Creating Resistance Symposium UBC
This one-day events brings together academics, artists, curators and activists engaged in research and creative practices that work to challenge or re-imagine commonly held ideas about gender, sexuality, class and race, as well as notions of performance, art and curatorial practice.
FREE, ACCESSIBLE, NO NEED TO REGISTER
Keynote: Ann Cvetkovich
Ann Cvetkovich is Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers, 1992) and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke, 2003). She edited, with Ann Pellegrini, “Public Sentiments,” a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online. She is coeditor, with Annamarie Jagose, of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Inspired by Public Feelings groups in Chicago, Austin, and New York, she is currently writing a book about depression.
Participants Include: Mary Bryson (CCFI, UBC), Natalie Doonan (AHVA, UBC), Laiwan (Goddard College, WA), Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Artist, Vancouver), Hui-Ling Lin (WMST, UBC), Helena Reckitt (Curator, PowerPlant Gallery, Toronto), Marina Roy (AHVA, UBC), Jen Weih (AHVA, UBC)
Event Schedule:
9:30-10:45: Performance Panel: Roy, Weih, L’Hirondelle
11:00-12:30:Keynote: Ann Cvetkovich
12:30-1:30: Lunch (provided)
1:30-2:45: Film/ New Media Panel: Bryson, Lin, Laiwan
3:00-4:15: Critical Curatorial Panel: Reckitt+ Respondent
Events Sponsors:
Gender Performances Research Group UBC,
The Vancouver Art Gallery,
AMS Innovative Projects Fund,
Access and Diversity UBC,
The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies UBC,
Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education UBC,
Critical Studies in Sexuality UBC,
Department of English UBC
