Gender, Bodies & Technology: (In)Visible Futures Gender, Bodies & Technology: (In)Visible Futures April 21-23, 2016 The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center Roanoke, Virginia hosted by The program in Women’s and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech #GBT2016
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Gender,Bodies & Technology:(In)Visible Futures
Gender,Bodies & Technology:(In)Visible Futures
April 21-23, 2016
The Hotel Roanoke and Conference CenterRoanoke, Virginia
hosted by
The program in Women’s and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech
#GBT2016
Planning Committee
Women’s and Gender Studies ProgramVirginia Tech
Conference Director:Christine Labuski, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies; director of the Gender, Bodies & Technology
initiative
Budget Director:Katrina Powell, outgoing Director of Women’s and Gender Studies
Planning Committee: Rayanne Streeter, graduate student in Sociology and Women’s and Gender StudiesClaire Kelling, graduating senior, majoring in Statistics and Economics; minoring in Women’s and Gender Studies and
Women’s LeadershipAli Neff, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana StudiesDonna Riley, Professor of Engineering Education
Performance Coordinator:Amy Splitt, Grant Coordinator/Office Manager, Center for Peace Studies & Violence Prevention/Women’s &
Gender Studies
Special thanks to the following people for moderating panels:Laura Gillman, Professor of Women’s and Gender StudiesSaul Halfon, Associate Professor of Science and Technology in SocietyRebecca Hester, Assistant Professor of Science and Technology in SocietySharon Johnson, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures; incoming director of Women’s and
Gender StudiesKrystin Krist, Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Exercise Science, Methodist UniversityAnn Kilkelly, Professor of TheatreBarbara Ellen Smith, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and SociologyJennifer Turner, graduate student in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Special thanks to the following people and offices for scholarship and other financial support:Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia TechCenter for Instructional Development and
Educational ResearchCenter for the Study of Rhetoric in SocietyCenter for the Study of Peace and Violence Prevention College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Department of Engineering EducationDepartment of Science and Technology in SocietyDepartment of SociologyOffice for Inclusion and Diversity Office of the ProvostTechnology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies
An extra special thanks to our Silver Sponsors:Department of EnglishInstitute for Culture, Society, and the Environment
The Graduate School The Moss Center for the Arts
Thanks to the students in Dr. Labuski’s graduate Gender, Bodies & Technology class for presenting their work, moderating panels, and for thinking about GBT with her all semester.
We also wish to thank Continuing and Professional Education at Virginia Tech, in particular, Colleen Bartos, Kortni Lindsay, and Elizabeth Caton.
Members of the Planning Committee have red committee ribbons attached to their name tags; feel free to approach them with questions or needs throughout the conference.
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Department of Sociology 560 McBryde Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061 Telephone: 540-231-2765 Email: [email protected]
V I R G I N I A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U T E A N D S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y A n e q u a l o p p o r t u n i t y , a f f i r m a t i v e a c t i o n i n s t i t u t i o n
Invent the Future
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
April 21, 2016
Welcome to the fourth biannual Gender, Bodies & Technology conference!
With this year’s theme “(In)Visible Futures,” we seek to enrich ongoing conversations regarding gendered and racialized forms of oppression and violence by exploring how modes of technology render both visible and invisible particular kinds of gendered bodies, on what terms, and to what effect. “(In)Visible Futures” engages our present tendentially, with critiques elaborated from the perspective of the future rather than the past. With keynote addresses from Crunk Feminist Collective and Michelle Murphy, we aim for #GBT2016 to be a space of critical reflection regarding how various forms of (in)visibility render certain possibilities more and less “thinkable. We hope, most of all, to incite and propel futures in which we can actively invest and imagine ourselves.
