2022 SWS Winter Meeting
Thursday, January 27 – Sunday, January 30, 2022
Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
“Rethinking Feminist Sociologies in the Era of Global Pandemics”
SWS President-Elect, Roberta Villalón
Plenary 1 – Feminist Mobilizing for Better Futures: A Transnational Perspective
Chair: Esther Hernández-Medina, Pomona College
- Hülya Gülbahar, EŞİK – Women’s Platform for Equality, Turkey
- Barbara Sutton, Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, “The Power of the Green Tide: Feminist Mobilizations for Abortion Rights in Argentina”
- Lizeth Sinisterra, Docente del Departamento de Estudios Sociales, Universidad Icesi, ¡Es cuestión de dignidad!: mujeres afrodescendientes sosteniendo la vida en medio de la muerte
- Manisha Desai, Head of Sociology Dept., Professor, Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, Why Feminist Futures? What about a Just Present? Reflections on a Dalit Women’s Collective Farm in Tamil Nadu, India.
- SM Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights, London School of Economics, Africanist, Anti Carceral Feminisms for Decolonial Futures
- Katherina Tatiana Cabrera Cordero, Encargada de Juventud, Confederación Nacional de Mujeres del Campo (CONAMUCA), República Dominicana
Plenary 2 – Challenging Feminist Sociologies in the Era of Global Pandemics
Chair: Andrea Boyles, Tulane University
- Bandana Purkayastha, Professor, Sociology and Asian American Studies. University of Connecticut, Constructing feminist methodologies for documenting COVID: How does decoloniality matter?
- Melanie Heath, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Ontologies of a pandemic world: Displacement and Disruptions.
- Cecilia Menjivar, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, Migration, Gender-based Violence and the Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist Sociologies
- Ghassan Moussawi, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies & Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Rethinking Crisis in Queer Times: Lessons from the Global South
- Chaniqua Simpson, PhD Candidate, Sociology, North Carolina State University, Future Building Through Black Queer Feminist Ideology
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Collaborative methodologies:doing research with a politics of care
Plenary 3 – Decolonizing Sociology: Liberatory Feminist Praxes
Chair: Chriss Sneed, University of Connecticut and Center for Urban and Racial Equity
- Raewyn Connell, Professor Emerita, the University of Sydney, On a World Scale, In the Real World: Tasks for Feminist Sociology
- Ochy Curiel, Doctora y Magíster en Antropología Social, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, ¿Es posible descolonizar la academia? Entre la colonialidad del poder y rupturas epistemológicas.
- Tanya Saunders, Associate Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Decolonizing Sociology & Liberatory Feminist Praxes: Reflections from the Field
- Vrushali Patil, Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University, Starting with Colonial Modernity
- Crawley, Associate professor of Sociology and affiliated faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of South Florida, Reclaiming Radical Feminism from the TERFs: De-essentializing Bodies, Decolonizing Gender
- Aurora Vergara, Profesora Asociada, Departamento de Estudios Sociales,Programa de Sociología, Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia, PUNTADAS EN EL TIEMPO: Reflexiones desde las pedagogías feministas y el quehacer textil.
Celebrating Interdisciplinary Perspectives as Integral to Feminisms
Chair: Nancy López, University of New Mexico
- Blu Buchanan, Post-doctoral University Fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Asheville, The Nastiest Shade: Black Trans Feminism and Its Sociological Consequences
- Ginetta Candelario, Professor, Department of Sociology and Latin American & Latina/o Studies
- Study of Women & Gender Program Affiliate, Smith College, Editor of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism. The Meridians Project: Intersectional Feminist Scholarship, Mentorship, and Alternative Methods of Knowledge Production
- Julie Shayne, Adjunct Teaching Professor, Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Faculty Associate, Center for Human Rights, University of Washington Seattle, Reflections from a Feminist Editor: Blending Sociological Analysis and Feminist Theory to Create Interdisciplinary Texts and Pedagogy
- Jane Conway, Professor, Department of Sociology, Brock University, Co-editor of Latin American Perspectives Issue on Popular Feminism(s): Past, Present and Futures, Producing knowledge for feminism and feminist knowledge: studying subaltern feminisms
- Nathalie Lebon, Associate Professor and Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Gettysburg College, Co-editor of Latin American Perspectives Issue on Popular Feminism(s): Past, Present and Futures, Producing knowledge for feminism and feminist knowledge: studying subaltern feminisms
- Sylvanna Falcon, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, Respecting Research Emotions and Feelings: Embracing Feminist Wisdom
- Francisco Galarte, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of New Mexico, Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
- PJ DiPietro, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor,, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Affiliate Faculty, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Latino and Latin American Studies Program, LGBT Studies Program, Syracuse University, Co-editor of Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of Maria Lugones, Ungendering Feminism: On María Lugones’s Decolonial Praxis
- Jennifer McWeeny, Associate Professor, Philosophy in the Humanities and Arts Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Co-editor of Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of Maria Lugones, First-Person Experience: A Decolonial Method
Collective Solidarities and Community Organizing in New Mexico
Chair: Kris De Welde, College of Charleston
- Corrine Sanchez, Executive Director, TEWA Women, The Herstory of Tewa Women United: An Opide, braiding together of Movements
- Lorena Blanco-Silva, Director of Diversity Programs, University of New Mexico, MANA de Albuquerque
- Bianca Encinias, Founder of El Chante: Casa de Cultura
- Ruth Hernández-Ríos, Teaching Professor of Sociology, Skidmore College