Gender,Bodies & Technology:(In)Visible Futures

Gender,Bodies & Technology:(In)Visible Futures

April 21-23, 2016

The Hotel Roanoke and Conference CenterRoanoke, Virginia

hosted by

The program in Women’s and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech

#GBT2016

Planning Committee

Women’s and Gender Studies ProgramVirginia Tech

Conference Director:Christine Labuski, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies; director of the Gender, Bodies & Technology

initiative

Budget Director:Katrina Powell, outgoing Director of Women’s and Gender Studies

Planning Committee: Rayanne Streeter, graduate student in Sociology and Women’s and Gender StudiesClaire Kelling, graduating senior, majoring in Statistics and Economics; minoring in Women’s and Gender Studies and

Women’s LeadershipAli Neff, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana StudiesDonna Riley, Professor of Engineering Education

Performance Coordinator:Amy Splitt, Grant Coordinator/Office Manager, Center for Peace Studies & Violence Prevention/Women’s &

Gender Studies

Special thanks to the following people for moderating panels:Laura Gillman, Professor of Women’s and Gender StudiesSaul Halfon, Associate Professor of Science and Technology in SocietyRebecca Hester, Assistant Professor of Science and Technology in SocietySharon Johnson, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures; incoming director of Women’s and

Gender StudiesKrystin Krist, Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Exercise Science, Methodist UniversityAnn Kilkelly, Professor of TheatreBarbara Ellen Smith, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and SociologyJennifer Turner, graduate student in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies

Special thanks to the following people and offices for scholarship and other financial support:Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia TechCenter for Instructional Development and

Educational ResearchCenter for the Study of Rhetoric in SocietyCenter for the Study of Peace and Violence Prevention College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Department of Engineering EducationDepartment of Science and Technology in SocietyDepartment of SociologyOffice for Inclusion and Diversity Office of the ProvostTechnology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies

An extra special thanks to our Silver Sponsors:Department of EnglishInstitute for Culture, Society, and the Environment

The Graduate School The Moss Center for the Arts

Thanks to the students in Dr. Labuski’s graduate Gender, Bodies & Technology class for presenting their work, moderating panels, and for thinking about GBT with her all semester.

We also wish to thank Continuing and Professional Education at Virginia Tech, in particular, Colleen Bartos, Kortni Lindsay, and Elizabeth Caton.

Members of the Planning Committee have red committee ribbons attached to their name tags; feel free to approach them with questions or needs throughout the conference.

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Department of Sociology 560 McBryde Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061 Telephone: 540-231-2765 Email: chrislab@vt.edu

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College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

April 21, 2016

Welcome to the fourth biannual Gender, Bodies & Technology conference!

With this year’s theme “(In)Visible Futures,” we seek to enrich ongoing conversations regarding gendered and racialized forms of oppression and violence by exploring how modes of technology render both visible and invisible particular kinds of gendered bodies, on what terms, and to what effect. “(In)Visible Futures” engages our present tendentially, with critiques elaborated from the perspective of the future rather than the past. With keynote addresses from Crunk Feminist Collective and Michelle Murphy, we aim for #GBT2016 to be a space of critical reflection regarding how various forms of (in)visibility render certain possibilities more and less “thinkable. We hope, most of all, to incite and propel futures in which we can actively invest and imagine ourselves.

More broadly, GBT continues to be intrigued by the myriad ways that bodies are impacted by technological innovation and gendered expectations and we hope that the papers and performances that you’ll experience over the next two days will deepen your own questions and conversations about these topics. As we critically engage with embodied and technologized futures, we hope to highlight the diversity of approaches taken by the broad range of disciplines represented in our program. GBT is committed not only to divergent intellectual paradigms but also to placing those paradigms in direct conversation with one another. We value the space that learning from each other can provide and, to that end, we warmly invite you to attend the performances, workshops, and other maker spaces during your time here.

