Monday, April 25, 7 – 9 p.m., Crossroads Café

Self-Authorship: A Student-Curated Web Series Screening

 

Wednesday, April 27, 7 – 9 p.m., Dana Auditorium

Enlightened and Embedded Feminism: Where Are We Now?

Keynote lecture by Professor Susan Douglas, University of Michigan

 

Thursday, April 28, 7 – 9 p.m., Crossroads Screening Room

An Excursion to Shondaland

Watch and discuss the pilots of Grey’s Anatomy and How to Get Away With Murder. Free popcorn!

 

Friday, April 29, 1:30 – 5 p.m., Axinn 229

Scholarly Panels

Panel 1: Desires that Matter: Visualizing Web-Based Intersectionality

“Mis(Playing) Blackness: Black Female Sexuality in The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl”

Talk by Professor Ariane Cruz, Pennsylvania State University

“The Value and Exchange of Intersectional Distribution”

Talk by Professor Aymar Jean Christian, Northwestern University

 

Panel 2: Casting in the Dark: The Politics of Production

“When a Modifier-Less Identity is the Goal You’re Gonna Have Problems: Shonda Rhimes and the Limits of Universal Discourse”

Talk by Professor Kristen Warner, University of Alabama

“All Ethnicities? On the Paradoxical Practices and Privileged Pleasures of Casting in Contemporary US Television”

Talk by Professor Brian Herrera, Princeton University

 

Refreshments will be served!