2019 FRC

The Feminist Research Colloquium showcases the student research conducted through McGill University's Institute of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.

This year's colloquium is on April 15 and 16 at Research Common Room A at McLennan Library of McGill University.

Seven honours students in the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies major and thirteen graduate students in the Option in Women and Gender Studies will present their work.

Day 1: April 15 

Opening Remarks and Pastry: 9:00- 9:15

Alex Ketchum and Vanessa Blais- Tremblay

Panel 1: 9:30-10:30 Labour 

Chair: William Hébert

Dominique Grégoire: From Fashion Magazine to Activist Community: How Diverse Storytellers Changed Teen Vogue's Storytelling

Fraea Graziani: Understanding Sex Work: Why Representation Matters for Sex Workers 

Catherine Jeffery: Liberating Labour: Critical Utopianism and the Future of Work 

Panel 2: 10:45-12:15 Gender and Colonialism: Missing Histories, New Analyses 

Chair: Vrinda Narain

Viviane Cottle: Public Perception of Restorative Justice in Canada: The Case of Terri-Lynne McClintic*** (content warning- see abstract)
Chung-Chih Hong: An Unheard Story: The Impact of Christianity on the Pangcah Women’s Traditional Power 
Heather Porter: Linking Genealogies of Islamophobia and Gendered and Racialized Colonial Hierarchies in the Americas 

Lunch: 12:15-1:15

Panel 3: 1:15-2:35 Histories of Sexualities, Genders, and Embodiments

Chair: Nicole de Brabandere

Hosanna Galea: Nature as Divine: An Analysis of the Feminine in Hildegard of Bingen

Emma Chambers: The Greatest Social Taboo: The Discursive Production of Child Sexuality As The Ultimate Oxymoron

Ben Kirsebom: Reconstructing AIDS Narratives: Race, Space, and Queer Politics in Oakland, California in the 1980s and 90s

Kyle Stewart: Locating Ideology in the Fat Body

Coffee Break

Panel 4: 3:00-5:00 Addressing Gender-Based and Sexual Violence in Educational Settings

Chair: Marc Ducusin

Anuradha Dugal: Bringing a Critical Race Framework to On-Campus Efforts to End Sexual Violence 
Esther Armaignac: The Pedagogical Power of Fiction: Addressing Gender- and Sexuality-Related Issues through Popular Culture and Fiction Writing 
Natalia Incio Serra: Peruvian Indigenous Female Student Lives: An Exercise of Resilience

Day 2: April 16

Panel 5: 9:30-11:00 Gender, Sexuality, and Belonging

Chair: Alanna Thain

Yasmeen Shahzadeh:Idle Citizenry: Investigating the Representation of Women in Jordanian Civic Education Textbooks
Abbey-Leigh Heilig: Sexuality, Sport, and the City: A Literature Review 
Kiersten van Vliet: Disco, Affect, and Public Cultures in Montreal’s Gay Village

Panel 6: 11:15-1:15 Constructing Gendered Identities Through Music and Culture 

Chair: Lisa Barg 

Marta Beszterda: Women Composers in (Post)-Communist Poland: Challenges for Feminist Research in Polish Musicology
Kate Glen: Life After Death Star: Masculinity and Misogyny Through Musical Mashup *** (content warning: see abstract)
Megan Batty: Gender Performativity and Embodiment in the Lindy Hop
Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson: Human Aesthetics, Virtual Bodies: The Construction of Pop Avatar Miquela

Final Remarks

Vanessa Blais- Tremblay and Alex Ketchum