Saturday May 28, 2016/Samedi le 28 mai 2016
Annual Coordinators’ Meeting/Réunion annuelle des coordonnatrices
Room/Salle: Women’s Resource Centre
Agenda/Ordre du jour
8:30 – 9:00 am       Coffee/Refreshments
9:00 – 10:15 am     Welcome and Brief Introductions (Annalee Lepp)
10:15 – 10:30 am   Break/Pause
10:30 am – Noon   Administrative Labour in WGS Programs/Departments: Thinking Through What We Do
12:00 – 1:00 pm    Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 pm    Visibility and Communications Strategies: WGS Programs/Departments and the WGSRF
2:30 – 2:45 pm    Break/Pause
2:45 – 4:00 pm    Program Specialization: How Do/Could WGS Programs/Departments Differentiate Themselves?
4:00 – 4:45 pm    WGSRF Strategic Planning Process: Proposal and Process
4:45 – 5:00 pm    Wrap‐up
6:00 pm  ‐ ~           Coordinators Dinner – Mauyra – RSVP
2

9:00 - 5:00
Sunday, May 29 th , 2016/Dimanche le 29 mai 2016
Shared Gathering Room/Espace de discussion informale avec/with Sexualities Studies Association,
Women’s Resource Centre, Book Displays/Réserver Affiche
9:00 – 10:15
Concurrent Sessions
Building Transnational Feminist
Alliances: Interdisciplinary
Research and Knowledge
Production in the Face of
Neoliberalism
Session Chair: Marie Lovrod , University of Saskatchewan ( marie.lovrod@usask.ca
)
Migration, Mobility, Stasis: Gendered
Generational Dynamics in China and
Canada’s “Growth” Economies
Jebunnessa Chapola, University of
Saskatchewan ( jebunnessa@usask.ca
)
Empowerment from Within: Immigrant
Women’s Experiences of Community
Building in Saskatoon
Manuela Valle-Castro, University of
Saskatchewan ( vallecastro.manuela@usask.ca
)
Feminisms and Queer Theory in Latin
America: Translations, accommodations, and resistances in performance activism
Location: Craigie Hall E102
( Post)Feminist Media: Festivals,
Blockbusters, and Objectification
Ashley McKay , Western University
( amckay15@hotmail.com
)
Empowerment without feminism?: Sexual
Objectification Postfeminist Style
Kathleen Cummins, York
University/Sheridan College
( kathleen.cummins@sheridancollege.ca)
“ Who Killed the World ?!” George Miller’s male “ feminist trick” that is Mad Max: Fury
Road”
Amber Christensen , York University
( amberdchristensen@outlook.com
)
Herland Feminist Film and Video Festival:
Film festival programming as an expression of willfulness
Location: Craigie Hall – E110
Maternal “Failures”: Unfit Mothers and
Objectionable Bodies
Rebecca Jaremko Bromwhich, Carleton
University
( Rebecca.Bromwich@carleton.ca
)
Still Wearing Scarlett? '"Unfit Mother"
Figures in the Operation of Ontario's Legal
Regime for Child Welfare
Kévin Lavoie, Université de Montréal
( kevin.lavoie@me.com
)
Isabel Côté, Université du Québec
Outaouais
( isabel.cote@uqo.ca
)
Motherhood and assisted reproduction techniques: towards an integrative perspective of maternal representations
Natasha Pinterics , University of Alberta
(pinteric@ualberta.ca)
The Contagion of Insatiability: Food, Sex,
Queerness and Maternal "Failures" of
Excess
Location: Craigie Hall – E114
10:15- 10:30
10:30 – 12:00
Plenary
12:00 – 1:00
Break
Sherilyn McGregor, University of Manchester, UK
Resistance is fertile: feminist green citizenship and the post-politics of climate change
Location: Murray Fraser - 162
Lunch Break
3

1:00 – 2:15
Concurrent Sessions
Indigenous Knowledge
Practices: Critiquing
Whiteness and
Questioning Solidarity
Scott Morgensen, Queen’s
University
( scott.morgensen@queensu.