With the goal of meeting others and strengthening our sense of community, we hope that you will take advantage of the various informal settings at the conference as well our two primary forms of social media (our Facebook page and our Twitter hashtag—#GBT2016). We have made email addresses and Twitter handles available in the program, and have designated the Bent Mountain room on the upper level as an “R&R” space, equipped with comfortable seating and yoga mats for those who might want to recharge or converse in a quieter atmosphere. This is in addition to the continuous break area outside the session rooms (near the registration table), which has a warm and sunny outdoor patio. Participants have also each received a ticket for one complimentary drink at the hotel, and we hope that you’ll use these to strike up or continue a conversation with a new friend or colleague at the hotel bar or poolside. A map of all these spaces can be found in your conference program.

We are excited to build on the success of our first three meetings, and to continue fostering the international network of scholars working in this exciting and emerging transdiscipline. Our listserv and Facebook community now includes over a thousand people from around the globe, and, as in year’s past, the conference hosts participants from multiple countries and a wide range of backgrounds and academic disciplines. This spring has also seen the launch of our website (genderbodiestechnology.com) and we are looking forward to rolling out an accompanying blog over the late summer and early fall. As a conference participant, we hope you will consider getting involved as a guest editor or contributor!

Please do not hesitate to approach any the members of the planning committee, whose name badges are marked with red ribbons, with any questions about logistics, accommodations, or whatever is on your mind. We hope that your participation at the conference will be productive and provocative and we look forward to getting to know you. Welcome to Roanoke and to Virginia Tech!

Sincerely,

Christine Labuski, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender StudiesDirector, Gender, Bodies & Technology

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table of Contents

Gender, Bodies & Technology Planning Committee ...............Inside Front Cover

Welcome ....................................................................................................................1

The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center Floorplan .......................................2

Program at a Glance ...............................................................................................4

Conference Program ...............................................................................................5

Keynote Speakers ...................................................................................................17

Free wireless service is available in the hotel lobby, but not in the conference center.

tweet about the conference!

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Visit our new website:

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All sessions will be held at The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, April 21

7:30 – 11:00 p.m. Opening reception with DJ Ali Colleen Neff

Friday, April 22

7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Concurrent sessions10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent sessions12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Crystal Ballroom1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote performance: Salt Marsh Suite Washington Lecture Hall2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent sessions4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Keynote presentation: Eesha Pandit, Crunk Feminist Collective

Saturday, April 23

7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Concurrent sessions10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent sessions12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Crystal Ballroom1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote presentation: Michelle Murphy Washington Lecture Hall2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent sessions

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

7:30 – 11:00 p.m. Opening ReceptionAKA, The Hotel Roanoke

Featuring DJ and Virginia Tech faculty member, Ali Colleen Neff

Cash Bar and Light Refreshments

Friday, April 22, 2016

7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast

8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Reproducing Bodies in Circuits of Power and Exchange (Buck Mountain)

a. “Virtual and Reproductive Technologies: Making Egg Donation Visible,” Amy Speier (speieramy@gmail.com)

b. “Ukrainian Egg Donors in the Context of Transnational Reproductive Travel and Labor,” Polina Vlasenko (pvlasenk@indiana.edu)

c. “‘Reproductive Tourism’ from Turkish Egg Donors’ Perspectives,” Burcu Mutlu (bmutlu@mit.edu)

d. “Precarious Time and Anticipatory Eggs: The ‘False Hope’ of Egg Banking Technology,” Rajani Bhatia (rbhatia2@albany.edu)

Moderator: Jennifer Turner (jennlt8@vt.edu)

2. Gendered Technologies of the Self: Making the Therapeutic Visible (Wilson)

a. “Trauma Exposed: Figuring Masculinity in New Therapies for PTSD,” Marisa Brandt (brandtm7@msu.edu)

b. “Affecting Chemicals: Reflecting on the Body in Psychedelic Therapy,” Katherine Hendy (katie.hendy@gmail.com)

c. “Arbitrary Affects: Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Care Work,” Jeffrey Mathias (predictingtherain@gmail.com)

Moderator: Joshua Earle (jearle@vt.edu)

