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We had an incredible Gender Studies and Sexuality Conference, bringing together educators and experts from around the globe, including Germany, Greece, Romania, UAE, South Africa, UK, Canada, Indonesia, Georgia, Qatar, Estonia, and many more. Participants engaged in insightful conversations, shared their knowledge and experiences, and listened to talks on critical issues and innovative solutions in Gender Studies and Sexuality.
If you were there, you know what a unique opportunity it was to exchange ideas, find inspiration, and gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and solutions in the field. If you missed it, be sure to mark your calendar for the next event and join us to be part of this transformative experience!
If you were there, you know what a unique opportunity it was to exchange ideas, find inspiration, and gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and solutions in the field. If you missed it, be sure to mark your calendar for the next event and join us to be part of this transformative experience!
Highlighted Speakers
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| Dr. Savage Bear | McMaster University, Canada | Red Erotic: The Fall and Rise of Indigenous Erotica |
 | Dr. Soichi Kozai | Kansai Gaidai University, Japan | Japanese Gay-Men’s Talk: Omoiyari (Altruistic Sensitivity) is behind the Situation |
| Dr. Patricia Moynagh | Wagner College, United States | Freedom and the Drama of Coexistence: Feminist Reflections with Beauvoir, Arendt, Ferrante and Morrison |
| Dr. Maria Kyriakidou | American College of Thessaloniki, Greece | Travel literature: A glance over nineteenth-century Greek women |
 | Dr. Alex Baird | University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom | Que(e)rying Leadership on a LGBTQ+ Leadership Development Programme for UK Higher Education staff |
| Dr. Shokhan Mohammed Fatah | Charmo University, Iraq | The Dual Burden: Gender and Racial Inequality in Hurston’s Sweat |
| Dr. Florenda Santos Frivaldo | Polytechnic University of the Philippines | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Malasakit Centers in Improving Healthcare Access in the Philippines |
| Dr. Kemal Atasoy | Kadir Has University, Turkey | The Constitutional Protection of Transgenders’ Right to Change Their Name in Turkish Law |
| Dr. Joel Melecio Cabael | Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng San Pablo, Philippines | Advancing Gender Equality: The Influence of Women’s Rights Movements in the Metropolitan Manila, Philippines |
 | Dr. Lydia Cooper | Seattle University, United States | Trauma and Resilience in Queer Climate Fiction |
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| Dr. Angela Dwyer | University of Tasmania, Australia | Why do we need to research relationships between LGBTQ+ BDSM practitioners and police? |
| Police liaison officers and vulnerable communities: a comparative discussion of programs with LGBTIQ+ people and sex workers | |||
| The experiences of LGBT+ workers employed in religiously affiliated organisations in Australia | |||
| Prof. Dr. Mercedes Lucía Posada Meola | Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Colombia | Sentimental Education and Patriarchal Violence: A Critical Look at Latin American Melodramas |
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| Dr. Davide Curcuruto | University of Palermo, Italy | Towards a Queer Southernism: the role of women and LGBT+ groups in house movement of Palermo |
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| Dr. Awode Segun Awode | Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Nigeria | A Gender and Diversity Lens into Citizens’ Lived Experiences in Nigeria |
| Prof. Dr. Eduarda Ferreira | CICS.NOVA Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences, NOVA/FCSH, Portugal | Gender and STEM: Insights from Portugal |
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| Dr. Andrea Micoli | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy | Trans-affirming Policies and Educational Contexts: Opinions, Experiences, and Attitudes of an Italian College Student Community |
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| Dr. Chen Zhu | university of Bristol, United Kingdom | The Cinematic Representation of CPTSD caused by Modern Family -A comparative analysis of Chinese and Western Films |
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| Songyan Li | University of Manchester, United Kingdom | When Power Meets Beauty: Love’s Imagination in Fan Fiction of Dream of the Red Chamber |
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| Tuhina Tuhina | Manav rachna international institute of research and studies, India | Transcending Borders: The Evolving Recognition of Third Gender in a Global Diaspora Landscape |
| Valentin Kleinpeter | Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany | Drawing genitals: An investigation of anatomical knowledge and terminology among pre-service teachers and medical students |
| Mary Caputi | California State University, Long Beach, United States | Progress,” Ecofeminism, and the Culture of Slow |
 | Agnieszka Kosiorowska | University of Warsaw, Poland | Catholicism, sexuality and family planning among Polish migrants in Ile-de-France. Liberalization or retraditionalization? |
| Deena Ronayne | University of Memphis, United States | Smoke & Mirrors: The Weaponization of Gender in Postwar America |
| L’or Malotra-Gaudet | CUNY Graduate Center, United States | Animalistic Euphoria: The Liberatory Power of Gender Euphoric Animal Role Play |
 | Luisa Troncone | University of Salerno, Italy | Narrating girlhood: a corpus based study |
| Massimiliano Manni | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy | Beyond Queer Normativity: Queering Fiction, or Fictionalising Queerness, in Camila Sosa Villada, a Travesti Writer |
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| Nibedita Kuiry | National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India | ‘Gendered’ Quarantine, Control and Exploitation: Lock Hospitals in Nineteenth Century Colonial India |
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| Morgan Pasquier | University of Washington, United States | The Gender Playground: Co-Creating Gender Through Play and Performance |
