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DESCRIPTION:Feminist Research Symposium 2026 Schedule\n\n9:30-9:40: Welcome
 \n\nSymposium organizers\, Elizabeth Elbourne & Hasana Sharp\n\nI. 9:40 – 
 11:00: Policy and the ethics of care  \n\nChair: Natalie Stoljar\, Philoso
 phy\n\n• Pengfei Cao\, “Unheard Voices: Queer Chinese in the Diaspora -- R
 ethinking Support for Chinese International LGBTQ+ Students in Canada”\n\n
 • Mathilde Genest\, “The Underdiagnosis of Neurodivergent Women and Girls:
  A Feminist and a Bioethical Issue”\n\n• Bianca Hutanu\, “Trauma-Informed 
 Approaches to Tattooing: Enhancing Mental Health Literacy and Ethics of Ca
 re”\n\n• Andrés Valencia\, “Relationality\, Dissensus\, and More-than-Huma
 n Futures: Seven Counter-Hegemonic Logics for the University of 2050”\n\n1
 0:40-11: Q&A\n\n11:00-11:15: Coffee and snacks (provided by the IGSF)\n\nI
 I. 11:15-12:15: Queer temporalities\n\nChair: Dr. Alex Ketchum\, IGSF\n\n•
  Anouk Félix. “The Rise and Fall of Lesbian Spaces: Documenting and Reimag
 ining the Notion of Lesbian Space through an Analysis of Montreal’s Lesbia
 n Scene since the 1980s”\n\n• Iulia Ganopolsky. “Be the Butch to My Femme:
  The Changing Relationship Between Lesbian Spaces and Identities in Montre
 al from the 1950s to the 1990s”\n\n• Dan Levy\, “Squinting With Your Ears:
  Re-Articulations of Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Keyboard Fantasies” \n\n12:0
 0-12:15 Q&A\n\n12:15-1:00: Lunch provided by IGSF (vegetarian and vegan op
 tions will be available)\n\nIII. 1:00-2:00: Gender and identity constructi
 on\n\nChair: Twisha Singh\, South Asian Studies and IGSF\n\n• Felicité Gir
 ard.  “The Symbolic Power of Blondness: Constructing a Feminine Ideal Acro
 ss Twentieth- Century Québécois Women’s Magazines”\n\n• Inaya Huda\, “Theo
 rising Women as National Symbols: Postwar Bangladesh”\n\n• Alisa Sanchez\,
  “A Comparative Ethnography of Masculinity in Single-Sex and Co-Educationa
 l Schools”\n\n1:45-2:00: Q&A\n\nIV. 2:05-3:05: Feminism and technology\n\n
 Chair: Maria Hwang\, IGSF & East Asian Studies\n\n• Jenna Brender.  “How t
 he Elites Date\; A Digital Ethnography of Dating Culture amongst North Ame
 rica’s Top1%”\n\n• Maddie Daniel.  “Breaking the Ice: Expectations for LGB
 TQIA+ Corporate Advocacy in the Professional Women's Hockey League and the
  National Hockey League”\n\n• Tashika Gomes\, “A Feminist Policy Analysis 
 of Canada’s AI Strategy and Bill C-27.”\n\n2:50-3:05: Q&A\n\nV. 3:10-4:30:
  The history and politics of the left in the late twentieth century\n\nCha
 ir: Judith Szapor\, History\n\n• Natasha Bronfman\, “Learn Her: Gerda Lern
 er and the Establishment of Women’s History”\n\n• Dina Lowe\, “Gendered Na
 rratives in Kazakhstan’s Post-Soviet Memory Landscape”\n\n• Madison Albert
 \, “Wages for Housework and Family Abolitionism\; An Unhappy Marriage?'\n
 \n• Despine Green\, “The Temporality of Resistance Art: Fanon\, the Medu A
 rt Ensemble and Cultural Production”\n\n4:10-4:30 Q&A\n\n4:35-4:50: Closin
 g Remarks\n\nElizabeth Elbourne\, Hasana Sharp\, and Miranda Hickman\n\n__
 ______\n\nUndergraduate Honours Thesis Presentations\n\nMadison Albert. 'W
 ages for Housework and Family Abolitionism\; An Unhappy Marriage?'\n\nThis
  thesis interrogates the relationship between the 1970s Wages for Housewor
 k (WfH) movement and contemporary family abolitionism\, asking whether fam
 ily abolition is conceptually integral to WfH or analytically distinct fro
 m it. Recent abolitionist readings—most prominently Sophie Lewis—interpret
  WfH as logically committed to dismantling the nuclear family on the groun
 ds that unpaid reproductive labour is constitutive of capitalist accumulat
 ion and male domination. Yet this inference presupposes that the historica
 lly specific nuclear family form is itself necessary to those structures. 
