This dialogue series opens up a conversation between the ATGENDER community and prominent researchers around the question of how feminists deal with core dilemmas and impasses that affect academic settings and activist spheres alike. By combining historical insights with practical experiences, the series aims to deepen our understanding of current debates and identify tools and approaches that can facilitate collaborations across differences and power positions. Each session features one main speaker whose work sheds light on the material and affective mechanisms of conflicts in feminist academic and solidarity spaces. 

This online series is open to all and is particularly tailored for ATGENDER members committed to enhancing our feminist research network and taking part in our regular events.

In the next months we will be announcing an exciting line up of speakers as part of the series. We invite members of the  ATGENDER community to suggest names of speakers they would like us to be in conversation with. Have a scholar in mind who you think would give an interesting contribution to the themes above? You can suggest their name via the following form: https://forms.gle/8m6yKpKURpshULQp7 

The first talk of the series will be with Professor Sherene Razack on February 25th 2026, 6pm – 7.30pm CET. The details of the talk are below. 

For the first event in the series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Sherene Razack. 

We invited Professor Razack to reflect on the confines of feminist solidarity to which she has contributed significantly on, and to highlight the continuities and novelties of impasses that structure the feminist field. We were especially interested in Razack’s concept of the “race to innocence” in feminist spaces, and the im/possibilities of feminist solidarity in such a context.

WHAT DOES FEMINIST SOLIDARITY LOOK LIKE IN TIME OF GENOCIDES?

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 6pm – 7.30pm CET

Sherene H. Razack (Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)

This talk revisits past and present feminist challenges to solidarity in the attempt of shedding light on the current conjecture. In the last few years, feminists in the West have been explicitly singled out for censure by states, universities and media for their condemnation of the genocide that is ongoing in Gaza. The talk will interrogate the allegation that feminists have failed to care about Israeli women who may have been sexually violated on October 7, 2023. As the talk will unpack, this allegation rests on several assumptions, chief among them the proposition that the sexual violation of Israeli women counts more than any violence done to Palestinians. In stark contrast, the targeted killing of women and children in Gaza and the rape and torture of Palestinian prisoners, have not been framed as a feminist issue in the West and the counter question ‘does your feminism include Palestine?’ is seldom posed. This talk thus asks: How might we understand what feminist solidarity looks like in this time of genocides?

BIO:

Sherene H. Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in the Department of Gender Studies, UCLA. She is an interdisciplinary critical race and feminist scholar whose work focuses on racial violence. She explores how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy interlock to produce and sustain a racially structured world where racialized populations are marked as disposable and subjected to unrelenting violence. She is the founder of the Racial Violence Hub (Racialviolencehub.com). Her two most recent books are: Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism (2022) and Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody (2015). 

To view more information on Sherene’s work and publications, see here: https://sherenerazack.com/ 

The discussion will be facilitated by Dr Maria Elena Indelicato (she, her, hers) (Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra), board member of ATGENDER. 

This event is open to all but advanced registration is required. To register for a place, please register here before February 23rd, 23:59 CET: https://forms.gle/eoEPtT3gWEHo41mZA 

If you have any questions about the event, please email: info@atgender.eu. Please note, the talk will not be recorded.

This event is organised by ATGENDER, the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation. ATGENDER is a membership-funded organisation. To support ATGENDER’s work, please consider joining as an ATGENDER member: https://atgender.eu/membership/register-as-new-member/ 

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