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Thursday 12 November 2020
1.1. Are we over the couple yet? 1
Anna Avdeeva, Anna Heinonen & Hannareeta Seling (University of Helsinki): Short project introduction: Intimacies beyond Identities: A Queer/Feminist Perspective on Practices of Relating
Aditi Maddali (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai): Non-normative relationalities: Everyday practices and non-normative possibilities of relating
Tuuli Innola (Tampere University): Odd companionships – the everyday affectivity of sharing one’s life
Anna Heinonen (University of Helsinki): Friendship at home: everyday in domestic space shaping friendship intimacies in Finnish small-scale communes
1.2. Creative methods for research, activism and change with young people on gender, sexuality and power 1 (NB. This session will convene in Finnish.)
Saara Isosomppi (Nord University): Lasten liikunnan affektiiviset eriarvoisuudet: keskustelua metodologian työstämisprosessista
Eveliina Puutio, Tuija Huuki, Suvi Pihkala & Anni Lehmusniemi (University of Oulu): Alakoulutyttöjen ei-normatiiviset suhdekulttuurit
Marita Husso, Satu Lidman & Helena Päivinen (Tampere University): Encountering gender based violence and power relations with children and young people
Suvi Pihkala & Tuija Huuki (University of Oulu): Ethical sustainability in sensitive crafty-activist research with children, gender and (abuses of) power in young peer cultures
1.3. Gender+ Equality, Politics, and Institutions: Contemporary changes and challenges in Europe 1: Contemporary policy struggles around gender-based violence
Büke Boşnak (Istanbul Bilgi University): Feminist Responses to the Backlash against Istanbul Convention in Turkey: Insights and Challenges
Valentine Berthet (Tampere University): Norms under construction and contestation: between support and opposition to the EU’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention in the European Parliament
Chara Chioni-Chotouman (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): Penalising revenge pornography: policymaking and legislative trends across Europe
1.4. Gendering research in and outside academia 1
Päivi Korvajärvi (Tampere University): Gendering effects of hiding and downplaying gender in research and innovation
Demet Démirez (Tampere University): A gendered analysis of women’s entrepreneurship in innovative sectors
Minna Salminen Karlsson (Uppsala University): Women are a bit different, but we treat them the same
1.5. Kriittistä tutkimusta miehistä ja mieheyksistä 1
Tuija Koivunen (Tampereen yliopisto): Miehet ja maskuliinisuudet Sukupuolentutkimus-lehdessä
Leena-Maija Rossi (Helsingin yliopisto): Miesfeminiinisyyyden mahdollisuuksia, tapaus Tom of Finland
Luca Tainio (Helsingin yliopisto): The trans penis. Negotiations of vulnerability, masculinity and sexuality in YouTube vlogs by transmen
Susi Nousiainen (Jyväskylän yliopisto): Maskuliinisuuden narratiivit suomalaisella pelialalla
1.6. Queering the future for law? 1: Women’s issues in court and law
Ahalya Ganesh (Tampere University): Feminist Futures in Retrograde: The Case of Safoora Zargar and Indian Courts
Marew Abebe Salemot (Debark University): Gender Based Violence vis-à-vis the Ethiopian Legal Regimes
Nicole Stybranova (University of Helsinki, Eric Castrén Institute): Tokening Protection of Women in Migration Law: Strategies of Exclusion in Contemporary Europe and the Nineteenth Century USA
1.7. Reclaiming Reproductive Futures 1: practices of kinship, family formation and parenthood
Joren Buyck (Tampere University): (Trans)forming kinship: An institutional ethnographic study of transgender fertility care
Sanna Poelman (Tampere University): In want of a child. An ethnographic study on Thai women living with fertility disruptions and childlessness in Finland
Armi Mustosmäki and Tiina Sihto (University of Jyväskylä): “You can’t say f*** this shit” – Negotiating the boundaries of public expression of negative maternal emotions