 Drawing on foundational WfH texts by Selma James\, Mariarosa Dalla Costa\,
  and Silvia Federici\, alongside contemporary social reproduction theory a
 nd abolitionist scholarship\, I argue that WfH does not centrally entail f
 amily abolition. Rather\, its support for family abolition is conditional 
 and incidental to a more primary struggle over the valuation and coercion 
 of unpaid reproductive labour. The thesis proceeds in three steps. First\,
  it reconstructs and responds to the tension within WfH between its appare
 nt critique of the family and its wage-based strategy\, which risks reinsc
 ribing heteronormative divisions of labour. Second\, it examines the charg
 e of functionalism often leveled at family abolitionism: that it collapses
  the family into its capitalist function. Third\, it will explore selected
  broader implications.  By clarifying the conceptual stakes of conflating 
 institutional form with structural function\, the paper broadens the horiz
 on of feminist political strategy beyond a false choice between family ref
 orm and family abolition.\n\nJenna Brender. How the Elites Date\; A Digita
 l Ethnography of Dating Culture amongst North America’s Top 1% \n\nThis th
 esis argues that dating among elite North Americans is not merely a person
 al or emotional endeavor\, but a structured social practice through which 
 class distinction is actively performed and sustained. Romantic choice\, s
 elf-presentation\, and notions of desirability are embedded in classed aes
 thetics\, gendered expectations\, and norms of exclusivity. Through dating
  (particularly within elite digital environments)\, participants reaffirm 
 who belongs within elite circles and who does not. In this sense\, intimac
 y functions as a mechanism of social reproduction\, translating economic a
 nd symbolic capital into affective life. By examining elite dating culture
  ethnographically\, this study contributes to feminist sociology and cultu
 ral studies by shifting analytical attention “upward\,” toward populations
  that are often under-scrutinized yet disproportionately influential. It p
 ositions dating apps not as neutral tools of connection\, but as cultural 
 infrastructures that shape desire\, visibility\, and belonging along class
 ed and gendered lines.\n\nNatasha Bronfman.  Learn Her: Gerda Lerner and t
 he establishment of women’s history\n\nThis essay revisits the life and in
 tellectual legacy of Gerda Lerner (1920 to 2013)\, a scholar widely recogn
 ised as a founding figure of Women’s History in the United States. As a Je
 wish refugee from fascist Europe\, as an immigrant woman entering academia
  later in life\, and as a lifelong activist committed to feminist and anti
 -racist struggles\, Lerner developed a historical methodology that rejecte
 d claims of objectivity and insisted on centring marginalised perspectives
 . Her scholarship challenged the exclusion of women from historical narrat
 ives and questioned the epistemological foundations of the historical disc
 ipline itself.  This project argues that Gerda Lerner’s feminist historica
 l method cannot be understood apart from her lived experiences of displace
 ment\, political struggle\, and institutional exclusion. Rather than treat
 ing biography as background context or inspiration\, I position Lerner’s l
 ife as central to her intellectual vision. Her formative years in Red Vien
 na\, her forced exile under Nazism\, her years of political activism and w
 orking-class labour in the United States\, and her eventual entry into the
  male-dominated institution of academia all informed her critique of power
  and her insistence that history is never neutral. By tracing how Lerner t
 ranslated lived experience into historical method\, this thesis seeks to i
 lluminate the relationship between feminist knowledge production and insti
 tutional resistance\, both in Lerner’s time and in the present.\n\nMaddie 
 Daniel. “Breaking the Ice: Expectations for LGBTQIA+ Corporate Advocacy in
  the Professional Women's Hockey League and the National Hockey League”\n
 \nSports always have been\, and always will be\, politically contentious. 
