evelyn Morris (pikelet, Listen! Project, evskins@gmail.com)
Bianca Prujean (embedded figures / strange harvest, bink.prujean@gmail.com)
Transgenders / Transworlds
chair: Holly Randell-Moon
Sylvia Baynes (symyby@clear.net.nz)
‘Transcape: A Mirror on the Main World?’
Joanna McIntyre (The University of the Sunshine Coast, JMcInty2@usc.edu.au)
‘TERFs, Transfeminism, and Transgender Celebrities Online’
Sonja Vivienne (Flinders University of South Australia, sonja.vivienne@flinders.edu.au)
‘Sharing Stories Beyond Gender: Trans uses of Social Media for affirmation and advocacy’
Tertiary Education Union Workshop
Convenors: Sandra Grey (Victoria University / Tertiary Education Union, Sandra.Grey@teu.ac.nz); Tree LaRooy (The University of Otago, tree.larooy@otago.ac.nz); Kris Smith (Tertiary Education Union, Kris.Smith@teu.ac.nz)
keynote three: Constance Penley (University of California, Santa Barbara) 4pm-5pm
Sex Work in Industry and Academe: Feminist Porn
Conference dinner @ R6N4, Richardson Building from 7pm with comedy bit by Shirin Brown
trans/forming feminisms: media, technology, identity
25th November / day three
session 8: 9am – 10.30am
Trans/forming Sex: porn and sex-work
chair: Paul Ramaeker
Rahna Carusi (Massey University, R.Carusi@massey.ac.nz)
‘Polers vs. Strippers: Sites of Feminist Antagonism’
Kevin Fisher (The University of Otago, kevin.fisher@otago.ac.nz)
‘?’
Zahra Stardust (The University of New South Wales, z.stardust@unsw.edu.au)
‘Feminist Porn, Corporate Censorship and Community Standards’
Mediating Pedagogy: feminist education
chair: Rebecca Stringer
Sue Jackson (Victoria University, Sue.Jackson@vuw.ac.nz)
‘Reclaiming the ‘F Word’: Feminist Clubs in New Zealand High Schools’
Hilary Lapsley (Women’s Studies Association, NZ, hlapsley@xtra.co.nz)
‘Women’s Studies: Here to Stay’
Bell Murphy (The University of Otago, hellzbellz1@gmail.com)
‘Walking the knife’s edge: Self-defence, victim blame and empowerment in neoliberal times.’
University of Canterbury Feminist (UoC FemSoc) Society Skillshare
chair: Jessica Langbridge
featuring: Sionainn Byrnes, Kirsty Dunn, Kara Kennedy and Milena Petrovic (University of Canterbury)
morning tea: 10.30am – 11am
keynote four: Sandra Grey (Victoria University) 11am – 12noon
Dispatching patriarchy one tweet, blog, and Facebook entry at a time?
lunch: 12noon – 1pm
session 9: 1pm – 2.30pm
Spotlight Session: Queer and Trans* Politics
chair: Massimiliana Urbano
Jennifer Shields (The University of Auckland, jenniferkatherineshields@gmail.com) “Beautiful and lofty things”: Queer Appeals to Power in Psychopathia Sexualis and the Modern Gay Movement.
Emmy Rakete
‘?’
Politics of episodic Intimacy: remaking gender in contemporary US television
chair: Paul Ramaeker
Sarah Catherine Richardson (The University of Melbourne, sarahcrichardson@outlook.com)
‘Queer Temporality and Intimate Counterhistories in Transparent’
Grace Torcasio (The University of Melbourne, g.torcasio@student.unimelb.edu.au)
‘Broad City: Queering Straight Femininity and the Temporal Logics of the “Quality” Comedy’
Timothy Laurie (The University of Melbourne, timothy.laurie@unimelb.edu.au)
‘Serialising Gender, Immobilising Race: On the Affordances of Character in HBO’s Game of Thrones’
Becoming woman, transforming politics
Chair: Annabel Cooper
In conversation with Jinty MacTavish, Tracey Martin and Shirin Brown
Fresh & Fruity collective workshop
Convenors: members of the Fresh & Fruity collective (freshnfruitygallery@gmail.com)
Session 10 / 2.30pm – 4pm
New Mediated Politics
chair: Annabel Cooper
Susan Hopkins (The University of Southern Queensland); Jenny Ostini (Jenny.Ostini@usq.edu.au, The University of Southern Queensland)
‘Digitised Domestic Violence: Technology violence is a feminist issue’
Kara Kennedy (University of Canterbury, kara.kennedy@pg.canterbury.ac.nz)
‘Closing the Gap: Intersectional Feminism and Wikipedia’
Gurleen Khandpur (University of Otago, gurleenkhandpur87@gmail.com)
‘Back to the Future: A story of women’s rights in India traced through time and cyber-space’
Contemporary Feminist Politics
chair: Alex Thong
Emma Tennent (Victoria University, emma.tennent@vuw.ac.nz)
‘The Fashionable New Face of Feminism? Media representations of Celebrity Feminism’
Holly Randell-Moon (University of Otago, holly.randell-moon@otago.ac.nz)
‘Postracial feminism and the reaffirmation of whiteness’
Contemporary Feminist Subjectivities
chair: Anne Begg
Octavia Calder-Dawe (University of Auckland, octavia.calder-dawe@auckland.ac.nz)
‘Real Feminist? Young people and the “authentic” feminist self’
Marita Leask (Victoria University, Marita.Leask@vuw.ac.nz)
‘Risky wombs: discourses of neo-liberal responsibility in a foetal alcohol syndrome marketing campaign’
Phoebe Poulter (The University of Otago, phoebe@poulter.net.nz) and Gareth J. Treharne (The University of Otago, gtreharne@psy.otago.ac.nz)
‘How do young women with positive body image engage with the media? A focus group study with media-elicitation’
closing discussion 4pm – 5.30pm
pikelet / embedded figures / astro children gig @ the crown hotel (179 Rattray Street)