1.8. Reclaiming the futures of popular music
Jan Szpilka (University of Warsaw): No (Bright) Future: Uncertainty and futurity of feminist and queer punk
Milla Tiainen & Taru Leppänen (University of Turku): Transing Music and Voice Studies? Exploring the Mattering Materialities of Singing and Trans Existence with Demian Seesjärvi
1.9. The future of sexuality studies 1: The un/re/making of sexual subjectivities
Kata Kyrölä (Åbo Akademi University): (Non-)sovereignty of the sexual: thinking self-determination, desire and subjectivity through queer indigenous studies
Angelica Stathopoulos (The New School for Social Research): Smaller Selves: A Queer Ethics of Diminutive i’s
Milka Njoroge (Åbo Akademi University): Unresolved Futures
1.10. Toimijuus ja suhteet dataistuneessa kulttuurissa
Karoliina Talvitie-Lamberg (Jyväskylän yliopisto), Julius Hokkanen, Sanna Valtonen & Anne Soronen (Tampereen yliopisto): Eriarvoisuus ja haavoittuvuus datatutkimuksessa
Minna Saariketo (Aalto-yliopisto), Auli Harju (Tampereen yliopisto) & Seija Ridell (Tampereen yliopisto): Media-arki 2030: nuoret tulevaisuuden yhteiskuntaa kuvittelemassa
Pekka Koskinen (Helsingin yliopisto): Verkkovälitteisen vammaisaktivismin mahdollisuudet ja rajat
Sanna Valtonen (Tampereen yliopisto): Haavoittuvuuden kerrostumat. Paperittomien kokemuksia dataistuneesta arjesta
1.11. Visual politics and gender on social media 1
Heidi Härkönen (University of Helsinki): Cuban girls’ quince photos in social media and beyond
Dawn Woolley & AC Davidson (Leeds Arts University and University of Huddersfield): Bois of Isolation – queering gender binaries in the confines of pandemic
Heini Salminen (University of Helsinki): Visual Self-Representations as Political Participation on Non-Binary Activists’ Social Media Selfies
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:00-13:30 The Association for Gender Studies in Finland Master’s Thesis Award (in Finnish)
13:30-15:30 Panels 2
2.1. Affective Biopolitics in the Nordic Racial Welfare States 1
Lovisa Häckner Posse (Lund University): Maintaining family order? – The maintenance requirement in Swedish migration law
Michael Nebeling Petersen & Mons Bissenbakker (University of Copenhagen): Danish Ghetto Legislation as affective governmentality
Riikka Prattes (Duke University): Racializing workers and inclusive subordination in social reproduction
2.2. Art as feminist research, art as feminist activism 1
Valentina Errázuriz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile): Embroidering the feminist future, high school feminists and art-based collective testimonios research
Ecenur Güvendik (Middle East Technical University): Gender and professional achievement: Turkish Women Conductors in Classical Music Orchestras
Utu-Tuuli Jussila (Aalto University, University of Helsinki): IN/VISIBILITY, queering visibility in photography
2.3. Creative methods for research, activism and change with young people on gender, sexuality and power 2
Päivi Honkatukia, Marja Peltola, Anu Isotalo, Roosa Saukkonen & Timo Aho (Tampere University): Methodological challenges in exploring the meanings of sexual consent in young people’s everyday lives
Satu Venäläinen (University of Helsinki): Exploring the mattering and meanings of sexual harassment among young people with participatory workshops
Marian Tumanyan, Tuija Huuki & Suvi Pihkala (University of Oulu): Transformative capacity of arts-based processes: A case of a Finnish school girl
Helena Louhela, Tuija Huuki & Suvi Pihkala (University of Oulu): Challenges and opportunities in reconciling research and school orientations when addressing sexual harassment among children in ethically sustainable manner
2.4. Critical Feminist Approaches to Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution 1
Pınar Sarıgöl (Bielefeld University): Smile whatever happens?! The far-right neoliberal politics, family and woman
Marjaana Jauhola (University of Helsinki) and Shyam Gadhavi (Prakrit Foundation for Development): Gender and Syncretist Devotion to holy sages in Kachchh (Gujarat, India) as a practice of everyday peaceful coexistence
