This conference gathers speakers looking at how neoliberal and market ideologies directly impact gendered experiences in today’s university.

This event is hosted by the Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster – De Montfort University.

For full details, visit the conference website.

GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY

Online conference, 27-28 May 2021

Free Registration at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-neoliberal-university-conference-tickets-150918807215

Please register through the above link by the 25th May in order to receive the zoom link for the conference.

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 27 MAY

9.30-9.40 Welcome Address

Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham

Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University)

9.40-9.55 Conference Opening

Jo Richardson (De Montfort University)

10.00-11.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 1

Chair: Richard Hall (De Montfort University)

Lisa Blackman (Goldsmith University): Dis-ordering and estrangement in the neoliberal university: a crisis intervention.

11-15-11.45 Coffee break

11.45-1.15 FINDING A PLACE

Chair: Lidia Salvatori (University of Leicester)

Karolina Krasuska, Ludmiła Janion & Marta Usiekniewicz (University of Warsaw): Gender Studies under Review: Paradoxes of Academic Evaluation in Peripheral Neoliberalism and Illiberal Isolationism.

Mireille Rebeiz (Dickinson College): Teaching While Arab in the United States of America. The pressures experienced by untenured women of color teaching in America in and outside the classroom.

Alena Sander (University of Louvain): Producing knowledge with care: Building mutually caring researcher-research participants relationships.

1.15—2.15 Lunch Break

2.15-3.15 GUEST OF HONOUR LECTURE

Chair: Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University)

Micheline Sheehy Skeffington (National University of Ireland, Galway): Taking on an Irish university with neoliberal values; winning my gender equality case and how it went viral.

3.15-3.45 MARKETISATION AND RESISTANCE

Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham)

Lili Schwoerer (London School of Economics): Pushing against and moving beyond institutional regulation – Feminist knowledge production and utopian imaginaries.

Joanna Chojnicka & Łukasz Pakuła (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland): When the obligation to be neutral becomes the right to discriminate: discursive struggles over LGBTQIA+ rights at Polish universities.

FRIDAY 28 MAY

9.30-10.30 GENDER PRESSURE, GENDER VIOLENCE

Chair: Nicole Fayard (University of Leicester)

Barbara Biglia (Universitat Rovira I Virgili), Itziar Gandarias Goikoetxea (Univerisad de Deusto), Pilar Parra Contreras (Universidad Compultense de Madrid) & Luz Martinez (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona): Same roots, different experience: Visibilising and measuring intersectional effects on Gender-Related Violence within the neoliberal university.

Anna Hush (University of New South Wales, Australia): In the belly of the beast: Feminist resistance to sexual violence in the Australian neoliberal University.

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

11-12.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 2

Chair: Federica Formato (The University of Brighton)

Helen Sauntson (York St John University): Language, gender and sexuality in the neoliberal academy: Contributions from applied linguistics.

12.15-2.00 Lunch Break

2.00-3.30 PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY

Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham)

Elia A.G. Arfini (CRAAAZI, Bologna (IT)/University of Milan): Performing the Institution, perverting the Academia, reproducing struggles.

Elspeth Mitchell (University of Leeds) & Lenka Vráblíková (University of South Africa, UNISA): Out of Office: Mycorrhizal Encounters and feminist paths through/beyond the University.

Carlotta Cossutta (Università del Piemonte Orientale) & Elisa Virgili (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale): Teaching Gender in Prison.

3.30-4.00 Coffee Break

4.00-5.15 ROUND TABLE

Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham)

Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University)

In conversation with the contributors of Spaccademia (Le Nine, Beatrice Gusmano, Elena Pavan, Gruppo Femminismi Pisa).