24 – 26 March 2021
TUESDAY, 23 MARCH
18:00 Pre-Conference Book Presentation: „Right-Wing Populism and Gender. European Perspectives and Beyond“ (Transcript, Bielefeld, 2020) With the Editors Gabriele Dietze (Berlin) and Julia Roth (Bielefeld) and the author Birgit Sauer (Vienna)
WEDNESDAY, 24 MARCH
14:00 Welcome Address by ZiF-Representative and Opening Remarks by the Convenors of the Research Group
14:30 Keynote Manuela Boatcă (Freiburg): Gendering Global Entanglements – Decolonizing Inequalities
Chair: Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld), Co-Chair: Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Panel I: Reconfiguring Gender Inequalities and Global Solidarities: Decentering Foundational Concepts
Julia Roth (Bielefeld) / Birgit Sauer (Vienna): Worldwide Right-Wing Contestations of Gender Equality: Thinking Global Intersectionalities
José Manuel Barreto (Bogota) / Ina Kerner (Koblenz): Universalism and Provincialism: A Dialogue
Suad Joseph (Davis): Self, Relation and Gender Rights. (Un)Bounding Rights and Personhood
Chair: Ania Plomien (London, UK), Co-Chair: Holly Patch (Bielefeld)
THURSDAY, 25 MARCH
09:00 Julia Roth / Alexandra Scheele / Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld): Framing the Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Panel II: Global Crises: States – Markets – Families
Ania Plomien (London) / Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld) / Martina Sproll (Berlin): Global Social Reproduction: Crises and the Inherent Contradictions of Capitalism
Onyinyechukwu Durueke (Port Harcourt): Post-Conflict Communities and Gender Inequalities
Chair: Birgit Sauer (Vienne), Co-Chair: Julia Roth (Bielefeld)
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Panel III: Negotiating Hegemonic Knowledge Production about Gender
Viola Raheb (Vienna): Religious Interpretations, Patriarchal Authority and Gender Inequalities
Fatima Sadiqi (Fez) / Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld): Politicizations of Religion: Between Fundamentalist Contestations and Feminist Renegotiations
Brenda Kombo (Bloemfontein): Contestations over Culture and Human Rights in Family Code Reform in Mali
Chair: Ina Kerner (Koblenz), Co-Chair: Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Panel IV: Questioning Global Productions of Normativities
Karsten Schubert (Freiburg) / Ligia Fabris (Rio de Janeiro) / Holly Patch (Bielefeld): Liberalism and the Construction of Gender (Non-)Normative Bodies and Queer Identities
Mishuana Goeman (Los Angeles): Anti-Colonial Strategies in Promoting Gender Social Justice
Andrea Pető (Vienna): Lessons Learned from Rhetoric and Agenda of Illiberal Gender Politics Regarding Reproductive Rights in Hungary
Chair: José Manuel Barreto (Bogota), Co-Chair: Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld)
FRIDAY, 26 MARCH
09:00 Keynote Susanne Baer (Federal Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe): Gendered Normativities: The Role and Rule of Law
Chair: Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld), Co-Chair: Julia Roth (Bielefeld)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Reflections on the Conference: Where Do We Go From Here?
Ligia Fabris (Rio de Janeiro), Stefania Maffeis (Dresden), Martina Sproll (Berlin), Shirin Zubair (Lahore)
Chair: Brenda Kombo (Bloemfontein), Co-Chair: Karsten Schubert (Freiburg)
12:45 Concluding Remarks Convenors of the Research Group