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Dear all,<br>
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The following online conference may be of interest to list members.<br>
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The registration link (deadline of 25th May) is here:<br>
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<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-neoliberal-university-conference-tickets-150918807215">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-neoliberal-university-conference-tickets-150918807215</a><br>
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Further information:<br>
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<a href="https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/">https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/</a><br>
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Kind regards,<br>
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Laurence<br>
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GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY<br>
<br>
Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster<br>
<br>
De Montfort University, Online Conference, 27-28 May 2021<br>
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Website link: <a href="https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/">
https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/</a><br>
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<br>
THURSDAY 27 MAY<br>
<br>
UK time<br>
<br>
9.30-9.40 Welcome Address<br>
<br>
Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) and Marion Krauthaker (De<br>
Montfort University)<br>
<br>
9.40-9.55 Conference Opening<br>
<br>
Jo Richardson (De Montfort University)<br>
<br>
10.00-11.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 1<br>
<br>
Chair: Richard Hall (De Montfort<br>
University)<br>
<br>
Lisa Blackman (Goldsmith University): _Dis-ordering and estrangement in<br>
the neoliberal university: a crisis intervention_.<br>
<br>
11-15-11.45 Coffee break<br>
<br>
11.45-1.15 FINDING A PLACE<br>
<br>
Chair: Lidia Salvatori (University<br>
of Leicester)<br>
<br>
Karolina Krasuska, Ludmiła Janion & Marta Usiekniewicz (University of<br>
Warsaw): _Gender Studies under Review: Paradoxes of Academic Evaluation<br>
in Peripheral Neoliberalism and Illiberal Isolationism_.<br>
<br>
Mireille Rebeiz (Dickinson College): _Teaching While Arab in the<br>
United__ States of America. The pressures experienced by untenured women<br>
of color teaching in America in and outside the classroom._<br>
<br>
Alena Sander (University of Louvain): _Producing knowledge with care.<br>
Building mutually caring researcher-research participants<br>
relationships_.<br>
<br>
1.15—2.15 Lunch Break<br>
<br>
2.15-3.15 GUEST OF HONOUR LECTURE<br>
<br>
Chair: Marion Krauthaker (De<br>
Montfort University)<br>
<br>
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington (National University of Ireland, Galway):<br>
_Taking on an Irish university with neoliberal values; winning my gender<br>
equality case and how it went viral._<br>
<br>
3.15-3.45 MARKETISATION AND RESISTANCE<br>
<br>
Chair: Michela Baldo (University<br>
of Birmingham)<br>
<br>
Lili Schwoerer (London School of Economics): _Pushing against and moving<br>
beyond institutional regulation – Feminist knowledge production and<br>
utopian imaginaries._<br>
<br>
Joanna Chojnicka & Łukasz Pakuła (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland):<br>
_When the obligation to be neutral becomes the right to discriminate:<br>
discursive struggles over LGBTQIA+ rights at Polish universities._<br>
<br>
FRIDAY 28 MAY<br>
<br>
9.30-10.30 GENDER PRESSURE, GENDER VIOLENCE<br>
<br>
Chair: Nicole Fayard (University of<br>
Leicester)<br>
<br>
Barbara Biglia (Universitat Rovira I Virgili), Itziar Gandarias<br>
Goikoetxea (Univerisad de Deusto), Pilar Parra Contreras (Universidad<br>
Compultense de Madrid) & Luz Martinez (Universitat Autónoma de<br>
Barcelona): S_ame roots, different experience: Visibilising and<br>
measuring intersectional effects on Gender-Related Violence within the<br>
neoliberal university._<br>
<br>
Anna Hush (University of New South Wales, Australia): _In the belly of<br>
the beast: Feminist resistance to sexual violence in the Australian<br>
neoliberal University._<br>
<br>
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break<br>
<br>
11-12.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 2<br>
<br>
Chair: Federica Formato (The<br>
University of Brighton)<br>
<br>
Helen Sauntson (York St John University): _Language, gender and<br>
sexuality in the neoliberal academy: Contributions from applied<br>
linguistics_.<br>
<br>
12.15-2.00 Lunch Break<br>
<br>
2.00-3.30 PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY<br>
<br>
Chair: Michela Baldo (University of<br>
Birmingham)<br>
<br>
Elia A.G. Arfini (CRAAAZI, Bologna (IT)/University of Milan):<br>
_Performing the Institution, perverting the Academia, reproducing<br>
struggles._<br>
<br>
Elspeth Mitchell (University of Leeds) & Lenka Vráblíková (University<br>
of South Africa, UNISA): _Out of Office: Mychorrizal Encounters and<br>
feminist paths through/beyond the University_.<br>
<br>
Carlotta Cossutta & Elisa Virgili (Università del Piemonte Orientale):<br>
_Teaching Gender in Prison._<br>
<br>
3.30-4.00 Coffee Break<br>
<br>
4.00-5.15 ROUND TABLE<br>
<br>
Chair: Michela Baldo (University<br>
of Birmingham) and Marion<br>
Krauthaker (De Montfort University)<br>
<br>
In conversation with the contributors of Spaccademia (Le Nine, Beatrice<br>
Gusmano, Elena Pavan, Gruppo Femminismi Pisa).<br>
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