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PRESIDENTIAL SESSIONS |
Friday 11:15am-12:30PM
NWSA PRESIDENTIAL SESSION: POSTCOLONIAL SEXUALITY THEORIZING
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Many scholars and activists have addressed how sexuality has been regulated by various institutions and through “daily life,” as well as how disputes over sexuality undergird broader struggles concerning sovereignty, nation-building, globalization and empire.
A great deal of current discussion on sexuality, particularly in postcolonial societies, has taken place in a state of international moral panic. How women’s bodies are marked in sexualized terms - be it through discourses of globalization, racialization, or trans/national labor circuits - contributes to their (im)mobility as sexual citizens. Yet discussions of sexual agency, pleasure, and the negotiation of desire or eroticism often get left out of the discussion.
On this panel, three noted scholars of postcolonial sexuality studies discuss their own work in relation to this broad and engaging field, with the aim of bringing to fore some of the key areas of debate and suggesting possibilities for re-imagining sexual agency outside the (hetero)normative grain of Eurocentric pathologies and racial taxonomies.
Amy Lind, University of Cincinnati
Ara Wilson, Duke University
Alicia Arrizón, University of California, Riverside
Kamala Kempadoo, York University, CA
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Friday 1:30PM-2:45PM
PRESIDENTIAL SESSION: FEMINISM THEORIES OF GLOBALIZATION AND EMPIRE
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Feminist critiques of globalization have variously focused on the disproportionate impact on women, particularly in the global South. of global capitalist economic restructuing, cultural imperialism, and the neoliberal political restructuring of privatization. Feminist scholars and activists have also foregrounded women’s resistances to these forces at local, national, regional, and transnational levels and the cooperations, tensions, and problematics among these movements.
Such resistances, however, are further complicated by what some view as the rise of empire, which either coopts or further marginalizes such resistances. These well-known scholars of femnist globalzation studies will offer their analyses of the current state of feminist resistances to globalization and how they can be furthered to act “against empire.”
Valentine M. Moghadam, Purdue University
Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Nancy Naples, University of Connecticut
Debra J. Liebowitz, Drew University
Moderator: Sheila Croucher, Miami University, Ohio |
Saturday 11:15am-12:30pm
NWSA PRESIDENTIAL SESSION: A CONVERSATION WITH PAULA GIDDINGS ABOUT “IDA: A SWORD AMONG LIONS,” FACILITATED BY BEVERLY GUY SHEFTALL
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Paula J. Giddings, Smith College
Beverly Guy Sheftall, Spelman College
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Saturday 12:30pm-1:30pm
PRESIDENTIAL SESSION:
Unpacking the Data: NWSA’s Survey of Women’s Studies Programs and Views from the Field
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This session highlights some of the data from NWSA’s data collection project, and invites panelists to respond to questions about the field. For example, NWSA’s data shows that women’s studies programs serve vast numbers of students through general education courses, while the number of majors is relatively small in comparison.
What challenges and opportunities do these numbers suggest?
Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University
Diane Harriford, Vassar College
Sheila Hassell Hughes, University of Dayton
Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Southern Connecticut State University
Moderator: Allison Kimmich, NWSA Ececutive Director |
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