The Gender Centre research workshop will provide an opportunity for our affiliates (faculty, PhD researchers, research fellows, and visiting fellows) to present and discuss their work-in-progress with colleagues.

Workshop programme

28 February

10:00-12:00: Panel 1: Decolonization, Development, and International Organizations

• Nivedita Joon, “Sisterhood and Solidarity at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976” (Commentator: Umut Yildirim)
• Nicolas Hafner, “Decolonisation and Geneva as a Third World Development Studies Hub, c. 1961-1981” (Commentator: Claire Somerville)
• Rafael Carrano Lelis, “The Queer International: Global South activists and narratives in the transnational LGBTI advocacy at the United Nations” (Commentator: Aditya Bharadwaj)

13h30-15h30: Panel 2: Peace and Violence (hybrid session: link)

• Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos, “Where are the women, where is feminism? The importance of recognition of women as political actors within the peace agreement implementation in Colombia” (Commentator: Kristen McNeill)
• Olha Gazziero Mykytyn, “Militarization and war crimes committed in Ukraine by Russian Forces: addressing the issue from a feminist approach” (Commentator: Lisa Prügl)
• Alessia Nicastro, “Violence, power, and women. A discussion on femicide in war-torn contexts” (Commentator: Julie Billaud)

29 February

10h00-12h00: Panel 3: Care Work and Social Reproduction (hybrid session: link)

• Luisa Lupo, “Planting precarity: The reproduction of labour in Turkey’s agri-work system” (Commentator: Nicole Bourbonnais)
• Raksha Gopal, “Mothers on the move: The politics of displaced mothers in South Asia” (Commentator: Aditya Bharadwaj)
• Shoko Aikawa, “Adherence to Masculine Norms and Fathering Behaviours in East Asia: Measuring from emotional expression and gender role ideology” (Commentator: Sungmin Rho)

13h30-15h30: Panel 4: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Justice

• Caroline Rusterholz, “The racialisation of sexual and reproductive health in postcolonial Britain (1950s to 1980s)” (Commentator: Mischa Suter)
• Naomi Samake-Bäckert, “Building my literature review: A historiography of SRH activism in Britain, 1970-2000” (Commentator: Claire Somerville)
• George Severs, “Oral histories of race and sexual and reproductive health in Britain” (Commentator: Nicole Bourbonnais)

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