BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20231114T170000Z DTEND:20231114T181500Z SUMMARY:Feminist Futures Lecture Series: Why Study Old Books? Turning Towards the Past to Build New Futures DESCRIPTION:The Feminist Futures Speaker Series is eager to present: Why study old books? Turning towards the past to build new futures, a presentation by Marie-Lise Drapeau-Bisson, that will take place on November 14, 2023 (12 pm-1:15 pm). This presentation will be in person in Dunton Tower, Room 2017. A light lunch will be available, please RSVP by November 6th so we can reserve your spot and accommodate any specific dietary or accessibility needs you may have. About the Presentation: Why should we, as feminist scholars, care about old books? In this talk, Marie-Lise Drapeau-Bisson, explores the value of forgotten classics on dusty bookshelves for building feminist futures. Based on her work on the feminist novel L’Euguélionne, a forgotten classic of Québec feminist literature, Marie-Lise explains how evaluating books enacts gender stereotypes, how reading them connects people to a movement, and how friendship around book-writing offers authors a way out of traditional heritage structures. Marie-Lise will also share her ethnographic approach to research, explaining how moments of what she calls confrontation of self are pivotal for feminist knowledge production. This talk thus invites conversations about feminist cultural productions and their legacies, as well as how we as scholars approach the analysis of feminist futures in the making. About the Speaker: Marie-Lise Drapeau-Bisson (she/her/elle) is a sociologist whose work explores how books – reading them, evaluating them, commemorating them – shape our political imagination. Marie-Lise is a francophone of settler-decent from Québec whose professional and personal life has led her to grow roots in Ontario. A yoga and biking enthusiast, Marie-Lise is also the eldest of a family of two and a friend to many wonderful, loud and opinionated women. Currently a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellow at the Feminist Institute for Social Transformation (FIST), Marie-Lise’s expertise combines the study of social movements and cultural sociology by analyzing archiving practices. In particular, her work theorizes how activists record, rediscover, and revive forgotten cultural objects to maintain social movement continuity and import through time. To learn more about Marie-Lise’s work and research interests, you can visit her website and consult her list of publications here. About the Feminist Futures Speaker Series: The Feminist Futures Lecture Series offers presentations of current feminist research being carried out by faculty associated with the Institute. Drawing from the rich interdisciplinary, intersectional research environment that marks past work and frames future endeavors, the Feminist Futures Lecture Series continues the development of critical intellectual and political spaces and knowledge-building around gendered issues. In this friendly but critically engaged space, you are invited to connect with a community of scholar-activists associated with the Feminist Institute of Feminist Transformation at Carleton University   LOCATION:Room 2017 - Dunton Tower, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6 URL: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR