Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures. 24 – 26 June 2024.
Monday 24 June, Tuesday 25 June, Wednesday 26 June.
Conference Programme
Monday 24 June
Day 1, Gender Pasts
9am: Registration
9.30am: Welcome and Introduction (Maria Misra)
9.45am-12.15 noon:
Session 1: Global Pasts: The Colonial World
This panel will consider gender in pre-colonial Africa, Asia, and the Americas and the ongoing influence of colonial gender ideologies and practices
Speakers
Mrinalini Sinha, (Michigan)
Spectres of Mother India (2006)
Nwando Achebe (Michigan State)
Female Monarch and Merchant Queens in Africa (2020)
Lisa Tatonetti (Kansas State)
Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-cis Masculinities (2021)
Discussant: Sebastian Conrad (Berlin)
Chair: Matt Cooke (Oxford)
12 noon- 3:00pm:
AHRC Public Engagement Displays and
Tours at the Ashmolean
Featuring:
-Young Creators Pop-up Photography Exhibition
-Young Curators Pop-up Tours
-Antiquities Tour with Anja Ulbrich (Ashmolean)
Tuesday 25 June
Day 2, Gender Presents and Futures
Morning: O’Reilly Theatre, Keble College;
Afternoon: Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
9.00 am: Registration.
9.15-10.30 am: Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney
10.45am-1.00 pm
Session 3 ‘Presents’
This panel will discuss today’s highly polarised debates on gender and ask why the issue has become so central to contemporary global politics and culture.
Speakers
Elzbieta Korolczuc (Stockholm and Warsaw)
Co-author of Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment (2021)
Nilufer Gole (Paris)
Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism (2010)
Derek Hird (Lancaster)
‘Masculinities in China’ in Routledge Handbook of East Asian
Gender Studies (2019)
Discussant: David Priestland (Oxford)
Chair: Faisal Devji (Oxford)
Wednesday 26 June
Day 3, Gender in Film and Fiction
Morning: Old Dining Room, St Edmund Hall
9.30 am-1.30pm:
Gender and the Global Novel
In Conversation with Elleke Boehmer (Oxford)
Xiaolu Guo
Author & filmmaker, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007); Radical: A Life of My Own (2023)
Margie Orford,
Author of Daddy’s Girl (2006); The Eye of the Beholder (2022)
Afternoon: Phoenix Picture-House Cinema
2.00-c.8.00pm:
Gender and Global Film
2.00pm: Welcome
2.00-4.00pm:
Screening of Joyland (2022),
Jury Prize and Queer Palm, Cannes 2022
4.00-4.30pm: Tea Break
4.30-5.30pm: Discussion with Director Saim Sadiq
5.30-5.45pm: Introduction
5.45 -7.45pm Screening 2
