Seminário
Gender Studies Now! The case of South and Central America
21 de novembro de 2025, 15h00-17h00 (GMT)
Evento em formato digital > Inscrição gratuita, mas obrigatória
Intervenientes
Tonya Haynes, The University of the West Indies (Barbados) | Dr. Tonya Haynes is Head and lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit, University of the West Indies. Her scholarship takes an antidisciplinary approach to Caribbean feminisms, gender and ageing, and the race and gender politics of health.
Tonya’s research on Caribbean feminisms and Caribbean feminist thought appears in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, sx archipelagos, and The Scholar and Feminist Online. Her work on gendered violence appears in Global Public Health and Social and Economic Studies.
Dr Haynes is co-editor of Global Black Feminisms: Cross Border Collaboration Through An Ethic of Care (Routledge 2023). In collaboration with Dr. Nicole Charles, Tonya is currently working on a book entitled Sugar Island: Black Women, Type 2 Diabetes, and the Sticky-Slippery Afterlives of Sugar in Barbados.
Dr Haynes has led many regional public scholarship initiatives aimed at capacity building for state functionaries and community activists; and inclusive policy-making with LGBTQ+, disability rights and women’s organisations. As part of the IGDS:NBU team she is currently working with Universities Caribbean and GirlsCARE Jamaica to establish a Caribbean research hub on climate and care.
José Manuel Morán Faúndes, Institute for Studies on Law, Justice, and Society (IDEJUS-CONICET) (Argentina) | I hold a Ph.D. in Latin American Social Studies and a MA in Sociology from the National University of Córdoba (UNC, Argentina), and a BA in Political Sciences from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
I am a researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) based at the Institute for the Study of Law, Justice and Society (IDEJUS). I am also a lecturer of Legal Sociology and researcher of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights Program, both at UNC’s School of Law.
My research is focused on neoconservative mobilizations in Latin America, and their articulation with neoliberalist and far-right projects. I am currently co-director of the research project entitled “The Third Neoconservative Wave: Political-Partisan Offensives Against Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Argentina”, directed by María Angélica Peñas Defago, and based at UNC’s Secretariat of Science and Technology.
Andrea Musskopf, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil) | Doctor in Theology. Professor at the Department of Religious Studies at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Leader of the Research Group indecencies – Religion, Gender and Sexuality (ReGeSex). Activist and researcher in the field of Theology and Religious Studies in relation to Studies of Sexual and Gender Diversity/Queer. Has extensively produced and worked with queer theologies and religiosities, articulating knowledges produced in and with social, political and religious groups and movements and in academic spaces.
Fernanda Coelho, Instituto Pramana (Brazil) | PhD in Religious Studies from the Methodist University of São Paulo (2022). Master's degree in Religious Studies from the Methodist University of São Paulo (2017). Bachelor's degree in Economics from Cruzeiro do Sul University (2011). Works mainly on the following topics: gender and ideology, education and politics, humanistic Buddhism, and feminism. Member of the Mandrágora/NETMAL Gender and Religion Study Group and the Buddhist Philosophy Study Group at the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Philosophy Studies (CEMODECON).
Júlia Garraio (moderation)

