BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260412T065016EDT-2482HoPiRi@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260412T105016Z 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: \n\n• Pengfei Cao\, “Unhe ard Voices: Queer Chinese in the Diaspora -- Rethinking Support for Chines e International LGBTQ+ Students in Canada”\n\n• Mathilde Genest\, “The Und erdiagnosis of Neurodivergent Women and Girls: A Feminist and a Bioethical Issue”\n\n• Bianca Hutanu\, “Trauma-Informed Approaches to Tattooing: Enh ancing Mental Health Literacy and Ethics of Care”\n\n• Andrés Valencia\, “ Relationality\, Dissensus\, and More-than-Human Futures: Seven Counter-Heg emonic Logics for the University of 2050”\n\n10:40-11: Q&A\n\n11:00-11:15: Coffee and snacks (provided by the IGSF)\n\nII. 11:15-12:15: Queer tempor alities\n\nChair: Dr. Alex Ketchum\, IGSF\n\n• Anouk Félix. “The Rise and Fall of Lesbian Spaces: Documenting and Reimagining the Notion of Lesbian Space through an Analysis of Montreal’s Lesbian Scene since the 1980s”\n\n • Iulia Ganopolsky. “Be the Butch to My Femme: The Changing Relationship B etween Lesbian Spaces and Identities in Montreal from the 1950s to the 199 0s”\n\n• Dan Levy\, “Squinting With Your Ears: Re-Articulations of Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Keyboard Fantasies” \n\n12:00-12:15 Q&A\n\n12:15-1:00: L unch provided by IGSF (vegetarian and vegan options will be available)\n\n III. 1:00-2:00: Gender and identity construction\n\nChair: \n\n• Felicité Girard.  “The Symbolic Power of Blondness: Constructing a Feminine Ideal A cross Twentieth- Century Québécois Women’s Magazines”\n\n• Inaya Huda\, “T heorising Women as National Symbols: Postwar Bangladesh”\n\n• Alisa Sanche z\, “A Comparative Ethnography of Masculinity in Single-Sex and Co-Educati onal Schools”\n\n1:45-2:00: Q&A\n\nIV. 2:05-3:05: Feminism and technology \n\nChair: \n\n• Jenna Brender.  “How the Elites Date\; A Digital Ethnogra phy of Dating Culture amongst North America’s Top1%”\n\n• Maddie Daniel.   “Breaking the Ice: Expectations for LGBTQIA+ Corporate Advocacy in the Pro fessional Women's Hockey League and the National Hockey League”\n\n• Tashi ka 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 le ft in the late twentieth century\n\nChair: \n\n• Natasha Bronfman\, “Learn Her: Gerda Lerner and the Establishment of Women’s History”\n\n• Dina Low e\, “Gendered Narratives in Kazakhstan’s Post-Soviet Memory Landscape”\n\n • Madison Albert\, “Wages for Housework and Family Abolitionism\; An Unhap py Marriage?'\n\n• Despine Green\, “The Temporality of Resistance Art: Fan on\, the Medu Art Ensemble and Cultural Production”\n\n4:10-4:30 Q&A\n\n4: 35-4:50: Closing Remarks\n\nElizabeth Elbourne & Hasana Sharp\n\n________ \n\nUndergraduate Honours Thesis Presentations\n\nMadison Albert. 'Wages f or Housework and Family Abolitionism\; An Unhappy Marriage?'\n\nThis thesi s interrogates the relationship between the 1970s Wages for Housework (WfH ) movement and contemporary family abolitionism\, asking whether family ab olition is conceptually integral to WfH or analytically distinct from it. Recent abolitionist readings—most prominently Sophie Lewis—interpret WfH a s logically committed to dismantling the nuclear family on the grounds tha t unpaid reproductive labour is constitutive of capitalist accumulation an d male domination. Yet this inference presupposes that the historically sp ecific nuclear family form is itself necessary to those structures. Drawin g on foundational WfH texts by Selma James\, Mariarosa Dalla Costa\, and S ilvia Federici\, alongside contemporary social reproduction theory and abo litionist scholarship\, I argue that WfH does not centrally entail family abolition. Rather\, its support for family abolition is conditional and in cidental to a more primary struggle over the valuation and coercion of unp aid reproductive labour. The thesis proceeds in three steps. First\, it re constructs and responds to the tension within WfH between its apparent cri tique of the family and its wage-based strategy\, which risks reinscribing heteronormative divisions of labour. Second\, it examines the charge of f unctionalism often leveled at family abolitionism: that it collapses the f amily into its capitalist function. Third\, it will explore selected broad er implications.  By clarifying the conceptual stakes of conflating instit utional form with structural function\, the paper broadens the horizon of feminist political strategy beyond a false choice between family reform an d family abolition.