ca )
Race and Relationality:
Confronting Indigenous
Critiques of Whiteness within
Feminist Methodologies
Ranjan Datta, University of
Saskatchewan
( ranjan.datta@usask.ca)
Rethinking Science and
Environmental Education from Indigenous Knowledge
Perspectives: An experience with a Dene First Nation community
Carol-Lynne D'Arcangelis,
Memorial University
( carollyneda@mun.ca
)
"Feminist" Discourse and/in solidarity work between
Indigenous women and non-
Indigenous women in a contemporary Canadian context
Location: Craigie Hall E102
Environmental and Social
Responsibility: Water,
Dubious Preservation l, and Feminist Design
Kimberly A. Williams, Mount
Royal University
(kawilliams@mtroyal.ca)
Be Part of the Energy?
Postcolonial Politics and the
Public Pedagogy of the Calgary
Stampede
Amber Fletcher, University of
Regina
(amber.fletcher@uregina.ca) and Roselie Schonewille
Gender and Water: The State of
International Data Collection
Isabel Prochner, University of
Montreal
( isabel.prochner@umontreal.ca)
How feminism can inform environmentally and socially responsible industrial design
Location: Craigie Hall - E106
2:15 – 2:30 Break
Naming Feminism:
Sisterhood and Identity in the Women’s Movement
Ela Przybylo, York University
( przybylo@yorku.ca
)
Sisterhood Feels Asexual: The
Waxing and Waning of Political
Celibacy in the Women's
Movement
Rhea Hoskin, Queen’s
University
( rhea.hoskin@queensu.ca
),
Kathryn E. Jenson, Kaitlyn D.
Christensen and Karen L. Blair
Feminism: A Politic by Any
Other Name
Lauren Pin , York University
(lpin@yorku.ca) and Nicole
Bernhardt, York University,
( nsb@yorku.ca
)
What's in a name? Disciplinary
Engagement with 'Identity
Politics' in Canadian Social
Sciences
Location: Craigie Hall- E110
Strange Intimacies
Sonja Boon, Memorial University
( sboon@mun.ca
)
Theorizing the River: borders,
Boundaries, Brownness, and the
Edges of the Self
Kate Lahey, Memorial University
( ksl544@mun.ca
)
In-Between-Ness: Intimacy,
Encounters and Affects
Tanya Nielson , Memorial
University ( tjn710@mun.ca
)
Art Without Borders:
Transnationalism in Tania
Bruguera’s Performance Art
Location: Craigie Hall – E114
4

2:30 – 3:45
Concurrent Sessions
Engagements and
Activism: Communities and Coalitions
Sarah Harrison, McMaster
University
( harris14@mcmaster.ca
)
Re-Imagining WGSRF
Community as Coalitions through Intersectionality
Dorothy Woodman,
University of Alberta
( dwoodman@ualberta.ca
)
Community Engagement:
From Academic Sovereignty to a Collaborative Model
Taqdir Bhandal, Cicelybelle Blain , and Kristi Carey
University of British
Columbia
( bhandalt@alumni.uba.ca
)
Black, Indigenous, and
People of Colour student activism at the University of
British Columbia: Herstories, critical feminism(s) and resistance
Location: Craigie Hall E102
Diaspora, Displacement, and Decolonization:
Exploring accountability, solidarity, and action within and between communities of racialized and Indigenous peoples
Sabina Chatterjee , York
University
( Sabina.chatterjee@gmail.com
)
Location: Craigie Hall - E106
Entanglements: Trans and
Reproductive Justice
Isabel Côté, Université du
