25th Annual WGS & DIS Colloquium
Photo Gallery
WGS/DS students, faculty, and staff
Colloquium program, nametags, and buttons
Presenter: Katie Buckberger
Presenter: Piper Scholz
Presenter: Meredith Clark
Presenter: Daniko Girouard
Presenter: Lily Gautron (left)
Presenter: Zack Clarke (right)
Dr. Aarzoo Singh holds up painting by presenter Isa Santianez
Presenter: Kayleigh Armstrong
Presenter: Glodi Bahati
Presenter: Seraphine Crowe
Presenter: Nadia Minkevich
Presenter: Anna Hunter (centre)
Presenter: Katie Buckberger (right)
Celebrating 25 years of feminist scholarship with a delicious cake!
Presenter: Meredith Clark
Presenter: Chloe Crockford
Moderator: Dr. Ruprai
Presenter: Azeezah Ibrahim (centre)
Presenter: Mahlet Cuff (far right)
Presenters: MacKenzie Zacharias (left) and Abby Saulog (right)
Back: Kristee Kuz, Delaney Grant, Piper Scholz, Meredith Clark, Alexis Brown, Anna Hunter, Lily Gautron; Front: Mahlet Cuff, and Katie Buckberger
Women's and Gender Studies and Disability Studies Colloquium
Celebrating 25 Years of Feminist Scholarship!
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 | 9:00am-4:15pm | 2M70
We acknowledge that we are gathered on ancestral lands, on Treaty One Territory. These lands are the heartland of the Métis people. We also acknowledge that our water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.
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2M70 is wheelchair accessible
Prize raffle draws! Bring your own mug!
View the program below or download the program [PDF]
9:00am: Coffee and Breakfast
9:10am: Introductions and Welcome
Land Acknowledgement By The Women's and Gender Studies Student Association (WGSSA)
Opening Remarks: Dr. Ruprai
9:20am: Tribute to Rody (Rodiyat) Alabede
Delaney Grant and Kristee Kuz
9:25am: Feminist Art as Resistance
Chair: Dr. Greenhill
Katie Buckberger, "Crafting Sites of Survival and Resistance"
Piper Scholz, "Musical Feminism: The Gazes, The Audience, The Phantasy"
Meredith Clark, "Haunted Homesteads: Settler Nostalgia and the Erasure of Indigenous Dispossession in Contemporary Prairie Art"
10:10am: Nourishment Break
10:25am: Changing the Narrative
Chair: Dr. Singh
Daniko Girouard, "Casseaux: a Beaudry Tradition"
Lily Gautron, "Pakoochaypayiw"
Isa Santianez, "Leonisa"
Zack Clarke, "Freedom as Naive Abstraction: Lived Experiences of Coerced Bad Faith"
11:25am: Nourishment Break
11:40am: Feminist Cultural Productions Panel
Chair: Dr. Crowe
Kayleigh Armstrong, "Are We Sh*t or Just Short on Time?"
Glodi Bahati, "to go on is victory; The Works of Ana Mendieta"
Seraphine Crowe, "Feminist Remix Comic - Julie Doucet"
Nic Kaneski, "Now You've Seen a Transsexual"
Nadia Minkevich, "Grandmother / Grand(Mother) Quilt"
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch
Few words from Anna Rothney (Executive Director of the Manitoba Federation of Labour)
Prize Raffle Draw
1:30pm: Advanced Disability Theory Panel
Chair: Dr. Owen
Nic Kaneski, "Reimagining the Medical System Can Move Beyond the Medical Model of Disability"
Anna Hunter, "Queer Horror and Disabled Embodiment: The Subversion of Abled-Cisnormativity in Film"
Naomi Gillis, "Honouring Access Intimacy to Reduce Power Imbalances"
Katie Buckberger, "The Autistic Blast-Radius: High-Masking Individuals Coming to Consciousness"
Meredith Clark, "Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative AI: How Generative AI Crisis Narratives Reshape Academic Integrity Enforcement, Reproduce Neurotypical Learning Norms, and Limit Disability Access"
2:30pm: Queer Representations and Reimaginings
Chair: Dr. Failler
Chloe Crockford, "A Taste of Queerness: Reimagining the Characters of Waitress"
Jagdish Bharwal, "Visible but Not Free Queer Representations and the Limits of Marriage in Badhaai Do"
3:00pm: Grad School Information Session
Information Provided by Dr. Singh
3:15pm: Nourishment Break
3:30pm: Documenting Feminist Past, Creating Feminist Futures
Chair: Dr. Ruprai
Azeezah Ibrahim, "Preserving Winnipeg's Anti-Racist Movements"
Mahlet Cuff, "Tensions, Care, and Practicing Accountability in Community Organizing"
Abby Saulog and MacKenzie Zacharias, "Women's and Gender Studies Oral History Project"
4:10pm: Wrap Up
Closing Remarks by Dr. Ruprai and The Women's and Gender Studies Student Association (WGSSA)
Program Committee:
Dr. Ruprai
Angela McGillivray
Katie Buckberger
Delaney Grant
Kristee Kuz
Piper Scholz
Thanks!
The Margaret Laurence Endowment Fund
Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Disability Studies Program
Events
Marketing & Communications
Diversity Catering
Thom Bargen
Anna Rothney, Manitoba Federation of Labour
And all of the presenters!!