GENDER FEST 22nd October 2014

22nd October 2014
GENDER FEST
European University Institute
Sala Capitolo - Badia Fiesolana
Via dei Roccettini 9, San Domenico di Fiesole
PROGRAM
9.00-9.15: Welcome by GRaSe and COSMOS
9.15-10.00 Keynote speech
Donatella Della Porta (EUI): “Gender and sex in social movement
studies”
10:00-11:30 Gender, Politics and Social Movements
Chair: Pieter Judson (EUI)
1. Nguyen Vu Thuc Linh (EUI): “Women, don’t interfere with
US – we are fighting for Poland!” The Making of Gendered
Solidarność”
2. Lotta-Liina Mustonen (EUI): “The gender-dimension of the
authoritarian backlash in Egypt”
3. Helge Hiram Jensen (EUI): “Resisting benevolent sexism at
two fronts: radical feminist struggle in Shi'ite Lebanon”
Discussant: Elena Borghi (EUI)
11.30-11.45 Coffee Break
11.45-13.00 Gender and Employment
Chair: Brunella Casalini (University of Florence)
1. Waltraud Schütz (EUI): "The purpose is morality, the
instrument therefore is work. Gender as a key category in the
research on 19 century education and employment”
2. Jane Humphries (Univ. of Oxford) and Jacob Weisdorf
(Univ. of Odense): “The wages of women in England, 12601850”
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3. Anna Frisone (EUI): “Unveiling gender within the trade
unions. 1970s Italian experience”
Discussant: Sabrina Marchetti (EUI)
13.15-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-14.45 Dialogue between Ruth Rubio Marin (EUI) and Orit
Kamir (Israeli Centre for Human Dignity)
Chair: Kathryn Lum (EUI)
14.45-16.15 Gender and Sexual Policies
Chair: Debora Spini (Syracuse University)
1. Riccardo Ciacci (EUI): “Entertainment business and sexual
crime in New York”
2. Lucrecia Rubio Grundell (EUI) “Sex workers’ organisations
and EU anti-trafficking policies”
3. Konstantinos Eleftheriadis (SciencePo): “Sexual politics of
austerity: Framings in the Greek Media”
4. Marion Guerrero (EUI): “Activating the courtrooms:
Windows of opportunity in strategic same-sex rights litigation
before the ECJ and the ECtHR”
Discussant: Elena Brodeala (EUI)
16.15-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Gender, Norms and Values
Chair: Luisa Passerini (EUI)
1. Margot Beal (EUI): “Reading Adrienne Rich in history?
Domestic work and female bonding”
2. Tomasz Hen-Konarski (EUI): “Virility or bestiality? The
centrality of gender in the political thought of Nikolai Gogol’”
3. Dieneke de Vos (EUI): “The concept of “gender” in the
work of the International Criminal Court”
Discussant: Lucia Re (University of Florence)
18.00-18.45 Keynote speech
David Oppenheimer (University of Berkeley): “U.S. students as social
activists in anti-discrimination law.”
18.45-19.00 Closing remarks