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Ways of Feminist Knowing PGR Conference

Friday 6 March 2026, 9.00AM to 6pm


The Centre for Women's Studies hosts PGRs from across UoY to reflect on using feminist frames in their knowledge creation.

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Agenda  
Time Activity
9:30 - 11:00

Panel 1: Feminism as Sense(ational): The Body as Knowledge

  • Choreomusical Practice as a Feminist Way of Knowing in Contemporary Violin Performance - Manlu Du, Arts and Creative Technologies
  • Margaret Cavendish, The Sense of Touch, and Early Modern Embodied Knowledge - Sophie White, Philosophy
  • Aesthetics of Exteriority in Rachel Cusk’s Work - Peri Mirza, English, English and Related Literature
  • Personal Journeys: Feminist Storytelling Blending Chick-lit and Cricklit -Lubinna Shahal, Centre for Women's Studies

 

11:15 - 12:15

Panel 2: Feminism as Dis/eruption: Feminist Epistemologies

  • Genre, Gender, and Gardening: 19C Gardening Manuals - Inga Jackson, History
  • A Foucauldian Reconceptualisation of Resistance to Epistemic Injustice - Oliver Rodwell, Politics
  • How to Treat the Past with Respect. Reading Gender-Nonconforming Figures from the Past - Kaori Matsumoto, Centre for Women's Studies
13:00 - 14:15

KEYNOTE

Words and Matter: Notes Toward a Collective Intersectional Feminist Vocabulary - Juliana Mensah, English and Related Literature

14:15 - 15:45

Panel 3: Feminist Subjectivities: Reconceptualizing Justice and Care

  • Motherhood at the Margin: Adolescent Pregnancy and Lived Meanings of Reproductive Rights - Gabrielle Leite, Politics
  • What About Us? An Exploration of Legislative Change on Abortion in Texas - Lawra Crabb, Centre for Women's Studies
  • Surviving Patriarchy/Religion: Pashtun Women's Domestic Violence Under the Taliban - Nazia Quni, Politics
  • Recognizing Informal Solidarity as Feminist Knowing in African Communities - Jessica Musa-Oluchi, Centre for Women's Studies

     

 16:00 - 17:30

Panel 4: The Politics of Responsibility and Feminist Resistance

  • Care, Community, and Researching with: Disrupting Neolliberal Ethics in Higher Education - Susy Williams and Melissa Williams, Politics
  • Whose Algorithm? Feminist epistemologies of AI Design Philosophy in Judicial Systems - Fatimah Barnawi, School of Law
  • Drought and the Reshaping of Women’s Embedded Mobility in North-western Pakistan - Muhammad Khan, Sociology
  • Gendered Notions of Responsibility in Climate Change Discourse in the Netherlands - Yara van der Hoeven, Centre for Women's Studies

 

Photo by Milin John on Unsplash

Location: B/T/019 (Biology, Campus West, Zone 1), Dept. of Biology, University of York Heslington YO10 5DD

Admission: Free

Email: cws@york.ac.uk