 The advent of social media platforms such as Instagram has led to new oppo
 rtunities for athletes\, teams\, and leagues to broadcast stances on socia
 l justice issues to large audiences. This thesis focuses on this developme
 nt between January 1st\, 2024\, and January 1st\, 2026\, within both of No
 rth America’s premier hockey leagues\, which are the National Hockey Leagu
 e (NHL) and the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). More specifical
 ly\, it looks at how these leagues\, as corporate enterprises\, utilize In
 stagram (a social media platform) to send messages related to LGBTQ+ issue
 s to their respective follower bases\, and how these messages are received
  by these follower bases. To this end\, the dominant league cultures of ea
 ch organization\, which are intrinsically gendered\, connected with the pr
 esence/absence of out LGBTQ+ players and why fans watch each league\, shap
 e expectations for LGBTQ+ content that subsequently influence fans’ emotio
 nal responses and perceptions of authenticity regarding said content. Ulti
 mately\, this thesis aims to contribute to existing literature at the inte
 rsection of professional athletics and social justice to the extent that t
 he authenticity of and emotional responses to corporate LGBTQ+ messaging o
 n social media platforms like Instagram are not just determined by the mes
 saging itself\, but the cultural contexts that shape audience expectations
 . \n\nAnouk Félix. “The Rise and Fall of Lesbian Spaces: Documenting and R
 eimagining the Notion of Lesbian Space through an Analysis of Montreal’s L
 esbian Scene since the 1980s”\n\nSince the 1980s\, the golden age of lesbi
 anism in Montreal\, all physical lesbian spaces have closed. If some ephem
 eral and short-lived spaces have seen the day since\, the landscape of the
  lesbian scene has considerably changed. Therefore\, this research project
  interrogates the reasons for this change while attempting to expand the n
 otion of lesbian space. I start by documenting the history of lesbian spac
 es in Montreal\, then delve into the causes and impacts of their evolution
 \, to finally provide a reimagined definition of lesbian space. Drawing on
  archival materials and existing scholarship\, my thesis examines how lesb
 o-queer history and politics\, social geography\, and socio-economic condi
 tions have reshaped forms of lesbian community and visibility. Ultimately\
 , I argue that lesbian spaces are not only physical places but also dynami
 c clusters evolving spatio-temporally.\n\nIulia Ganopolsky. “Be the Butch 
 to My Femme: The Changing Relationship Between Lesbian Spaces and Identiti
 es in Montreal from the 1950s to the 1990s”\n\nLesbian spaces in Montreal 
 have historically been fluid and self-reflexive sites for community\, iden
 tity and political redefinition. Through such spaces have percolated a ple
 thora of discourses which have centered certain identity politics and gend
 er performances while marginalizing others. In particular\, butch/femme cu
 lture has been repeatedly redefined as out-dated\, heteronormative\, and o
 ppressive relational structures of the past. This work questions the chang
 es in lesbians spaces\, between the 1950s and 1990s\, in how they have bee
 n organized\, in inclusive or exclusive ways\, along linguistic\, racial a
 nd class lines. It also investigates the ideological discourses existing w
 ithin these spaces and how they have aided to construct spaces\, identitie
 s and communities. Ultimately\, through the use of archival sources\, incl
 uding yellow press journals from the 1950s and 1960s\, lesbian periodicals
 \, and photographs\, this work considers the place butch/femme roles and i
 dentities held within these spaces and discourses\, and how understandings
  of these roles and identities are shaped by linguistic\, racial and class
  differences. By employing theoretical notions of gender performativity\, 
 female masculinities\, and queer geographies\, this research aims to under
 stand butch/femme aesthetics\, politics and desires throughout time and sp
 ace\, while also thinking about how this knowledge can inform a desire to 
 rebuild inclusive lesbian spaces in Montreal. \n\nFelicité Girard.  “The S
 ymbolic Power of Blondness: Constructing a Feminine Ideal Across Twentieth
 - Century Québécois Women’s Magazines”\n\nThis thesis explores the symboli
 c construction of blondness in 20th-century advertisements in the Québécoi
 s women’s magazines La Revue Moderne and Châtelaine. A mixed-methods appro
 ach compared representations of blonde and brunette women across 506 adver
 tisements published between the 1920s and 1990s. Through quantitative codi
 ng and qualitative discourse analysis\, this study reveals that blondness 
 was historically produced as an aspirational and hegemonic form of feminin
 ity deeply intertwined with gendered\, classed and racialized ideals. Whil
 e blondes were less visible than brunettes\, their disproportionate repres