\n\nJenna Brender. How the Elites Date\; A Digital Ethn ography of Dating Culture amongst North America’s Top 1% \n\nThis thesis a rgues that dating among elite North Americans is not merely a personal or emotional endeavor\, but a structured social practice through which class distinction is actively performed and sustained. Romantic choice\, self-pr esentation\, and notions of desirability are embedded in classed aesthetic s\, gendered expectations\, and norms of exclusivity. Through dating (part icularly within elite digital environments)\, participants reaffirm who be longs within elite circles and who does not. In this sense\, intimacy func tions as a mechanism of social reproduction\, translating economic and sym bolic capital into affective life. By examining elite dating culture ethno graphically\, this study contributes to feminist sociology and cultural st udies by shifting analytical attention “upward\,” toward populations that are often under-scrutinized yet disproportionately influential. It positio ns dating apps not as neutral tools of connection\, but as cultural infras tructures that shape desire\, visibility\, and belonging along classed and gendered lines.\n\nNatasha Bronfman.  Learn Her: Gerda Lerner and the est ablishment of women’s history\n\nThis essay revisits the life and intellec tual legacy of Gerda Lerner (1920 to 2013)\, a scholar widely recognised a s a founding figure of Women’s History in the United States. As a Jewish r efugee from fascist Europe\, as an immigrant woman entering academia later in life\, and as a lifelong activist committed to feminist and anti-racis t struggles\, Lerner developed a historical methodology that rejected clai ms of objectivity and insisted on centring marginalised perspectives. Her scholarship challenged the exclusion of women from historical narratives a nd questioned the epistemological foundations of the historical discipline itself.  This project argues that Gerda Lerner’s feminist historical meth od cannot be understood apart from her lived experiences of displacement\, political struggle\, and institutional exclusion. Rather than treating bi ography as background context or inspiration\, I position Lerner’s life as central to her intellectual vision. Her formative years in Red Vienna\, h er forced exile under Nazism\, her years of political activism and working -class labour in the United States\, and her eventual entry into the male- dominated institution of academia all informed her critique of power and h er insistence that history is never neutral. By tracing how Lerner transla ted lived experience into historical method\, this thesis seeks to illumin ate the relationship between feminist knowledge production and institution al resistance\, both in Lerner’s time and in the present.\n\nMaddie Daniel . “Breaking the Ice: Expectations for LGBTQIA+ Corporate Advocacy in the P rofessional Women's Hockey League and the National Hockey League”\n\nSport s always have been\, and always will be\, politically contentious. The adv ent of social media platforms such as Instagram has led to new opportuniti es for athletes\, teams\, and leagues to broadcast stances on social justi ce issues to large audiences. This thesis focuses on this development betw een January 1st\, 2024\, and January 1st\, 2026\, within both of North Ame rica’s premier hockey leagues\, which are the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). More specifically\, it looks at how these leagues\, as corporate enterprises\, utilize Instagram (a social media platform) to send messages related to LGBTQ+ issues to th eir respective follower bases\, and how these messages are received by the se follower bases. To this end\, the dominant league cultures of each orga nization\, which are intrinsically gendered\, connected with the presence/ absence of out LGBTQ+ players and why fans watch each league\, shape expec tations for LGBTQ+ content that subsequently influence fans’ emotional res ponses and perceptions of authenticity regarding said content. Ultimately\ , this thesis aims to contribute to existing literature at the intersectio n of professional athletics and social justice to the extent that the auth enticity of and emotional responses to corporate LGBTQ+ messaging on socia l media platforms like Instagram are not just determined by the messaging itself\, but the cultural contexts that shape