FEMINIST TRANSGRESSIONS

National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference November 13-16, 2014, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Thursday 2:30pm-3:45pm PRCC, 103-B Lewis, Mel Michelle

PAD: The Transition from Women's Studies to Women's/Gender/Sexuality Studies in Liberal Arts Colleges

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Thursday 2:30pm-3:45pm PRCC, 209-A (LCD)

Shanahan, Ryan

Academic Transgressions I: Master's Tools in the Master's House? The Good, Bad and Ugly of Earning a WGS PhD

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Tillery, Sarah Presenter

Williams, Kimberly Moderator

Laureano, Bianca Moderator

This year marks the 15th year anniversary of the Ph.D. program in Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. What follows is a quick guide of presentations by current Ph.D. students, as well as several of our WMST Ph.D. alums—including folks from our very first cohort of students, to our most recent cohort. Collectively, UMD WMST will be part of 24 panels, and account for over 30 presentations!

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Thursday 2:30pm-3:45pm PRCC, 204 (LCD)

Soon-Ludes, Jeannette

Renegotiating the Margins: Feminist Researchers as Border-Crossers

Cultural Citizenship on the Borders of Empire: Local Multiculturalism, Native Sovereignty, and Liminal Hawai’i in the U.S. Imperial Periphery

White, Katie Bringing the Cooks to the Table: Sustaining a Dynamic Gullah Culture through Foodways

Perez, Cristina Translating Bodies at the Border: Untangling Border Violence in the Case of Sergio Hernandez Guereca

Thursday 4pm-5:15pm PRCC, 202-A (LCD) Brunner, Laura Prime Time: The Nation on Display Forbidden Affairs: Scandal, Homeland,

and Post-Identity National Television

Friday 7:45am-9am PRCC, 209-A (LCD) Williams, Kimberly Decolonizing Futurity: Women

Rewrite the Nation Moderator

Friday 7:45am-9am PRCC, 202-B (LCD) Blake, Donnesha

Constructing Black Feminist Futures: New Models of Sex, Leadership, and Fashion

“I Got A Bran’ New Suit, I Got A Bran’ New Tie…I’m a Bran New Girl”: Black Female Dandyism in the “Style-Fashion-Dress” of Gladys Bentley, Grace Jones, and Janelle Monáe

Friday 7:45am-9am PRCC, 103-A McClure, Stephanie

Alright Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Exploring Strategies to Decrease Gender-Based Violence on College Campuses

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Friday 7:45am-9am PRCC, 208-A (LCD)

Sprague, Justin

Making Korean Mothers: Creating, Contesting, and Appropriating Concepts Associated with Korean Womanhood

Mama Kim is Making Chop Suey From Kimchi: The Movement and Maternal Branding of Korean Food in America

Lee, Sina Making White Mommy with Korean Babies: An Intersectional Critique of the Circuit of Transnational Adoption

Kim, Sunhye

Dismantled Bodies and Integrated Motherhood: The Experiences of Infertility Treatment and the Meaning of Reproductive Rights in South Korea

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Friday 9:15am-10:30am PRCC, 202-C (LCD) Wong, Yuenmei Technologizing the Transnational

Towards a Digital Feminist Ummah?" The Musawah Movement and Transnational Islamic Feminist Modernity

Friday 10:45am-12pm PRCC, 202-B (LCD)

Enszer, Julie "me & you & you are words for us": Black Lesbian Identities in Love and (Creative) Labor

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Judd, Bettina Presenter

Lewis, Mel Michelle Moderator

Friday 4pm-5:145pm PRCC, 102-A

Shanahan, Ryan Mentoring Roundtable: Purposefully Pursing Jobs "Off the Track"

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Tillery, Sarah Presenter

Friday 4pm-5:145pm PRCC, 202-B (LCD) Rellihan, Heather

Transgressing Privilege: Embodying WGS as a Social Justice Movement at the Community College

Community College Students Need Women's Studies! Why There Needs to be More Institutional Support for These Programs

Saturday 7:45am-9am PRCC, 201-B (LCD) McClure, Stephanie

Creating a Just Classroom – Utilizing Curriculum Design to Combat Violence Against Women and Girls

Dating and Sexual Violence Prevention Education: An Evaluation of Oregon State University’s One Act Bystander Intervention Program

Saturday 7:45am-9am PRCC, 209-A

Grice, Eve

The New Black: Re-Examining the Line Between Women's Studies and LGBT Studies

Thinking Creatively/Thinking Cinematically: The New Black as a Site of Academic Critique

Prince, Michelé Disciplinary Transitions/Translations: A Queer of Color Critique

Soon-Ludes, Jeannette Queer Un/Belonging. The New Black As a Site of Academic Interrogation

Saturday 9:15am-10:30am PRCC, 208-B (LCD) Haq, Sara Transnational Trans*

Interventions

Sufi Transgressions and Transgendered Tropes: Using Islamic Mysticism as Alternative Transnational Feminist Epistemology

Saturday 9:15am-10:30am Sheraton, Miramar-1 Lewis, Mel Michelle Feminist Solidarity: An

Intergenerational Conversation Moderator

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Saturday 10:45am-12pm Sheraton, Miramar-3 Enszer, Julie

Feminist Print Culture: Creating Justice via the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Feminist Knowledge

"What Made Us Think They'd Pay Us for Making a Revolution?" Women in Distribution (WInD), 1974-1979

Saturday 10:45am-12pm PRCC, 202-C (LCD) Bhatia, Rajani Technologies of Belonging: Bio-

Citizenship in Neoliberal Times

Cross-Border Sex Selection: New Protocols and Technologies of Imperial Globalized and Gendered Bio-citizenship

Saturday 2:30pm-3:45pm PRCC-204 (LCD) Lewis, Mel Michelle

Trans/Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching Trans/Gender-Variance as Coalitional Feminist Praxis

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Saturday 4pm-5:145pm PRCC-101-A Rellihan, Heather

Mentoring Roundtable: Tenure-Track Positions in W/G/S Departments and Programs

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Saturday 5:30pm-6:45pm PRCC, 101-A

Grice, Eve Pedagogies of Transgression: Disciplining Feminist Activism in the Women’s Studies Classroom

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Prince, Michelé Presenter

Sunday 9:15am-10:30am PRCC, 102-B McClure, Stephanie

Can Travel Seminars Interrupt the Naturalization of Globalization? Examining a Graduate Seminar in India

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Sunday 9:15am-10:30am PRCC, 209-B (LCD) Saraswati, L. Ayu

Technologies of Race and the Futurity of Desire: Feminisms, Gendered Narratives, and Cyberspace

Virtuality of Pain: Asian Women's Sexuality, Online Desires, and "Thumbs and Thumbnails" Analysis

Sunday 12:15pm-1:30pm Sheraton, Miramar-2 Judd, Bettina

Risks and Red Lineages: Love, Labor and Black Women's Creative Collectives

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