Gender,, BodiesBodies && Technology:Technology: (In)Visible(In)Visible FuturesFutures

April 21-23, 2016

The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center Roanoke, Virginia

hosted by The program in Women’s and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech

#GBT2016 Planning Committee

Women’s and Gender Studies Program Virginia Tech Conference Director: Christine Labuski, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies; director of the Gender, Bodies & Technology initiative Budget Director: Katrina Powell, outgoing Director of Women’s and Gender Studies Planning Committee: Rayanne Streeter, graduate student in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies Claire Kelling, graduating senior, majoring in Statistics and Economics; minoring in Women’s and Gender Studies and Women’s Leadership Ali Neff, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies Donna Riley, Professor of Engineering Education Performance Coordinator: Amy Splitt, Grant Coordinator/Ofce Manager, Center for Peace Studies & Violence Prevention/Women’s & Gender Studies

Special thanks to the following people for moderating panels: Laura Gillman, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Saul Halfon, Associate Professor of Science and Technology in Society Rebecca Hester, Assistant Professor of Science and Technology in Society Sharon Johnson, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures; incoming director of Women’s and Gender Studies Krystin Krist, Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Exercise Science, Methodist University Ann Kilkelly, Professor of Teatre Barbara Ellen Smith, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology Jennifer Turner, graduate student in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies

Special thanks to the following people and offces for scholarship and other fnancial support: Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Center for Instructional Development and Department of Science and Technology in Society Educational Research Department of Sociology Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society Office for Inclusion and Diversity Center for the Study of Peace and Violence Prevention Office of the Provost College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies

An extra special thanks to our Silver Sponsors: Department of English Te Graduate School Institute for Culture, Society, and the Environment Te Moss Center for the Arts

Tanks to the students in Dr. Labuski’s graduate Gender, Bodies & Technology class for presenting their work, moderating panels, and for thinking about GBT with her all semester. We also wish to thank Continuing and Professional Education at Virginia Tech, in particular, Colleen Bartos, Kortni Lindsay, and Elizabeth Caton. Members of the Planning Committee have red committee ribbons attached to their name tags; feel free to approach them with questions or needs throughout the conference. WelCome

Department of Sociology 560 McBryde Hall College of Liberal Arts Blacksburg, VA 24061 and Human Sciences Telephone: 540-231-2765 Email: [email protected]

April 21, 2016

Welcome to the fourth biannual Gender, Bodies & Technology conference!

With this year’s theme “(In)Visible Futures,” we seek to enrich ongoing conversatons regarding gendered and racialized forms of oppression and violence by exploring how modes of technology render both visible and invisible partcular kinds of gendered bodies, on what terms, and to what efect. “(In)Visible Futures” engages our present tendentally, with critques elaborated from the perspectve of the future rather than the past. With keynote addresses from Crunk Feminist Collectve and Michelle Murphy, we aim for #GBT2016 to be a space of critcal refecton regarding how various forms of (in)visibility render certain possibilites more and less “thinkable. We hope, most of all, to incite and propel futures in which we can actvely invest and imagine ourselves.

More broadly, GBT contnues to be intrigued by the myriad ways that bodies are impacted by technological innovaton and gendered expectatons and we hope that the papers and performances that you’ll experience over the next two days will deepen your own questons and conversatons about these topics. As we critcally engage with embodied and technologized futures, we hope to highlight the diversity of approaches taken by the broad range of disciplines represented in our program. GBT is commited not only to divergent intellectual paradigms but also to placing those paradigms in direct conversaton with one another. We value the space that learning from each other can provide and, to that end, we warmly invite you to atend the performances, workshops, and other maker spaces during your tme here.

