Friday 26th of May 2017
University of Helsinki, Vuorikatu 3, courtyard, 5th floor, room 532
9:30 Welcome
10:30 – 12:00 Keynote: Akila Kizzi : Pathbreaking francophone women writers in colonial Algeria : Situating womanist/feminist writing in Taos Amrouche, Djamila Debbeche and Assia Djebar
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 15:00 Session 1 A
Lenka Vrábliková: Back to Feminist Utopias: Revisiting Writings of Drucilla Cornell
Lotta Palmgren: Standing Still: Walking Interviews and Poetic Spatial Inquiry
Elspeth Mitchell: Writing La Jeune Fille: Simone De Beauvoir’s Second Sex
Sara Nyman, Mari Lindman & Salla Peltonen: Reading, Writing and Thinking with Valerie Solanas
13:00–15:00 Session 1 B
Jo Darnley: Feminist Readings/writings in the Archive: Co-operative Woman and Woman’s Outlook in Interwar Britain
Joana Matias: “Beautiful Women” in the City of Mirrors: Mian Mian’s Candy, Sexual Politics, and Feminism
Ouerdia Ben Mamar: You Can Brush the Roses But You Cannot Delay Spring
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:30 Session 2
Jonna Nummela: Failure as a Feminist Act
Hanane Boutenbat: Digging Deeper: Feminist Artwork for More Academic Research
Ana Belén Estrada Gorrín & Marga Bujosa Segado: Etnography of Resistance
Claire Paulian: The Many Voices of the Shuttle
Saturday 27th of May 2017
Oranssi, Kaasutehtaankatu 1
9:30 Welcome
10:00 – 11:30 Keynote: Heta Rundgren : Serious playfulness and self-critical practice – articulating academic (in)formality and white feminist racism
11:30 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 15:00 Session 3
Emily Maddox: Autism and Gender: Reading Women’s Online Autobiographical Writings as a Feminist Resistance to the Dominant Discourse of Autism
Joanna Neil: Interview With Self Part II
Yelda Basaran: Contemporary French Women Filmmakers’ Autobiographical Documentaries Negotiating Between Self and History : Children of White Men
Jamie Herd: For Interruptions There Always Will Be…
15:00 – 15:30 Workshop: Susanna Hast: Writing/Thinking from the Body
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee and snack
16:00 – 18:00 Session 4
Alia Zapparova: On Waiting, Leaving, and Other Absences: Nothing as Artistic Practice
Aura Sevón: Hybrid and Multivoiced Practices of Feminist Writing and Literary Activism
Lily Robert-Foley: Speculative Theory in Afrofuturist and Feminist Science Fiction
Elina Saloranta: Voices of Consolation
18:00 – 19:30 Break
19:30 Evening programme at Oranssi
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