Temporalities
Conference Program
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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.
Please take note of the different timezones when planning your conference day. You can cross-check with your timezone using this conversion tool.
Day One - Friday, August 7
North America | Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
8:30 - 9:00 AM EDT
10:30 - 11:00 PM AEST
Coffee and Social Drop-in
9:00 - 9:30 AM EDT
11:00 - 11:30 PM AEST
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Hannah Maitland - Conference Committee Chair
9:30 - 9:45 AM EDT
11:30 - 11:45 PM AEST
Break
9:45 - 11:15 AM EDT
11:45 PM (Friday) - 1:15 AM* AEST (*Saturday)
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: Yvette-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.
11:15 - 11:30 AM EDT
1:15 - 1:30 AM AEST* (*Saturday)
Break
12:00 - 1:00 PM EDT
2:00 - 3:00 AM AEST* (*Saturday)
Panel 2: Corporeal Chronologies
Chair: Ramanpreet A. Bahra Tech support: Hannah Maitland
Max Shirley, “Rave Time”
Nina Rastgar, “Reclaiming Venus: Street Performance as Situated Intervention in Public Space”
1:00 - 2:30 PM EDT
3:00 - 4:30 AM AEST* (*Saturday)
Break
2:30 - 4:00 PM EDT
4:30 - 5:45 AM AEST* (*Saturday)
Panel 3: Fat Feminine Futurity (Rescheduled to Day 2)
Chair: TBA 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"
4:00 - 4:30 PM EDT
5:45 - 6:15 AM AEST* (*Saturday)
4:30 - 6:30 PM EDT
6:15 - 8:30 AM AEST* (*Saturday)
Break
Day Two - Saturday, August 8
Asia Pacific | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
10:15 - 10:30 AM AEST
8:15 - 8:30 PM EDT* (*Friday)
Coffee and Opening Remarks
Hannah McCann
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM AEST
8:30 - 10:00 PM EDT* (*Friday)
Panel 4: Feminist Practices and Pasts
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”
12:00 - 1:30 PM AEST
10:00 - 11:30 PM EDT* (*Friday)
Lunch break
1:30 - 3:00 PM AEST
11:30 PM (Friday) - 1:00 AM* (*Saturday) EDT
Panel 5: South Asian Spacetimes
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”
North America | Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
10:00 - 11:30 AM EDT
12:00 - 1:30 AM AEST* (*Sunday)
Panel 6: (A)sexual (A)temporal Expressions
Chair: Carly-Ann Franceschi Tech support: Allegra Morgado
Anastasia Baka, “Feminine Asexualities and Temporalities of Desire”
Katie Mihalek, “The Feminine Masturbatory: Subverting Linear Temporalities of Pleasure Through a Reparative Mode”
Marbella Anne Carlos, “Walang Hiya: Neo-Burlesque, Tinikling and Queer Pinay Shamelessness
11:30 - 11:45 PM EDT
1:30 - 1:45 AM AEST* (*Sunday)
Break
11:45 - 1:15 PM EDT
1:45 - 3:15 AM AEST* (*Saturday)
Panel 3: Fat Feminine Futurity RESCHEDULED
Chair: TBA 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"
1:15 - 1:30 PM EDT
3:15 - 3:30 AM AEST* (*Sunday)
Break
1:30 - 3:00 PM EDT
3:30 - 5:00 AM AEST* (*Sunday)
Panel 7: Troubled Times and Divergent Bodyminds
Chair: Johnathan Clancy Tech support: Aino Pihlak
Alanna Veitch and Jennifer Rinaldi, “The Cruelty of the Curative: A Disability-Based Critique of Recovery Narratives”
Alyssa Kitt Hanley - “Softness Is Not a Trend: Feminine Temporalities, Crip Time, and the Afterlives of Cancer”
A.J. Floyd, “Dissociated Madtime and Femme Embodiment”
3:00 - 3:15 PM EDT
5:00 - 5:15 AM AEST* (*Sunday)
Break
3:15 - 4:45 PM EDT
5:15 - 6:45 AM AEST* (*Sunday)
Panel 8: Pausing Heteropatriarchy
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 in Post-#MeToo Screen Culture”
4:45 - 6:00 PM EDT
6:45 - 8:00 AM AEST* (*Sunday)
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)
9:45 - 10:00 AM AEST
7:45 - 8:00 PM EDT* (*Saturday)
Coffee and Social Drop-in
10:00 - 11:30 AM AEST
8:00 - 9:30 PM EDT* (*Saturday)
Chair: Hannah McCann Tech support: Ramanpreet A. Bahra
Alex Mackenzie, “Inner Doll: Consuming Trans Girlhood”
Jiayu Wu “Femininity, Intimacy, and Economic Practices: The Re-imagination of Temporality in Jirai-kei Subculture”
Sascha T Samlal, “Fangirl Futurities: Resisting Shame through the #Girlhood Turn Online”
Panel 9: Evolving Hyperfemininities
11:30 - 12:45 PM EDT
9:30 PM - 11:00 PM EDT* (*Saturday)
Lunch break
1:00 - 2:30 PM AEST
11:00PM (Saturday) - 12:30AM* (*Sunday) EDT
Panel 10: Reconfiguring Chinese Digital and Textual Relationalities
Chair: Sascha T Samlal 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”
2:30 - 2:45 PM AEST
12:30 - 12:45 AM EDT
Break
2:45 - 4:15 PM AEST
12:45 - 2:15 AM EDT
Panel 11: Femininities Under Pressure
Chair: Hannah McCann Tech support: Sascha Samlal
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”
Zine-Making Workshop
4:30 - 6:00PM AEST (Sunday)
2:30 - 4:00AM EDT (Sunday)
Girlhood as a liminal experience: tracing memory and nostalgia through our things and spaces
with Selina Vicenzino and Nina Seeburg
Chair: Sascha T Samlal
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.
North America | Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
10:00 - 11:30 AM EDT
12:00 - 1:30 AM AEST* (*Monday)
Panel 12: Textual Temporalities
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
1:30 - 1:45 AM AEST* (*Monday)
Break
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EDT
1:45 - 3:15 AM AEST* (*Monday)
Panel 13: Queering Histories and Archives
Chair: Lindsay Cavanaugh Tech support: Hannah Maitland
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 - 3:00 PM EDT
3:15 - 5:00 AM AEST* (*Monday)
Lunch break
Open networking time
3:00 - 4:30 PM EDT
5:00 - 6:30 AM AEST* (Monday)
Roundtable: Fat Femme Temporalities, Intimacies and Worldmaking
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
6:30 - 7:00 AM AEST* (*Monday)
Closing Remarks