22/11/2024
Mark your calendars:
Gender and Education Association Conference 2025
Join us at Manchester Metropolitan University May 27-30 for what will be an EPIC EVENT featuring an astounding line up of speakers charting the journey of GEA over the decades
Speakers include:
Valerie Walkerdine
Fikile Nxumalo
Marquis Bey
Finn Mackay
Sid Mohandass
Zoha Zokaei
Emily Gray
Alison Phipps
Vanita Sundaram
EJ Renold
Jessica Ringrose
The organising committee includes Gabrielle Ivinson, Rachel Holmes, Jayne Osgood, Jo-Anne Dillabough, Carolyn Jackson, Victoria Showunmi
More info about abstract submission coming soon & hereâs a rundown on the themes:
We invite participants to enter into debates about what it might mean to look back to our varied histories, routes and pathways; rethink how we might diversify routes into the future, including its natal forms; so as to trans*form routes; activate routes and rethink pathways for Policy and Practice.
Diversifying routes to, from and through intersectional (Crenshaw, 1994) and intra- sectional (Puar, 2012) feminist practices in education necessarily require approaches that reside in our sense of rootlessness as a way towards transformationâ in the active sense of always being âon the runâ (Spivak, 2004). We invite proposals that align with our Re-Routing and Re-Imagining themes.
Knowing routes â Under the theme of âknowing, we want to ensure we remain tied to our legacies as gender and education scholars and activists and the enduring historical struggles we have engaged in and will continue to pursue to ensure that gender remains high on educational and research agendas.
Diversifying routes - Whilst the field of Gender and Education has made significant inroads in addressing marginalisation, exclusion and othering, there remains much to do in diversifying how we talk about âgenderâ and how we conceptualise it in relation to injustices in education and how they are understood. In a time of rising populism where âgenderâ is being erased from view, this diversification could not be more timely;
Trans*forming Routes - Genderâs increasingly contested and politicised status in education policy and wider public understandings have profound implications for education and life-long learning. Under this pathway, the concept of trans*forming will guide us towards widening the parameters of political transformation, challenging binaries and striving towards ever more inclusive societies;
Activating Routes - Feminist research has a long attachment to activist tendencies and other political formations that urge it toward more direct connections with, and responsibilities for, how academic research comes to matter. Here, our political implication as Gender and Education scholars is significant;
Re-routing Policy â In the context of disinformation and culture wars, what role does feminist research play in policy formation? Under this theme, we focus on some of the radical changes in how we gain access to knowledge and information about gender in new times.
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SAVE THE DATE!
International Gender and Education Association Conference
Rerouting and Reimagining Gender and Education
Manchester Metropolitan University
27-30 May 2025
KEYNOTES AND KEYNOTE PANELS
Marquis Bey | Feminist Educators Against Sexism | Finn Mackay | Sid Mohandas | Fikile Nxumalo | Alison Phipps | EJ Renold | Jessica Ringrose | Vanita Sundaram | Valerie Walkerdine | Zoha Zokaei
