The Feminist Imaginary: Creative Pedagogies and Methods for Gender Justice and Change
24th August – 28th August 2022
Edge Hill University, Lancashire (UK)
Wednesday, 24 August
Wine reception at 17:00
- Traditional Opening
- Welcome to the university
- Welcome to the Conference
- Activity – Feminist Bingo (Get to know one another)
- Presentation – Kathy Sanford and Darlene Clover AND Book Launch Event (People to bring books they want to talk about)
Thursday, 25 August
9:00 – 9:15 – Welcome and Overview of the workshop
9:15 – 10:45 – Circle activity – To bring an image/object that speaks to the question of “What is the feminist imaginary?”
10:45 – 11:15 – Stretch, Coffee, Tea break and Interview space
11:15 – 12:15 – Presentation slot and Discussion
Dorothea Harris and Theodora Harris– Facilitating UySkwuluwun: Indigenous Feminist Aesthetic Work as Cultural Revitalization
Claudia Diaz – Decolonial feminist pedagogies for imagining otherwise knowledge and artistic production
Allison Balabuch – Our grandmothers were knowledgeable people: Valuing women’s contribution in heritage resource creation
12:15 – 13:15 – Lunch
13:30 – 14:45 – Presentation slot and Discussion
Kerry Harman – Practising the feminist imaginary: The East End Women’s Museum Tea Party
Shauna Butterwick – The catalytic power of feminist creative practices and political fashion shows of the Philippine Women’s Centre of British Columbia
Nicola Dickson – Beyond imagining: Sexual abuse survivors as adult learners, research participants and visual artists
14:45 – 15:15 – Stretch, Coffee, Tea break and Interview space
15:30 – 16:30 – Presentation slot and Discussion
Marie-Pierre – Community building as a tool to tackle difficult subjects in the public sphere (Online)
Lauren Spring – Research based theatre and the feminist imaginary (Online)
Beverly Hayward – Exhibiting resistance and resilience: The significance of a physical presence in feminist art practices
16:30 – 17:30 – Collage activity
17:30 – Head to Omskirk for dinner
18:00 – Dinner
Friday, 26 August
9:00 – 9:30 – Opening – Yoga and Meditation Practice
10:00 – 11:00 – Presentation slot and Discussion
Gaby Franger – Everyday life – Memory – Art – Action – Concepts of feminist exhibitions to empower Girls and Women
Rachel Thain Gray – ‘Women’s and Gender Museums: Key equalities issues and intersectional identities’
Sarah Williamson – Igniting the feminist imaginary with activist feminist and public pedagogue ArtActivistBarbie
11:00 – 11:30 – Stretch, Coffee, Tea break and Interview space
11:30 – 12:30 – Presentation slot and Discussion
Susan Brigham – How you know me?: Feminist arts-based storying practices through photography
Victoria Foster – Imagining better futures: Photovoice with young people not in employment or education
Hasne Begum – “Arts as feminist fight for the Cause: War Museum, gender identity and independence”
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 14:45 – Presentation slot and discussion
Elsa Ballauri – Today’s young scholars and the unknown contribution of women intellectuals of the 20s and 30s
Sandra González – Feminist practices for social change: The Women’s Museum in Buenos Aires
Sinead Mccoole – Mna na hEireann – women of Ireland – how contemporary methodologies in museums and the arts are working for gender justice and social change
14:45 – 15:15 – Stretch, Coffee, Tea break and Interview space
15:15 – 16:15 – Disobedient women’s exhibition video screening and discussion
16:30 – Head to Omskirk for dinner
17:00 – Dinner
Saturday, 27 August
9:00 – 9:30 – Opening – Qi Gong activity
10:00 – 10:45 – Women’s Museum Video screening and Discussion
11:00 – 12:00 – Presentation slot and Discussion
Claudia Mandel Katz –Deconstructing gender politics: Theoretical/practical art and gender laboratories to dismantle violence against women and girls
Kyehyeong Ki – The Gender Museum’s strategy to move from storytelling to storymaking: The Gender Museum Korea
Nabila Kazmi – Feminist resistance through the lens of everyday lived experiences of young women in India
12:00 – Lunch
13:00 – Gather for bus to Liverpool
Liverpool – Museum Visit options (and going around the city):
Tate Liverpool – https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/radical-landscapes (Cost 10 pounds)
Slavery Museum – https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/international-slavery-museum#section–collections
18:00 – Meet for Dinner at the restaurant
20:00 – Back to Edge Hill
Sunday, 28 August
9:00 – 9:30 – Opening and morning activity
10:00 – 11:00 – * Graphic notetaking report
* Workshop thoughts (Prompt – museums yesterday? What are you taking away with you from this past 3 days of the conference?)
11:00 – 11:30 – Stretch, Tea and Coffee and Interview space
11:30 – 12:30 – Roundtable and Wrap-Up – Where do we go from here? Next steps?
* Sub-groups: a) publications; b) digital and creative outputs c) grants proposals, partnerships, etc.)
12:30 – Lunch and Depart