Feminist Thinking Graduate Conference 2025

Join us on Sunday 16th February for the annual Feminist Thinking Graduate Conference!

Register here for in-person attendance only.

The conference is part of the Feminist Thinking Seminar Series, organised by graduate students on the MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS). The goal of the day, and of this series, is not to decide what feminist thinking is but rather to ask what it could be.

From film studies to memory studies, from photography to philosophy, and from the law to literature, graduates of the WGSS 2023-2024 programme will present and discuss their research. We are privileged to be joined online by our keynote speaker, and teacher, Dr Eleri Anona Watson, Fellow in Queer Studies, Lecturer and Tutor in English and WGSS at the University of Oxford.

Light vegetarian and vegan refreshments will be provided throughout the day.

Feminist Thinking Graduate Conference 2025 Schedule

Welcome 9:45-10:00

Panel: 10:00-11:05 – Feminist Epistemologies, Power, and the Law

10:00-10:15 – Maisy Bentley, Feminist pedagogy: responsive regulation of professor-student sex as a pedagogical and patriarchal failure

10:15-10:30 – Elise Juncker, ‘It’s not like we haven’t been shouting about this!’ - Discursive Disconnects between Law- and Policy-Makers, Academics, and Sex Work Activists in England

10:30 – 10:45 – Yoshiyuki Ishikawa, What will happen to feelings now?

10:45-11:05 – Panel Discussion

Panel: 11:10-12:15 – Storytelling

11:10-11:25 – Anitta Jia, The Lesbian Continuum in Aparna Sen’s Cinema

11:25-11:40 – Verónica Mondragón, Catharsis and Wilfulness in the Monstrous-Feminine

11:40-11:55 – Calum Stewart, Mimicry, Menace, and Nation: Homonormativity and the Homosexual Citizen in 1950s English Literature

11:55-12:15 – Panel Discussion

Lunch: 12:15-12.50

Panel: 12:55-14:00 - Life Writing and Oral Histories

12.55-13.10 – Kris Tay, ကမ္ဘာမကြေဘူး (Until The End of The World: Social movements and solidarity in Myanmar and for Palestine

13.10-13-25 – Isobel Walsh, 'The Beautiful Yellow Daffodils': Magdalene Women, Joy and Liveability.

13.25-13.40 – Sam Miller, "Don't let us tie ourselves up in the thread of history!": Women, Class, and the Making of History in the Life and Writing of Winifred Horrabin

13.40-14.00 – Panel Discussion

Keynote Speaker: 14:00-14:45

Dr Eleri Anona Watson, ‘Aimance as a Way of Life’: Queering Derrida and Cixous’ Loving Friendship

Panel: 15:00-16:20 – Activism, Affect, and Feminist Futures

15:00-15:15 – Kezia Mbonye, Black Women’s Photography in 1980s-90s Britain: Visual Histories and Future Imaginaries

15:15-15:30 – Lucas De Lellis da Silva, Either Queer or Muslim: Student Organizing at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)

15:30-15:45 – Cinthya Cecilia Alvarado Rivera, Reweaving Justice in Militarised Contexts: Insights from Guanajuato, Mexico

15:45-16:00 – Kelly McCormack, Impossible Crossing: An Autoethnographic Journey into the Boys’ Club to Hear How it Talks About Rape

16:00-16:25 – Panel Discussion

End: 16:30