[ATTW-L] Coalition of Feminist Scholars Wednesday night meeting at Cs

[Greer, Jane]

Dear All,

If you will be attending the 2019 CCCC in Pittsburgh, please join us on Wednesday, March 13, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. for our annual pre-conference session and sponsored evening event, with critical microtalks, mentoring tables, and anniversary celebration! (You may already know that 2019 marks the Coalition's 30th year.)

As usual, our two-part session is open to all CCCC conference-goers, and no registration or sign-up is required.

Part One of the session features four brief talks, each offering an angular take on what it means to interrogate or dwell within “intersections” today.

Heather Adams (UNC Greensboro Dept. of English) will talk on “Intersectionality and Age,” asking us to consider age not only as an ideological construct—thus, as a frame for interpreting development, decline, non/normalcy, durability/vulnerability, and potentiality—but also as a narrativizing device for contemporary rhetorical action and activism. Jenny Ungbha Korn (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society) will talk on “Representational Intersectionality Online,” asking us to consider how cultural constructions in online texts across race and gender may operate according to black-white dichotomies, excluding Latinx and Asian-American women from nuanced discussions of representational justice. Lana Oweidat (Goucher College Dept. of Writing Studies) will talk on “Disrupting Empty Multiculturalisms,” asking us to examine a series of cross-cultural encounters that challenge even contemporary re/conceptions of “tolerance for the Other” and discomfit even postmodern re/conceptions of how U.S. empire and racist discourses occur in the classroom. Finally, Sarah Singer(UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of English & Comp Lit) will talk on “Chronic and Contested Illnesses,” asking us what ethical issues, methods, or tools feminist rhetoricians should consider when they apply intersectional analyses to studies ranging from well-understood conditions (such as Type I Diabetes) to generally un-manageable conditions (such as Myalgic Encephalopathy, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 

Part Two of the session features mentoring tables, co-led by seasoned and emerging scholars, on various topics—some unique to this Coalition event, and others repeated by popular demand.

Please do join us in Rms. 301-305 of the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh!

With best wishes for a sane February and March,

–Tarez Samra Graban
CFSHRC President