Québec Outaouais
( isabel.cote@uqo.ca
)
Kévin Lavoie, Université de
Montréal
( kevin.lavoie@me.com
)
L'assistance à la procréation en contexte relationnel comme facteur d'agentivité reproductive de mères lesbiennes
Alexandre Baril , University of
Ottawa ( abaril@uottawa.ca
)
Energizing Connections
Between Feminists and Trans
Communities: Rethinking consent for media representation
Alana Cattapan, Dalhousie
University
( Alana.Cattapan@dal.ca
)
The Limits of Necessity: Funding
In Vitro Fertilization and Gender
Reassignment Surgery in Ontario
Paid and Unpaid Labor:
Gender and Class Dynamics
Chair: Habiba Zaman, Simon
Fraser University
( hzaman@sfu.ca
)
Masashi Yoshida, Simon Fraser
University ( masahiy@sfu.ca
)
Labour on the Move: Gender and
Class across National and Cultural
Borders
Kate Ellison, Simon Fraser
University ( kate2@sfu.ca
)
Millennial Matters
Nathan Flaig, Simon Fraser
University ( nflaig@sfu.ca
)
“I was Fortunate Enough to be the
Parent I wanted to Be”: The
Discursive Construction of Care and Employment in A Canadian
Context
Location: Craigie Hall- E110
Location: Craigie Hall – E114
5

3:45 – 4:00
4:00 – 5:15
Concurrent Sessions
Break
Transnational Feminism:
Violence and Trauma
Mayme Lefurgey , Western University
( Malefugey@gmail.com
) Decolonizing the transnational: Exploring the intersecting complexities of global advocacy to end violence against women
Miglena Todorova, University of
Toronto
( miglena.todorova@utoronto.ca
)
Those Other Women: Post-socialist
Challenges to Transnational Feminist
Theory and Practice
Dawn Shickluna, OISE/University of
Toronto dawn.shickluna@mail.utoronto.ca
Embodied memories in an abstract world: Women's narratives of state violence and transnational relations of power.
Location: Craigie Hall E102
Strategic Planning Workshop: Creating a Process for WGSRF
Location: Craigie Hall - E106
In the Classroom: Gender, Sexuality, and
Ethical Erotics
Tonya D. Callaghan , University of Calgary
( tdacalla@ucalgary.ca
)
Tanya Surette, University of Calgary
( tanya.surette@ucalgary.ca
)
Zachary Wierzbicki, University of Calgary
( zwjwierz@ucalgary.ca
)
The Catholic Closet: A Comparative Study of
Homophobia in Catholic Schools in Canada,
Australia, and New Zealand
Claire Carter, University of Regina
(Claire.Carter@uregina.ca)
Beyond Personal Identification: Roadblocks to
Teaching Gender and Sexual Diversity
Curriculum
Location: Craigie Hall- E114
5:30 – 7:30
Reception
Joint Reception – Sexualities Studies Association & Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes
Location: MAC Hall A
6

9:00 - 5:00
9:00 – 10:15
Concurrent Sessions
10:15- 10:30
10:30 – 12:00
Plenary
12:00 – 1:00
Monday, May 30 th , 2016/Lundi 30 mai 2016
Shared Gathering Room/Espace de discussion informale avec/with Sexualities Studies Association,
Women’s Resource Centre, Book Displays/Réserver Affiche
Negotiating Community at the Intersection of Race,
Class, Gender and
Geographic Location
Chair: Caroline Hodes,
University of Lethbridge
( caroline.hodes@uleth.ca
)
Destabilizing Community,
Deconstructing Belonging
Abhar Husain, York University
