2026 WGS Student Research Symposium Schedule

WGS 2026 Student Research Symposium
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Miller Learning Center 214, 250, 275
Student Symposium

 

 

Date: Time: Location: Contact: 02.27.2026 1:00-4:00 PM Miller Learning Center Dr. Cecilia Herles cherles@uga.edu SESSION I: 1:10-2:00 PM “Post-Colonial Motherhood and Memory” MLC 275 Chair: Swati Gilotra, Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature, Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “On Preserving Memory and Speaking to the South Asian Female Subaltern Subject as a ‘Post’ Scholar” -Maham Shah, Graduate Student, Educational Theory and Practice, UGA “Negotiating Motherhood: Patriarchy and Colonial Legacies in Eva Luna and Hurricane Season“ -Talita Lara Carvalho Nassur, Graduate Student in Romance languages (Portuguese), UGA “’Family is Precious. But What About Me?’ Re-imagining the Image of Chinese Women in To Live Through the Lens of Chinese Feminisms in Post-Socialist China -Yao Li, Graduate Student in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, UGA WGS 2026 Student Research Symposium “Creative Transgressions” MLC 250 Chair: Dr. Elise Robinson, PR & Program Director, Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies “Un Nouveau Pays: American Women as Early 20th-Century Expatriates in Paris” -Anna Shaikun, Undergraduate Majors in English & Philosophy and Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Feminist Pedagogy in Music Education” -Chloe James, Undergraduate Major in Music Education and Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “The Art of Crafting: Fiber Arts as a Site of Feminist Resistance and Loving Community’” -Madison Mize, Undergraduate Majors in Women and Gender Studies and Sociology, UGA “Transnational Feminist Responsive Politics” MLC 214 Timeko McFadden, Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Literature, Grad Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Evaluating the Effects of Conflict-Related Mortality on Women’s Political Participation in Colombia” -Piper Duncan, Graduate Student in International Policy, AB International Affairs, UGA “Capping Dominance: Rethinking Quotas Through Intersectional Feminist Theory” -Gracie Hunt, Undergraduate Majors in Women’s & Gender Studies, Political Science, and International Affairs, UGA “Geographies of Entitlement: How Misogyny Defines Legitimate Female Citizens in the US and East Asian Countries” -Xinyang Li, Graduate Student in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, UGA“Resisting the Panopticon: Stories from the Global South” “The Influence of Colonial Binaries on the Sexual Expression and Health of Modern South Asian Women” -Aarya Merchant, Undergraduate Major in Biomedical Physiology, Minor in Women’s & Gender Studies, UGA “Patriarchal Surveillance, Symbolic Power and the Regulation of Women in Lilana Coloanzi’s Short Story ‘El Ojo’” -Yasmin Paiva de Siquiera, Graduate Student in Romance Languages (Portuguese), UGA “’I am the King’: Gender Masquerade in Kemi Adetiba’s King of Boys” -Aishat Babatunde, Graduate Student in Comparative Literature, UGA “Adaptation and Authorship in Digital Narratives” MLC 250 Chair: Alexis Lygoumenos, Doctoral Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies and Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Evoking Black Joy: Black Centenarians, Digital Celebration, and Rhetorical Invention” -Sophia Muriel Flemming, Doctoral Candidate in Communication (Rhetorical) Studies and Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Sensuality and Subservience: An Analysis of Sex Appeal and Rape in Rashomon” -Keira Jolie Hallauer, Undergraduate Majors in History, Asian Language Literature (Japanese), and International Affairs, Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Under the Gendered Eyes: Examining the Aesthetics of Fair, Slim, Childlike in Digital Space Among Chinese-speaking Women” -Yao Li, Graduate Student in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, UGA MLC 275 Chair: Swati Gilotra, Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature, Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Gender, Labor, and Work” MLC 214 Chair: Blake Cravey, Doctoral Candidate in Communication Studies and Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Socialist Whore” -Shreya Naik, Undergraduate Majors in Political Science and International Affairs, Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Gendered Trajectories in Indian STEM: Women’s Experiences in Higher Education with West Bengal as a Case Scenario” -Soumyaneel Dasgupta, Graduate Student in Comparative Literature, UGA “A Woman’s Place: The Power of Gender in Counterinsurgency” -Mikayla Lachowicz, Undergraduate Major in International Affairs, UGASESSION III: 3:10-4:00 PM “Politics, Power, Pleasure” “Transcending Borders: Lessons from Irish Peace Studies for Trans Rights and Activism in the United States” -Angus McColloch, Undergraduate Majors in Political Science, Women’s & Gender Studies, and Religion, UGA “From Pleasure to Power: Making Power Visible in Sexual Relationships’” -Melyssa Munn, Undergraduate Majors in Psychology (AOE Neuroscience) and Women’s & Gender Studies, UGA “’Trans Women in Sports: American Fascism’s Newest Point of Entry” -Charlotte Kahler, Undergraduate Major in Sociology, Minors in Women’s and Gender Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UGA “Anti-Feminist Discourse” MLC 250 Chair: Emily Tingle, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology and Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Feminist Doppelgängers” -Tania Wilson, Undergraduate Major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Why are Young Men Voting for Women in the Far Right: Exploring Modern Sexism, the Youth-Gender Voting Gap, and the Rise of Women’s Leadership” -Claire Scafidi, Undergraduate Majors in International Affairs, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Spanish, UGA “The Call is Coming from Inside the House: How Far-Right Authoritarianism is the Greatest Modern Threat to Women, Peace, and Security” -Ella Carver, Graduate Student in International Policy, UGA MLC 275 Co-Chairs: Angus McColloch, Undergraduate Majors in Political Science, Women’s & Gender Studies, and Religion, and Sophia Flemming, Doctoral Candidate in Communication (Rhetorical) Studies and Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA “Gendered Interventions in the Medical Industrial Complex” MLC 214 Chair: Dr. Josie Leimbach, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies “Disability and the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC): Identity and Its Effects on Quality of Care for Persons with Disabilities in the United States” -Isabella Spears, Undergraduate Majors in Women’s and Gender Studies and English, UGA “Queer Identity, Mental Health, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” -Morgan Arrington, Undergraduate Majors in Comparative Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, Psychology, and Asian Language and Literature (Chinese), UGA “It is Not Black Women Who are Failing, It is the System: Maternal Health Inequality in Rural South Georgia” -A’Miracle Rhodes, Undergraduate Majors in Psychology, Sociology, and Women’s and Gender Studies, UGA

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