More broadly, GBT continues to be intrigued by the myriad ways that bodies are impacted by technological innovation and gendered expectations and we hope that the papers and performances that you’ll experience over the next two days will deepen your own questions and conversations about these topics. As we critically engage with embodied and technologized futures, we hope to highlight the diversity of approaches taken by the broad range of disciplines represented in our program. GBT is committed not only to divergent intellectual paradigms but also to placing those paradigms in direct conversation with one another. We value the space that learning from each other can provide and, to that end, we warmly invite you to attend the performances, workshops, and other maker spaces during your time here.
With the goal of meeting others and strengthening our sense of community, we hope that you will take advantage of the various informal settings at the conference as well our two primary forms of social media (our Facebook page and our Twitter hashtag—#GBT2016). We have made email addresses and Twitter handles available in the program, and have designated the Bent Mountain room on the upper level as an “R&R” space, equipped with comfortable seating and yoga mats for those who might want to recharge or converse in a quieter atmosphere. This is in addition to the continuous break area outside the session rooms (near the registration table), which has a warm and sunny outdoor patio. Participants have also each received a ticket for one complimentary drink at the hotel, and we hope that you’ll use these to strike up or continue a conversation with a new friend or colleague at the hotel bar or poolside. A map of all these spaces can be found in your conference program.
We are excited to build on the success of our first three meetings, and to continue fostering the international network of scholars working in this exciting and emerging transdiscipline. Our listserv and Facebook community now includes over a thousand people from around the globe, and, as in year’s past, the conference hosts participants from multiple countries and a wide range of backgrounds and academic disciplines. This spring has also seen the launch of our website (genderbodiestechnology.com) and we are looking forward to rolling out an accompanying blog over the late summer and early fall. As a conference participant, we hope you will consider getting involved as a guest editor or contributor!
Please do not hesitate to approach any the members of the planning committee, whose name badges are marked with red ribbons, with any questions about logistics, accommodations, or whatever is on your mind. We hope that your participation at the conference will be productive and provocative and we look forward to getting to know you. Welcome to Roanoke and to Virginia Tech!
Sincerely,
Christine Labuski, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender StudiesDirector, Gender, Bodies & Technology
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table of Contents
Gender, Bodies & Technology Planning Committee ...............Inside Front Cover
5. Rendering Gender: Flesh, Ethnicity and the Virtual (Harrison/Tyler)
a. “On Flesh, Agency and Resistance,” Srikanth Mallavarapu ([email protected])
b. “Facial Trans-Formations: Sexualizing Ethnic Features in the Practice of Facial Feminization Surgery,” Eric Plemons ([email protected])
c. “Discourses of Trans* Bodies Online: Explorations of Replication, Reification, and Resistance,” Toni Roberts ([email protected])
d. “Simulated Affect?: Visible and Invisible Renderings of the ‘Third World Woman’ within Empathetic Video Games,” Erika M. Behrmann ([email protected])
a. “Bodies in the Cloud: On the Interactive Nodes of Existence of Holographic Entities,” Kathy Nguyen ([email protected])
b. “Auroratone: Rehabilitation through Synesthesia,” Alexandra Fine ([email protected])
c. “Auditing Visibility, Visualizing the Audible: Women, Media and Presence in Dakar, Senegal,” Ali Neff ([email protected])
d. “Re-membering Voices and Making Manifest Melville’s Others: A Performative Reading with Digital Accompaniment,” Lissa Holloway- Attaway ([email protected])
a. “Hardware Restoration: Reactions to Reconstruction after Male Circumcision and Female Genital Cutting,” Laura M. Carpenter ([email protected])
b. “Vaginal Speculation: Reading Across an Archive of Gendered Microbiota Futures,” Rebecca Howes-Mischel ([email protected])
c. “Unsexing and Hetero-/Cis-normativity: The Paradox of Museum Taxidermy,” Jonathan Grunert ([email protected])
d. “McGender: How Medical Technology Creates the Illusion of Choice for Transgender and ‘DSD’ (Intersex) Individuals,” Olivia Thompson ([email protected])
