Today and tomorrow, the Center for Women's and Gender Studies presents "The Feeling Body—Feeling the Body, " the 20th Annual Emerging Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies Conference. This graduate student run conference offers undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to share their research on issues in women's, gender, and/or sexuality studies. The theme of this year's conference addresses the relationship between feminist theory,  affect, and the body.The following comes to us from the conference program:

Affect is an emerging new direction in feminist theory, generating fascinating conversations around the role of the body and feeling in producing knowledge. How are other disciplines writing about and engaging with affect? How might this new direction shift how we think about the role of the body in academic research? The panelists will examine these topics, exploring the ways in which the body shapes knowledge.

The conference will feature a keynote address on Friday at 3:30p.m. by Dr. Ann Cvetkovich (Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at UT) in the SAC Ballroom.Also, be sure to check out our AMS grad students presenting at this year's conference! Masters student Tynisha Scott will present her paper, "Imagining Freedom: On the Vestiges of Enslaved Black Women, Pleasure, and Sexuality" at 3:00p.m. today in SAC 3.116, and Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Kelly will present her paper, "Negotiating (Im)Mobility: Solidarity Tourism in Occupied Palestine" at 1:30 Friday in SAC 1.118.Hope to see you there!