Heidi Hein-Kircher, Wissenschaftsforum, Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
WEDNESDAY, 21 JUNE 2023
17:00 Registration
17:30 Welcome Speeches
18:00 Keynote
Nadje Al-Ali, “Beyond Exceptionalism and Area Studies: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on
Anti-gender/feminist Discourses and Politics”
THURSDAY, 22 JUNE 2023
09:30 – 11:00 Anti-Gender Politics in times of Multiple Crises: An Outcome or a Cause?
Chair: Pierre Hecker
Alev Özkazanç, “Transformations in the Gendered Character of the State under Authoritarian- Populist Regimes: The Case of Turkey”
Elżbieta Korolczuk, “Anti-gender Campaigns as a Challenge to Liberal Democracy”
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Anti-Gender Politics: Instrumentalizing the East-West Divide?
Chair: Annette Henninger
Mojca Pajnik, “Anti-gender Mobilization: Defending ‘the Traditional’ from a Post-sexual Imaginary in Central-Eastern Europe”
Dina Wahba, Salzburg, “The Co-construction of Militarized Masculinities: The Wutbürger and the NAFRI local realities and global connections”
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Doing Gender Politics in Authoritarian Contexts: Moving with, along or against the state?
Chair: Heidi Hein-Kircher
Katie Kraft, “Distilling Diffuse Totalitarianism: Russia, Anti-genderism, and the Strengthening State”
Helen Rizzo, “Thirty Years of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Activism under Difficult Social and Political Conditions: The Case of Egypt”
15: 30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16: 00 – 17:30 Keynote
Dalia Leinartė, “Women’s Rights in Eastern-Central Europe: from de jure to gender backlash”
FRIDAY, 23 June 2023
09:30- 11:15 Secular and Religious (Anti)Feminisms and Women´s Rights
Chair: Funda Hülagü
Ayşe Durakbaşa, “Cracks in Erdoğan’s Authoritarian Rule: Women’s Agency, Anti-feminist backlash and Feminist Resistance”
Nadezhda Beliakova, “‘Traditional Values’ as the (Dis)Connection Between Secular and Religious Antifeminism in Post-Soviet Russia”
Anna Heller, “Perspectives of Islamic and Secular Feminism on Women's Rights in Iran”
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Feminist and Queer Counterstrategies: Challenges and Prospects I
Chair: Ayşe Durakbaşa
Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh, “Claiming Visibility and Belonging by the Iranian LGBTQIA+ Movement”
Jennifer Ramme, “Feminist and LGBTQ∗ Solidarities and Counterstrategies in the light of the Rightwing Consolidation of Power in Poland”
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:15 Feminist and Queer Counterstrategies: Challenges and Prospects II
Chair: Alev Özkazanç
Magdalena Grabowska, “Towards the New Social Contract? Abortion Protests, Social Reproduction in the time of Polycrisis, and the longer (De)democratization Processes in Poland”
Selin Çağatay, “Bringing the Counterpublic back in. Reconceptualizing Feminist Politics in times of Anti-gender Mobilizations”
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Wrap up and Discussion on Future Research Cooperation
Moderators: Pierre Hecker, Heidi Hein-Kircher and Funda Hülagü