The Gender Centre research workshop will provide an opportunity for our affiliates (faculty, PhD researchers, research fellows, and visiting fellows) to present and discuss their work-in-progress with colleagues.
Workshop programme
Thursday, 13 March, 2025
10h30-12h30 Panel 1: Reproductive Politics and Practice
Moderator: Claire Somerville
- Daria Dyakanova, “Fight for the Desired Joyful Motherhood”: Communist Women, Reproductive Rights, and the Adoption of the Popular Front, 1930-1939” (Commentator Julie Billaud)
- George Severs, “Migration Narratives and sexual health experiences in late twentieth-century London” (Commentator Shirin Heidari)
- Arushi Sahay, “Making of Sterilization Cases in Northwest India” (Commentator Caroline Rusterholz)
13h30-15h30 Panel 2: Gendered Economics
Moderator: Nicole Bourbonnais
- Tanushree Kaushal, “Gendered labour produces finance: Navigating profits and care as intermediaries of finance” (Commentator Kristen McNeill)
- Genevieve Sekumbo, “Gendered Dimensions of Development Disillusionment: Youth and Extractivist Development in Tanzania’s Gas Sector” (Commentator Christophe Gironde)
- Hossein Cheito, Mona Khneisser, “Queer debt in Lebanon” (Commentator Mischa Suter)
Friday, 14 March, 2025
10h30-12h30 Panel 3: Feminist Perspectives and Expertise
Moderator: Nicole Bourbonnais
- Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos and Yuliia Soroka, “Surviving the Violence: Towards a Feminist Political Economy of War and (Post-)War Reconstruction” (Commentator Katarzyna Grabska)
- Tsamiyah Levi, “Certifications for gender equality in science: activism, expertise and institutional change” (Commentator Elisabeth Prügl)
- Leandra Bias, “Feminist Solidarity at War: the quest for the decolonial subject in Russia” (Commentator Aditya Bharadwaj)
13h30-15h30 Panel 4: Gender, Sexuality, and Global Governance
Moderator: Aditya Bharadwaj
- Rafael Carrano Lelis, “Queer and Feminist International Law-making Coalitions: An Ethnographic Account of Civil Society’s Lawmaking Role at the United Nations Human Rights Council” (Commentator Nicole Bourbonnais)
- Joanna Bourke-Martignoni and Larissa Da Silva Araujo, “Gender equality and the “rural woman* in Europe: an analysis of problems and remedies identified by UN human rights mechanisms” (Commentator Elisabeth Prügl)