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| Zenaida Andreica Gheorghe | AFIN Research Center, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain | “Is it good to…” the teenager morality behind the social construction of sexuality in Catalonia, Spain. |
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| Yan Liu | Sheffield Hallam university, United Kingdom | Academic women in China |
| Hlamulo Jeffrey Ngobeni | STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY, South Africa | The People’s Court: Confronting Protective Homophobia in Southern Africa. |
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| Zayan | The YP Foundation, India | Understanding the formation of Chosen Families for Dalit and Bahujan Queer and Trans People in India |
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| Cherry De Leon- Generoso | Polytechnic University of the Philippines | The Influence of Social Movements on Women’s Political Participation |
| Ange-Valérie Meralli Ballou | UNAIDS, Senegal | SRHR through the prism of gender, race and relations of domination in French international cooperation and development. |
| Clara Etchenique | wu – wien, Austria | Let me be your woman! Exploring the Instrumentalization of Gender Discourses among Female Candidates in the 2022 French Presidential Election |
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| Tup Aun Chan | The University of Sydney, Australia | Enigmatic Feminism at Eileen Gray’s Villa Tempe a Pailla |
| Arnoux Mouafo Nopi | Support Center for Evaluaton and Development -CAED, Cameroon | Cultural beliefs, menstrual management and interpersonal relationships: a case study of young girls in vocational training centres. |
| Petagou Blaise | Support Center for Evaluation and Development (CAED), Cameroon | Gender and media coverage of professions in Cameroon |
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| Emo Tcheuko Daris | The University of Yaoundé 2 – SOA, Cameroon | Female masturbation among girl-mothers in urban Cameroon: sexual identity or social rejection? |
| Mbepamo Famogni Sire Gotar | Support Center for Evaluation and Development | Households of today and tomorrow: towards a materialistic conjugal non-place |
| Àngels Asensi Soto | Maastricht University, Netherlands | “The Work Behind the Melody: Lullabies as Songs of Reproductive Labor” |
 | Mitra Tanomand | Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights, United Kingdom | Unveiling the Post-2021 Realities within Women’s Protection Shelters in Afghanistan: Navigating Challenges Amidst Socio-Political Shifts |
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| Xun Ril Li | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada | Play and Gender Roles: The Aesthetic of Chinese Lesbian Domesticity |
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| Isabella Fincher | University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, United States | Autonomy, Self-Care and Reclamation: Nonbinary Self-Imaging Praxis in Laurence Philomène’s autobiographical self-portrait series Puberty |
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| Aryaa Singh | Shiv Nadar University, India | From Fraulein to Femme Fatale: A Study of Sexuality, Desire, and the “New Woman” in German Expressionist Cinema. |
| Deepesh Korbu | Manipal University, India | Exploring the Relevance of the Kāmasūtra in Contemporary Gender and Sexuality Discourse |
| Sadiqa Jissan Nabila | University of Delhi, India | From Hunger to Madness: Analysing “Bhat Dey” Through the Lens of Gender Violence |
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| Moses Abrahamson | Princeton University, United States | The Artist and the Opera: an Analysis of Gaze, Spatiality, and Women’s Labor in Degas’s The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, 1874 |
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| Million Kassa Bekele | Utrecht University, Netherlands | Queer enough for the Netherlands? The role of stereotypes in queer asylum decisions and its outcome |
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| Vinod Kumar | GLA University, India | Fallen Men: A Study of Male Sex Work and New Attitude to Sexuality in Contemporary Indian Society |
| Ciara Buckley | Dublin City University, Ireland | Barriers and Facilitators of Help-Seeking for LGBTQ+ Survivors of Sexual Violence: A Systematic Review |
| Amna Ashraf | Institute of Development Studies, Pakistan | Agency and Autonomy: Subversive Practices in Intergenerational Intra-Household Bargaining in Karachi |
| Katelyn Spencer | Louisiana State University, United States | The Mayor of Frenchmen Street: Otis Fennell and his FAB Archive |
| Yuki Sugiyama | Department of Language and Culture, Chubu University, Japan | Attitudes toward Gender-Inclusive Language among EFL Speakers in Japan |
| Jude Merit | University of Sunderland, United Kingdom | The Experiences of Internalized Ableism of Seven Transgender Autistic Adults |
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| Adidja Ramadhani | Youth Socia Work Association Burundi.Kanyosha Bujumbura, Burundi | Gender studies and sexuality |
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| Mansur Kayode Opakunle | Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom | Work-family Conflicts Among Female Academics in the UK and Nigeria |
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| Jolana Anna Hošková | Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Czech Republic | Beyond the Binary Approach: Abortion Laws and Queer Identity in the Visegrad Four countries |
| Chaimae El Idrissi Amiri | Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University, Morocco | Abortion Law in Morocco: Ijtihad as a Pathway for Legal Reform |
 | Yujia Zhu | Sofia University, United States | Asexuality in Asia: The Intersection of Tradition, Identity, and Sexual Diversity |
| Masana Sannomiya | Lancaster University, United Kingdom | The Impact of Active Bystander Education on Intended Responses to Staff-Perpetrated Sexual Harassment among Female Medical Administration Students in Japan |
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