With the goal of meetng others and strengthening our sense of community, we hope that you will take advantage of the various informal setngs at the conference as well our two primary forms of social media (our Facebook page and our Twiter hashtag—#GBT2016). We have made email addresses and Twiter handles available in the program, and have designated the Bent Mountain room on the upper level as an “R&R” space, equipped with comfortable seatng and yoga mats for those who might want to recharge or converse in a quieter atmosphere. This is in additon to the contnuous break area outside the session rooms (near the registraton table), which has a warm and sunny outdoor pato. Partcipants have also each received a tcket for one complimentary drink at the hotel, and we hope that you’ll use these to strike up or contnue a conversaton with a new friend or colleague at the hotel bar or poolside. A map of all these spaces can be found in your conference program.

We are excited to build on the success of our frst three meetngs, and to contnue fostering the internatonal network of scholars working in this excitng and emerging transdiscipline. Our listserv and Facebook community now includes over a thousand people from around the globe, and, as in year’s past, the conference hosts partcipants from multple countries and a wide range of backgrounds and academic disciplines. This spring has also seen the launch of our website (genderbodiestechnology.com) and we are looking forward to rolling out an accompanying blog over the late summer and early fall. As a conference partcipant, we hope you will consider getng involved as a guest editor or contributor!

Please do not hesitate to approach any the members of the planning commitee, whose name badges are marked with red ribbons, with any questons about logistcs, accommodatons, or whatever is on your mind. We hope that your partcipaton at the conference will be productve and provocatve and we look forward to getng to know you. Welcome to Roanoke and to Virginia Tech!

Sincerely,

Christne Labuski, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Director, Gender, Bodies & Technology

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1 the hotel Roanoke and ConfeRenCe CenteR Floorplan

Shenandoah A B Gainsboro A B North New River Entry Courtyard Shenandoah Foyer Alleghany Roanoke Ballroom Entrance

Appalachian Pocahontas C D North Entry Foyer Service Corridor A B Services Roanoke Foyer East Hotel Foyer Pocahontas Foyer Balcony Entrance Blue Ridge Boardroom E F G H Regency Room (Dining Area) Garden Court Crystal/Roanoke Front

Shared Foyer Alley Peacock Desk Crystal Court Patio Lobby A B C Virginia Room Ballroom

Service Corridor (Private Dining) Crystal Entrance Ballroom Motor Palm E D Entrance Court To Guestrooms To Club Fitness Center & Pool Buck aka Crystal Foyer Mtn. Pine

Mill Patio Room Mtn. A B Pub Conference Upper Conference Foyer Down Center Entrance Upper Level

Brush Tinker Bent Business Mtn. Mtn. Mtn. Center Wilson Upper Lounge

Ballroom Level Stage Monroe

Washington Conference Level Lecture Hall

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Harrison/ Tyler

UP Lower Conference Foyer

Lower Jefferson Lounge Boardroom

Terrace Madison

2 table of Contents

Gender, Bodies & Technology Planning Committee ...... Inside Front Cover

Welcome ...... 1

The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center Floorplan ...... 2

Program at a Glance ...... 4

Conference Program ...... 5

Keynote Speakers ...... 17

Visit our new website: genderbodiestechnology.com

tweet about the conference! #GBT2016”

Free wireless service is available in the hotel lobby, but not in the conference center.

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All sessions will be held at Te Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, April 21

7:30 – 11:00 p.m. Opening reception with DJ Ali Colleen Nef

Friday, April 22

7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Concurrent sessions 10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent sessions 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Crystal Ballroom 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote performance: Salt Marsh Suite Washington Lecture Hall 2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent sessions 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Keynote presentation: Eesha Pandit, Crunk Feminist Collective

Saturday, April 23

7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Concurrent sessions 10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent sessions 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Crystal Ballroom 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote presentation: Michelle Murphy Washington Lecture Hall 2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent sessions

4 ConfeRenCe PRogRam Thursday, April 21, 2016

7:30 – 11:00 p.m. Opening Reception AKA, Te Hotel Roanoke

Featuring DJ and Virginia Tech faculty member, Ali Colleen Neff Cash Bar and Light Refreshments