 entation in beauty advertisements reinforced their symbolic elevation as a
 n enduring beauty standard\, in contrast to the traditional femininity emb
 odied by brunettes. The repeated association of blonde women with status\,
  admiration\, whiteness\, youth and hegemonic ideals further revealed the 
 symbolic power of blondness as a component of an ultimate feminine ideal t
 hat is socially rewarded in a political economy of embodiment. From these 
 findings\, the cultural popularity of blonde hair dyeing can be understood
  as much more than a trivial beauty practice\, but as a process of self-re
 gulation disguised as self-expression in a restrictive and disciplinary be
 auty regime.\n\n____________\n\nGraduate Student Presentation Abstracts\n
 \n \n\nPengfei Cao: “Unheard Voices: Queer Chinese in the Diaspora -- Reth
 inking Support for Chinese International LGBTQ+ Students in Canada”\n\nThi
 s research project focus on Chinese queer international students’ lived ex
 periences and how they perceive the existing support initiatives on campus
  and inside the community. By using Queer Asia as Method (QAM)\, we reimag
 ine Queering China as main approach to understand what forms of violence\,
  exclusion\, or marginalization they experience within West-defined 2SLGBT
 QIA+ spaces. This project draws on the more specific way to examine how Ch
 ineseness\, queerness\, and immigration status specifically intersect\, em
 phasizing that Chinese and queer identities are negotiated simultaneously 
 and strategically\, not sequentially or in opposition to each other.\n\nTh
 e information is gathered through second-handed data analysis of the artic
 les that have covered similar finding of respectively Chinese as well as A
 sian queer\, international student community. Through this research projec
 t\, we highlight how Chinese queer international students are often neglec
 ted while identifying what factors shape their perceptions of existing sup
 port initiatives and what leads to their decision of help-seeking strategi
 es.This project is not meant to disparage and police various forms and exp
 ressions of Chinese queer diasporic existence but to seek to center the si
 lenced voices and lived experiences. Considering what it means to be queer
 \, Chinese\, and diasporic in white settler-colonial society\, this resear
 ch project will show how there are more inclusive\, culturally relevant wa
 ys to support for the sizable but unheard community of Chinese queer inter
 national students.\n\nMathilde Genest\, “The Underdiagnosis of Neurodiverg
 ent Women and Girls: A Feminist and a Bioethical Issue”\n\n In comparison 
 to men and boys\, women and girls are less likely to be diagnosed as neuro
 divergent\, and if they are\, it tends to be later in life. Neurodivergent
  girls and women are underdiagnosed. This presentation argues that it is n
 ot only a feminist issue but also a bioethical one. First\, I adopt a femi
 nist perspective. I start by presenting some contributing factors to girls
  and women’s underdiagnosis\, describing the male model of neurodivergence
 \, and explaining the impacts of gender on neurodivergence and vice-versa.
  Then\, I explore the framework of epistemic injustices in relation to the
  underdiagnosis of neurodivergent girls and women. Second\, I present the 
 bioethical framework of principlism and apply it. This reframing allows me
  to expand on the harms linked to the epistemic injustices previously pres
 ented and to include other harms experienced by neurodivergent girls and w
 omen due to their underdiagnosis. The double framework of epistemic injust
 ice and principlism gives a fuller picture of the harms linked to the unde
 rdiagnosis of neurodivergent girls and women. Some of the main harms fall 
 into the principle of non-maleficence. Not receiving a diagnosis is linked
  to negative outcomes for neurodivergent girls and women poor mental healt
 h\, negative self-perceptions\, risk-taking behaviours\, experiences of tr
 auma\, social difficulties\, and testimonial injustices. Importantly\, app
 lying the principle of beneficence shows us the positive consequences of a
  diagnosis for neurodivergent girls and women. Hence\, they are harmed bec
 ause they are not benefiting from positive outcomes such as hermeneutical 
 breakthroughs\, improvements in social relationships\, and increases in se
 lf- esteem. The underdiagnosis of neurodivergent girls and women hinders t
 he flourishing of their autonomy when a diagnosis fosters it through self-
 understanding\, re-authoring their lives\, and an increased sense of contr
 ol. Finally\, the principle of justice highlights the epistemic injustices
  as intrinsically wrong and gender inequality.\n\nTashika Gomes\, “A Femin
 ist Policy Analysis of Canada’s AI Strategy and Bill C-27.”\n\nIn 2017\, C
 anada became the first country to launch a national artificial intelligenc
 e strategy\, prioritizing investment in research and talent development. I
