Overview

Moderation: Teresa Toldy and Júlia Garraio (CES)


Overview

After a first round-table focused on Europe, and a second on Latin America, the third round-table of the on-line series about the (trans)national campaigns against “gender ideology", which is organized by the Sexualities Research Group - CES, aims to explore realities in the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Southeast Asia. It gathers a panel of scholars and activists to discuss, on one hand, the current “anti-gender” attacks in countries from those regions and, on the other, the glocal possibilities of solidarity and resistance against the increasing influence of “anti-gender” groups and politicians.


Speakers

Alia Amirali is a political worker based in Pakistan and associated with the left-wing Awami Workers Party. Alia has worked closely with various grassroots movements in Pakistan over the last two decades, and contributed to mobilizing students, workers, women, slum dwellers, and landless tenants in various parts of the country. She is also a feminist scholar, teaching Gender Studies at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK.

Bilge Yabanci is Marie Curie fellow at Northwestern University (USA) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). She researches social movements and the transformation of civil society and civic space under autocratization, specifically focusing on women's organizations. She conducted extensive fieldwork on women's organizations covering cooptation and resistance dynamics within civil society. Her research also extends into populism, the populism-religion-nationalism relationship, and the role of affect and performance in political mobilization. Previously, she was Open Society fellow as a part of the human rights cohort and a Swedish Institute postdoctoral fellow.

Siran Hovhannisyan – Women’s Fund Armenia; Center for Gender and Leadership Studies of Yerevan State University. Siran combines her interests of research in both academia and gender policy together with her consultancy affiliations with local and international organizations. She holds two master’s degrees in Social Work (12') from Yerevan State University and in Gender Studies (18') from Central European University. S. Hovhannisyan is actively involved in studying multi-level expressions of anti-genderism and their impact on feminist movements in Armenia and other post-socialist countries in comparative perspectives.
_{Most recent publication: Hovhannisyan, Siran. 2021. Studying Gender in Armenia: Research and Politics in the Wake of Anti-Genderism (pp. 71-84) in Gender in Research and Politics. Developments, Intersections and Perspectives. Edited with Sibylle Lustenberger, Andrea Boscoboinik and Gohar Shahnazaryan. LIT 2021.https://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-80364-1}

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