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3. Interpreting Gendered Digitality through an Embodied Lens (Monroe)

a. “Digital Spaces Black Women Gazes: Exhibiting Agency Via Engagement, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,” Jameta Barlow (jbarlow@towson.edu)

b. “Pink Pills, Coercive Rhetorics, and Corporate Sponsored Feminism,” Abigail Morris (morrisa13@students.ecu.edu)

c. “New Technology, Old Ideologies: Anti-Feminist Rhetoric in Online Spaces,” Gina Kruschek (kruschekg14@students.ecu.edu)

d. “Hacking the Hacktivist: An Examination of Gendered Social Activism in Digital Spaces,” Carleigh DeAngelis (deangelisca14@students.ecu.edu)

Moderator: Donna Riley (dmriley@vt.edu

4. Workshop (Madison)

a. “Altered Barbies,” Martha McCaughey (mccaugheym@appstate.edu)

Moderator: Katrina Powell (kmpowell@vt.edu)

#mobilefeministmakerspace #mfms

5. Rendering Gender: Flesh, Ethnicity and the Virtual (Harrison/Tyler)

a. “On Flesh, Agency and Resistance,” Srikanth Mallavarapu (mallavarapu@roanoke.edu)

b. “Facial Trans-Formations: Sexualizing Ethnic Features in the Practice of Facial Feminization Surgery,” Eric Plemons (eplemons@email.arizona.edu)

c. “Discourses of Trans* Bodies Online: Explorations of Replication, Reification, and Resistance,” Toni Roberts (troberts@mta.ca)

d. “Simulated Affect?: Visible and Invisible Renderings of the ‘Third World Woman’ within Empathetic Video Games,” Erika M. Behrmann (erikamb@bgsu.edu)

Moderator: Sharon Johnson (spjohnson@vt.edu)

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6. Performance (lower floor lobby)

a. “Knit Together in the Womb: Frogging,” Samantho Jo Fried (sjfried@vt.edu)

#mobilefeministmakerspace #mfms

10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Workshop (Madison)

a. “ePortfolio Presentations and Digital Performances: Linking How We Identify Offline to Who We Are Online,” Martina Svyantek (svyantek@vt.edu)

Moderator: Martina Svyantek (svyantek@vt.edu)

2. Sound, Sense, and Affect (Wilson)

a. “Bodies in the Cloud: On the Interactive Nodes of Existence of Holographic Entities,” Kathy Nguyen (knguyen32@twu.edu)

b. “Auroratone: Rehabilitation through Synesthesia,” Alexandra Fine (akfine@ucdavis.edu)

c. “Auditing Visibility, Visualizing the Audible: Women, Media and Presence in Dakar, Senegal,” Ali Neff (mail@alicolleenneff.com)

d. “Re-membering Voices and Making Manifest Melville’s Others: A Performative Reading with Digital Accompaniment,” Lissa Holloway- Attaway (lissa.hollowayattaway@his.se)

Moderator: Sarah Giles (gilesse@vt.edu)

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3. Precarious Reproductive Futures: Vulnerable Bodies and Unruly Desires in Contemporary Discourse (Monroe)

a. “Precarious Bodies, Vulnerable Subjects, and the Violence of Surrogacy in Michael Robotham’s The Last Ferry,” Modhumita Roy (modhumita.roy@tufts.edu)

b. “Confessions: Genetic Abortion in Mommy-Memoirs by Waldman and Beck,” Mary Thompson (thompsmx@jmu.edu)

c. “Invisible Power, Beyond Choice: Do-it-yourself Abortion in the Fictions of Castillo, Kincaid, and Kelly,” Jeannie Ludlow (jeannieludlow@gmail.com)

Moderator: Saul Halfon (shalfon@vt.edu)

4. Invisibility, Ignorance, and Epistemology (Buck Mountain)

a. “Rhetorical Purification: Eugenics, Transhumanism, and the Disappearance of the Marginalized,” Joshua Earle (jearle@vt.edu)

b. “Why Deny? The Willful Ignorance of Gender-Based Violence in STEM,” Donna Riley (dmriley@vt.edu)

c. “Epistemological Pluralism in Computer Education: Disrupting Gendered Ways of Teaching and Assessing Knowledge,” Darren Maczka (dmaczka@vt.edu)