 n 2022\, this strategy expanded to include responsible AI and commercializ
 ation alongside the introduction of the Artificial Intelligence and Data A
 ct (AIDA) within Bill C-27. Since then\, Canada’s approach to AI governanc
 e has evolved through consultations and strategic updates\, but legislativ
 e progress has stalled due to the prorogation of Parliament in January 202
 5.\n\nThis paper conducts a critical\, intersectional feminist policy anal
 ysis of Canada’s AI strategy\, AIDA\, Bill C-27\, and 32 reports submitted
  by 28 AI Strategy Task Force members. I examine how innovation\, responsi
 bility\, and public protection are articulated across these documents\, wi
 th a focus on policy language\, funding priorities\, and equity provisions
  for marginalized groups. The analysis identifies key tensions\, omissions
 \, and patterns across these materials\, offering insight into how AI gove
 rnance is currently being shaped and whose interests it centers or exclude
 s.\n\nDespine Green\, “The Temporality of Resistance Art: Fanon\, the Medu
  Art Ensemble and Cultural Production”\n\nThe work of Frantz Fanon present
 s us with interesting reflections on the relation between colonised tempor
 ality\, aesthetic production and the invention of the new human. In this p
 aper\, I present an account of Fanon’s reflections on colonised temporalit
 y in Black Skin\, White Masks (1952) and Wretched of the Earth (1961) whic
 h sees the colonised being locked in a continuous present\, without histor
 ies or futures of significance that can be taken up authentically as their
  own. The intervention that Fanon presents is the introduction of inventio
 n into life\, making real the possibility of choice for the colonised as a
  collective practice aimed at transforming the social situation. Part of t
 he practice Fanon highlights is the development of new forms and uses of c
 ultural production which evince a new kind of temporality beginning to mak
 e itself known through art as it engages with other parts of political str
 uggle. After discussing this account\, I use examples of resistance cultur
 e from the Medu Art Ensemble and show how they reflect this new temporalit
 y. The Medu Ensemble were a collective of cultural workers active in the a
 nti-Apartheid struggle in the early 1980’s\, based out of Gaborone\, Botsw
 ana who worked across a range of media. By focusing on their posters (many
  of which reproduced in Antawan I. Byrd and Felicia Mings\, The People Sha
 ll Govern! (2020))\, I argue that their use of screen-printing\, assemblag
 e and collage represent a critical reformulation of colonised temporality 
 aimed at furthering the development of the new human active in struggle.\n
 \nInaya Huda\, Theorising Women as National Symbols: Postwar Bangladesh\n
 \nThis paper examines how symbolic femininity operates as a constitutive m
 echanism within nationalist projects\, focusing on the aftermath of the 19
 71 Bangladesh Liberation War. Marked by genocidal tactics\, including the 
 mass rape of hundreds of thousands of women\, the war produced a social an
 d political context in which gendered violence became materially and symbo
 lically central to the nation’s formation. As a result\, Bangladesh offers
  a uniquely instructive case for analysing how women’s bodies and images b
 ecome embedded in the narration of national identity and moral order. Draw
 ing on feminist theories of nationalism and cultural-sociological accounts
  of collective identity and cultural trauma\, this essay argues that symbo
 lic femininity can function as a primary mechanism through which nations i
 n their early stages negotiate legitimacy and collective identity. By brin
 ging these frameworks into conversation\, the analysis shows how gendered 
 symbolism operates not only at the level of discourse but as a mechanism t
 hrough which national meaning is stabilised and made politically consequen
 tial.\n\nBianca Hutanu\, “Trauma-Informed Approaches to Tattooing: Enhanci
 ng Mental Health Literacy and Ethics of Care.”\n\nLiterature from the past
  decade has shown an increased interest in tattoos as a means of identity 
 expression\, and bodily reclamation\, particularly those with histories of
  trauma\, which shifts away from the previous negative narratives and stig
 matization within the modern Western world. Historically\, some Indigenous
  communities\, such as the Cherokee or Inuit\, incorporated tattooing as a
  culturally significant practice that was supressed through generations of
  longstanding colonial violence\, and Native dispossession (Honma & Franco
 so\, 2023). Documenting these histories have helped artists\, such as Cher
 okee artist John Henry Gloyne\, reimagine the practice outside of the redu
 cible distorted optics and constrains of the settler state\, but also recl
 aim this practice. Motivations and meanings vary\, yet instances of correl
 ation of tattooed bodies with mental health are not secular\; research on 
