Communal Conversations: A Roundtable Symposium on the Future of Knowledge-Making

• In-person event

• Contact
• wgstsymposium2022@gmail.com

The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies will be hosting Communal Conversations: A Roundtable Symposium on the Future of Knowledge-Making, a two-day event that aspires to examine what it would look like to move beyond institutionalized (academic, governmental, religious, medical, etc.) methods of inquiry and knowledge-making.

This symposium is made possible in part thanks to the contributions of the following: Joint Chair in Women’s and Gender Studies, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of English Language and Literature, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Institute of Political Economy, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

ASL Interpretation will be provided. Please register using the form below. NOTE: if you registered and have not received your Zoom link email, please check your junk folder.

SCHEDULE:

Friday, May 6, 2022

9:30am-10:15am Land Acknowledgement and Welcoming Remarks

10:15am-11:15am Counter-Mapping and Arts-Based Approaches to Urban Futurities: (Re)Imagining the City Roundtable

• Presented by Alix Aylen, Bria Hamilton, and Farida Rady from (Re)Imagining the City Collective.

11:30am-12:30pm Education, Communication, and Discourse

• Comparing Social Discourse on TikTok and Reddit: The Value of Seeing the Whole Person, by Andy Zubac.
• Sharing the Stories of the Black Diaspora in Canada and in a Digital Era: The Use of Podcasts for Knowledge-sharing, by Channon Oyeniran.
• La Chismosa: Gossip as Means of Survival, Knowledge Production and Information Exchange, by Davina McCormack-Andia.
• Migration and Refugees: Immigrant Non-Native Novice Teachers of English Professional Identity Formation, by Dina Zaid Kilani.

1:15pm-2:00pm Sex Ed with Daniella Noël

• Daniella has passionately and enthusiastically devoted her life’s work to Queer advocacy and the empowerment of underrepresented and systemically harmed communities. On an adventure that started off with her drive to be the next Sue Johanson, community has transformed her vision. Daniella’s passion and mission is to empower individuals of ALL ages to own and celebrate their (and others’) unique and intersectional identities….cause there is nothing sexier than being your authentic selves.

2:15pm-3:00pm Body Politics

• Baited Futures: Queer Baiting, Race, and Queer Futurity, by Rachel Kashul.
• Liberation or Compulsory Able-Bodiedness: Cripping Health at Every Size, by Faith Stadnyk.
• Violence Against Who? Analyzing Underlying Systems of Knowledge Within the Conceptualization of Gendered Violence, by Jessica McCarthy.

3:00pm-3:30pm Closing Remarks

Saturday, May 7, 2022

9:30am-10:15am Opening Remarks

10:15am-11:15am Filipino Student-Activists Roundtable

• Presented by Charlene Herrera, Jezreel Morales, and Alyssa Schenk.

11:30am-12:30pm Familial Storytelling

• “The Family” as Resistance: Disentangling Social Reproduction from Capitalism Towards Prefigurative, Post-Colonial Futures, by Kenya Thompson.
• So I Stayed: Narratives of Agency from Punjabi Canadian Women in Forced Marriages, by Sukhi Dhaliwal.
• Obolo Skulls to my Tears, by Victory Anthony-Nted.

1:15pm-2:00pm Transtrending: A Drag Performance with Anni Elation

• The wonderful and talented Anni Elation is gracing our (virtual) stage with two show-stopping drag performances and a special Q&A session about her drag. You don’t want to miss this! And why don’t you give her a follow on Instagram @anni.elation – she would be absolutely, well, elated!

2:15pm-3:00pm Art and Activism

• Counterhegemonic Feminist Art in Sex Workers’ Activism, by Kathleen Cherrington.
• Drag, Clownery, and Shared Non-Binary Meaning Making, by Jamie Headrick.
• Colonizing the Civilized World, by Ruwan Pathiranage Dilinika Madumali Rajarathna.

3:00pm-3:30pm Closing Remarks