( abharh@yorku.ca
)
Recruitment Brokers in
Bangledeshi Women’s Migration to the Middle East
Ann C. Henley, York University
( achenley@yorku.ca
)
The Rise of Precarious Work
Among Previously Preferred
Professions: The Crisis Facing
Internationally Trained Women
Engineers in Canada
Location: Craigie Hall E102
Family Stories:
Inheritances,
Transitions, Leftovers
Chair: S. Trimble, University of Toronto
( s.trimble@utoronto.ca
)
Safe as Houses? On witchy women and ruined estates
Dina Georgis, University of
Toronto,
( dina.georis@utoronto.ca
)
Aesthetic Responses to
Family Transitions
Aarzoo Singh, University of
Toronto
( aarzoo.singh@mail.utoronto
.ca
)
Mobile Identities: Linking
Colonial and Familial
Histories of Displacement with Portable Affective
Objects and Memories
Location: Craigie Hall E106
Sexual Assault on Campus
Rebecca Godderis and Jennifer
Root, Wilfred Laurier University
( rgodderis@wlu.ca
)
Responding to disclosures of gender-based violence on campus: Instructor strategies and a call for collective action
Charly Wreggit, McMaster
University
( wreggitc@mcmaster.ca
)
Creation and Critique of
University Sexual Assault
Policies
Jasmine Saler, University of
Lethbridge ( salerj@uleth.ca
)
A case for multiplicity: An analysis of selected anti-sexual violence posters
Location: Craigie Hall E110
Researching Affect,
Affectively Researching:
Addressing
Methodological and
Ethnical Quagmires in
Feminist Research
Chair: Susanne Luhmann,
University of Alberta
Roxanne Loree Runyon,
Queen’s University
( r.runyon@queenu.ca
)
‘I feel you’: Interview
Methodologies, Affective
Labour, and Feminist Ethics
Breanna Ward, Concordia
University
( bresward@gmail.com
)
Pipe Dreaming: Ethnography and Affect in Alberta’s
Resource Extraction
Community
Bailey Gerrits, Queen’s
University
( gerrits@queensu.ca
)
Affective Meaning-Making and
Gender-Based Violence
Images/Imaginaries
Location: Craigie Hall E114
Break
Annual General Meeting
Location: Murray Fraser - 162
Lunch Break
7

1:00 - 2:15
Plenary
2:15 – 2:30
2:30 - 3:45
Concurrent Sessions
Rethinking Women’s and
Gender Studies publics, or, just who is our audience and how does this matter?
Ann Braithwaite, University of
Prince Edward Island
( abraithwaite@upei.ca
)
Catherine Orr, Beloit College
( orrc@beloit.edu
)
Annalee Lepp, University of
Victoria ( alepp@uvic.ca
)
Location: Craigie Hall E102
3:45 – 4:00
Dian Million
Therapeutic Nations: Trauma as Political Narrative
Collaboration with Critical Disabilities Studies
Location: Mac Hall Ballroom
Break
Feminist Memoir and
Memory: Decolonizing
Life Writing and the
Politics of
Remembering
Habiba Zaman, Simon
Fraser University
( hzaman@sfu.ca
)
Living across Cultures:
Memoir of a Bengali
Immigrant Woman in
Canada
Vicki Hallett, Memorial
University
( vshallett@mun.ca
)
Reading for Decolonization:
Life Writing in Labrador's
Them Days Magazine
Samantha Balzer,
University of Alberta
( balzer@ualberta.ca
)
Remembering from Within:
Visiting the Canadian
Museum for Human Rights and the Bernberg
Euthanasia Centre
Location: Craigie Hall E106
Responsibility to Protect?:
