BOOK OF ABSTRACTS [PDF]:Lesbian Lives 2019 book of abstracts
*NB this is a provisional programme subject to change*
Friday 15th March
09:00 – 09:45 Registration and coffee – Grand Parade, Sallis Benney
09:45 – 10:00 Welcome – Grand Parade, Sallis Benney
10:00 – 11:00 KEYNOTE: Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Executive Director and Co-Founder of UK Black Pride – Grand Parade Sallis Benney
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions – All in Edward Street
Please choose 1 panel session or workshop to attend
Panel 1 – Lesbian Pasts -Edward street room 309 Chair : Caroline Gonda
Sarah-Joy Ford – Queering Suffrage: an embroidered strategy for making lesbian lives visible
Isabelle Salem Diego Sentis – Let’s celebrate the riots of Stonewall by documenting the history of our (lesbian) bars
Rose Collis – Forty Years Out (And Counting) — An Illustrated Presentation
Evan Hazenberg – ‘Sounding lesbian’ in New Zealand: Then and now
Panel 2 – Lesbians in/on/and Popular Culture – Edward Street room 211 Chair: Olu Jenzen
Ann-Marie Hanlon – The Politics of Visibility in Irish Popular Music
Julie Mooney-Somers – Why mass media anti-smoking campaigns fail to engage lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women in Australia
Zoe McCluskey – “I kissed a Girl and I liked it”: Navigating through Cis-Gender Female Subjective Experiences and Pop-Song Representation of the ‘Heteroflexible Discourse’
Panel 3 – Living Lesbian Lives – Edward Street room 103 Chair: Lucie Fremlova
Doreen Fumia – Researching Lesbian Ageing using photo voice
Dean Inwood – LGBTQ+ individuals’ lived experiences of coming out
Gail Neill – ‘And so I was reminded that I was not normal’: Young women with disabilities reflect on their experiences growing up LGBTQ in Northern Ireland.
Mary Leontsini and Persefoni Kerentzi – “(In)visible homoerotic practices of Greek women: (Im)possible relationships or strategic practices”?
Workshop 1 – “The L-files: Writing lesbian lives from scratch” – Enrica Pianaro – Dorset place room 501
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch – Edward Street – 1st floor
13:45 – 15:15 Parallel Sessions – Edward Street
Please choose 1 panel session or workshop to attend
Panel 4 – Fashioning Lesbian Bodies – Dorset place room 501 Chair: Irmi Karl
Eleanor Medhurst – Walking Lesbian Flags: the re-appropriation of pink within queer femininities
Erin J. Rand – “Ravishing Resistance: The Radical Aesthetics of Queer Feminine Fashion”
Simone Tichter – Decentering Bodies: Objects at Dyke Marches
Panel 5 – Gendering Lesbians – Dorset place room 201 Chair: Katherine O’Donnell
Levi Hord – Non-Binary Lesbians: Rediscovering Lesbian Specificity in ‘The Moment of Trans’
Victoria Suvoroff – (In) Visibility in language attributed to representations of female masculinity as exemplified by Soviet history
Rachel O’Connell – “Thigh gaps are a currency where I come from”: Willam Belli, Commodification, and Queer Femininities
15:15 – 15:30 Refreshment break – Edward Street- 1st floor
15:30 – 17:00 Parallel Sessions – Edward Street
Please choose 1 panel session or workshop to attend
Panel 6 – Politics and philosophy -Edward Street Room 104 Chair: Kath Browne
Tay Glover – Exploring Black Queer Lesbian Symbolic Annihilation and Southern Black Lesbian Rival Geographies of Pleasure and Resistance
Flavia Meireles – Marielle Franco – a lesbian in politics and her strategies
Tena Thau – “Love Drugs” and Queer Visibility
Workshop 2 – Speed Dating with our Archives – Isabelle Salem Diego Sentis – Dorset place room 501
Workshop 3- Queer haven Berlin?: Lesbian* visibility within the queer of color discourse in Berlin – Nazlı Cabadağ & Gülden Ediger -Dorset Place room 201
From 17:00 Informal drinks at the Marlborough pub
Saturday 16th March
09:00 – 10:00 Registration and coffee – Edward Street
10:00 – 11:30 Parallel Sessions – Edward Street
Please choose 1 panel session, workshop or screening to attend
Panel 7 – Costing Lesbian relationships?: Kinship and economics -Edward Street room 105 Chair: Lorenza Ippolito
Rita Béres-Deák – Revisiting the lesbian closet: Hungarian lesbians’ decisions not to come out in their families of origin
Jacqui Gabb & Katherine Allen – Who’s in and who’s out: the (analytical) cost of research on LGBTQ parenthood
Elisabeth T. Sandler – Female same-sex parents’ visibility in connection to leave
Karin Schönpflug – Lesbian identities in neoliberal economics
Panel 8 – Healthy Lesbian Lives? -Edward Street Room 102 Chair: Laetitia Zeeman
Catherine Meads – The invisibility of lesbians, bisexual women and women who have sex with women in health research
Julie Mooney-Somers – The SWASH survey of lesbian, bisexual and queer women’s health: How community shaped and sustained a 22 year collaboration in Sydney, Australia.
