Program
WEDNESDAY – 7 OCTOBER
14:00 Welcome Address
by Véronique Zanetti (Executive Director of ZiF) and Opening Remarks by the Convenors of the Research Group
15:00 Keynote
Elisabeth Holzleithner (Vienna, Austria): Global Contestations of Gender Equality and Queer Rights – Perspectives from Legal Philosophy
16:15 – Coffee, Tea & Cake Break –
16:45 Panel I:
How and Why is Gender Equality Questioned?
Andrea Pető (Budapest, Hungary / Vienna, Austria): How did Gender Become a Symbolic Glue and What are the Consequences for Progressive Actors?
Verónica Schild (London, Canada): Gender Rights in Chile’s Enriched Market Society: A Neoliberal Moral Project in Crisis?
Comment: Ina Kerner (Koblenz, Germany)
18:30 – Dinner at ZiF –
THURSDAY – 8 OCTOBER
09:00 Keynote
Emilia Roig (Berlin, Germany): Current Challenges for Intersectional Justice from a Global Perspective
Comment: José Manuel Barreto Soler (Bogotá, Colombia)
10:30 – Coffee & Tea Break –
11:00 Panel II: Citizenship as Analytical Lens and a Mobilizing Tool for Contestations – Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Stefania Maffeis (Berlin, Germany): Feminist Perspectives on Migration and Transnational Citizenship
Noya Rimalt (Haifa, Israel): In Search of a Stronger Defense of Abortion Rights: Reconceptualizing Abortion as a Man's Rights
Comment: Karsten Schubert (Freiburg, Germany)
12:30 – Lunch –
14:00 Panel III: Contestations of Equality and the Reconfiguration of Inequalities in the Gendered Division of Labour – Continuities and Changes at the Local and the Global Level
Cornelia Klinger (Tübingen, Germany): From the Dual Sphere to the Double Shift or, from the Idle Housewife to Bullshit-Jobs or, from Exclusion to Exploitation in the Dimensions of Gender and Class
Martina Sproll (Berlin, Germany): Global Production Cycles and Gender Inequalities
Comment: Ania Plomien (London, UK)
15:30 – Coffee, Tea & Cake Break –
16:00 Round-Table: Women’s and Gender Rights in Neo-Liberal Times
Birgit Sauer (Vienna, Austria), Verónica Schild (London, Canada), Amy Mazur (Pullman, USA), Ligia Fabris Campos (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Nasar Meer (Edinburgh, UK), Onyinyechukwu Durueke (Port Harcourt, Nigeria), Brenda K. Kombo (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
Chair: Karina Theurer (Berlin, Germany)
18:00 – Dinner at ZiF –
FRIDAY – 9 OCTOBER
09:00 Panel IV: Contested Religion – Religion(s) as Contestations of Rights
Keynote
Heiner Bielefeldt (Erlangen, Germany): The Difficult Search for Synergies: Using Religious Freedom for Promoting Gender Justice
Response: Ziba Mir-Hosseini (London, UK): Feminist Contestations and Patriarchal Ethics in Islam
10:30 – Coffee & Tea Break –
11:00 Panel V: Tension Between Secular and Religious Notions
Fatima Sadiqi (Fez, Marocco): Women's Movements before the Arab Spring in North Africa
Shirin Zubair (Lahore, Pakistan): Beyond the Binarism of Secular and Islamic Feminisms in Pakistan: Challenging the Dominant Gender Narratives through the Aurat March
Comment: Viola Raheb (Vienna, Austria / Bethlehem, Palestine)
12:30 Research Perspectives and Concluding Remarks by the
Convenors of the Research Group
13:00 Farewell Lunch / Departure