Two Cases: Residential
Schools and the Canadian
Military
Wyatt Boudreau, University of
Lethbridge
( wyatt.boudreau@uleth.ca
)
A Case for Intersectional
Contract Theory: Looking at the “Indian Residential School
System”
Laura Robinson, Royal Military
College of Canada
( Laura.Robinson@rmc.ca
)
"Are we there yet?": Family,
Military, and the Future of
Canada in Ann-Marie
MacDonald's "trilogy," Fall on
Your Knees, The Way the Crow
Flies, and Adult Onset
Location: Craigie Hall - E110
Academic Affects 1: Labor,
Pedagogy, and the
Neoliberal University
Roxanne Loree Runyon,
Queen’s University
( r.runyon@queensu.ca
)
Homo Economicus and the
Affective Life of Graduate
Student Labour
Megan Farnel, University of
Alberta ( mfarnel@ualberta.ca
)
Anxious Academics are
Anxious: Or, How I Didn’t
Learn to Stop Worrying by
Worrying Online
Danielle Normandeau,
Independent/Non-Academic
Staff
( dnormandeau@ualberta.ca
) and Janet Phillips, University of Alberta ( jmp3@ualberta.ca
)
Abnormally Affective: Mental
Illness, Frustration, and
Neoliberal University Demands
Suzanne Lenon, University of
Lethbridge
( Suzanne.lenon@uleth.ca
)
But what about Feelings?:
Demanding Affect in the
Classroom
Nathan Rambukkana, Wilfred
Laurier ( nrambukkana@wlu.ca
)
Pedagogies of Anger and Hate
Location: Craigie Hall – E114
Break
8

4:00 – 5:15
Concurrent Sessions
Bilingual Planning WGSRF
(Executive)
Location: Craigie Hall E102
5:30-6:30
Plenary
Cancer, Captivity, and Bad Behavior:
Storytelling and Genre in Women’s
Writing
Allyson Jule, Trinity Western University
( Allyson.Jule@twu.ca
)
Heather Roth, Lakehead University
( jroth@lakeheadu.ca
)
Heather Hillsburg, Lakehead University
( heather.hillsburg@gmail.com
)
Location: Craigie Hall - E106
Awards Reception – Science Theatre 141
Academic Affects 2: Feelings and the Institution
Melissa Autumn White, Hobart and William
Smith Colleges ( mawhite@hws.edu
)
On the Make: Wrenched Attachments and
Mobile Affects
Randi Nixon, University of Alberta
( randellenixon@gmail.com
)
“Tripping out” in the Academy
Katie MacDonald, University of Alberta
( kt.macdonald@ualberta.ca
) and Leila
Angod, University of Toronto,
( Leila.angod@mail.utoronto.ca
)
The conference circuit Affective flows and pedagogical moments at academic conferences
Amber Dean, McMaster University
( deanmb@mcmaster.ca
)
Outrage vs. Hurt Feelings; Or, When Being a
Feminist Killjoy is Hurtful to Other Feminist
Colleagues
Corinne Mason, Brandon University
( MasonC@brandonu.ca
)
On Happiness and Diversity Work
Location: Craigie Hall – E114
9

9:00 - 2:30
9:00 – 10:15
Concurrent Sessions
10:15 – 10:30
Tuesday May 31 st , 2016/Mardi le 31 mai 2016
Shared Gathering Room/Espace de discussion informale avec/with Sexualities Studies Association,
Women’s Resource Centre, Book Displays/Réserver Affiche
Precarious Value and the Academic Industrial
Complex: Reflections on the PhD in Gender,
Women’s, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Chair/Moderator: Rebecca
Sullivan, University of
Calgary,
( rsulliva@ucalgary.ca
)
Moderator: Catherine Orr,
Beloit College
( orrc@beloit.edu
.)
