[Gala-l] Online conference Gender and sexuality in the neoliberal University

[Michela Baldo]

Dear all,
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.
You can find the link for the registration here (please register *by the
25th May*)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-neoliberal-university-conference-tickets-150918807215

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
https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/
Best wishes
Michela
University of Birmingham


*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).
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