Conference Programme

(Re)Branding Feminism 

1-2 March 2011 

at IGRS, 32 Russell Square London WC1B 5DN

PROGRAMME

 Day 1

9-9.30                 Registration & Coffee

9.30-9.45           Welcome - Elisha & Jean

9.45-10.30         Keynote - 'What is a brand, what makes it "work" and what does it matter?' - Alison Camps

                          Chair: Elisha Foust

10.30-10.45       Break

10.45-11.45       First Panel: Intergenerational Feminism

                          'Reclaiming not rebranding' - Catherine Redfern

                          'Of Feminism Born' - Jean Owen

                          Chair: Christine Guilfoyle

11.45-12.45       Second Panel: Performance of Femininity

                           'Naked but in High Heels' - Judith Rifeser

                           'The Day of the Girl: A genealogy of pin-up in the nineteenth century' - Elena Lipsos

                           Chair: TBA

12.45-2.00        Lunch (own arrangements)

2.00-3.00         Performance/ papers: Woman as Saleable

                         'Domesticating Feminism' - Catherine Maffioletti

                         'Everyone else is selling women, why doesn't feminism?' - Elisha Foust

                         Chair: TBA

3.00-4.00         Workshop: 'Frozen: Botox and the Quest for Immortality' - Michele de Leon

4.00-4.30         Break: Tea & Coffee

4.30-5.30         Third Panel: Feminism and the Arts

                         'Feminism in the Twenty-First Century: Elizabeth Badinter and the Tyranny of the Child' - Julie Rodgers

                         'Birthing the Lesbian in Iberia: The Films of Marta Belletbo-Coll' - Monica Varese

                         Chair: TBA

6.00-8.00         Consciousness-raising: 'Reviving Consciousness Raising in the Feminist Movement' - Chitra Nagarajan and Amy Waters

Day 2

9.30-9.50         Performance: 'A Methodology of Locks' - P.A. Skantze, Ella Finer and Emily Orley

9.50-11.20        Forth Panel: Making Waves

                         'Branding Feminism in Turkey' - Aytu Cakici

                         'The Female Writers and Language Use: A Womanist and Socio-Cultural Exporation of Ama
                         Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost and Liz Lockhead's Educating Agnes' - Oludolapo Ojediran

                         'I'm not a feminist but . . . : Negotiating feminism, gender and sexuality in contemporary Britain' -
                          Rebecca Wray

                         Chair: Jean Owen

11.20-11.40     Break: Tea & Coffee

11.40-12.40      Fifth Panel: Hannah Arendt

                         'Feminism and Republicanism' - Coromoto Power Febres

                         'Unsexing the feminist debate with Hannah Arendt' - Lilith C. Dornhuber deBellesiles

                          Chair: TBA

12.40-2.00      Lunch (own arrangements)

2.00-3.00        Workshop: Reflections: Where are we now?

                        Hosts: Elisha Foust and Jean Owen

3.00-4.00       Keynote: Nina Power

                       Chair: Elisha Foust

4.00-4.15       Break: Tea & Coffee

4.15-4.45       Performance & Discussion: 'A Methodology of Locks' - P.A. Skantze, Ella Finer and Emily Orley

                      Chair: TBA

4.45-5.45       Sixth Panel: Divine Rights of Women (Religion/ Spirituality)

                       'The Erosion of the Role of the Feminine in the Divine' - Fari Bradley

                       '(Re)marking God: The Mark of Feminist Intersectionalities' - Jane Mummery & Marnie Nolton

6.00-7.00       Keynote: 'Where are we now - now?' - Naomi Segal

                      Chair: Jean Owen

7.00-?            Pubtalk: Feminism is bollocks

                       Chair: TBA