Moderator: Laura Gillman (lgillman@vt.edu)

5. Clones in Orphan Black: Bodies as Queer, Reproductive, and Property (Harrison/Tyler)

a. “Kinship as Technology in the World of Orphan Black,” Jessica Herling (jherling@vt.edu)

b. “Queering the Clones of Orphan Black: Reproduction, Eugenics, and Queer Kinship,” Talitha Rose (tkrose@vt.edu)

c. “‘I’m Not Your Property’: Issues of Body Autonomy and Ownership in Orphan Black,” Rayanne Streeter (streetrc@vt.edu)

Moderator: Talitha Rose (tkrose@vt.edu)

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6. Performance (lower floor lobby)

a. “Knit Together in the Womb: Frogging,” Samantho Jo Fried (sjfried@vt.edu)

#mobilefeministmakerspace #mfms

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Crystal Ballroom

1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote Performance (Washington Lecture Hall)

“Salt Marsh Suite”

Directors/choreographers: Carol-Burch Brown (cbb@vt.edu); Ann Kilkelly (akilkell@vt.edu)Assistant director: Kristin Kelly

Dancers: Olivia Bowers, Claire Constantikes, Naphtali Fields, Cambria McMillan-Zapf, Saadia Rais, Rachel Rugh, Julia Russo

2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Biopolitical Dis/Investments (Buck Mountain)

a. “Under the Gaze Again: Governing Pregnant Bodies in the Age of Epigenetics and Human Microbiome,” Chikako Takeshita (chikako.takeshita@ucr.edu)

b. “Re-Visioning the Disposable Body: Deinstitutionalization and Corporeal Power,” Amy Sorensen (acressell@radford.edu)

c. “Toxic Life, Slow Death: Black Geographies and Industrial Toxicity,” Pavithra Vasudevan (pavithra@email.unc.edu)

d. “Toxicity and Technologies of Bodies on the Line: Performing the Politics of Health Justice Activism,” Marie Garlock (writetomarie@gmail.com)

Moderator: Jennifer Turner (jennlt8@vt.edu)

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2. Virtual Gatekeeping (Wilson)

a. “Representation of Queer Bodies in Online Comics: Queer Comics and Their Creators,” Sebastian Rock (rock237574@avila.edu)

b. “Who’s Allowed to Be Here? Analyses of Black Feminist Twitter,” Maryann Kozlowski (kozlowski.maryann@gmail.com)

c. “Fat Vegan Politics: The Invisibility and Hypervisibility of People of Size in the Digital Vegan Community,” Corey Wrenn (cwrenn@monmouth.edu)

d. “Watch Me Disappear: Pro-Anorexia, Self-Injury, and Gendered Bodies in Virtual Communities,” Leandra Preston-Sidler (Leandra.Preston-Sidler@ucf.edu)

Moderator: Rayanne Streeter (streetrc@vt.edu)

3. Genital Assemblages (Monroe)

a. “Hardware Restoration: Reactions to Reconstruction after Male Circumcision and Female Genital Cutting,” Laura M. Carpenter (l.carpenter@vanderbilt.edu)

b. “Vaginal Speculation: Reading Across an Archive of Gendered Microbiota Futures,” Rebecca Howes-Mischel (howesmre@jmu.edu)

c. “Unsexing and Hetero-/Cis-normativity: The Paradox of Museum Taxidermy,” Jonathan Grunert (jgrun1@vt.edu)

d. “McGender: How Medical Technology Creates the Illusion of Choice for Transgender and ‘DSD’ (Intersex) Individuals,” Olivia Thompson (odthompson@radford.edu)

Moderator: Krystin Krist (kkrist@methodist.edu)

4. Workshop (Madison)

a. “From Idea to Launch: How to Start a Revolution through Podcasting,” Dawn Serra (talktome@dawnserra.com)

Moderator: Katrina Powell (kmpowell@vt.edu)

