Research
Working Group 6
Working Group 6
Generations and gender: connecting activism and gender studies
Chairs: Sveva Magaraggia, Mariagrazia Leone, Iris van der Tuin
ROUNDTABLE (to be proposed on behalf of the ATGENDER ‘Generationality’ working group to 8EFRC Conference Board)
Localizing and Challenging Feminist Timelines: Generationality and Narratives
(How are we subjected to and subjects of?)
PANELS (calls for papers to be sent out via organization committee of 8EFRC – on behalf of above mentioned group, yet with specific panel coordinator(s))
Strand 6 Rethinking Equality vs. Difference
One or two Panels on: Beyond the dualism (Kathrin Thiele, Marielle Smith, Eike Marten, Katarina Loncarevic). They would chair the panels, and present papers.
Strand 5 Shifting Sexualities, Shifting Masculinities
Panel on: Interdisciplinary perspectives on masculinity studies (Krizia Nardini – Chair and paper).
Panel on: Epistemological perspectives on care (Sveva Magaraggia – Chair) and related to it:
Panel on : How to translate this into policies (Mariagrazia Leone – Chair and paper)
Strand 8: Feminist Legacies, Feminist Futures
Panel on: Space (women’s documentation centres) and generation (Irina Costache – Chair and paper)
Strand 11: Violence Revisited
Panel on: Women’s movements and political violence: Intergenerational differences in Europe (Marilisa Malizia – Chair and paper)
STUDENT DAY:
Schedule
1. Keynote Speaker
Or
Roundtable Discussion
– suggested topic: activism and academia, new perspectives and new connections, or
– lifecourse changes: from activist student to academic activist
2. Workshops, 1st Session
2.1. Students in the academy (empowered? Repressed?)
– suggested subtopic: gender lines of student movements
2.2. Publishing
– how to?
– choosing where to publish as a political act?
– changing academia from the inside
2.3. The Future of Europe
– What is it becoming?
– The role of gender in Europe’s changes?
– What do we as students of gender studies have to say/do about these changes?
2.4. Geographies of Education
– Reassessing the East/West from an education viewpoint
– Mobility, Location, Resources
3. Break (coffee, tea, snacks)
4. Workshops, 2nd Session
4.1. Paper comments/workshops
4.2. Methodological and Research Dilemmas
4.3. Conceptual Speed Debating
5. Art, Performance, Etc.
5.1. Poetry readings, Photo/Art Exhibition (this could also be displayed through the day)
5.2. Local Activist groups from Budapest (Magyar Fokhagymafront or organizers of same sex flash love)
5.3. Tour of Budapest – gendered history of public spaces (by A. Peto)
6. Food/Drinks/Music?/If enough interest we could go somewhere in the city