Élise Féron (Tampere Peace Research Institute, TAU) Feminist approaches to dialogue and peacebuilding. Some lessons learned in Burundi
2.5. Feminist Science and Technology Studies and the Politics of Futures
Andrea Ford (University of Edinburgh): Period tracking, self-management, and the future of reproductive healthcare
Maria Temmes (Asian University for Women): A Transnational Feminist Engagement with Personalised Medicine
Mianna Meskus (Tampere University): Contested reproductive futures and synthetic gametes: A speculative feminist approach to in vitro gametogenesis
Stine Willum Adrian (Aalborg University): Technologies at Heart – the remaking of death at the medical frontier
Venla Oikkonen (Tampere University): Postpandemic futures and the affective appeal of immunity
2.6. Feminist, trans and queer perspectives on environmental emergencies and livable futures 1
Charli Brissey (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor): Infrastructures of Catastrophe: We’re All Dancers Now
Sage Brice (University of Bristol): Crane-human encounters in field and studio: drawing transindividual ecologies
2.7. Gender+ Equality, Politics, and Institutions: Contemporary changes and challenges in Europe 2: Challenges to gender equality in national contexts
Katinka Linnamäki (University of Helsinki): Performing nationhood during the Covid-19 pandemic in Hungary
Marsela Dauti & Geldona Metaj (Uppsala University): Precarious Gains: Democratic Regression and Gender Quotas in Politics
Laine Munir (African Leadership University): Vulnerabilities and Strategic Responses to LGBTI+ Identity Among Pakistani Refugees in Europe and Their Families Left Behind
Gala Naseva (Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje and Justus Liebig University Giessen): Entwining care with mistreatment: The exploitative Balkan narrative. The position of Roma women in Western Balkans’ labour market
Aneta Ostaszewska (University of Warsaw): “Fight the virus, not the women”. What is going on in Poland during COVID-19 pandemic
2.8. Gendering research in and outside academia 2
Maria López Belloso & Silvestre Cabrera (University of Deusto): Methodological contributions to the implementation of GEPS
Charlotte Silander, Maria Pietilä, Ida Drange & Liza Reise: Comparison of gender equality policies in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish universities
Mervi Heikkinen (University of Oulu), Lena Abrahamsson (Luleå University of Technology) & Päivi Naskali (University of Lapland): Reclaiming Equal Futures in Arctic Universities
Hilde G. Corneliussen & Gilda Seddighi (Western Norway Research Institute): Employers’ renegotiations of gender equality in IT organizations
2.9. Queering the future for law? 2: Queer and non-binary law
Luana Mathias Souto (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais): Gender, sovereignty and fraternity
Elin Jonsson (Umeå University) & Erik Mägi (University of Gothenburg): Legislation on transgender and intersex parenthood – the current situation and future for Sweden
Ino Kehrer (University of Padova, Human rights centre): Universality for whom? The rights of intersex people
Amalia Verdu Sanmartin (University of Turku) & Aleida Luján Pinelo (University of Turku): Challenging the neutrality of law – Diffractive possibilities for critical thinking in legal education
2.10. Reclaiming Reproductive Futures 2: non-human struggles for a brighter tomorrow?
Kathrine Dow (University of Cambridge): Reproducing (Bio)Diversity? London Seed Activists Respond to Systemic Racism
Taija Kaarlenkaski (University of Turku): Gender, Work and Agency on Contemporary Dairy Farms Using Automated Milking Systems
Elina Helosvuori & Riikka Homanen (Tampere University): When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry
Merike Helander (University of Helsinki): The Artificial Womb – the residence of the fetus or the premature baby?