 this has demonstrated questions of embodied storytelling and body reclamat
 ion are also explored amongst survivors of human trafficking and harmful b
 randing practices\, the correlation between tattooed individuals and the i
 ncreased rates of suicidality\, as well as the association with childhood 
 abuse or neglect and tattooing. In light of these findings\, while tattooi
 ng can serve as a site of healing for clients\, questions arise on the tat
 too artist’s practices\, role within ethics of care\, and their psychologi
 cal impact of engaging with stories of pain\, grief\, and resilience\, suc
 h as potential secondary or vicarious trauma. Artists often learn the tech
 nical practice through apprenticeships or informally\; there is no standar
 dization of the practice\, which can limit knowledge sharing and create ch
 allenges for the artist’s and client’s wellbeing and safety.\n\nThis study
  aims to develop a potential framework that could support community-based 
 learning\, mental health literacy\, and ethical practice among tattoo arti
 sts\, guided by trauma-informed and anti-oppressive practices. \n\nDan Lev
 y\, “Squinting With Your Ears: Re-Articulations of Beverly Glenn-Copeland’
 s Keyboard Fantasies” (1986)\n\nIt has now been a decade since composer an
 d Black trans elder Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s legendary “rediscovery” throu
 gh a cassette of his 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies. During this time\, Gle
 nn-Copeland has come to figure possibilities larger than himself for his n
 ewfound queer and trans devotees: of long life\, intergenerational trans c
 are\, and recognition for Black trans culture-makers. The making of a cult
 ural icon\, however\, invites ascriptions of value through singularity ove
 r coalition and connection. Accordingly\, journalistic narratives often re
 inscribe Glenn-Copeland’s work within the periphery of the “uncategorizabl
 e” and the genre-defying. I interrogate these narratives of rediscovery an
 d exceptionalism\, asking how\, why\, and by whom Keyboard Fantasies has b
 een taken up. I approach the album not merely as an artifact of the ‘80s o
 r the material site of Glenn-Copeland’s “rediscovery\,” but as a work of c
 ultural production which takes on meaning through the temporal breaks whic
 h characterize its reception. Through analysis of the material conditions 
 which animated and attended the album’s initial production\, I explore sub
 merged and foreclosed articulations between Black electronic music and ind
 ie music cultures of the mid-80s. Then\, I examine the ways in which Keybo
 ard Fantasies has been adopted by queer and trans musicians\, particularly
  in contemporary queer indie scenes. Following Glenn-Copeland’s own phenom
 enological metaphor for listening to synthesized sounds\, I suggest that b
 y “squinting with our ears\,” we can orient ourselves to better listen for
  sites of both affinity and alienation.\n\nDina Lowe: Literature Review fo
 r Thesis Titled 'Gendered Narratives in Kazakhstan’s Post-Soviet\n\nMemory
  Landscape'\n\nThis literature review surveys four bodies of scholarship r
 elevant to the study of gendered memory in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Soviet 
 gender policy in Central Asia\, women’s experiences of Stalinist repressio
 n\, post-Soviet nation-building and femininity\, and memory studies. These
  fields reveal that while scholars have extensively examined both gender a
 nd commemorative practices in the post-Soviet space\, the two areas have r
 arely been brought into direct dialogue in the Kazakhstani context. Resear
 ch on Soviet gender policy shows that women's emancipation was deeply enta
 ngled with colonial modernization\, which had unique impacts in predominan
 tly Muslim areas of Soviet Central Asia. Gendered studies of Stalinist  re
 pression demonstrate that women were frequently targeted through kinship a
 nd familial roles rather than individual political acts. Work on post-Sovi
 et nation-building shows that governments across Central Asia have institu
 tionalized idealized femininities centered on motherhood and moral guardia
 nship as tools of national cohesion. Memory studies\, meanwhile\, establis
 h that commemorative sites function as intentional state practices that co
 nstruct political meaning. This review finds that despite this rich body o
 f work\, gender remains underexplored as a strategic and structuring eleme
 nt within Kazakhstan's politics of  remembrance. Notably\, unique historic
 al sites such as ALZhIR\, (The Akmolinsk Camp for Wives of Traitors to the
  Motherland)\, a museum in Astana\, Kazakhstan which memorializes solely f
 emale prisoners of Soviet repression\, has received limited scholarly atte
 ntion as an explicitly gendered commemorative space.\n\nAlisa Sanchez\, “A
  Comparative Ethnography of Masculinity in Single-Sex and Co-Educational S
 chools”\n\nElite schools increasingly frame themselves around inclusion\, 