Melissa Autumn White,
Hobart & William Smith
Colleges
( mawhite@hws.edu
)
Kimberly Williams , Mount
Royal University
( kwilliams@mtroyal.ca
)
J. Basiliere, Indiana
University
( jbasilie@umail.iu.edu
)
Caroline Hodes, University of Lethbridge,
( caroline.hodes@gmail.com
)
Jennifer Musial, Keene
State College
( jmusial@gmail.com
)
Susanne Luhmann,
University of Alberta
( luhmann@ualberta.ca
)
Location: Craigie Hall E102
Decolonizing Social and
Feminist Movements in
Canada: What Place for the
Knowledge of Women of
Colour in White-Dominated
Movements
Myriam Zaidi, Concordia
University
( myriamzaidi@gmail.com)
Leila Bdeir , Vanier College
Sonia Djelidi, Feminist Activist
Leila Benhadjoudja, Université du Québec à Montréal
Karine-Myrgianie Jean-
François, Queer, Black and
Feminist Activist
Location: Craigie Hall E106
Responding to Violence
Against Women
Roxanne Runyon , Queen’s
University ( 13rr54@queensu.ca
)
"Keeping it all Together" Crisis
Ordinariness, Affective Labour, and the Negotiation of
Neoliberal Subjectivity Among
Women Responding to Violence
Betty Jo Barrett & Amy Peirone
(co-presenters), University of
Windsor,
( bbarrett@uwindosr.ca
)
Policing violence against women in Canada: An evaluation of survivors' experiences over ten years in the mandatory arrest era
Amber Dean , McMaster
University & Kara Granzow ,
University of Lethbridge (coauthors)
( deanamb@mcmaster.ca
)
Ghosts and their Analysts:
Writing and Reading Towards
Something Like Justice for
Murdered or Missing Indigenous
Women
Location: Craigie Hall - E110
An Exploration of
Participatory Arts-Based
Research Conducted in
Queer Community
Carla Rice, University of
Guelph ( carlar@uoguelph.ca
)
Andrea LaMarre, University of
Guelph ( alamarre@uogueph.ca
)
Karleen Pendleton-Jimenez ,
Trent University
( kpendletonjimenez@trentu.ca
)
Elizabeth Harrison, York
University ( eaharris@yorku.ca
)
Location: Craigie Hall - E114
Break
10

10:30 – 11:45
Plenary
11:45 - 1:00
1:00 – 2:15
Concurrent Sessions
2:15 – 2:30
Tara McPherson:
“Digital Humanities by Design: Feminism, Aesthetics and the Digital.
Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
Collaborative Keynote with Canadian Historical and Digital Humanities Associations -
Location: Admin 140
Feminist Pedagogy:
The State of Women and Gender Studies
Barbara Bickel, Southern
Illinois University
( bickel.barbara@gmail.com
)
The Arts in Women and
Gender Studies Programs
Andrea LaMarre, University of Guelph
( alamarre@uoguelph.ca
)
Becomings: Embodying feminist theory in an interdisciplinary graduate course
Samantha Cutrara,
Independent
( Samantha.cutrara@gmail.c
om )
Poststructural
Interruptions: Using women's stories to challenge national narratives in classroom communities
Location: Craigie Hall E102
Producing Knowledge: Sex,
Gender, and the Body
Esther Rosario, University o f
Alberta ( erosario@ualberta.ca)
Feminism, the Life Sciences, and the Making of Liveable
Lives: A Butlerian Critique of
Gendered Brain Studies
Jake Pyne, McMaster University
( pynejm@mcmaster.ca
)
Arresting Ashley X: Trans Youth,
Puberty Blockers and the
Engineering of the Future
Location: Craigie Hall - E106
Lunch Break
Queer Crip Care
Lauren Fournier lgfournier@gmail.com
)
Self Care for Skeptics: Toward
An Intersectional Feminist
Approach to Self-Care Practices
Kate Woodman, University of
Western Ontario
( kwoodman@uwo.ca
)
"A Common Feeling":
Theorizing upon
Representations of Asexualities
Within Queer Identity Politics and Sex-Positive Communities
Location: Craigie Hall- E110
Break
Feminist Perspectives on human-animal relations
Chair: Kelly Struthers
Montford, University of Alberta
( Kelly.sm@ualberta.ca
)
Chloë Taylor, University of
Alberta ( chloe3@ualberta.ca
)
Enabling Ethical Eating
Megan Dean, Georgetown
University
( mad301@georgetown.edu
)
Location: Craigie Hall – E114
11

2:30 – 3:45
Plenary
3:45 – 4:00 pm
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Plenary
8:30 p.m.
Party
Film Screening: Selling Sex
Meredith Ralston, Mount Saint Vincent University
( Meredith.Ralston@msvu.ca
Location: Craigie Hall - C105 - Boris Roubakine Theatre
Break
Nancy Nicol – Joint Plenary with Sexualities Studies Association
Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: Challenges, Resilience and Hope
Location: Craigie Hall – C105 – Boris Roubakine Theatre
The Black Lounge
ACCUTE Dance Party
12