audience expectations. \n\nA nouk Félix. “The Rise and Fall of Lesbian Spaces: Documenting and Reimagin ing the Notion of Lesbian Space through an Analysis of Montreal’s Lesbian Scene since the 1980s”\n\nSince the 1980s\, the golden age of lesbianism i n Montreal\, all physical lesbian spaces have closed. If some ephemeral an d short-lived spaces have seen the day since\, the landscape of the lesbia n scene has considerably changed. Therefore\, this research project interr ogates the reasons for this change while attempting to expand the notion o f lesbian space. I start by documenting the history of lesbian spaces in M ontreal\, then delve into the causes and impacts of their evolution\, to f inally provide a reimagined definition of lesbian space. Drawing on archiv al materials and existing scholarship\, my thesis examines how lesbo-queer history and politics\, social geography\, and socio-economic conditions h ave reshaped forms of lesbian community and visibility. Ultimately\, I arg ue that lesbian spaces are not only physical places but also dynamic clust ers evolving spatio-temporally.\n\nIulia Ganopolsky. “Be the Butch to My F emme: The Changing Relationship Between Lesbian Spaces and Identities in M ontreal from the 1950s to the 1990s”\n\nLesbian spaces in Montreal have hi storically been fluid and self-reflexive sites for community\, identity an d political redefinition. Through such spaces have percolated a plethora o f discourses which have centered certain identity politics and gender perf ormances while marginalizing others. In particular\, butch/femme culture h as been repeatedly redefined as out-dated\, heteronormative\, and oppressi ve relational structures of the past. This work questions the changes in l esbians spaces\, between the 1950s and 1990s\, in how they have been organ ized\, in inclusive or exclusive ways\, along linguistic\, racial and clas s lines. It also investigates the ideological discourses existing within t hese spaces and how they have aided to construct spaces\, identities and c ommunities. Ultimately\, through the use of archival sources\, including y ellow press journals from the 1950s and 1960s\, lesbian periodicals\, and photographs\, this work considers the place butch/femme roles and identiti es held within these spaces and discourses\, and how understandings of the se roles and identities are shaped by linguistic\, racial and class differ ences. By employing theoretical notions of gender performativity\, female masculinities\, and queer geographies\, this research aims to understand b utch/femme aesthetics\, politics and desires throughout time and space\, w hile also thinking about how this knowledge can inform a desire to rebuild inclusive lesbian spaces in Montreal. \n\nFelicité Girard.  “The Symbolic Power of Blondness: Constructing a Feminine Ideal Across Twentieth- Centu ry Québécois Women’s Magazines”\n\nThis thesis explores the symbolic const ruction of blondness in 20th-century advertisements in the Québécois women ’s magazines La Revue Moderne and Châtelaine. A mixed-methods approach com pared representations of blonde and brunette women across 506 advertisemen ts published between the 1920s and 1990s. Through quantitative coding and qualitative discourse analysis\, this study reveals that blondness was his torically produced as an aspirational and hegemonic form of femininity dee ply intertwined with gendered\, classed and racialized ideals. While blond es were less visible than brunettes\, their disproportionate representatio n in beauty advertisements reinforced their symbolic elevation as an endur ing beauty standard\, in contrast to the traditional femininity embodied b y brunettes. The repeated association of blonde women with status\, admira tion\, whiteness\, youth and hegemonic ideals further revealed the symboli c power of blondness as a component of an ultimate feminine ideal that is socially rewarded in a political economy of embodiment. From these finding s\, the cultural popularity of blonde hair dyeing can be understood as muc h more than a trivial beauty practice\, but as a process of self-regulatio n disguised as self-expression in a restrictive and disciplinary beauty re gime.