Interrogating Intersectionality: A One Day Symposium
5 November 2018 at Liverpool Hope University
8:30- 9:00 Coffee and Registration
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:15 Keynote: Suryia Nayak (University of Salford), “Feeling Intersectionality”
10:15-10:45 Saima Ansari (University of Salford), “The Intersectionality of Identity, Religion and Clothing in the Lives of British Muslim Women”
10:45-11:15 Simi K. Salim (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras), “Reading Modernities : Colonialism, Anti Colonial Nationalism and the Emergence of the ‘New Muslim Women’ in Late 19th century India” (Virtual Presentation)
11:15-11:45 Coffee
11:45-12:15 Gloria M Babu (Christ University), “Re-Engaging Patriarchy: Women Empowerment and Kudumbashree in Kerala” (Virtual Presentation)
12:15-12:45 Eleonora Gatti (United Nations Consultant), “Empowering the Rural Women of Myanmar Through the Development of the iWomen app”
12:45-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Keynote: Radhika Govinda (University of Edinburgh), ‘Intersectional Interventions in Feminist Knowledge Production’
2:30- 3:00 Elizabeth Smith (Liverpool Hope University), “Interrogating Intersectionality in the Work of African American Writer Alice Childress (1916-1998)”
3:00-3:30 Katherine Jewell (Liverpool Hope University), “Using Theories of Intersectionality to Explore Gender Relations Within the British Labour Party”
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-4:30 Billie-Gina Thomason (Liverpool John Moores University), “William Seymour: ‘The Female Cabdriver of Liverpool’”
4:30-5:00 Abhaya Gurumurthy (Christ University), “Gender Representation in Academic Environment: A Dialogue with Government School Teachers”
5:00-5:30 Chinar Shah (Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, and Bluecoat), “Critiquing the Politics of Gender Through Art”
5:30-6:00 Closing Remarks