Thinking Gender 2023
33rd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
“Transforming Research:
Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility”
Thursday, February 23, 2023 (Virtual)
Friday, February 24, 2023 (In Person)
Register for the In-Person Conference on Friday, February 24, 2023
General registration closes Tuesday, February 21. Abstract submissions are now closed.
Thinking Gender 2023 will center inquiries, reflections, and imaginations of feminist, decolonial research methods and practice across fields and disciplines. Closed graduate student workshops for works-in-progress will be held on Zoom on Thursday February 23, 2023, for admitted students only. Our in-person program on Friday, February 24, 2023, will be open to the public. Guests who have not pre-registered may be admitted if space permits.
In lieu of a keynote address, Thinking Gender 2023 will feature interactive presentations and workshops throughout the day.
T.L. COWAN & JAS RAULT
Public Presentation:
“Heavy Processing for Networked Intimate Publics (NIPs): Trans- Feminist & Queer Digital Methods in and Beyond the University”
Graduate Student Workshop (sign up on site at Cowan & Rault’s public presentation):
“From Networked Intimate Publics (NIPs) to Networked Accountable Publics (NAPs): Making Time for Collaboration, Friendship & Comradeship in Research”
CELINE PARREÑAS SHIMIZU
Public Presentation:
“Creativity in the Face of Devastation: Methodologies of Research and Practice Across Inequality”
Film Screening:
The Celine Archive (2020) — Courtesy of Women Make Movies
For a more detailed program for the in-person conference, visit the event page.
TG23 will also feature themed panels of graduate student presenters moderated by expert faculty, undergraduate student poster presentations, a media exhibit, and a concluding reception. Refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
- Registration (7:30 – 8:30am)
- Media Exhibit (throughout the day)
- Public Presentation by T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault (8:30 -10am)
- Undergraduate Poster Presentations (10 -10:30am)
- Graduate Student Presentations I (10:30am -12pm)
- Lunch Break (12 – 1:15pm)
- Graduate Student Presentations II (1:15 – 2:45pm)
- Public Presentation by Celine Parreñas Shimizu (3 – 4:15pm)
- Graduate Student Workshop with T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault (4:30 – 6:15pm)
- Screening of The Celine Archive and Q&A with Celine Parreñas Shimizu (4:30 – 6:15pm)
- Reception (6:30 – 7:30pm)
Cosponsored By
- American Indian Studies Center
- Anthropology Department
- Asian American Studies Center
- Asian American Studies Department
- Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
- Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health
- Center for Community Engagement
- Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy
- Center X
- Chicana/o and Central American Studies Department
- Chicano Studies Research Center
- Comparative Literature Department
- Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA Law
- Disability Studies
- English Department
- Graduate Division
- Humanities Division
- Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
- Institute of American Cultures
- Institute on Inequality and Democracy
- International Institute
- Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, David Geffen School of Medicine
- LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
- Luskin School of Public Affairs
- Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies
- Promise Institute
- Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
- School of the Arts and Architecture
- School of Theater, Film and Television
- Social Welfare Department
- Sociology Department
- Williams Institute at UCLA Law