#mobilefeministmakerspace #mfms

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5. “‘What are You Looking At?’: Online Surveillance and Nondominant Bodies,” (Harrison/Tyler)

a. “Surveilling Strangers: Discipline, Networks, and People of Walmart,” Lauren Cagle (cagle@mail.usf )

b. “Watch your Weight!: Ideologies of Infodemiology,” Diane Price-Herndl (priceherndl@usf.edu)

c. “A Beloved Community of Cyborgs: Towards an Understanding of Afro-Transhumanism,” Julian M. Galette (Julian.m.galette@vanderbilt.edu)

Moderator: Ariel Ludwig (arludwig@vt.edu)

4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker (Washington Lecture Hall)

“The Girl Effect: Transnational Paradoxes and Paradigms of Sex-selective Abortion”

Eesha Pandit of the Crunk Feminist Collective

Saturday, April 23, 2016

7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast

8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Gendering Data: Analysis and Production (Buck Mountain)

a. “Feminism Reads Big Data: From Selfie Research to Community Informed Consent,” Elizabeth Losh (lizlosh@wm.edu)

b. “Gender as Data: The Computational Future of the Gender Question,” Laura Norén (laura.noren@nyu.edu)

c. “Pixelation Situation: Shedding Light on the Situatedness of Researchers, their Satellites, and their Data Analyses in Remote Sensing,” Samantha Jo Fried (sjfried@vt.edu)

d. “Desire by Design,” Patrick Keilty (p.keilty@utoronto.ca)

Moderator: Rebecca Hester (rjhester@vt.edu)

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2. Workshop (Wilson)

a. “Critical Workshopping, Sound, and the Practice of Soldering,” Ellen Foster (el.fostek@gmail.com)

Moderator: Katrina Powell (kmpowell@vt.edu)

#mobilefeministmakerspace #mfms

3. Revealing the Body in Pieces (Monroe)

a. “‘Perfect Humans’: Genome Mapping, Race, and Sexuality,” Jennifer A. Hamilton (jhamilton@hampshire.edu)

b. “Mutation in My Code: Genetic Testing, BRCA Data and the Brave New Affective Politics of Genomic Identity,” Kim Surkan (ksurkan@mit.edu)

c. “Variants of Significance? Constructions and Understandings of Cancer Genetic Risk,” Ronna Popkin (rp2471@columbia.edu)

d. “Dissecting the Human/Posthuman Technological Configuration: Public Perceptions of the Body, Gender, Health, and Clinical Practices,” Alana Baker (bakeral13@students.ecu.edu)

Moderator: Jonathan Banda (jpbanda@vt.edu)

4. Bodies and Space (Madison)

a. “Gendering Mopeds and Gendering Users in Taiwan,” Kuan-Hung Lo (khlo@vt.edu)

b. “Women and Maker Spaces,” Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer (Heather.greenhalgh-spencer@ttu.edu)

c. “Ensembles of Dignity: Anxieties in the Public Toilet,” Carmen Christopher (christoc@meredith.edu)

d. “Affective Localities of Violence: Technology and Presentation of Queer Self,” Helis Sikk (hsikk@email.wm.edu)

Moderator: Kuan-Hung Lo (khlo@vt.edu)

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5. Workshop (Harrison/Tyler)

a. “The Gaze at the Gynoid, Robotic Women in Western Science Fiction Film,” Artemis Linhart (artemis.linhart@gmail.com)

Moderator: Amy Splitt (amys@vt.edu)

10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Critical Science Literacy: Feminist, Queer, Trans* and Intersex Interventions (Buck Mountain)

a. “Rethinking ‘Disorders of Sex Development’ : Intersex, Biomedicine, and Social Justice,” David Rubin (davidarubin@usf.edu)

b. “Dreams of a Dyke Science,” Angela Willey (awilley@wost.umass.edu)

c. “Precarity, Evidence, and the Demand for Protection,” Cyd Cipolla (cyd.cipolla@nyu.edu)

d. “Neuroimaging Trans*: A Call for a Trans* Critical Science Studies,” Kristina Gupta (guptaka@wfu.edu)

Moderator: Jessica Herling (jherling@vt.edu)

