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Gender Centre workshop

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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

Thursday, 12 March, 2026
 

10h30-12h30 Panel 1: Sex, Reproduction, Bodies
Moderator: Nicole Bourbonnais

  • Sachiyo Yagi, Fertility on Ice: Medicine for Demographic Anxieties? Modern Reproductive Technology of Egg Freezing and Reimagined Traditions in Japan. Commentator: Nicole Bourbonnais
  • Nuala Caomhánach, The Outsider: Sherwin Carlquist, the Anti-Circumcision Movement, and the Conservation of Wood Anatomy. Commentator: Aditya Bharadwaj
  • Sahanah Kathirvelu, The Role of International Human Rights Framework in Recognizing Right to Menstrual Health as a Human Right. Commentator: Caroline Rusterholz

 

13:30-15:30
Panel 2: Violence and Resistance
Moderator: Aditya Bharadwaj

  • Dhouha Djerbi, Regimes of Discontent: Gender & Rural Contentious Politics in Post-Uprising Tunisia. Commentator: Umut Yıldırım
  • Francesca Martens, Emotions of a Dictatorship. Commentator: Julie Billaud
  • Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos, Whose Agreement? Feminist Movements, Women Activists and the Implementation of Peace. Commentator: Sara Hellmüller
  • Yuliia Soroka, Flowers in wartime: a reflection on the use of the photovoice as a means of capturing the everyday violence(s) of war. Commentator: Anna Leander

 

Friday, 13 March 2026

10h30-12h30 Panel 3: Materialism, Economics and Theory
Moderator: Nicole Bourbonnais

  • Natacha Bastiat-Jarosz, Doing Feminist Politics Under Constraint: Activism, Legitimacy, and Business. Commentator: Kristen McNeill
  • Suzana Rahde Gerchmann, ‘So, I’m not giving you enough money to buy gender appropriate razors?’: law and political economy of gender pricing. Commentator: Elisabeth Prügl
  • Anna Ceschi, Simone de Beauvoir’s Concept of Situation: History, Oppression, and the Woman Question. Commentator: Carolyn Biltoft

 

13:30-15:30
Panel 4: Gender, Transnationalism, and International Organizations
Moderator: Claire Somerville

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