\n\n____________\n\nGraduate Student Presentation Abstracts\n\n \n\nP engfei Cao: “Unheard Voices: Queer Chinese in the Diaspora -- Rethinking S upport for Chinese International LGBTQ+ Students in Canada”\n\nThis resear ch project focus on Chinese queer international students’ lived experience s and how they perceive the existing support initiatives on campus and ins ide the community. By using Queer Asia as Method (QAM)\, we reimagine Quee ring China as main approach to understand what forms of violence\, exclusi on\, or marginalization they experience within West-defined 2SLGBTQIA+ spa ces. This project draws on the more specific way to examine how Chinesenes s\, queerness\, and immigration status specifically intersect\, emphasizin g that Chinese and queer identities are negotiated simultaneously and stra tegically\, not sequentially or in opposition to each other.\n\nThe inform ation is gathered through second-handed data analysis of the articles that have covered similar finding of respectively Chinese as well as Asian que er\, international student community. Through this research project\, we h ighlight how Chinese queer international students are often neglected whil e identifying what factors shape their perceptions of existing support ini tiatives and what leads to their decision of help-seeking strategies.This project is not meant to disparage and police various forms and expressions of Chinese queer diasporic existence but to seek to center the silenced v oices and lived experiences. Considering what it means to be queer\, Chine se\, and diasporic in white settler-colonial society\, this research proje ct will show how there are more inclusive\, culturally relevant ways to su pport for the sizable but unheard community of Chinese queer international students.\n\nMathilde Genest\, “The Underdiagnosis of Neurodivergent Wome n and Girls: A Feminist and a Bioethical Issue”\n\n In comparison to men a nd boys\, women and girls are less likely to be diagnosed as neurodivergen t\, and if they are\, it tends to be later in life. Neurodivergent girls a nd women are underdiagnosed. This presentation argues that it is not only a feminist issue but also a bioethical one. First\, I adopt a feminist per spective. I start by presenting some contributing factors to girls and wom en’s underdiagnosis\, describing the male model of neurodivergence\, and e xplaining the impacts of gender on neurodivergence and vice-versa. Then\, I explore the framework of epistemic injustices in relation to the underdi agnosis of neurodivergent girls and women. Second\, I present the bioethic al framework of principlism and apply it. This reframing allows me to expa nd on the harms linked to the epistemic injustices previously presented an d to include other harms experienced by neurodivergent girls and women due to their underdiagnosis. The double framework of epistemic injustice and principlism gives a fuller picture of the harms linked to the underdiagnos is of neurodivergent girls and women. Some of the main harms fall into the principle of non-maleficence. Not receiving a diagnosis is linked to nega tive outcomes for neurodivergent girls and women poor mental health\, nega tive self-perceptions\, risk-taking behaviours\, experiences of trauma\, s ocial difficulties\, and testimonial injustices. Importantly\, applying th e principle of beneficence shows us the positive consequences of a diagnos is for neurodivergent girls and women. Hence\, they are harmed because the y are not benefiting from positive outcomes such as hermeneutical breakthr oughs\, improvements in social relationships\, and increases in self- este em. The underdiagnosis of neurodivergent girls and women hinders the flour ishing of their autonomy when a diagnosis fosters it through self-understa nding\, re-authoring their lives\, and an increased sense of control. Fina lly\, the principle of justice highlights the epistemic injustices as intr insically wrong and gender inequality.\n\nTashika Gomes\, “A Feminist Poli cy Analysis of Canada’s AI Strategy and Bill C-27.”\n\nIn 2017\, Canada be came the first country to launch a national artificial intelligence strate gy\, prioritizing investment in research and talent development. In 2022\, this strategy expanded to include responsible AI and commercialization al ongside the introduction of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA ) within Bill C-27. Since then\, Canada’s approach to AI governance has ev olved through consultations and strategic updates\, but legislative progre ss has stalled due to the prorogation of Parliament in January 2025.