7:00am to 6:00pm

Registration (Thursday)

1:00 to 2:15pm

Digital Embodiments

2:30 to 3:45pm

Biopolitical Futures

4:00 to 5:15pm

Decolonial and Anti-Capitalist Perspectives on Trans Embodiment

1:00 to 2:15pm

Bodies as Feeling and Unruly Sites of Resistance

2:30 to 3:45pm

Imagining Africa's Futures: Knowledge, Power, Technology, and the Body

4:00 to 5:15pm

Graduate Students Unite! Lessons from a Women’s and Gender Studies Department

7:30 to 8:30am

PAD Breakfast

8:45 to 10:15am

PAD: Decolonizing Higher Education: Why Diversity Doesn’t Work

1:00 to 2:15pm

Academic Publishing in Women’s Studies: Journals

2:30 to 3:45pm

AMC: Narrating Love and Violence: Women Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India

4:00 to 5:15pm

AMC: Embodied Reckonings: "Comfort Women," Performance, and Transpacific Redress

7:30 to 8:45am

WC Breakfast

10:30am to 12:00pm

PAD: Rethinking Whiteness and Antiracist Racism in WGS Programs

1:00 to 2:15pm

PAD: The Decision to Departmentalize: Pressures, Politics, Practicalities

2:30 to 3:45pm

PAD: Crisis and/or Opportunity? The Challenges of Directing WGSS Programs at Small Liberal Arts Colleges Today

4:00 to 5:15pm

PAD Business Meeting

10:30am to 12:00pm

PAD: Connecting WGSS Coursework to Praxis: Programmatic Tools to Help Students Work Toward Just Futures

1:00 to 2:15pm

PAD: Imagining Justice: Diverse Hiring, Retention, and Building New University Policies

2:30 to 3:45pm

PAD: Managing Difference: Protecting Trans and GNC Faculty in the Age of Diversity, Multiculturalism, and the Alt-Right

1:00 to 2:15pm

PAD: Race, gender and equity in the academy:What's service got to do with it?

2:30 to 3:45pm

PAD: Becoming Visible: The Collaborative Administration and Development of GWSS Programs at Community Colleges

4:00 to 5:15pm

On White Supremacy and Free Speech: Backlashes, Academic Freedom, Gendered and Racial Violence and Four Women Taking the Hit

10:30am to 12:00pm

PAD: Advice for New Chairs and Directors: Sharing Institutional Knowledge to Protect and Grow WGS Scholarship and Teaching

1:00 to 2:15pm

PAD: Imagining the Just Institution: Creating Real Change within the Institution

2:30 to 3:45pm

PAD: Meaningful Assessment in WGS: Challenges, Successes, and Strategies

9:00 to 10:15am

WoCLP: Navigating the Academy: Challenges and Solutions (Group A)

10:30am to 12:00pm

WoCLP: When I Dare to Dream: Strategic Planning Session (Group A)

2:30 to 3:45pm

WoCLP: When I Dare to be Powerful: Leadership Development Workshop (Group A)

9:00 to 10:15am

WoCLP: Navigating the Academy: Challenges and Solutions (Group B)

10:30am to 12:00pm

WoCLP: When I Dare to Dream: Strategic Planning Session (Group B)

2:30 to 3:45pm

WoCLP: When I Dare to be Powerful: Leadership Development Workshop (Group B)

9:00am to 5:15pm

WC Processing and Self Care Space

7:30 to 8:45am

WoCLP: Welcome and Breakfast

1:00 to 2:15pm

WoCLP: Words of Wisdom: A Presidential Roundtable

4:00 to 5:15pm

WoCLP: Seeking to Connect: Sharing and Networking

5:30 to 6:30pm

WoCLP Reception

10:30am to 12:00pm

WC: We Refuse to be Silent: “Sista Circles” at Predominately White Institutions

1:00 to 2:15pm

WC: Building Counterspaces of Support and Resistance: An Exploration of Women of Color Cohort Models

2:30 to 3:45pm

WC: Supporting our Sisters, Not Just our Cis-ters: Radical Inclusion for our TGNC siblings

4:00 to 5:15pm

WC Skill Sharing and Networking

9:00 to 10:15am

WC: How to Cultivate Students Leaders as Radical Justice-Oriented Visionaries, Creators, and Makers

10:30am to 12:00pm

WC: Are We Bad Feminists?: Who Do Women’s Centers Serve and How?

