The program comprises three keynote addresses by renowned scholars in feminist and gender studies, 12 panel sessions presenting newest research, and a roundtable on methods. The keynote sessions are open for public. You can also register as audience to the panel sessions. Zoom links for Keynotes 2 and 3 will be provided upon registration. Full program with keynote speaker information and panel session details can be found HERE .
Please, register for keynotes and panel sessions by filling in this online form.
Venue: Tampere University, Main Building (Kalevantie 4, Tampere)
Time: May 11-12, 2023
Program outline
THURSDAY 11 MAY
09.30–10.00 Registration
10.00–10.15 Opening
10.15–11.15 Keynote 1 by Lucy Delap (University of Cambridge, UK) & Dominique Chadwick (Independent film consultant): Participatory film and gender justice in postcolonial Africa (Main Building, D11. On-site only)
11.30–13.00 Panel Session A
- 1A Networks of Feeling in Women’s Movement Magazines
- 2A Popular feminism
- 3A Gendered violence & #MeToo
14.00–15.30 Panel session B
- 1B Intersectional feminist resistance
- 2B Platform Feminism & digital labor
- 3B Feminist literary interpretations
15.45–16.45 Keynote 2 by Laurie Essig (Middlebury College, USA): Feminism, Fascism, and the Future: Global Anti-Gender Ideology and the Fight of Our Lives, via Zoom (live streaming at Main Building, D11)
FRIDAY 12 MAY
09.00–10.30 Panel Session C
- 1C War, women, and nationhood
- 2C Discursive constructions of feminism
- 3C Trans-local feminism
10.45–12.00 Roundtable on methods "Digital entanglements: doing feminist research in the time of crisis"
13.00–14.00 Keynote 3: Catherine Rottenberg (University of Nottingham, UK) in conversation with FEMCORUS, via Zoom (live streaming at Main Building/Lyhty F001)
14.30–16.00 Panel Session D
- 1D Russian Feminist Performance & Political Protest
- 2D Feminist responses to anti-gender politics
- 3D Decolonial Perspectives
17.30 - 17.45 Closing remarks
Organiser
FEMCORUS
Further information
Alisa Virtanen alisa.virtanen@tuni.fi