2. Expecting Embodied Danger: Anticipatory Technologies of Surveillance (Wilson)

a. “Building Resilient Bodies: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV and the Neoliberal Subject,” Jonathan Banda (jpbanda@vt.edu)

b. “Policing in the Age of Big Data: Predictive Technologies and the Making of Criminal Bodies,” Ariel Ludwig (arludwig@vt.edu)

c. “Bioveillance and Biological Danger: Pre-empting Circulation through Techno-Scientific Immunity,” Rebecca Hester (rjhester@vt.edu)

Moderator: Rebecca Hester (rjhester@vt.edu)

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3. Tracking and Regulating (Female) Bodies (Monroe)

a. “Fit to Mother: Risk and Self-Care in the Pregnant Athlete,” Lorin Shellenberger (lorin.shellenberger@vt.edu)

b. “Cyborg Neoliberalism: Practicing Neoliberal Subjectivity through the Fitness Tracker,” Caroline Alphin (calphin1@vt.edu)

c. “Suppressing the Modern Period: Biomedicalization and Intimate Norms of Menstruation,” Katie Ann Hasson (khasson@usc.edu)

d. “The Infertile Female Body: Embodiment, Visualization, and Discipline through Transvaginal Ultrasound Technology,” Heather Deering (hldeerin@mtu.edu)

Moderator: Krystin Krist (kkrist@methodist. edu)

4. Performance (Madison)

a. “Invisible Death: Cooking with Pests,” Lindsay Garcia (ldgarcia@email.wm.edu)

Moderator: Amy Splitt (amys@vt.edu)

5. Mediating Symbolic Bodies (Harrison/Tyler)

a. “Electric Girls and Spirit Telegraphs: Feminine Bodies and Mediumship as Communication Technology,” Melissa Adams (mbadams4@ncsu.edu)

b. “Books, Patriarchal Agency, and the (In)visible Body of the Princess: Future Uses and Medieval Context for Disney’s Sleeping Beauty,” Carlee A. Bradbury (cabradbur@radford.edu)

c. “Trans-cendence and Trans-gression in Deepa Mehta’s Elements Trilogy,” Rose Hartfield Wilson (rosehwilson@gmail.com)

d. “Claiming Queers Now and Then: Past, Politics, and Pop Culture”, Loran Renee Marsan (marsan@ohio.edu)

Moderator: Sharon Johnson (spjohnson@vt.edu)

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Crystal Ballroom

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1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker Washington Lecture Hall

“Chemical Exposure and Decolonial Potential”

Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto

2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

1. Performance (Washington Lecture Hall)

“There is Pleasure in the Pathless Woods” Choreographer: Claire Constantikes (constantikes@yahoo.com)

Dancers: Claire Constantikes, Fiona Harris, Cambria McMillan-Zapf, Scott Wagner, Kevin Wood Musician: George Tatum

Technical Director: Shawn VanSchuyver, Scott Wagner Moderator: Ann Kilkelly (akilkell@vt.edu)

2. Illegible Labor: On Visibility, Reproduction, and the Work of Women’s Bodies in Medicine (Wilson)

a. “‘#ThankYouHenrietta’: Reflections on Science, Justice, and the Politics of Refusal,” Sandra Harvey (sharvey1@ucsc.edu)

b. “(Im)Possible (In)Visibilities: Exploring Differential Labor in the Production of ‘Defective’ Female Genitalia in the FGCS Industry,” Jessica Neasbitt (jneasbit@ucsc.edu)

c. “‘Not Quite Normal’: Buck v. Bell and the Establishment of Eugenic Visibilities in the United States,” Amanda Reyes (amrreyes@ucsc.edu)

Moderator: Christine Labuski (chrislab@vt.edu)

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3. Monstrous Reproduction (Monroe)

a. “‘That Child is Possessed’: Monstrous Birth and Dissociative Motherhood in Civil War Literature,” Verdie Culbreath (vmc47@cornell.edu)

b. “Pregnant Butch? : Portraying the Masculine Pregnant Body,” Laura Hartmann-Villalta (hartmann.la@husky.neu.edu)

c. “Fetal Imposition: Scientism and Sexism in Damien Hirst’s The Miraculous Journey,” Beck Wise (beck.wise@utexas.edu)