Friday, April 22, 2016

7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast

8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Reproducing Bodies in Circuits of Power and Exchange (Buck Mountain) a. “Virtual and Reproductive Technologies: Making Egg Donation Visible,” Amy Speier ([email protected]) b. “Ukrainian Egg Donors in the Context of Transnational Reproductive Travel and Labor,” Polina Vlasenko ([email protected]) c. “‘Reproductive Tourism’ from Turkish Egg Donors’ Perspectives,” Burcu Mutlu ([email protected]) d. “Precarious Time and Anticipatory Eggs: Te ‘False Hope’ of Egg Banking Technology,” Rajani Bhatia ([email protected]) Moderator: Jennifer Turner ([email protected])

2. Gendered Technologies of the Self: Making the Terapeutic Visible (Wilson) a. “Trauma Exposed: Figuring Masculinity in New Terapies for PTSD,” Marisa Brandt ([email protected]) b. “Affecting Chemicals: Reflecting on the Body in Psychedelic Terapy,” Katherine Hendy ([email protected]) c. “Arbitrary Affects: Online Cognitive Behavioral Terapy and Care Work,” Jefrey Mathias ([email protected]) Moderator: Joshua Earle ([email protected])

5 3. Interpreting Gendered Digitality through an Embodied Lens (Monroe) a. “Digital Spaces Black Women Gazes: Exhibiting Agency Via Engagement, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,” Jameta Barlow ([email protected]) b. “Pink Pills, Coercive Rhetorics, and Corporate Sponsored ,” Abigail Morris ([email protected]) c. “New Technology, Old Ideologies: Anti-Feminist Rhetoric in Online Spaces,” Gina Kruschek ([email protected]) d. “Hacking the Hacktivist: An Examination of Gendered Social Activism in Digital Spaces,” Carleigh DeAngelis ([email protected]) Moderator: Donna Riley ([email protected]

4. Workshop (Madison) a. “Altered Barbies,” Martha McCaughey ([email protected]) Moderator: Katrina Powell ([email protected])

#mobilefeministmakerspace #mfms

5. Rendering Gender: Flesh, Ethnicity and the Virtual (Harrison/Tyler) a. “On Flesh, Agency and Resistance,” Srikanth Mallavarapu ([email protected]) b. “Facial Trans-Formations: Sexualizing Ethnic Features in the Practice of Facial Feminization Surgery,” Eric Plemons ([email protected]) c. “Discourses of Trans* Bodies Online: Explorations of Replication, Reification, and Resistance,” Toni Roberts ([email protected]) d. “Simulated Affect?: Visible and Invisible Renderings of the ‘Tird World Woman’ within Empathetic Video Games,” Erika M. Behrmann ([email protected]) Moderator: Sharon Johnson ([email protected])

6 6. Performance (lower foor lobby) a. “Knit Together in the Womb: Frogging,” Samantho Jo Fried ([email protected])

#mobilefeministmakerspace #mfms

10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Workshop (Madison) a. “ePortfolio Presentations and Digital Performances: Linking How We Identify Offline to Who We Are Online,” Martina Svyantek ([email protected]) Moderator: Martina Svyantek ([email protected])

2. Sound, Sense, and Afect (Wilson) a. “Bodies in the Cloud: On the Interactive Nodes of Existence of Holographic Entities,” Kathy Nguyen ([email protected]) b. “Auroratone: Rehabilitation through Synesthesia,” Alexandra Fine ([email protected]) c. “Auditing Visibility, Visualizing the Audible: Women, Media and Presence in Dakar, Senegal,” Ali Nef ([email protected]) d. “Re-membering Voices and Making Manifest Melville’s Others: A Performative Reading with Digital Accompaniment,” Lissa Holloway- Attaway (lissa. [email protected]) Moderator: Sarah Giles ([email protected])

