Program Conference Practicing Intersectionality in Research, Activism and Politics 2023
Conference & 5 year anniversary of the MA Program Gender, Intersectionality and Politics
Conference Day One: Thursday, November 30, 2023
Venue: Hörsaal A, Ihnestraße 21, 14195 Berlin
15:00 – 15:30 |
Registration |
15:30 – 16:00 |
Welcome Notes & Introduction Heike Pantelmann (Managing Director of the Margherita von Brentano Center) Gülay Çağlar (Professor for Gender & Diversity & Director of the MA Program Gender, Intersectionality and Politics, FU Berlin) Friederike Beier (Postdoc, Gender & Diversity Division) |
16:00 – 17:45 |
Panel 1: Black Feminist Activism Panel Facilitator: Zefitret Abera Molla Jihad Yagoubi: Framing the intersections of northern African Black feminist thought and activism: Sketching the boundaries of a blueprint Juliana Streva: Quilombo Tactics: Afrodiasporic Poethics and Politics of Vitality Pamela Ohene-Nyako: Caught in a Vice: Black Female Activists in France and le droit à la différence culturelle, 1970s-1990s |
17:45 – 18:15 |
Coffee break |
18:15 – 19:45 |
Keynote by Tiffany N. Florvil: Mobilizing Black Germany. Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement |
19:45 – 21:00 |
Reception |
Conference Day Two: Friday, December 1, 2023
Venue: Hörsaal A & B, Ihnestraße 21, 14195 Berlin
8:45 – 9:15 |
Registration |
9:15 – 10:45 |
2 parallel panels: Panel 2: Intersectionality in Social and Care Policies (Hörsaal A) Panel Facilitator: Sofie Eifertinger Laura Andrea Álvarez Tobar: Intersectional Analysis of Social Policy Legislation: a Case Study of Spain Manuela Stein da Silva Barbosa: Intersectional Inequalities in the Context of Care Work in Brazil Cari_na Maier: Reflections upon intersectional perspectives on care within feminist theory Panel 3: Intersectionality in the EU (Hörsaal B) Panel Facilitator: Friederike Beier Petra Debusscher: Intersectionality in the European Union: a framework for policy analysis Laura Eigenmann, Bontu Lucie Gutschke, Kathrin Zippel: Intersectional transformation or ‘gender equality +’? Intersectionality in EU policies on research and science Liza Mügge: Intersectionalizing European politics: Bridging gender and ethnicity |
10:45 – 11:15 |
Coffee break |
11:15 – 12:45 |
2 parallel panels Panel 4: Intersectionality in Research & Studies (Hörsaal B) Panel Facilitator: Sabina García Peter Katharina Heermann: The significance of diversity and social processes in law studies and the legal profession – A mixed-methods survey at Freie Universität Berlin Mariam Salehi: Processual and situated perspectives in conflict research Panel 5: Intersectionality in Knowledge Production (Hörsaal A) Panel Facilitator: Jule Govrin & Lola Fischer-Irmler Aneri Vora (online): The Travels and Travails of Intersectionality: A Critical Appraisal of its Conceptual Applicability/Utility in the Context of India Jo Krishnakumar & Vibhavari Desai (online): “It was meant to be one Instagram post”: Building Trans/form, a Community-Led Tool to Understand Anti-Trans Violence in India |
12.45 – 14:15 |
Lunch break |
14:15 – 15:45 |
Round table: Beyond Buzzwords: Interrogating Intersectionality in Academia and Activist practice (Hörsaal A) Facilitator: Christina Templin Cathérine Kolié (GLADT e.V.) organised by students of the MA program Gender, Intersectionality and Politics |
15:45 – 16.15 |
Coffee break |
16.15 - 18:00 |
Panel 6: Intersectionality, Migration and Activism (Hörsaal A) Panel Facilitator: Gülay Çağlar Tunay Altay, Gökçe Yurdakul: Undoing one-dimensional immigrant: Revisiting difference through postmigrant paradigm in Germany Karolina Lebek: Emotions, intersectionality and feminism activism: emotional responses to the practice of intersectionality in the transnational feminist movement in Berlin Lee Eisold: Prioritisations and coalition building in a white-led antiracist activist landscape: Drawing on understandings of intersectionality in (antiracist) activism in Flanders, Belgium |
18.00 |
Closing remarks: Gülay Çağlar |
18.15 – 22.00 |
Get together organised by the Student Council of the Master Gender, Intersectionality and Politics |