Moderator: Jonathan Banda (jpbanda@vt.edu)

4. Workshop and Performance (Madison)

a. Workshop: “Pseudonymity in Location-based Social Discovery Apps and the Visibility of Gender and Sexual Identity,” Dana Riger (driger@vt.edu)

b. Performance: “Distance Methods of Movement Collaboration: Solo/Solo and Processes of Remote Dance Making,” Mountain Empire Performance Collective (Rachel Rugh and Katie Sopoci Drake) (rachel.g.rugh@gmail.com, mountainempiredance@gmail.com)

5. Sex and the Song: The Virtual-Material in Musical Production (Harrison/Tyler)

a. “Masculinity, Music & Muscle: The ‘Missing Males’ in Adolescent Singing,” Patrick Freer (pfreer@gsu.edu)

b. “(In)audible Futures: Predictive Analytics in Personal Genomics and Music Streaming,” Amanda Modell (amodell@ucdavis.edu)

c. “Femmeshedding: How Female Musicians Access a Uniquely Gendered Perspective from Recording in Private,” Malavika Sahai (msahai@vt.edu)

Moderator: Samantha Jo Fried (sjfried@vt.edu)

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Eesha Pandit of the Crunk Feminist Collective

Eesha Pandit is a Houston-based writer, activist, and consultant for social justice organizations. Her writing can be found at The Crunk Feminist Collective, Feministing, The Nation, RH Reality Check, Feministe, Bitch Magazine and In These Times. She has also appeared on numerous TV news outlets including CNN, HLN, and MSNBC. She is currently a regular contributor to Salon where she covers issues relating to race, gender, reproductive justice, immigration and social justice movements.Eesha works with national and international organizations to create, implement, and sustain effective programs and impactful communications strategies. Her recent clients include: Provide, Women with a Vision, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, The International Rescue Committee, The NoVo Foundation, The Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, The National Network of Abortion Funds, and The Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program. Eesha has a long history of non-profit leadership, having worked as Executive Director of Men Stopping Violence, a social change organization dedicated to ending men’s violence against women. She has also served as Women’s Rights Manager at Breakthrough, a global human rights organization, where she worked on the Bell Bajao! (Ring the Bell!) Campaign that asks men and boys to get involved in ending violence against women. She has also served as Director of Advocacy at Raising Women’s Voices (RWV), a national initiative working to ensure that women’s voices and concerns are heard and addressed as policymakers put the new health reform law into action, and as Associate Director of Programs at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College. She has also worked with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, and Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Rights Program, and currently serves on the board of the National Network of Abortion Funds. Eesha has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.

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Michelle Murphy, University of TorontoProfessor of History and Woman and Gener Studies

Michelle Murphy is a historian of the recent past and feminist technoscience studies scholar who theorizes and researches about the politics of technoscience; sexed, raced, and queer life; environmental politics; biopolitics and necropolitics; as well as economics, capitalism and financialization particularly in contemporary, cold war, and postcolonial conjunctures associated with the United States, Canada, and more recently

Bangladesh. She is a co-organizer of Technoscience Salon and Director of the Technoscience Research Unit. She has graduate appointments at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, as well as the School of Environment. In addition, she has graduate appointments in Science and Technology Studies and the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Michelle’s forthcoming book, The Economization of Life, explores the rise of techniques that differentially value life based on its ability to foster the macroeconomy; in it, she hopes to expand the ways we theorize and understand the entanglements between reproduction, experiment, and economy in the late twentieth century.

Michelle is also the author of Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience and Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers, which won the 2008 Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Michelle is currently working on two related projects, The first, Distributed Reproduction, seeks to theorize an alternative ontology and scale for reproduction that exceeds individual embodiment and instead encompasses temporally and geographically extensive configurations of sex, living-being, technoscience, environmental politics, and political economy. Related, her research is concerned with the life, death, and future of “alter life” – life already altered by histories of capitalism, pollution, violence, and colonialism – within the worlds and infrastructures of the Great Lakes and the St. Clair River.

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