7 3. Precarious Reproductive Futures: Vulnerable Bodies and Unruly Desires in Contemporary Discourse (Monroe)

a. “Precarious Bodies, Vulnerable Subjects, and the Violence of Surrogacy in Michael Robotham’s Te Last Ferry,” Modhumita Roy ([email protected]) b. “Confessions: Genetic Abortion in Mommy-Memoirs by Waldman and Beck,” Mary Tompson ([email protected]) c. “Invisible Power, Beyond Choice: Do-it-yourself Abortion in the Fictions of Castillo, Kincaid, and Kelly,” Jeannie Ludlow ([email protected]) Moderator: Saul Halfon ([email protected])

4. Invisibility, Ignorance, and Epistemology (Buck Mountain) a. “Rhetorical Purification: Eugenics, Transhumanism, and the Disappearance of the Marginalized,” Joshua Earle ([email protected]) b. “Why Deny? Te Willful Ignorance of Gender-Based Violence in STEM,” Donna Riley ([email protected]) c. “Epistemological Pluralism in Computer Education: Disrupting Gendered Ways of Teaching and Assessing Knowledge,” Darren Maczka ([email protected]) Moderator: Laura Gillman ([email protected])

5. Clones in Orphan Black: Bodies as Queer, Reproductive, and Property (Harrison/Tyler)

a. “Kinship as Technology in the World of Orphan Black,” Jessica Herling ([email protected]) b. “Queering the Clones of Orphan Black: Reproduction, Eugenics, and Queer Kinship,” Talitha Rose ([email protected]) c. “‘I’m Not Your Property’: Issues of Body Autonomy and Ownership in Orphan Black,” Rayanne Streeter ([email protected]) Moderator: Talitha Rose ([email protected])

8 6. Performance (lower foor lobby) a. “Knit Together in the Womb: Frogging,” Samantho Jo Fried ([email protected])

#mobilefeministmakerspace #mfms

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Crystal Ballroom

1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote Performance (Washington Lecture Hall) “Salt Marsh Suite”

Directors/choreographers: Carol-Burch Brown ([email protected]); Ann Kilkelly ([email protected]) Assistant director: Kristin Kelly Dancers: Olivia Bowers, Claire Constantikes, Naphtali Fields, Cambria McMillan-Zapf, Saadia Rais, Rachel Rugh, Julia Russo

2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Biopolitical Dis/Investments (Buck Mountain) a. “Under the Gaze Again: Governing Pregnant Bodies in the Age of Epigenetics and Human Microbiome,” Chikako Takeshita ([email protected]) b. “Re-Visioning the Disposable Body: Deinstitutionalization and Corporeal Power,” Amy Sorensen ([email protected]) c. “Toxic Life, Slow Death: Black Geographies and Industrial Toxicity,” Pavithra Vasudevan ([email protected]) d. “Toxicity and Technologies of Bodies on the Line: Performing the Politics of Health Justice Activism,” Marie Garlock ([email protected]) Moderator: Jennifer Turner ([email protected])

9 2. Virtual Gatekeeping (Wilson) a. “Representation of Queer Bodies in Online Comics: Queer Comics and Teir Creators,” Sebastian Rock ([email protected]) b. “Who’s Allowed to Be Here? Analyses of Black Feminist Twitter,” Maryann Kozlowski ([email protected]) c. “Fat Vegan Politics: Te Invisibility and Hypervisibility of People of Size in the Digital Vegan Community,” Corey Wrenn ([email protected]) d. “Watch Me Disappear: Pro-Anorexia, Self-Injury, and Gendered Bodies in Virtual Communities,” Leandra Preston-Sidler ([email protected]) Moderator: Rayanne Streeter ([email protected])

3. Genital Assemblages (Monroe) a. “Hardware Restoration: Reactions to Reconstruction after Male Circumcision and Female Genital Cutting,” Laura M. Carpenter ([email protected]) b. “Vaginal Speculation: Reading Across an Archive of Gendered Microbiota Futures,” Rebecca Howes-Mischel ([email protected]) c. “Unsexing and Hetero-/Cis-normativity: Te Paradox of Museum Taxidermy,” Jonathan Grunert ([email protected]) d. “McGender: How Medical Technology Creates the Illusion of Choice for Transgender and ‘DSD’ (Intersex) Individuals,” Olivia Tompson ([email protected]) Moderator: Krystin Krist ([email protected])

