<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all, </div><div>I would like to publicise an online conference on Gender and sexuality in the neoliberal University, which will take place on the 27-28 May 2021.</div><div>You can find the link for the registration here (please register <u>by the 25th May</u>) <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> </div><div>More information, including the pdf of the programme and the book of abstracts and bios can be found on the website link of the conference <a href="https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/">https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/</a></div><div>Best wishes</div><div>Michela</div><div>University of Birmingham<br><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>GENDER AND SEXUALITY
IN THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Interdisciplinary
Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>De Montfort
University, Online Conference, 27-28 May 2021</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Website link: </b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#b45f06"><a href="https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/" target="_blank">https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/</a> </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>THURSDAY 27 MAY</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <b>UK time</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">9.30-9.40 <b>Welcome
Address</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Michela Baldo (University of
Birmingham) and Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">9.40-9.55 <b>Conference
Opening</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:36pt">Jo Richardson
(De Montfort University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">10.00-11.15 <b>KEYNOTE
LECTURE 1</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Chair:
Richard Hall (De Montfort University)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Lisa Blackman (Goldsmith
University): <i>Dis-ordering and estrangement in the neoliberal university: a
crisis intervention</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">11-15-11.45 <b>Coffee
break</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">11.45-1.15 <b>FINDING
A PLACE</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Chair:
Lidia Salvatori (University of Leicester)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> Karolina Krasuska, Ludmiła
Janion & Marta Usiekniewicz (University of Warsaw): <i>Gender Studies under
Review: Paradoxes of Academic Evaluation in Peripheral Neoliberalism and
Illiberal Isolationism</i>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:36pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:36pt">Mireille
Rebeiz (Dickinson College): <i>Teaching While Arab in the United</i></span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:36pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:36pt">States of America. The pressures experienced
by untenured women of color teaching in America in and outside the classroom.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Alena Sander (University of Louvain): <i>Producing knowledge
with care. Building mutually caring researcher-research participants
relationships</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1.15—2.15 <b>Lunch
Break</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2.15-3.15 <b>GUEST
OF HONOUR LECTURE</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Chair:
Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Micheline Sheehy Skeffington (National University of
Ireland, Galway): <i>Taking on an Irish university with neoliberal values; winning
my gender equality case and how it went viral.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">3.15-3.45 <b>MARKETISATION
AND RESISTANCE</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Chair:
Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Lili Schwoerer (London School of Economics): <i>Pushing against
and moving beyond institutional regulation – Feminist knowledge production and
utopian imaginaries.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Joanna Chojnicka & Łukasz Pakuła (Adam Mickiewicz
University, Poland): <i>When the obligation to be neutral becomes the right to
discriminate: discursive struggles over LGBTQIA+ rights at Polish universities.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>FRIDAY 28 MAY</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">9.30-10.30 <b>GENDER
PRESSURE, GENDER VIOLENCE</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Chair:
Nicole Fayard (University of Leicester)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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<i>ame roots, different experience: Visibilising and measuring intersectional
effects on Gender-Related Violence within the neoliberal university.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Anna Hush (University of New South Wales, Australia): <i>In the
belly of the beast: Feminist resistance to sexual violence in the Australian
neoliberal University.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><br></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">10.30-11.00 <b>Coffee
Break</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">11-12.15 <b>KEYNOTE
LECTURE 2</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Chair:
Federica Formato (The University of Brighton)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Helen Sauntson (York St John University): <i>Language, gender
and sexuality in the neoliberal academy: Contributions from applied
linguistics</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">12.15-2.00 <b>Lunch
Break</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2.00-3.30 <b>PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE OUTSIDE THE
UNIVERSITY</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Chair:
Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Elia A.G. Arfini (CRAAAZI, Bologna (IT)/University of
Milan): <i>Performing the Institution, perverting the Academia, reproducing
struggles.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Elspeth Mitchell (University of Leeds) & Lenka
Vráblíková (University of South Africa, UNISA): <i>Out of Office: Mychorrizal
Encounters and feminist paths through/beyond the University</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Carlotta Cossutta & Elisa Virgili (Università del
Piemonte Orientale): <i>Teaching Gender in Prison.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">3.30-4.00 <b>Coffee
Break</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">4.00-5.15 <b>ROUND
TABLE</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) and Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University) </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In conversation with the contributors of Spaccademia (Le
Nine, Beatrice Gusmano, Elena Pavan, Gruppo Femminismi Pisa).</p></div></div>