Soziologie

Join us for our  Online Roundtable in the context of the research group Global Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights: Attacks on ‘Gender’- Experiences from Diverse Contexts on May, 20^th 18:00-20:00. 

Women’s and Gender Rights are currently being increasingly questioned and attacked in many places worldwide. The research group Global Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights aims to bring into dialogue different perspectives on this phenomenon in order to discuss common logics, patterns and strategies in their relation to and entanglement with larger power structures and hierarchies (such as economic structures, struggles over hegemony, persistent colonial logics, or religious discourses). One of the aims is to promote building feminist solidarities and discuss possible future strategies of collaboration and solidarity across differences and beyond national, cultural, religious, racialized, classed, and other boundaries.

The online roundtable features the observations and experiences of the research group’s fellows Andrea Petö (Hungary), Brenda Kombo (Cameroon/Mali/Kenya), Birgit Sauer (Austria), Shirin Zubari (Pakistan) and Livia de Souza Lima (Brazil) from their respective locations. The panelists share the specific relevant arenas, actors and the language used in their contexts to carve out the diversity of patterns and logics as well as similar structures and strategies of attacking ‘gender’. The ultimate aim is to think about possible common framings for analyzing and critiquing attacks on ‘gender’ from a global perspective and develop alliances and tools to overcome them.

The event will be held as a video conference. For registration, please contact: karin.matzke@uni-bielefeld.de

Please direct any inquiries about the research group Global Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights to the coordinator Anna Efremowa.  Email: global-contestations@uni-bielefeld.de