\n\nTh is paper conducts a critical\, intersectional feminist policy analysis of Canada’s AI strategy\, AIDA\, Bill C-27\, and 32 reports submitted by 28 A I Strategy Task Force members. I examine how innovation\, responsibility\, and public protection are articulated across these documents\, with a foc us on policy language\, funding priorities\, and equity provisions for mar ginalized groups. The analysis identifies key tensions\, omissions\, and p atterns across these materials\, offering insight into how AI governance i s currently being shaped and whose interests it centers or excludes.\n\nDe spine Green\, “The Temporality of Resistance Art: Fanon\, the Medu Art Ens emble and Cultural Production”\n\nThe work of Frantz Fanon presents us wit h interesting reflections on the relation between colonised temporality\, aesthetic production and the invention of the new human. In this paper\, I present an account of Fanon’s reflections on colonised temporality in Bla ck Skin\, White Masks (1952) and Wretched of the Earth (1961) which sees t he colonised being locked in a continuous present\, without histories or f utures of significance that can be taken up authentically as their own. Th e intervention that Fanon presents is the introduction of invention into l ife\, making real the possibility of choice for the colonised as a collect ive practice aimed at transforming the social situation. Part of the pract ice Fanon highlights is the development of new forms and uses of cultural production which evince a new kind of temporality beginning to make itself known through art as it engages with other parts of political struggle. A fter discussing this account\, I use examples of resistance culture from t he Medu Art Ensemble and show how they reflect this new temporality. The M edu Ensemble were a collective of cultural workers active in the anti-Apar theid struggle in the early 1980’s\, based out of Gaborone\, Botswana who worked across a range of media. By focusing on their posters (many of whic h reproduced in Antawan I. Byrd and Felicia Mings\, The People Shall Gover n! (2020))\, I argue that their use of screen-printing\, assemblage and co llage 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 pa per examines how symbolic femininity operates as a constitutive mechanism within nationalist projects\, focusing on the aftermath of the 1971 Bangla desh Liberation War. Marked by genocidal tactics\, including the mass rape of hundreds of thousands of women\, the war produced a social and politic al context in which gendered violence became materially and symbolically c entral to the nation’s formation. As a result\, Bangladesh offers a unique ly instructive case for analysing how women’s bodies and images become emb edded in the narration of national identity and moral order. Drawing on fe minist theories of nationalism and cultural-sociological accounts of colle ctive identity and cultural trauma\, this essay argues that symbolic femin inity can function as a primary mechanism through which nations in their e arly stages negotiate legitimacy and collective identity. By bringing thes e frameworks into conversation\, the analysis shows how gendered symbolism operates not only at the level of discourse but as a mechanism through wh ich national meaning is stabilised and made politically consequential.\n\n Bianca Hutanu\, “Trauma-Informed Approaches to Tattooing: Enhancing Mental Health Literacy and Ethics of Care.”\n\nLiterature from the past decade h as shown an increased interest in tattoos as a means of identity expressio n\, and bodily reclamation\, particularly those with histories of trauma\, which shifts away from the previous negative narratives and stigmatizatio n within the modern Western world. Historically\, some Indigenous communit ies\, such as the Cherokee or Inuit\, incorporated tattooing as a cultural ly significant practice that was supressed through generations of longstan ding colonial violence\, and Native dispossession (Honma & Francoso\, 2023 ). Documenting these histories have helped artists\, such as Cherokee arti st John Henry Gloyne\, reimagine the practice outside of the reducible dis torted optics and constrains of the settler state\, but also reclaim this practice. Motivations and meanings vary\, yet instances of correlation of tattooed bodies with mental health are not secular\; research on this has demonstrated questions of embodied storytelling and body reclamation are a lso explored amongst survivors of human trafficking and harmful branding p ractices\, the correlation between tattooed individuals and the increased rates of suicidality\, as well