Intersectionality: A Space for Theoretical and Practitioner Discussion

Intersectionality: A Space for Theoretical and Practitioner Discussion

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd November 2014

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS:

Saturday 22nd November

9.30 - 9.45am:  Coffee and registration

09.45am:  Keynote address:

Dr Adrienne Dixon, Associate Professor, University of Illinois:

Title TBC

10.45am:  Break

11.00am:  Panel #1:

Articulating the Intersectional Experience Today

Michelle Mangal, Institute of Education, University of London

Presentation: ‘Personal accounts of Intersectionality and the Academy’

Azeezat Johnson, University of Sheffield:

‘Researching Intersectional Identities through Clothing Practises. The Experiences of Black British Muslim Women’

Dr Torie Weiston-Serdan, Youth Mentoring Action Network:

‘The Intersectionality of Age, Sexuality and Race: Providing Critical Mentorship for LGBTQ Youth of Color’

Dr Eddie Bruce-Jones, Birkbeck College, University of London:

‘The Importance of Intersectional Approaches in Anti-Essentialist Pedagogy’

1.00pm:  Lunch

1.50pm:  Panel #2:

The Theorisation of Intersectionality as a Reflection of Lived Experience - Part 1

Dr Aparecida de Jesus Ferreira, Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London:

‘Autobiographical narratives of Black language teachers in Brazil about racial identity’

Kadian Pow, University of Birmingham

‘Intersectional Netnography: Tumblr and the Alternative Construction of Social Education Discourse’

Anna Kirstine Schirrer, University of Copenhagen

‘Black Feminism in the Age of Colorblindness’

3.20pm:  Break

3.30pm: Panel #3:

The Theorisation of Intersectionality as a Reflection of Lived Experience - Part 2

Professor Maisha Wester

Indiana University

'Figurations of Black Queerness as Scapegoat: Intersections of Race and Homosexuality in the African American Community’

Dr Gabriella Beckles-Raymond, Canterbury Christ Church University

‘Beige Watch: Cultural Body Dysmorphia and the Ugly Side of the Beige Beauty Ideal’

4.30pm:  Roundtable discussion:

Constructing an academy which reflects intersectional identities and experiences

Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, University College London

Dr Kehinde Andrews, Newman University, Birmingham

5:30pm: Close

Sunday 22nd November

9.30 - 9:45am:  Coffee and registration

9:45am:  Keynote address:

Professor Kevin D. Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law, Indiana University:

‘The Inherent Instability of Intersectionality’

10.45am:  Flux Without Pause: Know your frameworks… make a change:

Jason Haye, Artist and Activist

11.25am:  Break

11.35am:  Panel #1:

Speaking to an experience before its time: socio-historical discussions of intersectionallity

Nailah Ricco, J. D., independent scholar:

‘Panthers, Lords and Legality: Exploring the Intersections Between Ethnic Nationalism and the Law’

Rosie Knight, University of Reading:

‘The (In)visibility of White Female Violence: Mistresses and Slaves in Antebellum America’

Dr Fabienne Viala, Associate Professor, University of Warwick:

‘Justice, Performance and Memory in the Caribbean: Cultural Approaches to Reparations in Martinique and Guadeloupe’

1.05pm:  Lunch

1.45pm:  Panel #2:

Race and Gender Intersectionality in the UK Workplace – What’s Not Working?

Roianne Nedd, Diversity Advisor, Opportunity Now & Race for Opportunity

Kathryn Nawrockyi, Director, Opportunity Now

Dr Thomas Colquhoun-Alberts, Knowledge Coordinator, Opportunity Now and Race for Opportunity

Richard Chapman-Harris, Diversity Advisor, Opportunity Now & Race for Opportunity

Opportunity Now and Race for Opportunity are leading gender and race equality campaigns which focus on workplace diversity.

3.15pm:  Break

3:25pm:  ‘Intersectionality? Who cares?’

Professor Thomas Glave, Leverhulme Visiting Professor (Hispanic Studies), University of Warwick

4.05pm:  Roundtable discussion:

Challenges and conflicts of intersectionality in the context of feminist activism

chaired by Dr Denise DeCaires Narain, University of Sussex

Ikamara Larasi, Imkaan

Camille Kumar, Imkaan

Charmaine Elliott, Blackfeminists

Imkaan is a UK-based black feminist organisation which addresses violence against women and girls.

5.35pm: Closing Remarks and Thanks: Race in the Americas (RITA) Group

5:45pm: Close