Queer, Feminist and Social Media Praxis Workshop 2013
17 May 2013 – University of Sussex, Brighton
Programme
To download the programme in pdf format, click: Programme_QFSMworkshop.
16 May 2013
6.30pm Queer film screening: The Owls, Duke’s at the Komedia, plus Q&A with producer Alex Juhasz (supported by SusNet (Sustaining Networked Knowledge), Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence & in collaboration with Eyes Wide Open Cinema)
- followed by dinner & drinks in Brighton (Please note that the film ticket, dinner and drinks are not included in the registration fee).
17 May 2013
8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00-9.15 Introduction
9.15-10.45 Parallel Panels 1, 2, 3
Panel 1: Sexuality in online & offline spaces
- Karina Eileraas Sex(t)ing the Revolution, Recasting Ecstatic Icons: Sexuality, Cyberspace, & Religious Symbolic Politics
- Keren Darmon Studying SlutWalks in Toronto and London: A case study of framing (neo) feminist protests in the new media ecology
- Ingrid Vanderhoeven & Greta Gober Hollaback! Community circle project against street harassment
- Collective ‘COUNTERPUBLICS: Queer Activism, Nationalism, and the Public Space’ 2013, the Abjective Years
Panel 2: Identity, transformation & social media
- Olu Jenzen & Irmi Karl Empowerment through (Virtual) Care? Social media and LGBTQ Youth Engagement
- Tobias Raun Screen-Births: Trans Vlogs as a Transformative media for Self-Representation
- Holly Pines Gender stereotypes & self-representation in photography blogs
Panel 3 Herstories: archiving and remembering
- Lizzie Thynne and Margaretta Jolly Remembering Mary McIntosh 1936-2013: Foremother of feminist and queer praxis
- Celia Vara Early feminist videoart in Spain: Background and state of question (1970-1980)
- Yew-Mien Lor Short Films Screenings and Conversations on HerStories in Contemporary Malaysia
- Sam McBeanBeing "There”: Archiving Contemporary Queer East London
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45 Keynote Speaker Alex Juhasz
Discussant: Caroline Bassett
12.45-13.15 Lunch
13.15 – 14.45 Parallel Panels 4, 5, 6
Panel 4 Digital Storytelling & feminisms
- Sigrid Kannengießer Digital Storytelling as a Method of Women’s Activism
- Jodi NelsonSocial/Digital Storytelling in the online feminist space
- Izzy Fox Ireland’s Facebook Feminists: Social Media and Feminist Activism in Ireland
Panel 5 Activist practices & digital media
- Aristea Fotopoulou Queer and feminist politics media lived
- Legacy Russell Digital Dualism and the New Glitch Feminist Manifesto
- Magda Albrecht #Outcry.Who Cries (Alone)?
- Mayu Iida Reading Karen Barad: Affect, Technoscience, and Nuclear Crisis
Panel 6 Parenting: stories & methodologies
- Jessica Ann Vooris Ghostly Gay Children, Homophobic Hauntings, and Fabulous Futures: Story-telling and Community-Building on the Blog Raising My Rainbow
- Rachel Thomson Making mothers: capturing, animating and sharing ordinary days
- Laing Ming Wong Disavowing the Paternal: Formulating Methodologies
14.45 – 15.15 Coffee Break
15.15- 16.30 Parallel panels, workshops, screenings & performances
ROOM 1 Panel 7: New media bodies: desire & disgust
- Johanna Samuelson & Anna Gibson Seeing Red Project
- Anna Ricciardi & Orsolya BajuszDesire, Disgust and New Media: Re-visiting Laura Kipnis’ ‘Reading Hustler’
- Diana Georgiou & Giulia Casalini CUNTemporary
ROOM 2 Performance:
Hel Gurney & Ross Higman Lashings of Ginger Beer Time: Radical Queer Feminist Burlesque Collective
16.30 – 17.30 Roundtable
Radical art, technology Radical art, feminism, new technologies and performance
with Maria Chatzichristodoulou (a.k.a. Maria X), Kira O’Reilly, Kate O’Riordan (UCSC/Sussex), Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths)
Discussant: Sally-Jane Norman (Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts)
To register: http://queerfemdigiact.wordpress.com/registration/
After the end of the workshop, participants are encouraged to attend the free screening at:
19.30-21.30 (15 min Intro) Film Screening: Circumstance (107 mins), followed by Q&A,
which is part of the second annual conference of the International Feminist Journal of Politics, (Im)possibly Queer International Feminisms, May 17-19, 2013.