How do feminist, queer, and trans ideas move across space, time, and people? In what ways do they spread, transfer, and intersect?
The theme of ISSG's 2025 graduate conference is "Feminisms in Motion: Approaches to Transit, Contagion, and Movement." The conference will take place over the course of a day, featuring five panels:
1. National Genders, National Resistance
・Barbara Roskosa and Ariana Andriichuk (Columbia): “The Impact of the Global Anti-Transgender Movement on Elections: How Digital Populism and Stigmatization Limit Political Participation of Transgendered Persons”
・Emily Drew Huber (Columbia): “Women, Gender, and Alternative Visions for Political Society in the Age of Revolutions”
・Audrey Siraud (Columbia): “Feminist Reimaginings of ‘Mother Ireland’: Gendered Myths, National Identity, and Literary Resistance”
2. Performative Images
・Seoeun Choi (Columbia): “A Century of Modern Erotics: Evolving Images of Transgressive Korean Feminity and Sexuality in the 20th Century”
・Aakanksha Bhatter (Rutgers University): “From the Gaze to the Frame: Colonial Legacies and Ethical Dilemmas in Representing Childhood in Humanitarian Aid”
・Kaitlin Hao (Columbia): “Media as Modes of Transnational Labor Activism, The Saipan Garment Industry, 1980-2010”
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3. Viral Figures
・Lauren Stockmon Brown (Columbia): “Analyzing Miriam Makeba’s 1950-60s Musical Performances: A Precursor to Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness Movement and a Response to the Epistemological Erasure of Blackness in Urban South Africa”
・Yufan Chen (Harvard University): “The Promise of Feminism: The Case of Ueno Chizuko in China”
・Phoebe Jones (Columbia): “Proverbial Treasure: Nanny of the Maroons and Oral Tradition of the Magical Black Woman”
4. Internet Virality & Language
・Lily Weeks (NYU): “Wichapkwze: A Poor Image Hypertext”
・Taylor Geiser (University of Louisville): “Insanity on the Inside: Deconstructing the ‘Mad’ Trope and TikTok as a Platform for Feminist Activism”
・Andraya Yearwood (Columbia): “An Amefrican Historization of a Queer Afro-Brazilian Argot: Language, Non-normative Identity, and Intersectional Feminist Legacy”
5. Textual Circulation & Alternative Presses
・Alaina DiSalvo (CUNY): “Kitchen Table Press: A Case Study of Regression to the Neoliberal Mean”
・Augusta da Silveira de Oliveira (Brown University): “‘Love Between Women’ amidst Repression: Lesbians, Feminism, and Political Activism during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship”
Our space at this conference is very limited, so please only register if you plan to attend. If you can't make it, please cancel your Eventbrite booking so that your spot can be claimed by someone else.
Schermerhorn Extension is wheelchair accessible and has elevators to the conference room. For further information about campus accessibility, please contact Levi Hord at [email protected]. Non-Columbia affiliates will receive an email with campus access information.
This event is made possible thanks to the generous contributions of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