“The Girl Effect: Transnational Paradoxes and Paradigms of Sex-selective Abortion”
Eesha Pandit of the Crunk Feminist Collective
Saturday, April 23, 2016
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast
8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
1. Gendering Data: Analysis and Production (Buck Mountain)
a. “Feminism Reads Big Data: From Selfie Research to Community Informed Consent,” Elizabeth Losh ([email protected])
b. “Gender as Data: The Computational Future of the Gender Question,” Laura Norén ([email protected])
c. “Pixelation Situation: Shedding Light on the Situatedness of Researchers, their Satellites, and their Data Analyses in Remote Sensing,” Samantha Jo Fried ([email protected])
a. “‘Perfect Humans’: Genome Mapping, Race, and Sexuality,” Jennifer A. Hamilton ([email protected])
b. “Mutation in My Code: Genetic Testing, BRCA Data and the Brave New Affective Politics of Genomic Identity,” Kim Surkan ([email protected])
c. “Variants of Significance? Constructions and Understandings of Cancer Genetic Risk,” Ronna Popkin ([email protected])
d. “Dissecting the Human/Posthuman Technological Configuration: Public Perceptions of the Body, Gender, Health, and Clinical Practices,” Alana Baker ([email protected])
3. Tracking and Regulating (Female) Bodies (Monroe)
a. “Fit to Mother: Risk and Self-Care in the Pregnant Athlete,” Lorin Shellenberger ([email protected])
b. “Cyborg Neoliberalism: Practicing Neoliberal Subjectivity through the Fitness Tracker,” Caroline Alphin ([email protected])
c. “Suppressing the Modern Period: Biomedicalization and Intimate Norms of Menstruation,” Katie Ann Hasson ([email protected])
d. “The Infertile Female Body: Embodiment, Visualization, and Discipline through Transvaginal Ultrasound Technology,” Heather Deering ([email protected])
Moderator: Krystin Krist (kkrist@methodist. edu)
4. Performance (Madison)
a. “Invisible Death: Cooking with Pests,” Lindsay Garcia ([email protected])
a. “Electric Girls and Spirit Telegraphs: Feminine Bodies and Mediumship as Communication Technology,” Melissa Adams ([email protected])
b. “Books, Patriarchal Agency, and the (In)visible Body of the Princess: Future Uses and Medieval Context for Disney’s Sleeping Beauty,” Carlee A. Bradbury ([email protected])
c. “Trans-cendence and Trans-gression in Deepa Mehta’s Elements Trilogy,” Rose Hartfield Wilson ([email protected])
d. “Claiming Queers Now and Then: Past, Politics, and Pop Culture”, Loran Renee Marsan ([email protected])
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker Washington Lecture Hall
“Chemical Exposure and Decolonial Potential”
Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto
2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
1. Performance (Washington Lecture Hall)
“There is Pleasure in the Pathless Woods” Choreographer: Claire Constantikes ([email protected])
Dancers: Claire Constantikes, Fiona Harris, Cambria McMillan-Zapf, Scott Wagner, Kevin Wood Musician: George Tatum
Technical Director: Shawn VanSchuyver, Scott Wagner Moderator: Ann Kilkelly ([email protected])
2. Illegible Labor: On Visibility, Reproduction, and the Work of Women’s Bodies in Medicine (Wilson)
a. “‘#ThankYouHenrietta’: Reflections on Science, Justice, and the Politics of Refusal,” Sandra Harvey ([email protected])
b. “(Im)Possible (In)Visibilities: Exploring Differential Labor in the Production of ‘Defective’ Female Genitalia in the FGCS Industry,” Jessica Neasbitt ([email protected])
c. “‘Not Quite Normal’: Buck v. Bell and the Establishment of Eugenic Visibilities in the United States,” Amanda Reyes ([email protected])
a. Workshop: “Pseudonymity in Location-based Social Discovery Apps and the Visibility of Gender and Sexual Identity,” Dana Riger ([email protected])
b. Performance: “Distance Methods of Movement Collaboration: Solo/Solo and Processes of Remote Dance Making,” Mountain Empire Performance Collective (Rachel Rugh and Katie Sopoci Drake) ([email protected], [email protected])
5. Sex and the Song: The Virtual-Material in Musical Production (Harrison/Tyler)
a. “Masculinity, Music & Muscle: The ‘Missing Males’ in Adolescent Singing,” Patrick Freer ([email protected])
b. “(In)audible Futures: Predictive Analytics in Personal Genomics and Music Streaming,” Amanda Modell ([email protected])
c. “Femmeshedding: How Female Musicians Access a Uniquely Gendered Perspective from Recording in Private,” Malavika Sahai ([email protected])
