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NEGOTIATING Points of Encounter NATIONAL WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION 34th Annual Conference NEGOTIATING Points of Encounter NOVEMBER 7–10, 2013 | CINCINNATI, OHIO Introducing a Bold, New Look Visit our newly redesigned online home at feministformations.org to: • Submit your work and view our author guidelines. Feminist Formations seeks innovative feminist scholarship, visual art, and poetry. We welcome submissions from NWSA’s cutting edge scholars and activists in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. • Subscribe now to begin receiving this leading feminist journal and become a part of this groundbreaking forum of feminist theory. Issues are published three times a year in spring, fall, and winter. NWSA members receive a special discounted rate: $32.00 for a 1-yr subscription (print) $64.00 for 2-yr subscription (print) Sandra K. Soto, Editor; Dylan McCarthy Blackston, Managing Editor; Stephanie Murphy, Editorial Assistant University of Arizona Department of Gender & Women’s Studies FF_NWSA_Ad_13_duo2.indd 1 7/23/13 1:38 PM NATIONAL WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION 34th Annual Conference Table of Contents 3 President’s Welcome 41 Constituent Group Meetings 5 Conference Highlights 43 NWSA Member 6 Conference at a Glance and Leader Meeting Information 7 Convention Center and Hotel Maps 45 Program Theme Information and Index 11 Keynote and Plenary Sessions 49 Session Format Information 15 Authors Meet Critics 263 Participant and Subject Index 19 First-Time Attendee Information 274 NWSA Member Author Networking Reception 21 Pre-Conference Schedule At A Glance 275 Exhibit Hall Map and Index 21 Pre-Conference Schedule 277 Advertiser Index 35 Acknowledgements and Awards 38 A Brief (and Incomplete) History of the NWSA Women of Color Caucus Apple and Android users can download the NWSA 2013 Conference app by searching for NWSA 2013. This native app includes a searchable conference schedule, exhibitor Introducing a Bold, New Look information, and more. Visit our newly redesigned online home at feministformations.org to: • Submit your work and view our author guidelines. Feminist Formations seeks innovative feminist scholarship, visual art, and poetry. We welcome submissions from NWSA’s cutting edge scholars and activists in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. • Subscribe now to begin receiving this leading feminist journal and become a part of this groundbreaking forum of feminist theory. Issues are published three times a year in spring, fall, and winter. NWSA members receive a special discounted rate: $32.00 for a 1-yr subscription (print) $64.00 for 2-yr subscription (print) Sandra K. Soto, Editor; Dylan McCarthy Blackston, Managing Editor; Stephanie Murphy, Editorial Assistant University of Arizona Department of Gender & Women’s Studies FF_NWSA_Ad_13_duo2.indd 1 7/23/13 1:38 PM NWSASummerAd3_Layout 1 8/1/13 3:42 PM Page 1 Ms. Community Events C at NWSA: Ms. Reception in the Classroom Honoring Janell Hobson, Ph.D. Author of the popular and widely discussed Ms. Spring 2013 cover story on Beyoncé It’s never been easier to add the digital version of Friday, November 8, 4:30–5:30 pm Exhibit Hall, Ms. Booths 301–303 Ms. magazine as a required text in your online, hybrid and classroom courses in women’s studies. Ms. Sessions Women and Media Leadership Faculty and graduate students register for free at Friday, November 8, 9:25–10:40 am MsintheClassroom.com, and receive unlimited Room 205 access to the ever-growing digital collection of Ms. How to Fund the Revolution? Sustaining the Future of Women’s Studies magazines, as well as a complete Article Index and and Feminist Organizations Instructors’ Guides. Ms. provides cutting edge Friday, November 8, 12:55–2:10 pm Room 212 analysis of contemporary issues using a race, class New Directions in Online Education and gender lens. Ms. in the Classroom provides a Sunday, November 10, 10:40–11:50 pm total feminist learning experience. Room 205 Visit the Ms. in the Classroom Booth • Meet Ms. editors & faculty using Ms. in their classes • Pick up the latest copies of Ms. • See a demonstration of Ms. in the Classroom November 7-10, 2013 Exhibit Hall, Booths 301–303 MsintheClassroom.com or call toll free for more information: 1-866-471-3652 Negotiating Points of Encounter President’s Welcome November 2013 DEAR COLLEAGUES, As National Women’s Studies Association president and conference co- chair, I am happy to welcome you to Negotiating Points of Encounter. The conference takes up the geographies, histories, and political stakes of various feminist engagements, confrontations, and struggles—intellectual and institutional, local and global, public and intimate. How are we, or should we be, negotiating these points of encounter as the contours of theories, disciplines, communities, economies, forms of protest, and even national