Conference 'Practicing Intersectiothnality in Research, Activism and Politics' & celebration of the 5 Anniversary of the Master Program Gender, Intersectionality and Politics 30-11 - 1-12-2023
International Conference & 5th Anniversary of the MA Program Gender, Intersectionality and Politics
CONFERENCE DAY ONE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2023 Hörsaal A, Ihnestraße 21, 14195 Berlin
15:00 – 15:30 Registration
15:30 – 16:00 Welcome Notes & Introduction
16:00 – 17:45 Panel 1: Black Feminist Activism
Jihad Yagoubi | Framing the intersections of northern African Black feminist thought and activism: Sketching the boundaries of a blueprint
Juliana Streva | Quilombo Tactics: Afrodiasporic Poethics and Politics of Vitality
Pamela Ohene-Nyako | Caught in a Vice: Black Female Activists in France and le droit à la différence culturelle, 1970s-1990s
17:45 – 18:15 Coffee break18:15 – 19:45 Keynote by Tiffany N. Florvil | Mobilizing Black Germany. Afro- German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement
19:45 – 21:00 ReceptionCONFERENCE DAY TWO: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2023 Hörsaal A & B, Ihnestraße 21, 14195 Berlin
8:45 – 9:15 Registration
9:15 – 10:45 2 parallel panels:
Panel 2: Intersectionality in Social and Care Policies (Hörsaal A)
Laura Andrea Álvarez Tobar | Intersectional Analysis of Social Policy Legislation: a Case Study of Spain
Manuela Stein da Silva Barbosa | Intersectional Inequalities in the Context of Care Work in Brazil
Cari_na Maier | Reflections upon intersectional perspectives on care within feminist theory
Panel 3: Intersectionality in the EU (Hörsaal B)
Petra Debusscher, Eva Luna Maes | Intersectionality in the European Union: a framework for policy analysis
Laura Eigenmann, Bontu Lucie Gutschke, Kathrin Zippel | Intersectional transformation or ‘gender equality +’? Intersectionality in EU policies on research and science
Liza Mügge | Intersectionalizing European politics: Bridging gender and ethnicity
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break11:15 – 12:45 2 parallel panels
Panel 4: Intersectionality in Higher Education (Hörsaal B)
Elena Aoun, Alena Sander | The intersectional killjoy at the university
Katharina Heermann | The significance of diversity and social processes in law studies and the legal profession – A mixed- methods survey at Freie Universität Berlin
Panel 5: Intersectionality in Knowledge Production (Hörsaal A & online)
Antoine Louette | Intersectional fieldwork: Studying Police Brutality as a Middle-Class White Male
Aneri Vora | The Travels and Travails of Intersectionality: A Critical Appraisal of its Conceptual Applicability/Utility in the Context of India
Jo Krishnakumar & Vibhavari Desai | “It was meant to be one Instagram post”: Building Trans/form, a Community-Led Tool to Understand Anti-Trans Violence in India
12.45 – 14:15 Lunch break14:15 – 15:45 Round table
Beyond Buzzwords: Interrogating Intersectionality in Academia and Activist practice (organised by students of the MA program Gender, Intersectionality and Politics)
15:45 – 16.15 Coffee break16.15 - 18:00 Panel 6: Intersectionality, Migration and Activism
Tunay Altay, Gölce Yurdakul | Undoing one-dimensional immigrant: Revisiting difference through postmigrant paradigm in Germany
Karolina Lebek | Emotions, intersectionality and feminism activism: emotional responses to the practice of intersectionality in the transnational feminist movement in Berlin
Lee Eisold | Prioritisations and coalition building in a white-led antiracist activist landscape | Drawing on understandings of intersectionality in (antiracist) activism in Flanders, Belgium
18.00 Closing remarks: Gülay Çağlar
18.15 – 22.00 Get togetherorganised by the Student Council of the Master Gender, Intersectionality and Politics