Eesha Pandit is a Houston-based writer, activist, and consultant for social justice organizations. Her writing can be found at The Crunk Feminist Collective, Feministing, The Nation, RH Reality Check, Feministe, Bitch Magazine and In These Times. She has also appeared on numerous TV news outlets including CNN, HLN, and MSNBC. She is currently a regular contributor to Salon where she covers issues relating to race, gender, reproductive justice, immigration and social justice movements.Eesha works with national and international organizations to create, implement, and sustain effective programs and impactful communications strategies. Her recent clients include: Provide, Women with a Vision, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, The International Rescue Committee, The NoVo Foundation, The Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, The National Network of Abortion Funds, and The Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program. Eesha has a long history of non-profit leadership, having worked as Executive Director of Men Stopping Violence, a social change organization dedicated to ending men’s violence against women. She has also served as Women’s Rights Manager at Breakthrough, a global human rights organization, where she worked on the Bell Bajao! (Ring the Bell!) Campaign that asks men and boys to get involved in ending violence against women. She has also served as Director of Advocacy at Raising Women’s Voices (RWV), a national initiative working to ensure that women’s voices and concerns are heard and addressed as policymakers put the new health reform law into action, and as Associate Director of Programs at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College. She has also worked with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, and Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Rights Program, and currently serves on the board of the National Network of Abortion Funds. Eesha has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.
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Michelle Murphy, University of TorontoProfessor of History and Woman and Gener Studies
Michelle Murphy is a historian of the recent past and feminist technoscience studies scholar who theorizes and researches about the politics of technoscience; sexed, raced, and queer life; environmental politics; biopolitics and necropolitics; as well as economics, capitalism and financialization particularly in contemporary, cold war, and postcolonial conjunctures associated with the United States, Canada, and more recently
Bangladesh. She is a co-organizer of Technoscience Salon and Director of the Technoscience Research Unit. She has graduate appointments at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, as well as the School of Environment. In addition, she has graduate appointments in Science and Technology Studies and the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.
Michelle’s forthcoming book, The Economization of Life, explores the rise of techniques that differentially value life based on its ability to foster the macroeconomy; in it, she hopes to expand the ways we theorize and understand the entanglements between reproduction, experiment, and economy in the late twentieth century.
Michelle is also the author of Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience and Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers, which won the 2008 Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science.
Michelle is currently working on two related projects, The first, Distributed Reproduction, seeks to theorize an alternative ontology and scale for reproduction that exceeds individual embodiment and instead encompasses temporally and geographically extensive configurations of sex, living-being, technoscience, environmental politics, and political economy. Related, her research is concerned with the life, death, and future of “alter life” – life already altered by histories of capitalism, pollution, violence, and colonialism – within the worlds and infrastructures of the Great Lakes and the St. Clair River.
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Special thanks to the following people and offices for scholarship and other financial support:
Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech
Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research
Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society
Center for the Study of Peace and Violence Prevention
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Department of Engineering Education
Department of Science and Technology in Society
Department of Sociology
Office for Inclusion and Diversity
Office of the Provost
Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies
An extra special thanks to our Silver Sponsors:
Department of English
Institute for Culture, Society, and the Environment