On Friday, May 16, the UCSC Feminist Studies department presents Radical Research – the 2025 Feminist Studies Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Happening 10 am to 2 pm at the Cowell Hay Barn, the Symposium is an opportunity for FMST Undergrads to share their work with peers throughout UCSC.
In the spirit of activism that is key to the feminist ethos, the Symposium will showcase the broad range of FMST undergrads' inter-sectional research projects, foregrounding questions central to the discipline of feminist studies.
Author, artist and associate professor micha cardenas and FMST alum Daisy Orellano (Class of 2019) will present keynote talks. A host of tabling organizations will be on hand, and we’ll have nibbles throughout the symposium.
Check out the full schedule below (subject to change). And come see what the feminists are doing!
10:05 Welcome and opening remarks: FMST undergraduate director Nick Mitchell and FMST Undergrad representative Aaliyah Balangue
10:15 Emmy Ceron – Bad Bunny: Music With a Purpose
10:30 Stephanie H. Lee – Liberating Whom? France’s Hijab Ban and the Redefinition of Liberation
10:45 Bella Mann & Serena Dern – An Oral History of the UC Santa Cruz Trailer Park
11:00 BREAK - poster viewing
11:15 Avery Shevelev – Kim K, Superstar. (Beauty as Kulture)
11:30 Liana P. Simonelli – Sonic materializations of spatial inaccessibility, imagination and the body, queer disability and COVID 19
11:45 Aaliyah Balangue – Everything Everywhere All at Once: Fractured Relationships, A Failed American Dream, and Redefined Identity
12:00 BREAK and LUNCH
12:45 Welcome back!
12:50 Micha Cardenas, author, artist, and CRES associate professor – We Must Be The Tipping Point: Trans/Queer/Feminist Ecological Crip Poetics Against Fascism
1:10 Daisy Orellana (Class of 2019), Abortion Doula, DuPont Clinic, Washington DC
1:30 Closing remarks - FMST/CRES Prof. Nick Mitchell
P O S T E R P R E S E N T A T I O N S
Elizabeth Fabel – Where Gender Meets the Pavement: The Hidden Disparities Facing Unhoused People
Lydia Vance – Understanding the use of potentially gendered and sexual language in the geosciences
