/news-archive/tag/feminist-research/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:32:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2017/12/21/mcabee-early-modern-period/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:32:08 +0000 /news/?p=68901 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professor organizes feminist panels on the early modern period]]> A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor is making it her mission to revive interest in research of the early modern period for a national women鈥檚 studies conference.聽 Kris McAbee, associate professor of English, organized two panels for the conference held Nov. 16-19 in Baltimore. As a member of the conference鈥檚 Early Modern Women Interest Group, McAbee said that interesting has been waning in the group. To get the group back on track, McAbee and fellow members organized two panels they hoped would tempt feminist researchers back to the area. The early modern period runs from around 1,500 to 1,800 A.D. 鈥淚t鈥檚 been latent the last few years, so I spoke with some colleagues about trying to bring some life back to that group,鈥� she said. 鈥淭he way we started was to put together two interdisciplinary panels. Our panels were well placed to look at, how in the early modern period, a period so historically removed from our own, we still have examples of women resisting oppression.鈥� The first panel, 鈥淓arly Modern Nasty Women: Shrews, Whores, and the Legacy of Resistance,鈥� featured research on women living in authoritarian regimes in the 17th century who participated in acts of resistance against oppression. The second panel, 鈥淭ransgressive Sexualities in Early Modern Capitalist, Carceral, and Colonizing States,鈥� featured research exploring how colonialism and capitalism were used to subjugate women. The panel covered early modern period examples of anorexia, cross dressing, imprisonment, and witch hunts. McAbee, who is already organizing panels for next year鈥檚 conference, also aims to publish these papers as articles in a special edition of an academic journal.]]> /news-archive/2017/11/22/feminist-research-collective/ Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:05:52 +0000 /news/?p=68622 ... Faculty members create research collective to highlight feminist research]]> Faculty members at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have started a group to explore feminist research and collaboration opportunities around campus.聽 The Feminist Research Collective is open to all faculty members interested in intersectional feminist research, advocacy, and pedagogy at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. Kris McAbee, associate professor of English and one of the group鈥檚 founders, said faculty members have talked about starting such a group for years. She was inspired by a similar group her friends started at the University of Texas at Dallas. 鈥淭hey found really productive engagement with each other,鈥� McAbee said. 鈥淥ne rhetorical scholar and one artist have collaborated on projects and now have a joint installation at a museum in Dallas. It鈥檚 a relationship they wouldn鈥檛 have formed had they not come together through this group.鈥� This semester, the group has held two meetings exploring research on masculinity and child sexual abuse in abolitionist narratives by Dr. Laura Barrio Villar, associate professor of English, and the work on anti-racism, love, and politics by Dr. Jana McAuliffe, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies. 鈥淚t鈥檚 been so heartwarming and encouraging to meet and work with colleagues who have interests that I didn鈥檛 know were so similar to mine,鈥� McAbee said. 鈥淚 think it can be easy to get isolated in your department. This is a way for us to collaborate across departments and fields and share our research with each other. It鈥檚 nice to have a group to keep us committed to keeping up our scholarship.鈥� For more information, contact Kris McAbee, kxmcabee@ualr.edu, or Catherine Crisp, clcrisp@ualr.edu. ]]>