4. Workshop (Madison) a. “From Idea to Launch: How to Start a Revolution through Podcasting,” Dawn Serra ([email protected]) Moderator: Katrina Powell ([email protected])

#mobilefeministmakerspace #mfms

10 5. “‘What are You Looking At?’: Online Surveillance and Nondominant Bodies,” (Harrison/Tyler)

a. “Surveilling Strangers: Discipline, Networks, and People of Walmart,” Lauren Cagle ([email protected]) b. “Watch your Weight!: Ideologies of Infodemiology,” Diane Price-Herndl ([email protected]) c. “A Beloved Community of Cyborgs: Towards an Understanding of Afro- Transhumanism,” Julian M. Galette ([email protected]) Moderator: Ariel Ludwig ([email protected])

4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker (Washington Lecture Hall)

“Te Girl Efect: Transnational Paradoxes and Paradigms of Sex-selective Abortion”

Eesha Pandit of the Crunk Feminist Collective

Saturday, April 23, 2016

7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast

8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Gendering Data: Analysis and Production (Buck Mountain) a. “Feminism Reads Big Data: From Selfie Research to Community Informed Consent,” Elizabeth Losh ([email protected]) b. “Gender as Data: Te Computational Future of the Gender Question,” Laura Norén ([email protected]) c. “Pixelation Situation: Shedding Light on the Situatedness of Researchers, their Satellites, and their Data Analyses in Remote Sensing,” Samantha Jo Fried ([email protected]) d. “Desire by Design,” Patrick Keilty ([email protected])

Moderator: Rebecca Hester ([email protected])

11 2. Workshop (Wilson) a. “Critical Workshopping, Sound, and the Practice of Soldering,” Ellen Foster ([email protected]) Moderator: Katrina Powell ([email protected])

#mobilefeministmakerspace #mfms

3. Revealing the Body in Pieces (Monroe) a. “‘Perfect Humans’: Genome Mapping, Race, and Sexuality,” Jennifer A. Hamilton ([email protected]) b. “Mutation in My Code: Genetic Testing, BRCA Data and the Brave New Affective Politics of Genomic Identity,” Kim Surkan ([email protected]) c. “Variants of Significance? Constructions and Understandings of Cancer Genetic Risk,” Ronna Popkin ([email protected]) d. “Dissecting the Human/Posthuman Technological Configuration: Public Perceptions of the Body, Gender, Health, and Clinical Practices,” Alana Baker ([email protected]) Moderator: Jonathan Banda ([email protected])

4. Bodies and Space (Madison) a. “Gendering Mopeds and Gendering Users in Taiwan,” Kuan-Hung Lo ([email protected]) b. “Women and Maker Spaces,” Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer ([email protected]) c. “Ensembles of Dignity: Anxieties in the Public Toilet,” Carmen Christopher ([email protected]) d. “Affective Localities of Violence: Technology and Presentation of Queer Self,” Helis Sikk ([email protected]) Moderator: Kuan-Hung Lo ([email protected])

12 5. Workshop (Harrison/Tyler) a. “Te Gaze at the Gynoid, Robotic Women in Western Science Fiction Film,” Artemis Linhart ([email protected]) Moderator: Amy Splitt ([email protected])

10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Critical Science Literacy: Feminist, Queer, Trans* and Intersex Interventions (Buck Mountain)

a. “Rethinking ‘Disorders of Sex Development’ : Intersex, Biomedicine, and Social Justice,” David Rubin ([email protected]) b. “Dreams of a Dyke Science,” Angela Willey ([email protected]) c. “Precarity, Evidence, and the Demand for Protection,” Cyd Cipolla ([email protected]) d. “Neuroimaging Trans*: A Call for a Trans* Critical Science Studies,” Kristina Gupta ([email protected]) Moderator: Jessica Herling ([email protected])

