Video – 2020 – (Re)Connecting Gender Studies
On November 13th, Sophia’s Junior Network hosted the (Re)Connecting Gender Studies conference.
The aim of this conference was to (re)connect PhD students and gender researchers from different theoretical backgrounds, disciplines and research institutions. During the first part of the program, selected researchers presented their ongoing or recent research. You can find their abstracts/video presentations below.
Session 1 (De)Constructing narratives and discourses
Caroline Boreham (ENS Lyon) – Teaching intersectionality through Zadie Smith’s Swing Time VIDEO
Sven Van den Bossche (UGent) – Fictional transgender narratives in postwar Dutch literature VIDEO
Carole Walker (UCLouvain) – The institutionalisation of the fight against gender-based violence: interactions between the narratives of sexual violence victims and the transformations of a professional ecology in the Brussels Region VIDEO
Sigrid Wallaert (UGent) – The topic of women’s anger connected to Miranda Fricker’s concept of epistemic injustice VIDEO
Hannah Van Hove (VUB) – “Belonging nowhere”?: British experimental women writers and the politics of marginalisation ABSTRACT
Session 2 Movements and countermovements
Asli Polatdemir (Uni Bremen) – Websites of gender movements in Turkey: following online alliances ABSTRACT
Deniz Dag (Uni Bremen) – Familialisation of Women’s and Gender Studies at Turkish Academy ABSTRACT
Claire Poppelwell-Scevak (UGent) – Finding the best path over the rainbow: same-sex marriage in the European Court of Human Rights VIDEO
Emma Sarter (UCLouvain) – Feminism, attitudes towards trans* people and trans* rights: an analysis from the lens of social psychology ABSTRACT
Session 3 Negotiating social norms and boundaries
Justine Gloesener (ULiège) – Integration of gender issues in the “fabrique urbaine”. The place of women in the historical evolution of the Droixhe project ABSTRACT
Nika Looman (UGent) – Queering narratives of ageing: older queer women’s unruly sexuality-assemblages VIDEO
Mattias Decoster (Antwerpen & UGent) – Masculinity as property: Towards a new legal theory on the relationship between gender-based forms of privilege and the law VIDEO
