Day 2: Tue 25 June
GENDER PRESENTS AND FUTURES
(Morning: O’Reilly Theatre, Keble College; Afternoon: Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum)
9.00 am: Registration.
9.15-10.30 am: Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

10.45am-c.1.00pm, Session 3 ‘Presents’
This panel will discuss today’s highly polarised debates on gender and ask why the issue has become so central to contemporary global politics and culture.

Speakers
Elzbieta Korolczuc (Stockholm and Warsaw), co-author of Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment (2021)
Nilufur Gole (Paris), Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism (2010)
Derek Hird (Lancaster), ‘Masculinities in China’ in Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies (2019)

Discussant
David Priestland (Oxford)

1.00-3.30pm: AHRC Public Engagement Displays and Tours at the Ashmolean
Featuring:
-Young Creators pop-up Photography Exhibition
-Young Curators pop-up Tours
-Antiquities Tour with Anja Ulbrich (Ashmolean)
-Gallery 19 Display: ‘Demon, Mother, Kingmaker’ and accompanying film
-Mughal Gallery: Small Exhibition ‘Devi Mahatmya’ illustrated texts and prints
-Eastern Art Study Room: small display curated by Maria Misra and Anja Ulbrich (Ashmolean)

3.30- 5.45pm, Session 4, ‘Futures’
As we confront major environmental, demographic and technological challenges, this session asks how these might shape gender identities and regimes in the near future.
Speakers
Judy Wajcman (LSE), author of Technofeminism (2004)
Leslie Salszinger(Berkeley), author of Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories (2003)
Catherine Rottenberg (Goldsmiths), The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018)

Discussant
Maria Misra

5.45pm: Closing Remarks, Maria Misra
6.00-7.45pm: Drinks Reception, Ashmolean Greek and Roman Gallery