 civility\, and character development\, yet subtle gendered hierarchies con
 tinue to structure peer life beneath these formal commitments. This projec
 t examines how masculinity is performed and regulated among early adolesce
 nt boys in elite school settings\, with particular attention to practices 
 such as irony\, mock aggression\, and ostensibly playful forms of interact
 ion. Drawing on and departing from C.J.  Pascoe's influential account of '
 fag discourse\,' preliminary pilot ethnography at one elite Montreal boys'
  school suggests that explicit homophobic policing may be receding\, displ
 aced not by greater equality\, but by a different idiom. Boys deployed hum
 or centered on assault\, sexual misconduct\, and racial stereotyping as me
 chanisms for boundary-drawing and status regulation\, carefully calibratin
 g their jokes to remain just within institutional tolerance. While scholar
 ship on masculinity frequently centers older adolescents\, boys in Grades 
 7 to 9 at elite Canadian schools remain understudied despite occupying a f
 ormative period in which gender norms and status hierarchies are actively 
 co-constructed. I will expand on this project through a comparative ethnog
 raphy across two Anglophone elite schools in Montreal — one all-boys\, one
  co- educational — investigating how institutional structures shape these 
 performances and how boys navigate formal expectations around maturity and
  inclusion. Fieldwork will include participant observation\, go-along ethn
 ography\, and interviews with students and staff across one academic year.
  This project contributes to the sociology of education\, youth studies\, 
 and masculinity studies by highlighting how gendered power persists throug
 h ambiguous and institutionally tolerated practices\, and how boys learn t
 o navigate hierarchy under the language of civility and leadership.\n\nAnd
 rés Valencia\, “Relationality\, Dissensus\, and More-than-Human Futures: S
 even Counter-Hegemonic Logics for the University of 2050”\n\nUniversities 
 are being reshaped by intersecting\, simultaneous\, and mutually reinforci
 ng crises\, such as the climate emergency\, democratic erosion\, rising au
 thoritarianism\, anti-gender ideologies\, the rollback/shrinking of public
  funding\, and technological disruption. These interdependent crises will 
 transform universities by 2050. Yet institutional futures work rarely cent
 ers on sensory regimes and logics away from Western aesthetics. This prese
 ntation showcases a Qualitative Research Synthesis of seven university log
 ics—the  Ubuntu or decolonial\, the ethically engaged\, the slow\, the pla
 stic\, the troublemaker\, the  pluriversity\, and the queer university—who
 se designs push against global capitalism cultural hegemony and its system
 ic dysfunctions: faculty alienation\, erosion of autonomy\, academic labor
  audit\, overreliance in key performance indicators\, organizational  isom
 orphism\, blind technocracy\, top-down management hierarchies\, intolerant
   departmental monocultures\, the fetishization of efficiency\, among othe
 rs. \n\nThe presentation addresses three questions: 1) What critiques are 
 made of the neoliberal\, managerial university? 2) What are their proposal
 s seen from an epistemic\, ontological\, and axiological lens? And\, 3) Wh
 at can these designs/logics contribute to reenvision future universities i
 n the 2050-time horizon\, beyond patriarchal\, colonial\, polluting\, and 
 racist aesthetics? Preliminary findings indicate that knowledge is reconce
 ptualized as deeply relational\, slow\, and rooted in unlearning and proce
 sses of becoming. Feminist and decolonial perspectives push this further\,
  advocating dissensus\, hyper-self-reflexivity\, and a rejection of extrac
 tive\, objectifying epistemologies. In ontological terms\, profound ontolo
 gical ruptures that dismantle the Western anthropocentric divide between h
 uman and nature are advocated.  Indeed\, these logics call for an ontology
  that repositions the university within ecological interconnectedness and 
 recognizes nonhuman beings as more-than-human relatives. While\, in axiolo
 gical terms\, counter-hegemonic university logics prioritize care\, justic
 e\, and ecological survival over efficiency\, foregrounding intellectual v
 irtues such as truthfulness\, patience\, compassion\, and open-mindedness.
  The presentation closes with some reflections on the universities of the 
 future\, arguing that securing a sustainable future for higher education r
 equires more than technological innovation or administrative restructuring
 .\n
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260415
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Second Floor\, Peel 3487\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A
  1W7\, 3487 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Feminist Research Colloquium 2025-2026
URL:/igsf/channels/event/feminist-research-colloquium-
 2025-2026-370541
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