Session A
Thursday 11.5.2023 11:30 – 13:00 (EEST)
1A Feminist responses to anti-gender politics 1A
Location: Main building, A07
Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Speakers
Larisa Shpakovskaya, University of Helsinki
Feminist vs post-feminist thinking in transnational space: female academic migration from ‘East’ to ‘West’
Maryna Shevtsova, University of Ljubljana/Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Limits of sisterhood: challenges in feminist solidarities in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Yuliya Brin, University of Helsinki
Belarussian women’s representation in the media: from domestic violence to street protests
2A Popular feminism 2A
Location: Main building, A06
Chair: Oksana Koshulko
Speakers
Demet Gülçiçek, University of Warwick & Munzur University
Turkey Popular is Political: Contradictions of Popular Feminism in Turkey
Leonie Kapfer, Universität Wien
“The personal is Political” – Between neoliberal feminism and a post-post-feminist sensibility
Asli Kotaman, University of Bonn
Feminism on a binge
Fiona Noble, University of Stirling
Superficial Feminism? Las uñas [Nails] (2018-, Atresmedia Studios)
3A Gendered violence & #MeToo 3A
Location: Main building, A05
Chair: Carla Cerqueira
Speakers
Abigail Loxham, University of Liverpool
Mediating Popular Feminism in Spain
Tanya Serisier, Birkbeck, University of London
Public Survivors, Celebrity and Feminism in Australia
Keshia D’silva, University of Helsinki
Our safety is in our hands: Neoliberal feminism and gender advocacy in India
Ana Sofia Pereira, Carla Cerqueira & Célia Taborda, Universidade Lusófona – CICANT
From Global to Local to Glocal – Transnational Feminist Movements: The news coverage of #MeToo in Portugal
Session B
Thursday 11.5.2023 14:00 – 15:30 (EEST)
1B Intersectional feminist resistance 1B
Location: Main building, A07
Chair: Tanya Serisier
Speakers
Dilara Asardag, Tampere University
Queer/feminist online activism and cultures of visibility in Turkey
Olena Nikolayenko, Fordham University
Women’s Marches in Belarus: The Discourse of Resistance
Natalia Kovyliaeva, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu
Between Horror and Hope: Feminist Anti-War Resistance Performances and Strategies of Mobilizations in and outside of Putin’s Russia
Sama Khosravi Ooryad, PhD Candidate
Revolutionary songs and transnational memetic resistance to religio-fascism and systemic misogyny: Video-collages, audio-memes, and performances during the ongoing feminist uprising in Iran
2B Platform Feminism & digital labour 2B
Location: Main building, A06
Chair: Saara Ratilainen
Speakers
Daria Kosinova, PhD student, Tampere University
Idea of women’s empowerment as a strategic recruiting narrative in the gig economy: phenomenon of gendered social recruiting
Hua Ma, University of East Anglia
‘I am doing makeup for myself, or am I?’: Choice, pleasure, and postfeminism in China
Ida Roivainen, Tampere University
‘How I edit my Instagram images”: investigating skilled vision in the work of YouTube’s “girlbosses”
Christina Scharff, King’s College London
Digital feminist activism as platform labour? Creating content for Instagram and the politics of class
3B Feminist literary interpretations 3B
Chair: Valentyna Shapovalova
Location: Main building, A05
Speakers
Martina Napolitano, University of Trieste
Where now? A decade of fempoeziya
Leena Romu, Tampere University
Imagining a world beyond binaries – Feminist utopianism and the activist potential of webcomics
Mukile Kasongo, University of Birmingham
Feminist translation Po Sovietski
Nicholas Wanberg, Tampere University
A Photosensitive Robot-Assisted Reading of White Women in Harry Potter Fanfiction
Jana Kostincová & Jaroslav Sommer, University of Hradec Kralove
Gender Will Die… Performative Challenging of Gender Boundaries in Contemporary Russian Literature
Session C
Friday 12.05.2023 09:00 – 10:30 (EEST)
1C War, Women and Nationhood 1C
Location: Main building, A07
Chair: Olena Nikolayenko
Speakers
Marja Lönnroth-Olin, University of Helsinki
Granny of steel – Discursive constructions of grandmotherhood and nationhood in online discussions of the war in Ukraine
Helen Lachal, University of Nottingham
Women in the military: how the Soviet children’s magazine Murzilka portrayed servicewomen between 1956 – 1964.
Hannu Salomaa, PhD researcher
Finnish national defense from a gender equality point of view
Oksana Koshulko, Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS)
Russia’s war in Ukraine: Feminist solidarity, disunity and ‘voices of honor’
2C Discursive Constructions of Feminism 2C
Location: Main building, A06
Chair: Olga Nikolayeva
Speakers
Mónika Dánél, Eötvös Loránd University
Accented Gender Roles – Post/Socialist Bodies and East-West/West-East Mobility in Contemporary Hungarian, Romanian and German Cinema
Almudena Mata-Núñez, University of Seville
Middle-aged women and sexuality. The case of Fleabag
Ella Poutiainen, University of Turku
Sacred – Not Political – Feminism. Discursive Constructions of Feminism in Contemporary Feminine Spiritualities
3C Trans-local Feminism 3C
Location: Main building, A05
Chair: Ana Sofia Pereira
Speakers
Carla Cerqueira, Célia Taborda, Ana Sofia Pereira & Priscilla Domingos, Universidade Lusófona – CICANT
Once Upon a Time… A Historical Chronology on the Singularities of Portuguese Feminism(s)
Lidia Salvatori, University of Loughborough
(Trans)feminism and the challenge to femonationalist politics in Italy
Anna Smoliarova, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
If you tweeted about it, you heard about it: an attempt to measure the international resonance of a national case against a feminist activist
Session D
Friday 12.05.2023 14:30 – 16:00 (EEST)
1D Russian Feminist Performance and Political Protest 1D
Location: Main building, A07
Chair: Martina Napolitano
Speakers
Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa &
Varvara Sklez, Warwick University
Women’s Histories: Performing Difficult Past in Russian Theatre of the 2010s
Aleksandra Dunaeva, Independent scholar
Feminist practices in the context of the independent Russian theatre during the latter half of the 2010s
2D Networks of Feeling in Women’s Movement Magazines 2D
Location: Main building, A06
Chair: Dilara Asardag
Speakers
Victoria Bazin, Northumbria University
‘I can’t wait’: Affect and the ‘not yet’ of Women’s Movement Magazines
Melanie Waters, Northumbria University
‘WE’RE ANGRY!’ Reading Revolutionary Rage in the Feminist Periodical
Eleanor Careless, Northumbria University
Angels in the Architecture: The Lonely Subjects of Feminist Periodicals
Sarah Pedersen, Robert Gordon University
Pernilla Severson, Linnaeus University
British press representations of Nordic women politicians 1900-1939
3D Decolonial Perspectives 3D
Location: Main building, A05
Chair: Mukile Kosongo
Speakers
Nóra Ugron, University of Turku
Creating queer and multispecies Eastern European subjects: Queer-feminist literary and activist practices in Romania
Mohamed Ben Moussa, University of Sharjah
Diasporic Arab Women Vloggers and Identity Narratives as Decolonial Discourse
Dinara Yangeldina, UiB, Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning
When post-feminism meets Russian post-coloniality: examining Tatar makeover show Min
