"Transnational Feminist Resistance(s) Against Contemporary Violence(s)" conference hosted by the Women and Gender and Global Perspectives Program with the Gender & Women's Studies Department
Conference organized by graduate students from WGGP and GWS: Amaury J. Rijo Sanchez (Sociology), Nehal Elmeligy (Sociology), Marina Moscoso (Geography), and Mahbubeh Moqadam (Sociology).
April 4-5, 2024
Illini Union, Room A
This conference is free, but pre-registration is appreciated to provide conference materials and luncheon.
Register at https://go.illinois.edu/CommonDifferences2024
Friday, April 5
8:30-9:00 Registration /Coffee
9:00-10:30 Session Five: Diaspora, Exile & International Solidarity
Moderator: Nehal Elmeligy
Miguel Avalos (he/him), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Lo cansado no es el trabajo, lo cansado es esto": Navigating Temporal Sequestration at a U.S. Land Port of Entry
Damian Vergara Bracamontes (he/him), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Abolish or Adapt: Pinkwashing ICE through Transgender “Care”
Nadine Naber, University of Illinois Chicago
Title: TBD
Mahbubeh Moqadam, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: TBD
10:40-12:10 Session Six: Memory & Reparations
Moderator: Marina Moscoso
Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Binghamton University
Title: TBD
Mayki Gorosito, ESMA Museum and Site of Memory
Title: TBD
Daniela Morales, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mar Brava: women's struggles against climate injustice
Magdalena Novoa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: TBD
12:15-1:00 Lunch and networking
1:00-2:20 Film Screening of “Period. End of Sentence” with Director Rayka Zehtabchi
Moderator: Dr. Kate Clancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:30-3:15 Session Seven: Common Differences: Then, Now, and Moving Forward
3:15-3:30 Closing Remarks
Graduate Student Organizers