Temporalities
Conference Program
Temporalities is both our theme and our structure, as this is an international conference hosting panels across 24 hours of each conference day, bringing together presenters from across the globe. Please take note of the different timezones when planning your conference day.
Day One - Friday, August 7
North America | Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
8:00 - 9:00 AM EDT
9:00 - 9:30 AM EDT
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Hannah Maitland - Conference Committee Chair
9:30 - 9:45 AM EDT
9:45 - 11:15 AM EDT
Break
11:15 - 11:30 AM EDT
Break
11:30 - 1:00 PM EDT
Panel 2: Corporeal Chronologies
Chair: Ramanpreet A. Bahra Tech support: Hannah Maitland
Max Shirley, “Rave Time”
Nina Rastgar, “Reclaiming Venus (2024-2025): Street Performance as Situated Intervention in Public Space”
Erin Poole, ““The Dancer is Host or The Dance is Hosting”: Figuring Femme Grief in Performance as Futuring Practice”
1:00 - 2:30 PM EDT
Lunch break
Open networking time
2:30 - 4:00 PM EDT
Coffee and Social Drop-in
Panel 3: Fat Feminine Futurity
Chair: Mackenzie Edwards Tech support: Jennifer Jolie
Holly Allen, “The Education of an Endomorph: Fatness, Femininity and the Future of Scholarship”
Sookie Bardwell, “Togetherness Time Machine: Claiming Our Present as a Radical Healing Practice/Praxis in Collective Eating Disorder Support Spaces”
Rosemarie De Cesare, “Beyond Waiting for Love: Challenging Fat Temporal Suspension and Transformation in Bridgerton Through Affirmative Artmaking"
1:00 - 2:30 PM EDT
Panel 1: Chinese Transfemininity Across Heterochronic Archives
Panel 1: 跨越异时档案的华人跨女性气质
Chair: Heng Simone Wang Tech support: Aino Pihlak
Heng Simone Wang, “Orientialising Transfemininity”
Dr Aixia Huang, “Becoming Trans and Already Trans: The Temporality of Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing Chinese Male Homoerotic Literature”
Yuncong Long, “Care Without Clinics: Community Knowledge and Self-Managed Hormone Therapy in China”
Zehao Pan, “Reading the Irrecoverable: Trans/TERF Necrointimacies and Archival Hauntings”
Discussants: Yvettte-Yuefan Wu and Thelma Wang
Please note: This panel will be presented in Mandarin, however there will be real time English translation provided via a live interpreter.
Lunch break
Open networking time
Selina Vicenzino
Workshop Presenter
Selina Vicenzino (she/they) is a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) student in Photography, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Her current project looks at inheritance - reflecting on the persistent inner dialogue between resistance and complicity that shapes her personal feminine identity within domestic environments. You can find her portfolio at www.peachylina.com.
Nina Seeburg
Workshop Presenter
Nina Seeburg (she/her) is a self taught multidisciplinary artist and curator working in Naarm/ Melbourne, Australia. Her work explores tenderness, intimacy and memory, primarily through textile and printmaking processes. Her curatorial practice aims to create emotional dialogue through the honouring of commonalities found in the femme lived experience. Currently she is working to establish a collaborative publication to exist as an ongoing physical manifestation of her curatorial work and further build community. Her work can be found on Instagram @nini.beani / @trustfall__
Zine-Making Workshop
Bring your materials!
This online workshop serves as an exploration into the potent nostalgia and recurrent themes found within femininity’s experiences and symbols. Led by artists Selina Vicenzino and Nina Seeburg, participants are invited to meditate on the defining aspects of their own journeys with and beyond femininity and draw on these themes collaboratively to create their own zine. We will reflect on femininity and girlhood as a pertinent reference point that is returned to throughout life, celebrating it as a foundation of selfhood, identity building and transformation.
Attendees are required to bring their own A3 sized paper, scissors or scalpel and drawing/scrapbooking equipment (e.g pencils, markers, personal photos, magazine cutouts, glue, stickers). Encouraged subject matter to use in photo, drawing and collage forms for this zine include imagery of personal domestic spaces and possessions (whether current or past), and symbols or references that embody your personal story with femininity or girlhood.