Claudia Carvell – The Sexual Wellbeing of Women Who Have Sex With Women – What Do We Know?
Workshop 4: singing workshop with Aneesa Chaudhry – Edward Street room 309
11:30 – 12:30 KEYNOTE: Julia Downes
discussant Deanna Dadusc – Edward Street Lecture Theatre room 105
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch – Edward Street
13:15 – 14:45 Parallel Sessions – Edward Street
Please choose 1 panel session, performance, workshop or screening to attend
Panel 9 – Roundtable and life stories by older lesbians -Edward Street room 105
Jane Traies, Rosie Bailey, Marguerite Saffery, Kate Foley- ‘How many old lesbians does it take to write a history book?’
Panel 10 – Sex and Dating – Edward Street room 102 Chair: Kate O’Riordan
Róisín Ryan-Flood – ‘Haven’t you literally been on a date with every single woman in London yet?!’: Lesbian Online Dating
Siyang Wei – The Visibility of Identity: Lesbian Encounters with ‘Compulsory Sexuality’
Fiona Rooney, Tom Vlietstra, Yalda Tomlison – (in)visible sex: LGBTQI Identity, meaningful sex and Intellectual Disability
Performances 2: ‘Dysphoria to Euphoria’ Poetry show by Alice Denny -Edward Street room 103
Workshop /performance 5: “Hiding in Plain Sight” with Jane Hoy and Helen Sandle – Edward Street room 304
Screening: Invisible women and A Lesbian Life: Outing the 70s & 80’s followed by Q&A with Angela Cooper – Edward Street room 309 Chair: Patricia Prieto Blanco
14:45 – 15:00 Refreshment Break
15:00 – 16:00 KEYNOTE: Katherine O’Donnell – Edward Street Lecture Theatre 105
16:00 – 17:30 Parallel Sessions – Edward Street
Please choose 1 panel session or screening to attend
Panel 11 – Lesbian Geographies -Edward Street room 105 Chair: Lucie Fremlova
Laine Zisman Newman – Troubling ‘inclusive’ spaces in queer women’s communities
Kirby Fullerton – Boundary-making and the Management of Visibility: Lesbian lives in Seoul, South Korea
Jessica Mancuso – Lesbian (In)Visibility in Manchester: How socio-cultural factors influence lesbian visibility in LGBTQ spaces
Nina Held – ‘Here, I have no choice’: being a lesbian and a refugee – Intersectional experiences of time and space
Panel 12 – Activism in the academy and beyond – Edward Street room 102 Chair : Irmi Karl
Jinfang Yang – The constructed and legitimized heteronormativity in academy: “Invisibility” of the female-homosexual population & “Invisibility” of the heterosexual population in the Psychology of Spain, Portugal, Latin America and China
Kate O’Riordan and Sharon Webb – What’s in a name: queer politics on campus
Alva Gotby – Making work visible: Wages Due Lesbians and the labour of queer life
Ellie Milne-Brown – ‘…that eventually became queer’: queer women’s becomings -with queer men in the context of HIV/AIDS
Panel 13 – Queer visions: Lesbian in Art and Film Archives – Edward Street room 103 Chair : Olu Jenzen
Miranda Forrester – Queering the female Gaze: Re-examining the invisibility of lesbian artists
Caroline Gonda – Queer visions: lesbians in the archive and the politics of (in)visibility
Kris Beaghton – Off-screen space: Barbara Hammer’s lesbian experimental cinema
Dagmar Brunow – From the safe space into cyberspace? The ambivalence of lesbian visibility in film archives –
Screening: Young, Black and Trans – Edward Street room 309 Chair: Patricia Prieto Blanco
17:30 – 18:15 Q&A with producer of Young Black and Trans followed by Closing remarks Edward Street Lecture Theatre 105
From 19:30 International Women’s Day Mixtape – After Party.
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