Feminist Thinking Graduate Conference 2025
Gaps, Collectivities, Imaginaries
Feminist Thinking Graduate Conference 2025: Gaps, Collectivities, Imaginaries
Intersectional Humanities Programme
Sunday 16 February 2025, 9:45am-3:30pm
Online and in-person at Park 05, Somerville College, Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HD
Free but registration is required.
Register here for in-person attendance.
Register here for online attendance.
The online registration closes 2 hours before the start of the event. You will be sent the joining link within 24 hours of the event, on the day and once again 15 minutes before the event starts.
Join us on Sunday 16th February for the annual Feminist Thinking Graduate Conference!
The conference is part of the Feminist Thinking Seminar Series, organised by graduate students on the MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS). The goal of the day, and of this series, is not to decide what feminist thinking is but rather to ask what it could be.
From film studies to memory studies, from photography to philosophy, and from the law to literature, graduates of the WGSS 2023-2024 programme will present and discuss their research. We are privileged to be joined online by our keynote speaker, and teacher, Dr Eleri Anona Watson, Fellow in Queer Studies, Lecturer and Tutor in English and WGSS at the University of Oxford.
Light vegetarian and vegan refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
Feminist Thinking Graduate Conference 2025 Schedule
Welcome 9:45-10:00
Panel: 10:00-11:05 – Feminist Epistemologies, Power, and the Law
10:00-10:15 – Maisy Bentley, Feminist pedagogy: responsive regulation of professor-student sex as a pedagogical and patriarchal failure
10:15-10:30 – Elise Juncker, ‘It’s not like we haven’t been shouting about this!’ - Discursive Disconnects between Law- and Policy-Makers, Academics, and Sex Work Activists in England
10:30 – 10:45 – Yoshiyuki Ishikawa, What will happen to feelings now?
10:45-11:05 – Panel Discussion
Panel: 11:10-12:15 – Storytelling
11:10-11:25 – Anitta Jia, The Lesbian Continuum in Aparna Sen’s Cinema
11:25-11:40 – Verónica Mondragón, Catharsis and Wilfulness in the Monstrous-Feminine
11:40-11:55 – Calum Stewart, Mimicry, Menace, and Nation: Homonormativity and the Homosexual Citizen in 1950s English Literature
11:55-12:15 – Panel Discussion
Lunch: 12:15-12.50
Panel: 12:55-14:00 - Life Writing and Oral Histories
12.55-13.10 – Kris Tay, ကမ္ဘာမကြေဘူး (Until The End of The World: Social movements and solidarity in Myanmar and for Palestine
13.10-13-25 – Isobel Walsh, 'The Beautiful Yellow Daffodils': Magdalene Women, Joy and Liveability.
13.25-13.40 – Sam Miller, "Don't let us tie ourselves up in the thread of history!": Women, Class, and the Making of History in the Life and Writing of Winifred Horrabin
13.40-14.00 – Panel Discussion
Keynote Speaker: 14:00-14:45
Dr Eleri Anona Watson, ‘Aimance as a Way of Life’: Queering Derrida and Cixous’ Loving Friendship
Panel: 15:00-16:20 – Activism, Affect, and Feminist Futures
15:00-15:15 – Kezia Mbonye, Black Women’s Photography in 1980s-90s Britain: Visual Histories and Future Imaginaries
15:15-15:30 – Lucas De Lellis da Silva, Either Queer or Muslim: Student Organizing at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)
15:30-15:45 – Cinthya Cecilia Alvarado Rivera, Reweaving Justice in Militarised Contexts: Insights from Guanajuato, Mexico
15:45-16:00 – Kelly McCormack, Impossible Crossing: An Autoethnographic Journey into the Boys’ Club to Hear How it Talks About Rape
16:00-16:25 – Panel Discussion
End: 16:30
