Temporalities is both our theme and our structure. This is an international conference hosting panels across 24 hours of each conference day, bringing together presenters from across the globe.
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Temporalities
Conference Program
Day One - Friday, August 7
North America | Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
8:00 - 9:00 AM EDT
Coffee and Social Drop-in
9:00 - 9:30 AM EDT
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Hannah Maitland - Conference Committee Chair
9:30 - 9:45 AM EDT
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.
Break
9:45 - 11:15 AM 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: 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”
11:15 - 11:30 AM EDT
Break
11:30 - 1:00 PM EDT
Panel 2: Corporeal Chronologies
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
Lunch break
Open networking time
2:30 - 4:00 PM EDT
Panel 3: Fat Feminine Futurity
4:00 - 4:30 PM EDT
Open networking time
4:30 - 6:30 PM EDT
Break
Zine-Making Workshop
6:30 - 8:00PM EDT (Friday)
8:30 - 10:00AM AEST (Saturday)
Girlhood as a liminal experience: tracing memory and nostalgia through our things and spaces
with Selina Vicenzino and Nina Seeburg
Chair: Sascha T Samlal Tech support: Mackenzie Edwards
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). Read more about the workshop here.
Day Two - Saturday, August 8
Asia Pacific | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
Chair: Hannah McCann Tech support: Bree Komah
Sarah Hwang, “The Transit of VNS: A Speculative Genealogy of VNS Matrix' Name”
Helen Yeung, “Distance, Impermanence, Becoming: Practicing Slow Feminist Research through Visual Storytelling and Archival with Asian Migrant Mother-Daughters in Aotearoa”
Angela Glindemann, “Dirt, dust and debris: architecture-writing femme fictions”
10:15 - 10:30 AM AEST
Coffee and Opening Remarks
Hannah McCann
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM AEST
Panel 4: Feminist Practices and Pasts
Chair: Ramanpreet A. Bahra Tech support: Sascha T Samlal
Premalatha Karupiah, “Male Saree Drapists and Commodification of Femininity”
Yanis Iqbal, “Feminine Cunning and the Suspension of Heterosexual Temporality in Harishankar Parsai’s One Girl, Five Admirers”
Shivani Mamgain, “The Unmarried (out)Laws: Queer-Indian ‘Daughter’ of Marriageable Age as the Critical Feminine”
12:00 - 1:30 PM AEST
Lunch break
1:30 - 3:00 PM AEST
Panel 5: South Asian Spacetimes
North America | Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Chair: Carly-Ann Franceschi Tech support: Allegra Morgado
Anastasia Baka, “Feminine Asexualities and Temporalities of Desire”
Katie Mihalek, “The Masturbatory and the Femme: Subverting Embodied Linear Temporalities Through a Reparative Mode”
Marbella Anne Carlos, “Walang Hiya: Neo-Burlesque, Tinikling and Queer Pinay Shamelessness
10:00 - 11:30 AM EDT
Panel 6: (A)sexual (A)temporal Expressions
11:30 - 12:00 PM EDT
Open networking time
Chair: Ramanpreet A. Bahra Tech support: Mackenzie Edwards
Alanna Veitch and Jennifer Rinaldi, “The Cruelty of the Curative: A Disability-Based Critique of Recovery Narratives”
Alyssa Hanley - “Softness Is Not a Trend: Feminine Temporalities, Exhaustion, and Strategic Quiet”
A.J. Floyd, “Dissociated Madtime and Femme Embodiment”
12:00 - 1:30 PM EDT
Lunch break
1:30 - 3:00 PM EDT
Panel 7: Troubled Times and Divergent Bodyminds
Chair: Carly-Ann Franceschi Tech support: Lindsay Cavanaugh
Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa, “How to Make Propaganda Pie: Exposing the Backwards Femininity of Tradwives”
Thea Cacchionio and Katelin Albert, “Advice on the Temporality of the Year: Critically Assessing Contemporary Peri/Menopause Self-Help Books”
Allison Koopman, “Feminine Temporalities: Resisting Androcentric Closure Post-#MeToo Screen Culture”
3:00 - 3:15 PM EDT
Break
3:15 - 4:45 PM EDT
Panel 8: Pausing Heteropatriarchy
4:45 - 6:00 PM EDT
Break
Keynote
6:00 - 7:30PM EDT (Saturday)
8:00 - 9:30AM AEST (Sunday)
Remembering our Futures: Anishinaabe feminisms & temporal consent
with Dr Eva Jewell
Chair: Hannah Maitland Tech support: Johnathan Clancy
Read more about the keynote here.
Day Three - Sunday, August 9
Asia Pacific | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
Chair: Hannah McCann Tech support: Mackenzie Edwards
Alex Mackenzie, “Inner Doll: Consuming Trans Girlhood”
Jiayu Wu “Femininity, Intimacy, and Economic Practices: The Re-imagination of Temporality in Jarai-kei Subculture”
Sascha T Samlal, “Fangirl Futurities: Resisting Shame through the #Girlhood Turn Online
9:45 - 10:00 AM AEST
Coffee and Social Drop-in
10:00 - 11:30 AM AEST
Panel 9: Evolving Hyperfemininities
11:30 - 12:45 PM EDT
Lunch break
Open networking time
Chair: Mackenzie Edwards Tech support: Hannah Maitland
Yichi Liu, “To Build a New Relationship, to Enjoy Our Time Together: An Anthropological Analysis of a Chinese MMORPG”
Lynn Zheng, “Sajiao Gong: Queering Femininity in Chinese Danmei Online Fiction”
1:00 - 2:30 PM AEST
Panel 10: Reconfiguring Chinese Digital and Textual Relationalities
2:30 - 2:45 PM AEST
Break
2:45 - 4:15 PM AEST
Panel 11: Femininities Under Pressure
Chair: Sascha T Samlal Tech support: Hannah McCann
Alex Lan Heng, “Performing and “doing” femininities: a qualitative exploratory study of the gendered landscapes of fear in Singapore”
Eloise Faichney and Emma Whatman, ““FemmeMaxxing:” Temporal rupture, optimisation, and the pursuit of heteropatriarchal femininity”
North America | Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Panel 12: Textual Temporalities
10:00 - 11:30 AM EDT
Chair: Allegra Morgado Tech support: Ramanpreet A. Bahra
Maliha Iqbal, “Non-Linear Futures: Feminine Temporality and Interruption in Sultana’s Dream”
Sarah Parker, ““‘I identified more with Mary’: Femmes reading The Well of Loneliness across time”
Sarah Simon, “Femme Spirit and the Well of Memory”
11:30 - 11:45 AM EDT
Break
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EDT
Panel 13: Queering Histories and Archives
Chair: Lindsay Cavanaugh Tech support: Aino Pihlak
Andi Schwartz and Tina Mehri, “Mapping Femme Stories”
Arcelia Paz Padilla, “What the archive gave me: autobiographical time and the lesbian feminist memory of Patlatonalli”
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM EDT
Lunch break
Open networking time
with Ramanpreet A. Bahra, Carly-Ann Franceschi, Kristin Rodier and Cindy Baker
Chair: Allegra Morgado Tech support: Jennifer Jolie
4:30 - 5:00 PM EDT
Closing Remarks
3:00 - 4:30 PM EDT
Roundtable: Fat Femme Temporalities, Intimacies and Worldmaking