Purpose of the Gender day
Covid pandemic has accelerated various crises, including governance, the role of care in the society, and social inequalities. In looking for answers for such grand challenges, we think feminist theories and practices can offer important and powerful insights to re-imagine the post-pandemic futures. The Gender Day is organised to bring together different strands of feminist thinking and feminist practices into conversation to re-think how organisations and organising can address such societal grand challenges.
The program of the day and the speakers include:
10.00 Opening – Marianna & Innan
10.00-12.00 Panel 1 – Using feminist methodologies to reimagine organisations and organising (Chair: Marianna)
Dr Maria do Mar Pereira - Applying Feminist Theories to Reimagine Organisations After Covid-19: the Example of Academia
Sophie Alkhaled – Using a postcolonial feminist approach to understanding women’s entrepreneurship as a political form of feminist organising in non-democratic contexts
Professor Banu Ozkazanc-Pan - Transnational Feminist Approaches to Migration: Mobilities, Bodies, and Power
Lunch 12:00 - 14:00
14:00-16:00 Panel 2 –Applying gender and feminist theories and practices to address grand societal challenges (Chair: Innan)
Dr Cristina Neesham - Climate change and making kin beyond the Anthropocene: Haraway's feminist biosemiotics
Professor Marianna Fotaki - Why feminist ethics of care are now more relevant than ever
Dr Jenny Rodriguez - Intersection of gender and race in organizations