Brittany Joyce, PhD Candidate, History, College of LSA
Jessica Kiebler, PhD Candidate, Psychology and Women’s & Gender Studies, College of LSA
Sunhong Kim, PhD Candidate, Musicology, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Raya Naamneh, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, College of LSA
Sydney Tunstall, PhD Candidate, English and Women’s & Gender Studies, College of LSA
Raquel Vieira Parrine Sant’Ana, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, College of LSA
Elizabeth Walz, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures, College of LSA
Kerry White, PhD Candidate, American Culture, College of LSA
This symposium features interdisciplinary feminist scholarship from the 2023 IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars fellows.
The IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars Fellowship is a highly competitive program for PhD candidates from across the Ann Arbor campus. In spring, the fellows participate in a weekly seminar designed to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and peer reviews of a dissertation chapter or article. Over the summer, the scholars continue their research and writing. They reconvene for the annual Community of Scholars Symposium to share the product of their summer’s work with each other and a broader audience.
Lunch will be provided for those who register by September 8. Register now.
SCHEDULE:
9:30-10:40 am: PANEL 1 – Escaping Contingency through Art
Chair: Aliyah Khan, Director, Global Islamic Studies Center; Associate Professor Department of English Language & Literature, Department of Afroamerican & African Studies
Sunhong Kim, “The visceral sound of piri: gender essentialism in Korean national music competitions”
Raquel Vieira Parrine Sant’Ana, “We Don’t Think Straight” – Desire and Politics in Leonilson’s Artworks
Sydney Tunstall, “To Risk To Live: Black Lesbian Writers and the Undead 1980s”
10:45-11:55 am: PANEL 2 – Collecting Narrations of World-Making
Chair: Andrea Bolivar, Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies
Raya Naamneh, “Beyond Property: Kheir and Relational Abundance in a Local Palestinian World”
Jessica Kiebler, “The role of neoliberal beliefs in perceptions of women’s experiences of gender-based mistreatment”
Kerry White, “Trans Sisterhood Across Empire: On Solidarity and Heartbreak or ¿Qué nos va a importar eso a nosotras?”
12-12:30 pm: LUNCH
12:30-1:25 pm: PANEL 3 – Gender (Un)Freedom under Empire
Chair: Anna Bonnell Freidin, Assistant Professor, History
Brittany Joyce, “Virgin Households: Slavery and Virginity in Early Christianity”
Elizabeth Walz, “Opening Passages: Galician and Puerto Rican feminist literary interventions in late Spanish Empire”
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This event is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Rackham Graduate School, with support from the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.