2. Expecting Embodied Danger: Anticipatory Technologies of Surveillance (Wilson) a. “Building Resilient Bodies: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV and the Neoliberal Subject,” Jonathan Banda ([email protected]) b. “Policing in the Age of Big Data: Predictive Technologies and the Making of Criminal Bodies,” Ariel Ludwig ([email protected]) c. “Bioveillance and Biological Danger: Pre-empting Circulation through Techno- Scientific Immunity,” Rebecca Hester ([email protected]) Moderator: Rebecca Hester ([email protected])

13 3. Tracking and Regulating (Female) Bodies (Monroe) a. “Fit to Mother: Risk and Self-Care in the Pregnant Athlete,” Lorin Shellenberger ([email protected]) b. “Cyborg : Practicing Neoliberal Subjectivity through the Fitness Tracker,” Caroline Alphin ([email protected]) c. “Suppressing the Modern Period: Biomedicalization and Intimate Norms of Menstruation,” Katie Ann Hasson ([email protected]) d. “Te Infertile Female Body: Embodiment, Visualization, and Discipline through Transvaginal Ultrasound Technology,” Heather Deering ([email protected])

Moderator: Krystin Krist (kkrist@methodist. edu)

4. Performance (Madison) a. “Invisible Death: Cooking with Pests,” Lindsay Garcia ([email protected]) Moderator: Amy Splitt ([email protected])

5. Mediating Symbolic Bodies (Harrison/Tyler) a. “Electric Girls and Spirit Telegraphs: Feminine Bodies and Mediumship as Communication Technology,” Melissa Adams ([email protected]) b. “Books, Patriarchal Agency, and the (In)visible Body of the Princess: Future Uses and Medieval Context for Disney’s Sleeping Beauty,” Carlee A. Bradbury ([email protected]) c. “Trans-cendence and Trans-gression in Deepa Mehta’s Elements Trilogy,” Rose Hartfeld Wilson ([email protected]) d. “Claiming Queers Now and Ten: Past, Politics, and Pop Culture”, Loran Renee Marsan ([email protected]) Moderator: Sharon Johnson ([email protected])

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Crystal Ballroom

14 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker Washington Lecture Hall

“Chemical Exposure and Decolonial Potential”

Michelle Murphy,

2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Performance (Washington Lecture Hall) “Tere is Pleasure in the Pathless Woods” Choreographer: Claire Constantikes ([email protected]) Dancers: Claire Constantikes, Fiona Harris, Cambria McMillan-Zapf, Scott Wagner, Kevin Wood Musician: George Tatum Technical Director: Shawn VanSchuyver, Scott Wagner Moderator: Ann Kilkelly ([email protected])

2. Illegible Labor: On Visibility, Reproduction, and the Work of Women’s Bodies in Medicine (Wilson)

a. “‘#TankYouHenrietta’: Reflections on Science, Justice, and the Politics of Refusal,” Sandra Harvey ([email protected]) b. “(Im)Possible (In)Visibilities: Exploring Differential Labor in the Production of ‘Defective’ Female Genitalia in the FGCS Industry,” Jessica Neasbitt ([email protected]) c. “‘Not Quite Normal’: Buck v. Bell and the Establishment of Eugenic Visibilities in the ,” Amanda Reyes ([email protected]) Moderator: Christine Labuski ([email protected])

15 3. Monstrous Reproduction (Monroe) a. “‘Tat Child is Possessed’: Monstrous Birth and Dissociative Motherhood in Civil War Literature,” Verdie Culbreath ([email protected]) b. “Pregnant Butch? : Portraying the Masculine Pregnant Body,” Laura Hartmann-Villalta ([email protected]) c. “Fetal Imposition: Scientism and Sexism in Damien Hirst’s Te Miraculous Journey,” Beck Wise ([email protected]) Moderator: Jonathan Banda ([email protected])

4. Workshop and Performance (Madison) a. Workshop: “Pseudonymity in Location-based Social Discovery Apps and the Visibility of Gender and Sexual Identity,” Dana Riger ([email protected]) b. Performance: “Distance Methods of Movement Collaboration: Solo/Solo and Processes of Remote Dance Making,” Mountain Empire Performance Collective (Rachel Rugh and Katie Sopoci Drake) ([email protected], [email protected])

