Dear all, The following online conference may be of interest to list members. The registration link (deadline of 25th May) is here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-neoliberal-univer... Further information: https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/ Kind regards, Laurence -- GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster De Montfort University, Online Conference, 27-28 May 2021 Website link: https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/ THURSDAY 27 MAY UK time 9.30-9.40 Welcome Address Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) and 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): S_ame 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: Mychorrizal Encounters and feminist paths through/beyond the University_. Carlotta Cossutta & Elisa Virgili (Università del Piemonte Orientale): _Teaching Gender in Prison._ 3.30-4.00 Coffee Break 4.00-5.15 ROUND TABLE Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) and Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University) In conversation with the contributors of Spaccademia (Le Nine, Beatrice Gusmano, Elena Pavan, Gruppo Femminismi Pisa).