2.11. Rethinking human-animal relations: Imagining interspecies futures from feminist and intersectional perspectives 1
Lucia Gräschke (University of Eastern Finland): Flying Cats and Dogs: Commodification and Animal Welfare in the Transport of Pets by Air
Lotta Hautamäki (Tampere University): The Living Web of Care: Multispecies Interactions in Animal-Assisted Therapies
Maria Martelli (independent scholar): “The sanctuary is our way of living”: animal sanctuaries as relationships and embodied knowledge
2.12. The future of sexuality studies 2: Global sexualities
Gonca Sahin (independent scholar): The Ties That Matter: Queer Ways of Surviving in a Transit Country
Luan C.B. Cassal (University of Manchester): Queer Studies in Latin America: Could decoloniality teach Europe something about surviving
Nukila Evanty (University of Mahendradatta Bali): Introducing sexuality studies in patriarchal societies and religious conservatism
Riikka Taavetti (University of Helsinki): The Legacy of FINSEX in Sexuality studies
16:00-17:15 Keynote: Kyla Schuller: The Future of Gender: Rethinking the Sex/Gender Distinction (chair: Marjo Kolehmainen)
17:30 virtual social programme (organizer: Cherry Miller)
Please do join us with a glass/cup of something tasty to discuss the theme of hope for feminist futures!
Friday 13 November 2020
9:00-11:00 Panels 3
3.1. Are we over the couple yet? 2
Ela Przybylo (Illinois State University): Rethinking Couple Formation with an Ace and Aro Erotic Toolkit
Nita-Helena Taivaloja (University of Helsinki): Hetero- and mononormativity in consensually non-monogamous ways of forming romantic, emotional and sexual relationships in Finland
Anna Kurowicka (American Studies Center, University of Warsaw): Nonsexual Erotics of Friendship in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Tana French’s The Likeness
Yating YU (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University): Media Representations of ‘Leftover Women’ in China: A Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis
3.2. Changing Gendered Relations and Gendered Resistance
Susanne Ritter (Åbo Akademi University): The Fat Female Body, Gender, and Intimate Relationships in Finnish Weight Loss TV Shows
Aleksandra Kaminska (University of Warsaw): Who Can Afford Belated Girlhood? Questioning Whiteness of Young Women’s Narratives
Zahra Motamedi (independent scholar): Marginalized Women: Women’s Position in the Power Structure of Afghanistan
Joanna Sieracka (University of Wrocław): The future of feminism in Poland: Left populism or conservative modernization?
3.3. Gender+ Equality, Politics, and Institutions: Contemporary changes and challenges in Europe 3: Changes and challenges in European gender politics
Eszter Kováts & Elena Zacharenko (University ELTE Budapest): The shift of meanings of gender in EU documents and the right-wing opposition
Johanna Kantola & Petra Ahrens (Tampere University): Four Phases of European Parliament Political Group Formation: Negotiating Power, Democracy and Gender
Valentine Berthet, Anna Elomäki & Barbara Gaweda (Tampere University): Political dynamics, power struggles, and intra-group policy formation in the European Parliament
Cherry Miller (Tampere University): “Ethno, ethno, what?” Outlining how Parliamentary Ethnography can help us to better understand Parliament’s Political Groups
3.4. Gendering research in and outside academia 3
Salla Aldrin Salskov, Liu Xin & Elina Oinas (University of Helsinki): Epistemic disobedience
Rebecca Lund (Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo): The relationship between feminist knowledge and activism: A narrative approach
Johanna Hokka (Tampere University): Affective activism in academia: the openings for change in the neoliberal academia
3.5. Kriittistä tutkimusta miehistä ja mieheyksistä 2
Annukka Lahti, Miika Kyllönen, Sanna Pusa, Asko Tolvanen & Nina Laakso (Jyväksylän yliopisto): Häirintä urheilussa – muuttuvatko mieheydet?
Inkeri Tanhua (Hanken Svenska handelshögskolan): Masculinities and gendering of technology in vocational education
Laura Mankki, Timo Aho, Helena Hirvonen, Iiris Lehto & Eeva Jokinen (Itä-Suomen yliopisto): “Combining engineer mindset with human touch”. Hybrid masculinities in lean management of welfare service work
Hanna Ojala & Ilkka Pietilä (Tampereen yliopisto): Mikä pitää miehen työssä? Työmotivaatio ja työssä jatkaminen eläkeiän lähestyessä
3.6. Populaarit feminismit
Ella Poutiainen (Turun yliopisto): Uushenkisyys aikamme populaarina feminisminä?
