Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures. 24-26 June 2024

Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures. 24 - 26 June 2024.

A 3 day international conference in Oxford.

Monday 24 June, Tuesday 25 June, Wednesday 26 June.

Conference Programme

Monday 24 June

Day 1, Gender Pasts

9am: Registration

9.30am: Welcome and Introduction (Maria Misra)

9.45am-12.15 noon:

Session 1: Global Pasts: The Colonial World

This panel will consider gender in pre-colonial Africa, Asia, and the Americas and the ongoing influence of colonial gender ideologies and practices

Speakers

Mrinalini Sinha, (Michigan)

Spectres of Mother India (2006)

Nwando Achebe (Michigan State)

Female Monarch and Merchant Queens in Africa (2020)

Lisa Tatonetti (Kansas State)

Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-cis Masculinities (2021)

Discussant: Sebastian Conrad (Berlin)

Chair: Matt Cooke (Oxford)

12 noon- 3:00pm:

AHRC Public Engagement Displays and

Tours at the Ashmolean

Featuring:

-Young Creators Pop-up Photography Exhibition

-Young Curators Pop-up Tours

-Antiquities Tour with Anja Ulbrich (Ashmolean)

Tuesday 25 June

Day 2, Gender Presents and Futures

Morning: O’Reilly Theatre, Keble College;

Afternoon: Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum

9.00 am: Registration.

9.15-10.30 am: Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

10.45am-1.00 pm

Session 3 ‘Presents’

This panel will discuss today’s highly polarised debates on gender and ask why the issue has become so central to contemporary global politics and culture.

Speakers

Elzbieta Korolczuc (Stockholm and Warsaw)

Co-author of Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment (2021)

Nilufer Gole (Paris)

Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism (2010)

Derek Hird (Lancaster)

‘Masculinities in China’ in Routledge Handbook of East Asian

Gender Studies (2019)

Session 4

Chair: David Priestland and Discussant: Faisal Devji

3.30pm - 5..45pm

Session 4, ‘Futures’

As we confront economic change, demographic shifts, the rise of powerful new technologies and the threat of catastrophic climate change, we ask what the impact might be on the gendering of work and markets, and the future of feminism.

Speakers

Judy Wajcman (LSE) Technofeminism (2004) Leslie Salzinger (Berkeley) Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories (2003) Catherine Rottenberg (Goldsmiths) The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018)

Discussant: Maria Misra (Oxford) Chair: Patricia Clavin (Oxford)

Wednesday 26 June

Day 3, Gender in Film and Fiction

Morning: Literature session in Old Dining Room, St Edmund Hall

ONE: 9.30 am-1.30pm. Morning: Session 5: Literature - Xiaolu Guo Author & filmmaker, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007); Radical: A Life of My Own (2023)

Margie Orford,

Author of Daddy’s Girl (2006); The Eye of the Beholder (2022)

Afternoon: Phoenix Picture-House Cinema

TWO: 2pm: Screening of Joyland (2022) followed by Q&A director Saim Sadiq

THREE: 5.50pm: Screening of Wayfaring Stranger (2024) followed by Q&A with irector Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, United Kingdom