Conference Program

October 25th, Monday

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Online and on-site

 

Venue: Budapest, Central European University, Nádor utca 15, Room 103

 

Registration link: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpfumupzkrH9yYgM2YcYa0hNrJl-ohrgQ9   

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9:00-9:30 OPENING

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• Éva Fodor, CEU Democracy Institute

• Francisca de Haan, CEU Department of Gender Studies

• Deevia Bhana and Annette von Aleman, RINGS – The International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies

• Erzsébet Barát, TNT Gender Studies Research Group, University of Szeged

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9:30-11:10 PANEL 1: THEORETICAL APPROACHES

Chair: Tamara Shefer

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• Emiliana Armano, Cristina Morini, Annalisa Murgia – Precariousness, Subjectivity, and Resistance. A Subject-Oriented Approach

• Erzsébet Barát – The Intimation of Trust for Solidarity

• Fiona Jenkins – The Life of the Mind: Demonstrating Precarity

• Ilenia Picardi – Tensions of Feminisms in Practice within Neoliberal Academia: a Comparative Analysis of Four Case Studies

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11:10-11:40 COFFEE

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11:40-13:00 PANEL 2: PRECARITY AND GENDER IN ACADEMIA

Chair: Kovács Ágnes Zsófia

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• Anna Carreri, Rosy Musumeci, Barbara Poggio – Starting an Academic Career in Pandemic Times: Refocusing Gender Asymmetries and the Intertwining with Precariousness

• Éva Thun – An Unexpected Turn: Women Teachers’ Self-empowerment Triggered by the Pandemic Crisis in Hungary

• Muhammad Khurram – “Feminism Is My Life:” Decoding Precarity and Gender Studies

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13:00-14:00 LUNCH

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14:00-15:40 PANEL 3: PRECARITY IN THE LABOUR MARKET

Chair: Éva Fodor

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• Amira Fretz, Eva Midden – It’s (Not) All in the Family: On the Intersection of Race and Religion in the Embodied Experiences of White Mothers in Jordan

• Angelika Sjöstedt, Katarina Giritli Nygren – Precariarization and Peripheralization: Can We Build Solidarity Across Types of Work, Spaces and Bodies

• Karen Gabriel – Precarity and the Pandemic: Notes from India

• Syeda Rumana Mehdi – Agency and Freedom: an Islamic Feminist Perspective

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15:40-16:00 COFFEE

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16:00-17:40 PANEL 4: CASE STUDIES OF WOMEN WORKERS

Chair: Ágnes Kövér-Van Til

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• Dalma Tóth –  Precariat and Gypsy Women – the Labour Market Situation of the Gypsy Women from the Romanian-Hungarian Cross Border Region

• Jai Singh – Precarity of Bihari Migrant Labors Within National Space of India During COVID-19 and the Positive Discursive Construction

• Judit Hidasi – Precarity in the Labor Market for Japanese Women

• René Pawera, Lívia Bott Domonkos – Labour Market Trends in Suburbanized Communities of Women in Slovakia after Pandemics

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18:00-19:30 RECEPTION: Wine & Cheese

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October 26th, Tuesday

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Online and on-site

 

Venue: Budapest, Central European University, Nádor utca 15, Room 103

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9:00-10:40 PANEL 5: REFLECTIONS ON PRECARITY IN LITERARY/CULTURAL STUDIES

Chair: Jasmina Lukic

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• Ágnes Zsófia Kovács – The Ethics of Vulnerable Bodies in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones (1999)

• Tamara Shefer – Encounters with Precarity In/Through Wild Sea Swimming

• Zsófia Anna Tóth – Precarity in COVID-19 Humor

• Shruti Das, Deepshikha Routray – Precarity and Trauma: Migration in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills

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10:40-11:00 COFFEE

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11:00-12:20 PANEL 6: PRECARITY THROUGH THE PERSPECTIVE OF BODY AND SEXUALITY

Chair: Erzsébet Barát

 

• Anika Thym – Precarity as Common Ground for Emancipatory Coalitions with Incels?

• Jeff Hearn – Power, Privilege and Precarity: Applicabilities to Men, Masculinities and CSMM?

• Manjari Sahay – Precarity, Not Passivity: Compulsion and Choice in Indian Commercial Surrogacy

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12:20-13:20 LUNCH

 

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13:20-15:00 PANEL 7: PRECARITY AND YOUNG ACADEMICS IN ACADEMIA

Chair: Beáta Nagy

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• Laura Grünberg, Diana-Elena Neaga – How to Make Gender Equality a Priority in Academia in Precarious Times

• ​Luisa Winter Pereira – Sticky Floor and Underground Academic Economy: Material Living Conditions of Early Career Researchers During the Pandemic Crisis

• Olga Shnyrova – “New Serfdom”: How Does COVID Change the Situation in Russian Universities

• Sharif Atiquzzaman – Academic Precarity of Girls Viewed through Practical Lens

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15:00-15:30 COFFEE

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15:30-17:00 KEYNOTE SPEECH

Rutvica Andrijasevic, University of Bristol

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Beyond Precarity: ‘Real-Time’ Economy and the Rise of ‘Just-In-Time’ Workers

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19:00 onwards DINNER (off campus)

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October 27th, Wednesday

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Online and on-site

 

Venue: Budapest, Central European University, Nádor utca 15, Room

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9:00-14:00: RINGS General Assembly

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Please find the detailed program of the RINGS assembly in the PDF.