5. Sex and the Song: Te Virtual-Material in Musical Production (Harrison/Tyler) a. “Masculinity, Music & Muscle: Te ‘Missing Males’ in Adolescent Singing,” Patrick Freer ([email protected]) b. “(In)audible Futures: Predictive Analytics in Personal Genomics and Music Streaming,” Amanda Modell ([email protected]) c. “Femmeshedding: How Female Musicians Access a Uniquely Gendered Perspective from Recording in Private,” Malavika Sahai ([email protected]) Moderator: Samantha Jo Fried ([email protected])

16 keynote sPeakeRs

Eesha Pandit of the Crunk Feminist Collective Eesha Pandit is a Houston-based writer, activist, and consultant for social justice organizations. Her writing can be found at Te Crunk Feminist Collective, Feministing, Te Nation, RH Reality Check, Feministe, Bitch Magazine and In Tese Times. She has also appeared on numerous TV news outlets including CNN, HLN, and MSNBC. She is currently a regular contributor to Salon where she covers issues relating to race, gender, reproductive justice, immigration and social justice movements. Eesha works with national and international organizations to create, implement, and sustain efective programs and impactful communications strategies. Her recent clients include: Provide, Women with a Vision, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Te International Rescue Committee, Te NoVo Foundation, Te Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, Te National Network of Abortion Funds, and Te Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program. Eesha has a long history of non-proft leadership, having worked as Executive Director of Men Stopping Violence, a social change organization dedicated to ending men’s violence against women. She has also served as Women’s Rights Manager at Breakthrough, a global human rights organization, where she worked on the Bell Bajao! (Ring the Bell!) Campaign that asks men and boys to get involved in ending violence against women. She has also served as Director of Advocacy at Raising Women’s Voices (RWV), a national initiative working to ensure that women’s voices and concerns are heard and addressed as policymakers put the new health reform law into action, and as Associate Director of Programs at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College. She has also worked with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, and Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Rights Program, and currently serves on the board of the National Network of Abortion Funds. Eesha has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.

17 Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto Professor of History and Woman and Gener Studies

Michelle Murphy is a historian of the recent past and feminist technoscience studies scholar who theorizes and researches about the politics of technoscience; sexed, raced, and queer life; environmental politics; biopolitics and necropolitics; as well as economics, and fnancialization particularly in contemporary, cold war, and postcolonial conjunctures associated with the United States, , and more recently Bangladesh. She is a co-organizer of Technoscience Salon and Director of the Technoscience Research Unit. She has graduate appointments at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, as well as the School of Environment. In addition, she has graduate appointments in Science and Technology Studies and the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Michelle’s forthcoming book, Te Economization of Life, explores the rise of techniques that diferentially value life based on its ability to foster the macroeconomy; in it, she hopes to expand the ways we theorize and understand the entanglements between reproduction, experiment, and economy in the late twentieth century. Michelle is also the author of Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience and Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers, which won the 2008 Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Michelle is currently working on two related projects, Te frst, Distributed Reproduction, seeks to theorize an alternative ontology and scale for reproduction that exceeds individual embodiment and instead encompasses temporally and geographically extensive confgurations of sex, living- being, technoscience, environmental politics, and political economy. Related, her research is concerned with the life, death, and future of “alter life” – life already altered by histories of capitalism, pollution, violence, and – within the worlds and infrastructures of the Great Lakes and the St. Clair River.

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Special thanks to the following people and offces for scholarship and other fnancial support:

Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society Center for the Study of Peace and Violence Prevention College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Department of Engineering Education Department of Science and Technology in Society Department of Sociology Offce for Inclusion and Diversity Offce of the Provost Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies

An extra special thanks to our Silver Sponsors:

Department of English Institute for Culture, Society, and the Environment The Graduate School The Moss Center for the Arts