Women and Gender Studies InstituteWomen and Gender Studies Institute
WGS 460Y Honours Seminar
Public Symposium
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 • 1-5PM • WI 2053
PLEASE JOIN US!
1:00-1:10 Opening remarks
1:10-2:20
Panel 1: Mediating Bodies
Rwayda Al-Kamisi, “Apart/tied: Framing the Fear in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict”
Nathalie Forde, “Erasing the Roots/Routes of our History: Black Women and Hair”
Johanna Lewis, “Unfit to Govern: Leftist Discourse, Neoliberal Complicities, and the Fatness of Rob Ford”
2:20-2:30 Coffee/tea break
2:30-3:40 Panel 2: Negotiating Public/Private
Joanne Cave, “The Myth of the Market: A Feminist Intervention in Social Finance”
Beth Horton, “The Politics of Motherhood: Power, Choice, Desire”
3:40-3:50 Coffee/tea break
3:50-5:00 Panel 3: Narrativizing Trauma
Megha Eswaran, “The Undoing of Heroism: How Trauma Became
Written onto the Masculine Body in Cinematic Portrayals ofVietnam War Veterans”
Min Cha, “The Uncomfortable Legacies of Comfort Women”
Kari Dreyer, “Ways of Listening to the Feminist Subject: Failure and Freedom in Women’s Madness Narratives”