Hannele Harjunen (Jyväskylän yliopisto): Kehopositiivisuus poliittisena liikkeenä
Emma Lamberg & Hanna Ylöstalo (Turun yliopisto): Hallitus pukeutuu Uhanaan: Feministisen politiikan ja kapitalismin jännät suhteet
3.7. Reclaiming the future and the present through feminist speculation 1
Joonas Säntti (University of Jyväskylä): The apparitional non-binary: ghostly figures of gender minorities in present-day feminist speculative fiction
Riikka Ala-Hakula (University of Jyväskylä): The Utopian Language in Monique Wittig’s Experimental “Science Fiction” Novel Les Guérillères
Kaisa Kortekallio (University of Helsinki): Rewriting Resilience: Maarit Verronen’s Hiljaiset joet as Feminist Speculation
3.8. Rethinking human-animal relations: Imagining interspecies futures from feminist and intersectional perspectives 2
Marianne Mäkelin (University of Helsinki) Enacting killability in ecological relations: mosquitoes, laboratory work and model populations
Anna Sofia Salonen (Tampere University) Creator, Saviour, Garburator: The Anthropocentric Imaginations in Food Waste Relations
Helen Mäntymäki (University of Jyväskylä): Women and wolves in contemporary crime narratives
Salla Sariola (University of Helsinki): Fermentation and post-antibiotic worlds: tuning into sourdough workshops in Finland
3.9. Sukupuolistuneen väkivallan kohtaaminen kouluissa: kouluammattilaiset uusia tulevaisuuksia luomassa ja tukemassa (huom. alkaa klo 9:30)
Tuija Huuki, Suvi Pihkala, Helena Louhela, Marian Tumanyan & Eveliina Puutio (Oulun yliopisto): Taidelähtöiset ja tutkimusaktivistiset sommitelmat alakoululaisten vertaissuhteiden seksuaalisen häirinnän käsittelyssä
Sisko Piippo (Itä-Suomen yliopisto): Väkivaltaa koskevan verkkokoulutuksen haasteet ja mahdollisuudet
Sonja Tihveräinen (Naisten Linja, Turv@verkko-hanke): Digitaalisen väkivallan tunnistaminen ja kohtaaminen – työpajamallin esittely
3.10. Visual politics and gender on social media 2
Eleonora Esposito (Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), University of Navarra): The Visual Semiotics of Misogyny in the Era of Digital Post-Truth
Sara Tafakori (The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh University): Affective geographies of rage: The emotional politics of Iranian women’s activism
Katrien Jacobs (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Online Sex Images Speaking of Hong Kong’s History of Demise
Fulya Kama Ozelkan (Sabanci University / Technical University, Istanbul): Feminist Collective Action Through Tweets and Streets
11:15-12:30 Keynote: Cecilia Åsberg: More-than-human feminisms, and sea changes (chair: Riikka Homanen)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Panel discussion: The future of feminist research after Covid-19
Panelists: Mwenza Blell (Newcastle University), Andrea Ford (University of Edinburgh), Katariina Mäkinen (Tampere University) and Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL). Chair: Venla Oikkonen
14:45-16:15 Panels 4
4.1. Activism and alternative futures
Nina Nyman (Åbo Akademi University): ”You have 785 pending requests” – On Activism Born Digital, Radical Empathy and Feminist Ethics of Care in Archiving
Anna Puhakka (University of Jyväskylä) Ambivalence and introspection as subtle forms of agency in online fat activism
Rosie Walters (Cardiff University School of Law and Politics), Jenny Rivett and Lilli Loveday: Understanding Girls’ Everyday Acts of Resistance: Evidence from a longitudinal study in nine countries
Aslihan Oguz (food entrepreneur): Towards A Feminist Food System Through A Feminist Systems Thinking Approach
4.2. Affective Biopolitics in the Nordic Racial Welfare States 2
Ella Alin, University of Helsinki: White people policing racialized peoples’ trust in authorities as an act of coloniality and rational modernity
Ingvill Stuvøy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU): Sustaining Norwegian equality in a time of migration. Social sustainability as a new politics of assimilation?
4.3. Affekti-kahvila
Affekti-kahvilaan ilmoittaudutaan täällä.
