Schedule of Opening Ceremonies and Workshop Sessions:
Friday, April 15, 2016 / 5PM – 7PM / Benton Museum
Opening Reception and Keynote (6PM):
Stephen Chan (School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London),
“The Imaginary of Jihad: Bodies of Thought and Bodies”
Balcony exhibition “Bodies Living With Violence,” Curated by Christine Sylvester (University of Connecticut, Political Science and WGSS)
Saturday, April 16, 2016 / 8:30AM – 6PM / 310 Student Union
830 – 1030 AM / Session 1
Rod Ferguson, “Neither Necro nor Bio: Black Queer Diaspora and the Question of Life and Its Requirements” (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Kate Capshaw Smith, “Child Bodies and Treacherous Spaces: Emancipatory Possibility in June Jordan’s His Own Where (1971) and James Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man (1976)” (University of Connecticut)
Keith Feldman, “The Incapacitating Scene: Framing Life at Guantánamo” (University of California, Berkeley)
1030 – 1045 AM / Coffee Break
1045 AM – 1245 PM / Session 2
Naomi Paik, “Representing the Disappeared Body: Hunger Strikes and Force Feedings at
Guantanamo” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Juliet Nebolon, “’Life Given Straight from the Heart’: Securing Body, Base, and Nation in
Wartime Hawai`i” (Yale University)
Joseph Darda, “Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome Narrative: Human Rights, the Nayirah
Testimony, and the Gulf War” (Texas Christian University)
1245 – 130 PM / Lunch
145 – 300 PM / Session 3
Nadje Al-Ali, “Beyond ISIS: Gender-based Violence in Iraq” (SOAS, University of London)
Ivan Small, “Displacing Difference: Spectres of Money, Labor and Memory in Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City” (Central Connecticut State University)
300 – 315 PM / Break
330 – 500 PM / Session 4 (Graduate Paper Workshop)
Alex Kreidenweis, “Interstitial Bodies: The Corporeality of War and Security” (UConn, Political Science)
Carol Gray, “Agency, Equality, and Courage: A Case Study of Women on the Front Lines of Egypt’s 2011 Revolution” (UConn, Political Science)
Hayley Stefan, “Constructing the Syrian Refugee through Social Media” (UConn, English and Human Rights)
530 PM / Dinner
PLEASE NOTE
Additional Special Seminar / All are Welcome / FLYER
Thursday, April 14, 4PM, Oak Hall 438
“Gendering the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict:
Intersections of Peace and Women’s Rights Activism”
Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has published widely on women and gender in the Middle East as well as transnational migration and diaspora mobilization. Her publications include What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (2009, University of California Press, co-authored with Nicola Pratt); Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives (Zed Books, 2009, co-edited with Nicola Pratt); Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed Books) and Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2000). Her most recent book (co-edited with Deborah al-Najjar), We are Iraqis: Aesthetics & Politics in a Time of War (Syracuse University Press), won the 2014 Arab-American book prize for non-fiction.