as the association with childhood abuse or neglect and tattooing. In light of these findings\, while tattooing can se rve as a site of healing for clients\, questions arise on the tattoo artis t’s practices\, role within ethics of care\, and their psychological impac t of engaging with stories of pain\, grief\, and resilience\, such as pote ntial secondary or vicarious trauma. Artists often learn the technical pra ctice through apprenticeships or informally\; there is no standardization of the practice\, which can limit knowledge sharing and create challenges 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 artists\, gui ded by trauma-informed and anti-oppressive practices. \n\nDan Levy\, “Squi nting With Your Ears: Re-Articulations of Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Keyboar d Fantasies” (1986)\n\nIt has now been a decade since composer and Black t rans elder Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s legendary “rediscovery” through a cass ette of his 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies. During this time\, Glenn-Copela nd has come to figure possibilities larger than himself for his newfound q ueer and trans devotees: of long life\, intergenerational trans care\, and recognition for Black trans culture-makers. The making of a cultural icon \, however\, invites ascriptions of value through singularity over coaliti on and connection. Accordingly\, journalistic narratives often reinscribe  Glenn-Copeland’s work within the periphery of the “uncategorizable” and th e genre-defying. I interrogate these narratives of rediscovery and excepti onalism\, asking how\, why\, and by whom Keyboard Fantasies has been taken up. I approach the album not merely as an artifact of the ‘80s or the mat erial site of Glenn-Copeland’s “rediscovery\,” but as a work of cultural p roduction which takes on meaning through the temporal breaks which charact erize its reception. Through analysis of the material conditions which ani mated and attended the album’s initial production\, I explore submerged an d foreclosed articulations between Black electronic music and indie music  cultures of the mid-80s. Then\, I examine the ways in which Keyboard Fanta sies has been adopted by queer and trans musicians\, particularly in conte mporary queer indie scenes. Following Glenn-Copeland’s own phenomenologica l metaphor for listening to synthesized sounds\, I suggest that by “squint ing with our ears\,” we can orient ourselves to better listen for sites of both affinity and alienation.\n\nDina Lowe: Literature Review for Thesis Titled 'Gendered Narratives in Kazakhstan’s Post-Soviet\n\nMemory Landscap e'\n\nThis literature review surveys four bodies of scholarship relevant t o the study of gendered memory in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Soviet gender po licy in Central Asia\, women’s experiences of Stalinist repression\, post- Soviet nation-building and femininity\, and memory studies. These fields r eveal that while scholars have extensively examined both gender and commem orative practices in the post-Soviet space\, the two areas have rarely bee n brought into direct dialogue in the Kazakhstani context. Research on Sov iet gender policy shows that women's emancipation was deeply entangled wit h colonial modernization\, which had unique impacts in predominantly Musli m areas of Soviet Central Asia. Gendered studies of Stalinist  repression demonstrate that women were frequently targeted through kinship and famili al roles rather than individual political acts. Work on post-Soviet nation -building shows that governments across Central Asia have institutionalize d idealized femininities centered on motherhood and moral guardianship as tools of national cohesion. Memory studies\, meanwhile\, establish that co mmemorative sites function as intentional state practices that construct p olitical meaning. This review finds that despite this rich body of work\, gender remains underexplored as a strategic and structuring element within Kazakhstan's politics of  remembrance. Notably\, unique historical sites such as ALZhIR\, (The Akmolinsk Camp for Wives of Traitors to the Motherla nd)\, a museum in Astana\, Kazakhstan which memorializes solely female pri soners of Soviet repression\, has received limited scholarly attention as an explicitly gendered commemorative space.