1:00 to 2:15pm

WC: Daring to Care: Nurturing Intersectional Dialogues on Campus

2:30 to 3:45pm

WC: About the book: University and College Women’s and Gender Equity Centers: The Changing Landscape

4:00 to 5:15pm

Visual Cultures and Performance

2:15 to 5:15pm

NWSA Music and Poetry Set

1:00 to 5:15pm

The Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin K-12 Feminist Teacher Pre-Conference

7:30am to 12:00pm

Gender, Women's, and Feminist Studies PhD Interest Group Pre-Conference

1:00 to 5:15pm

Teaching Gender and Sexual Justice: Arab and Muslim Communities Institute

1:00 to 2:15pm

Gender, Race, and the Historical Imagination in the 2016 Presidential Election

2:30 to 3:45pm

Imagining Justice in STEM Spaces: Pushing Back Against Harassment, Bullying, and Exclusionary Behavior in Field Work,...

4:00 to 5:15pm

Activism

1:00 to 2:15pm

Art Moves: From Text to Action

2:30 to 3:45pm

Afro Futures: Black Women, Natural Hair Politics, and Re-Imaginings of Beauty/ Studies

4:00 to 5:15pm

Another World is Possible: Reframing the Earth through Feminist Cosmologies

1:00 to 2:15pm

Making Art, Teaching Change: Engaging Feminist and Queer of Color Pedagogies in the Classroom

2:30 to 3:45pm

Artistic Counter-storytelling as Liberatory Praxis: Re-imagining and Re-storying Political Identities to Reclaim Power

4:00 to 5:15pm

Biopolitics of Birth and Labor

1:00 to 2:15pm

Imagínate: Bridging Communidad and Academia through Media & DIY Content Creation

2:30 to 3:45pm

A Dialogue on NGO-Academic Collaborations: Pitfalls and Promising Steps Forward

4:00 to 5:15pm

Black Sugar/Azúcar Negra: Thinking Latinidad, Blackness, and Latinx Anti-Blackness Through Diasporic Queer and Feminist Art

1:00 to 2:15pm

Continuing a Critical Engagement with the work of José Esteban Muñoz: Transgressive Utopias and Disidentifying Performances...

2:30 to 3:45pm

Childhood, Adolescence and Sexuality: Social change approaches in Children's Literature

4:00 to 5:15pm

Proclaim, Pause, Repeat: Envisioning a collective feminist future through reactive sound.

1:00 to 2:15pm

(De)Regulating Desire: Critiquing and Reimagining Settler-Colonial Sexualities at the Borders of the Nation-State

2:30 to 3:45pm

Reimagining Pedagogical Methods and Principles through Transformative Performance and Praxes of New and Old

4:00 to 5:15pm

Following Ghosts: Contesting Pasts, Haunting Futures, and Engendering Praxes of Resistance

1:00 to 2:15pm

Gender, Sexuality, Disability

2:30 to 3:45pm

Decolonizing Spatiotemporality and Corporeality through Black Radical Imaginaries

4:00 to 5:15pm

Vulnerable Desires

1:00 to 2:15pm

(Il)Legible Bodies and (Im)Possible Transitions to a Fuller Trans Politic

2:30 to 3:45pm

Envisioning a Future of Liberatory Interdisciplines in Universities

4:00 to 5:15pm

Meditations on the Future: Water, Memory and the Sacred in the work of M. Jacqui Alexander

1:00 to 2:15pm

Inviting Interrogation Beyond Fragility

4:00 to 5:15pm

Black Feminist Food Futures: Towards a Praxis of Liberation

2:30 to 5:15pm

Jewish Feminisms 1970-2018 Session

1:00 to 2:15pm

Cite Black Women: A Critical Praxis

4:00 to 5:15pm

Imagining Spaces of Impossible Trans Political and Cultural Resistance

1:00 to 2:15pm

Radical Reproductions

4:00 to 5:15pm

Alternative Futures in Translation: The Making of Transnational Feminist Imaginations

1:00 to 2:15pm

Beyond Neoliberal Development: Imagining and Enacting Economic Alternatives

2:30 to 3:45pm

Feminist Resistance, the Futurity of Value: Unmoored from Property and Division, Against Racial Capitalism

4:00 to 5:15pm

Marxism, Feminism and Intersectionality: Imagining New labor economies

1:00 to 2:15pm

Becoming Undisciplined: Black Graduate Students on Refusal, Pleasure, and Possibility

2:30 to 3:45pm

“Staging Resistance: Dramatizing Black Feminist Futures”

4:00 to 5:15pm

Stealin’ and Meetin’: A Black women’s reading circle as intellectual maroonage

7:30am to 5:15pm

Maternal Care Room Thursday

9:00am to 5:15pm

Child Care Thursday

6:45 to 9:15pm

Child Care Keynote

12:00 to 1:00pm

Pre-Conference Lunch

7:30am to 5:15pm

Quiet Space Thursday

7:00 to 9:00pm

Keynote Conversation: Elizabeth Alexander & Alondra Nelson

5:30 to 6:30pm

Graduate Student Reception

9:00 to 10:30pm

NWSA Welcome Reception

3:00 to 7:00pm

Exhibit Hall Thursday