4.4. Art as feminist research, art as feminist activism 2
Emmaleena Käkelä (University of Strathclyde): Zine-making as feminist praxis: Co-production in research with refugee women
Jori Pitkänen (Tampere University, Uppsala University), Josephine Baird (Uppsala University), Emelie Van Rodin (Uppsala University) & Doris Rusch (Uppsala University): A reflection on the ethical decision-making process during participatory game design with and for vulnerable populations
Jacqueline Wilson (Rhodes University): Embodying pain, trauma, healing and recovery through feminist art visual work
4.5. Critical Feminist Approaches to Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution 2
Esin Duzel (London School of Economics): Intersectional Feminist Peace in Turkey? Possibilities and Challenges towards Unlocking the Kurdish-Turkish Dyad
Jussi Heikkilä (Jyväskylä University, School of Business and Economics) and Ina Laukkanen (University of Helsinki): Gender-Specific Call of Duty: A Note on the Neglect of Conscription in Gender Equality Indexes
Catia C. Confortini (Wellesley College), Élise Féron (Tampere Peace Research Institute, TAU), Tarja Väyrynen (Tampere Peace Research Institute, TAU): Toward Critical Feminist Conflict Resolution Theory
4.6. Feminist, trans and queer perspectives on environmental emergencies and livable futures 2
Corinna Casi (University of Helsinki): Empower Sami Indigenous Women in Time of Environmental Crises
Sohvi Kangasluoma (Helsingin yliopisto): Narratives of Emotion and Extractivism
Ingvil Hellstrand (University of Stavanger): Utopia or dystopia? Reclaiming the either/or
4.7. Gendering research in and outside academia 4
Isaura Castelao-Huerta (National University of Colombia): Beyond the neoliberalized academy: caring practices of women professors for a better future
Marja Vehviläinen (Tampere University): Vulnerable performances in research in and out of academia: career histories of women in health technology
4.8. Reclaiming Reproductive Futures 3: ethics, justice and reproductive labour
Mwenza Blell (Newcastle University & Tampere University) & Tiia Sudenkaarne (University of Turku & Tampere University): A Finnish Haunting: Interrogating Ethical Imaginaries and Reproductive Practices in a Nordic Welfare State
Teija Rantala (University of Turku): Re-thinking reproductive justice within the Conservative Laestadian procreational politics
Sylvie Armstrong (European University Institute): Labour is Labour: What Surrogacy Can Learn from the Sex Work is Work Movement
Lise Eriksson (Uppsala University): The future of surrogate-born children
4.9. Reclaiming the future and the present through feminist speculation 2
Jani Ylönen (University of Jyväskylä): Childless Creations. Infertility and Genetically Modified Posthumans in Contemporary Science Fiction Literature
Nóra Ugron (Babeş-Bolyai University): Watering Resistance – Telling herstories of resistance and the possibilities of becoming-with in the Chthulucene in Emmi Itäranta’s novel Memory of Water
Pauline Cullen & Mary P. Murphy (Maynooth University): Feminist Response to Crises: Continuity and Change in Pandemical Times
4.10. The future of sexuality studies 3: Assemblage and embodiment
Marjo Kolehmainen (Tampere University): Re-imagining gender and sexuality: Feminist new materialisms, affect theory and the feminist futures
Annukka Lahti (University of Jyväskylä): Becoming of the family relations and friend circles after a bisexual break-up
Sebastian Corboda (De Montfort University): Non-binary sexualities: The Desire, Practice, and Embodiment Assemblage
4.11. Trans, intersex and agendered futures
Anna Kavoura & SanTra Rinne (University of Brighton): Transgender Inclusion in the Rainbow Dancing Scene in Finland: Findings and Experiences from a Participatory Action Research
Sam Sanchinel (University of Toronto): Tengo Sueño: A Cross-* Generational Latinx Dream of Borders, Religion, Trans Identity and Queer Possibilities
Pinar Sarigöl (Bielefeld University): Agendered future with the help of love politics
16:20-16:30 Closing words
16:30- The Association for Gender Studies in Finland General Assembly (for SUNS members, in Finnish)