Thursday, December 8th
9:30-10:00 a.m
Opening Remarks: Dr. Honora Chapman
Migrant Experiences and Politics
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. PST
Andreea Moise: “Uprooting Migrant Memory and Homing Queer Corporeality in Domnica Rădulescu’s Exile is My Home”
Luis Granados: “Yo Tengo DACA: An Ethnography of DACA Recipients”
Jasmine Kaur — “White Teeth: Diasporic Identities of a Citizen & Immigrant”
Unraveling Gendered Structures within Oppressive Orders
1:15 p.m -2:30 p.m. PST
Nayoung Seo: “Transcending Gender Boundaries: Finding Shakespeare in K-drama”
Joseph LeForge: “Gender Identities and Personal Fissures in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness”
Madison Johansson: “An Exploration of Gendered Power Dynamics in Joyce Carol Oates’ A Fair Maiden”
Deconstructing Dichotomies: Existing in Ambivalence
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. PST
Yvonne Opalinski: “Breaking Binaries –Thinking the Dyad”
Emi Wood Scully: “‘Now is the Moment’: Writing To Be in The Waves”
Lindsay Norton: “A Multidisciplinary Investigation into Ambiguity: The (De)Construction of Boundaries in Vandana Singh’s ‘Ambiguity Machines: An Examination.’”
Reclaiming Identities: Reshaping Narratives for the Future
5:15 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. PST
Phoua Lee: “Ntuj Nyob Saum: Hmong Identity and Intergenerational Trauma in Mai Der Vang’s ‘Yellow Rain’”
Leila Cantu Rojas: “Conflicts of Being in a Multiraced Family in Wendy Rose’s Itch Like Crazy”
Anshif E: “Challenges of (Im)mobilities and Possibilities of Change; An Analysis of Migrant Lives”
Breaking Tradition: A Feminist Examination of Silence
7:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. PST
Ashley Rivera-Garcia: Feminism Through Stories & Sometimes in Secret: Pláticas de Madres y Hijas
Bo Vang: “Maxine Hong Kingston’s No Name Woman: Silencing a Woman’s Voice”
H Bryan: Sherly Anne William’s Dessa Rose and the White Gaze
Friday, December 9th
Liberatory Functions Of Sex
9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. PST
Elizabeth Cardenas — “Augusta Webster’s “A Castaway”: A Critique on Victorian Gender Expectations and How they Contributed to Prostitution”
Callie Weiler — “Sexuality and Power Within the Masquerade of Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina”
Devon Hunt — “The Spectacle of Politics in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters”
An Inclusive Tomorrow: Re-Imagining Current Systems
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. PST
Moira Armstrong — “Nondisabled people have suddenly discovered that they can do things like the rest of us”: Disabled Queer Connection during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Hannah Leece — “‘Ain’t I A Woman?’ : Advancing the Conversation on Medical Gaslighting”
Andrea Färber — “Uprooting Power Structures in Climate Change Literature”
Queer Bodies: Exploring and Navigating Liminality
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. PST
Jesse Melgoza III — “Deconstructing Jack Halberstam’s “Queer Time” From His Book In a Queer Time and Place”
Molly Ryan — “Home in the Liminal: Queerness, Pronoia, and Finding an Imaginative Future in Rhetoric and Writing Studies”
Miranda Perez — “Transcending Boundaries Using Intersectionality to Analyze Flight from Nevèrÿon by Samuel R Delaney”
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