Here is the schedule – some paper titles are TBA (ETA Wednesday 18/11)

trans/forming feminisms: media, technology, identity

23^rd 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

24^th 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

25^th 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)