National Women’s Studies Assoc. (NWSA) – Keynote

Alexis will speak at the featured plenary addressing the 34th Annual National Women’s Studies Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. The conference will take place November 7-10 2013 at the Cincinnati Netherland Plaza. The Title of the Plenary is Changing the Subjects: Remaking the Futures of the Feminist Past. Alexis will speak along with Nan Alamilla Boyd (San Francisco State Univ), Kelly Wooten (Duke University) and Victoria Hesford (State Univ. of NY, Stony Brook). The Plenary is scheduled for Saturday, November 9th, 2013, 2:30-3:50pm.

Abstract

This plenary asks how we renegotiate the subjects of feminist histories. What assumptions about the past has women’s and gender studies relied upon? What are the new histories of women’s and gender studies? Going forward, who and what subjects should be the focus of the field’s pasts? Who or what comes into view as we rethink the feminist archive? How do these archives converge or diverge from other communities’ official or unofficial collections, documentations, and repositories of knowledge?