identities shift? We expect this conference to bring together activist scholars, movement makers, and coalition builders—who often labor between borders of all kinds—to consider how feminists navigate various points of encounter inside and outside of the academy. We also want to interrogate the subjects of feminist histories. Going forward, who and what subjects might be (shaping) the focus of the field’s pasts—and futures? Our program invites you to immerse yourselves in discussions about these issues and to explore the sacred and the profane, borders and margins, futures of the feminist past, body politics, and practices of effecting change. The program committee and staff have worked hard to provide a dynamic program, which I hope you will find challenging, stimulating, and invigorating. With you all, I remain excited about NWSA’s future and the role we can play together in its growth, and once again I welcome you to the conference. Sincerely, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin NWSA President 2012-2014 Professor of Women’s Studies Southern Connecticut State University NOVEMBER 7–10, 2013 | CINCINNATI, OHIO 3 Gender Studies from Duke Journals differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Elizabeth Weed and Ellen Rooney, editors differences highlights theoretical debates across the disciplines that address how concepts and categories of difference operate within culture. Subscription Individuals: $35 Students: $20 Single issues: $14 dukeupress.edu/differences Camera Obscura Lalitha Gopalan, Lynne Joyrich, Homay King, Constance Penley, Tess Takahashi, Patricia White, and Sharon Willis, editors Camera Obscura provides a forum for scholarship and debate on feminism, culture, and media studies. Subscription Individuals: $30 Students: $20 Single issues: $12 dukeupress.edu/cameraobscura GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Elizabeth Freeman and Nayan Shah, editors GLQ publishes scholarship, criticism, and commentary in areas as diverse as law, science studies, religion, political science, and literary studies. Subscription Individuals: $40 Students: $25 Single issues: $12 dukeupress.edu/glq TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker, editors TSQ offers innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives. New in 2014 Subscription Individuals: $45 Students: $28 Single issues: $12 dukeupress.edu/tsq To subscribe, visit dukeupress.edu/journals, call 888-651-0122 or 919-688-5134, or e-mail subscriptions@dukeupress.edu. Postage applies for international subscriptions. Students must provide a photocopy of a valid student ID. Negotiating Points of Encounter Gender Studies from Duke Journals differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Elizabeth Weed and Ellen Rooney, editors Conference Highlights differences highlights theoretical debates across the disciplines that THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7 Early Joiner Reception SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10 7:00 PM–8:00 PM address how concepts and categories of difference operate within culture. Elizabeth Alexander Keynote Hilton Netherland Plaza, Continental Delegate Assembly 7 PM–9 PM Ballroom 8:00 AM–9:15 AM Grand Ballroom A Room 206 Subscription Shabbat Individuals: $35 NWSA Sponsored Welcome 7:00 PM–9:00 PM Governing Council Students: $20 Reception and Book Signing Hilton Netherland Plaza, Salon FG 9:25 AM–4:00 PM Single issues: $14 dukeupress.edu/differences 9 PM–11 PM Hilton Netherland Plaza, Salon FG Grand Ballroom Lobby SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9 All locations in the Duke Energy Camera Obscura Convention Center unless otherwise Lalitha Gopalan, Lynne Joyrich, Homay King, Constance Penley, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 Poster Session specified Tess Takahashi, Patricia White, and Sharon Willis, editors 12 PM–1: 30 PM Poster Session Junior Ballroom Lobby Camera Obscura provides a forum for scholarship and debate 12 PM–1: 30 PM Junior Ballroom Lobby Plenary Session Changing the EXHIBIT HALL HOURS on feminism, culture, and media studies. Subjects: Remaking the Futures ◽◽Thursday, 3 PM–7 PM Plenary Session: Gender, of the Feminist Past Resistance, and Movements: ◽◽Friday, 9 AM–6 PM 2:20 PM–3:50 PM Subscription Negotiating the Borders and Grand Ballroom A ◽◽Saturday, 9 AM–6 PM Individuals: $30 Margins ◽◽Sunday, 9 AM–12 NOON Students: $20 2:20 PM–3:50 PM SUNY Press Reception Single issues: $12 dukeupress.edu/cameraobscura Grand Ballroom A 4:00 PM–5:00 PM Booth 100/102 CHILD CARE SERVICE Seal Press Reception MA/PhD Reception ◽◽Thursday, 9 AM–5 PM GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 4:00 PM–5:00 PM Booth 208 5:00 PM–6:00 PM ◽◽Friday, 7:45 AM–6:45 PM Elizabeth Freeman and Nayan Shah, editors West Lobby Ms Magazine/Feminist Majority ◽◽Saturday, 7:45 AM–6:45 PM GLQ publishes scholarship, criticism, and commentary
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