\n\nAlisa Sanchez\, “A Comparat ive Ethnography of Masculinity in Single-Sex and Co-Educational Schools”\n \nElite schools increasingly frame themselves around inclusion\, civility\ , and character development\, yet subtle gendered hierarchies continue to structure peer life beneath these formal commitments. This project examine s how masculinity is performed and regulated among early adolescent boys i n elite school settings\, with particular attention to practices such as i rony\, mock aggression\, and ostensibly playful forms of interaction. Draw ing on and departing from C.J.  Pascoe's influential account of 'fag disco urse\,' preliminary pilot ethnography at one elite Montreal boys' school s uggests that explicit homophobic policing may be receding\, displaced not by greater equality\, but by a different idiom. Boys deployed humor center ed on assault\, sexual misconduct\, and racial stereotyping as mechanisms for boundary-drawing and status regulation\, carefully calibrating their j okes to remain just within institutional tolerance. While scholarship on m asculinity frequently centers older adolescents\, boys in Grades 7 to 9 at elite Canadian schools remain understudied despite occupying a formative period in which gender norms and status hierarchies are actively co-constr ucted. I will expand on this project through a comparative ethnography acr oss two Anglophone elite schools in Montreal — one all-boys\, one co- educ ational — investigating how institutional structures shape these performan ces and how boys navigate formal expectations around maturity and inclusio n. Fieldwork will include participant observation\, go-along ethnography\, and interviews with students and staff across one academic year. This pro ject contributes to the sociology of education\, youth studies\, and mascu linity studies by highlighting how gendered power persists through ambiguo us and institutionally tolerated practices\, and how boys learn to navigat e hierarchy under the language of civility and leadership.\n\nAndrés Valen cia\, “Relationality\, Dissensus\, and More-than-Human Futures: Seven Coun ter-Hegemonic Logics for the University of 2050”\n\nUniversities are being reshaped by intersecting\, simultaneous\, and mutually reinforcing crises \, such as the climate emergency\, democratic erosion\, rising authoritari anism\, 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 centers on se nsory regimes and logics away from Western aesthetics. This presentation s howcases a Qualitative Research Synthesis of seven university logics—the   Ubuntu or decolonial\, the ethically engaged\, the slow\, the plastic\, th e troublemaker\, the  pluriversity\, and the queer university—whose design s push against global capitalism cultural hegemony and its systemic dysfun ctions: faculty alienation\, erosion of autonomy\, academic labor audit\, overreliance in key performance indicators\, organizational  isomorphism\, blind technocracy\, top-down management hierarchies\, intolerant  departm ental monocultures\, the fetishization of efficiency\, among others. \n\nT he presentation addresses three questions: 1) What critiques are made of t he neoliberal\, managerial university? 2) What are their proposals seen fr om an epistemic\, ontological\, and axiological lens? And\, 3) What can th ese designs/logics contribute to reenvision future universities in the 205 0-time horizon\, beyond patriarchal\, colonial\, polluting\, and racist ae sthetics? Preliminary findings indicate that knowledge is reconceptualized as deeply relational\, slow\, and rooted in unlearning and processes of b ecoming. Feminist and decolonial perspectives push this further\, advocati ng dissensus\, hyper-self-reflexivity\, and a rejection of extractive\, ob jectifying epistemologies. In ontological terms\, profound ontological rup tures that dismantle the Western anthropocentric divide between human and nature are advocated.  Indeed\, these logics call for an ontology that rep ositions the university within ecological interconnectedness and recognize s nonhuman beings as more-than-human relatives. While\, in axiological ter ms\, counter-hegemonic university logics prioritize care\, justice\, and e cological survival over efficiency\, foregrounding intellectual virtues su ch as truthfulness\, patience\, compassion\, and open-mindedness. The pres entation closes with some reflections on the universities of the future\, arguing that securing a sustainable future for higher education requires m ore 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 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR