Hilma Panel Debate on Feminist Pedagogy at Soc&kom 25.4. 2024

Welcome to a panel debate on feminist teaching and knowing, where we also celebrate that Elina Oinas’ FA-projects EDIT and WIRE with partners from South Africa and Ethiopia is coming to an end; and that the HILMA-network in gender studies has existed for 20 wonderful years.

Our panel speakers are: Danai Mupotsa (Senior Lecturer in African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand), Liu Xin (senior lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University), Salla Aldrin Salskov (Postdoctoral researcher in Minority Studies, Åbo Akademi). 

Location:

Snellmaninkatu, 12

In Festsalen, April 25th, 14-16

There will be drinks, snacks and mingle afterwards, everyone is welcome!

Link to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2173323236335425?active_tab=about

Preliminary program

 

Wednesday 24.5 2024 

14.00 Queer Bird Walk in Töölönlahti with Camille Auer.  

 

Thursday 25.4 2024 

10-11 Welcome: Elina Oinas and Danai Mupotsa 

 

WORKSHOP 1: 11-12
11-11.30 Kata Kyrölä, Beyond Inclusivity: Potentials of Queer and Feminist Indigenous Theories

11.30-12 Henrietta Gunkel, Queer Masculinities – Reflections and Speculations 

12-14 Lunch (Dong Bei Hu) 

 

WORKSHOP 2: 14-16: Panel discussion with HILMA
Liu Xin & Salla Aldrin-Salskov, Refuse the framing of relevance:  Anti-racist feminist work without justification 

Danai Mupotsa, Belated Grammars in African Feminist Praxis 

 

16-17 Drinks
18.30 Dinner (Kuurna) 

 

 

Friday 26.4 2024 

WORKSHOP 1: 10-12.00  

10-10.30 Ali Ali, Sentimentalizing Rationality – Rationalizing Sensations 

10.30 -11.00 Gorata Chengeta, The relevance of slow, sexual violence research  

11.00 – 11.30 Maryan Abdulkarim, House of Difference 

11.30- 12.00 Moshibudi Motimele, On being revised 

 

12-14 Lunch (Viola)

WORKSHOP 2, 14-16:  

14.00-14.30 Lotti Harju, Transgender, transnational: Ideas of academic relevance among Finnish and Indian scholars of transgender studies. 

14.30-15.00 Katriina Huttunen, Interpreting racializing and gendering practices in and around a research project on a vaccine 

15.00-15.30 Olivia Maury, Who’s got knowledge about the border regime? 

15.30-16.00 Elina Oinas, Orientations in Feminist Sociology over Local and Global, and Time and Space dimensions   

 

20.00 Dinner (Nolla)