We’re delighted to announce that our recordings are now available. Please click on the hyperlinks to watch the Welcoming and Closing Remarks, our 4 Panels, and our keynote Professor Rabab Abdulhadi.
*Please click on the speakers’ and panellists’ names to see their abstracts. Alternatively, you can find them in our ‘conference programme’ document at the end of this page.
Venue: Bonington Building, Bonington Gallery
09:00 Registration
10:00 Welcoming Remarks
Location: Bonington Lecture Theatre
10:15 Keynote Speaker
Location: Room 143
Speaker: Filmmaker Mania Akbari
Chair: Patricia Francis (Nottingham Trent University)
11:45 Panel 1A: Voice in Artistic Practices
Location: Room 143
Chair: Brodhie Molloy (University of Leicester)
| Javed Sultan (De Montfort University) | Women Resistance: Reading Photographs of Shaheen Bagh in the Political Participation |
| Melanie Welaratne (Nottingham Trent University) | ‘Tell us about your lived experience’ |
| Tamsin Greaves (Nottingham Trent University) | Art Cares? |
| Sharon Monteith (Nottingham Trent University) | Their Voices, Their Words |
11:45 Panel 1B: Voice as Acts of Resistance
Location: Bonington Lecture Theatre
Chair: Amir Kaur Aujla-Jones
| Laura Woolley-Núñez (University of Warwick) | Sites of Resistance in the Translation of María Teresa León’s Anti-Fascist Memoir |
| Abíọ́dún Abdul (Nottingham Trent University) | Undoing the Silence: Life-Writing on Race |
| Patrick Williams (Nottingham Trent University) | Talking to the Settlers: Articulating Resistance in Mahmoud Darwish’s State of Siege |
| Marge Strong (Wake Forest University) | Bad Bitches Have Bad Days Too: Megan Thee Stallion, Vulnerability, and Complicating the Schema of the Strong Black Woman |
13:15 Lunch
14:15 Keynote Speaker
Location: Room 143
Speaker: Professor Rabab Abdulhadi (San Francisco State University)
Chair: Mahasen Nasser-Eldin (De Montfort University)
15:45 Panel 2A: Voice as Expressions of Agency and Marginalisation
Location: Room 143
Chair: Ramisha Rafique (Nottingham Trent University)
| Bob Jackson (Munster Technological University) | Based on a True Story: Cinematic Approaches to the Past |
| Crystal L. Edwards (San Francisco State University) | From Which I Draw My Strength: Audre, Eartha, and Frida |
| Riham Samaneh (Palestine Encyclopedia) | The Voice of Change through Artworks in Palestine and the British Banksy’s Artworks as a Case Study |
15:45 Panel 2B: Voice as (Dis)embodied Expressions of Dissent
Location: Bonington Lecture Theatre
Chair: Trang Dang (Nottingham Trent University)
| Malini (University of Edinburgh) | Voicing the Silences: An Ecofeminist Reimagining of Female Experience in Ntozake Shange and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi |
| Neeraj Bunkar (Nottingham Trent University) | BLACK and BLUE, the Colours of Resistance, Reading Kaala: An Alternative Voice |
| Yaqi Xi (University of Warwick) | ‘Giving voice to my translation’: Towards a Praxis of the Literary Translator’s Vocal Empowerment |
| Arya Suresh (Nottingham Trent University) | Identifying and Representing the Voices of Minority Women in Policies – An Intersectional Study |
17:15 Concluding Remarks
Location: Bonington Lecture Theatre
18:30 Film Screening
For more details about the conference programme, including the speakers’ abstracts and biographies, please see here.
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