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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!
Testimonials
Virtual Session
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| Dr. Juan Filipe Stacul | Federal Institute of Goiás, Brazil | Queer Representations and LGBTQ+ Stereotypes in the Media: A Comparative Study of the Book and Film Versions of Sargento Garcia by Caio Fernando Abreu |
| Prof. Dr. Robert Hamilton | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea | Crafting Selves Through Others: The Ethics of Transnational Probes into Sexuality in East Asia |
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| Prof. Dr. Chih-Ping Chen | Yuan Ze University, Taiwan | Liberating Young Adults from Gender Beliefs with Virtual Stickers in a Social Messaging Line Application |
| Dr. Jill St George | Open University, United Kingdom | LGBTQ+ persons and Caribbean Constitutions: The battle of saving vs abolishing |
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| Dr Juliet Ramohai | Durban University of Technology, South Africa | Gender-based Violence in South African higher education: males’ contestations, voice and responsibility |
| Dr. Ayobami Adekola | University of South Africa | An Intersectional Analysis of Gender-Specific Barriers to Adolescent Health Literacy in South Africa |
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| Dr. Ikekhwa Albert Ikhile | University of South Africa | Examining the Impact of social support networks in mitigating the negative effects of social determinants of health on MSM in South Africa. |
| Dr. Lorraine Stigar | Purdue University, USA | LGBTQIA+ Affirming Practices: Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Confidence in Future Practice of Intermediate Learners Participating in an Interprofessional Immersion Activity |
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| Dr. Florenda Frivaldo | Polytechnic University of the Philippines | Gender Disparity Among Elected Officials in the Philippines |
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| Dr. Gevorgianiene Violeta | Vilnius University, Lithuania | Motherhood Constrained: The Minotaur Legend Reimagined Through the Perspective of Marginalized Mothers |
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| Dr. Soichi Kozai | Kansai Gaidai Univesity, Japan | A Note on Japanese Gay Men’s Talk: Onee Go So Extreme and Intense but Empathic |
| Dr. Khonzi Mbatha | University of South Africa | Talking to and about real people: Lessons learnt in conducting research among sex workers in Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Dr. Eduardo Alves Vieira | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Netherlands | How inclusive is inclusive? Religious discourses and LGBTQIA+ identities in Brazil |
| Dr. Eric Hess | Berklee College of Music, USA | “Evangeli-Bros”: Sexual Minority Men and The Politics of An Evangelical Institution, Faith, and Corresponding Gendered Expectations |
| Prof. Dr. Annalisa Fabretti | University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy | A further look at the gender gap in Italian academic careers |
| Dr. Henry James Nichols | University of the Free State, South Africa | Exploring the Influence of Queer Celebrities on Shaping School Youth’s Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity |
| Prof. Dr. Paulina Aroch-Fugellie | Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa, Mexico | The Stepmother’s Ideological Utility for Late Capitalism |
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| Dr. Judit Flóra Balatonyi | University of Pécs Department of European Ethnology – Cultural Anthropology, Hungary | Working Misunderstandings of Contemporary Family and Marriage |
| Dr. Alberto Grandi | Universita degli studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Italy | Language, neuter, and masculinity. The influence of the neuter-male in the reiteration of social models. An analysis starting with Cavarero, Irigaray, and Butler. |
| Dr. Susana Fernandez Blanco | Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia | Visual Dialogues on Gender: Women’s Perspectives from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar |
| Prof. Dr. Germano Couto | Escola Superior de Saúde Fernando Pessoa, Portugal | Healthcare students’ attitudes toward addressing sexual health: validation of the European Portuguese version |
| Almira Sharafeeva | Ludwig-Maximillian Universität München, Germany | The Joy of Painless Motherhood: The Reproductive Policy of the Bolsheviks in the 1930s |
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| Anjali Manhas | IIIT-Naya Raipur, India | (Re)visiting Annie Ernaux’s Happening: Painting “The Abortionist’s Studio” from the Whisks of her Memory |
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| Nasha Chan | The University of Sydney, Australia | Enigmatic Feminism at Eileen Gray’s Villa Tempe a Pailla |
| Maryam Rahmani Tehrani | Departmant of women studies of sociological association of Iran | Iranian women’s view of first sex outside of marriage |
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| Matthew Broadway-Horner | University of Bolton, UK | Does Post traumatic growth follow disfellowship and sexual minority conversion therapy? Salvaging of a precarious identity: An empirical investigation using positive autoethnography approach. |
| Psychological therapies for the treatment of disfellowshipment following post conversion therapy: A scoping review. | |||
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| John Carlo Colot | Polytechnic University of the Philippines | Anti- Violence Against Women and Their Children Act in the Philippines: Assessing The Effectiveness and Impact on Access to Justice |
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| Cherry De Leon-Generoso | Polytechnic University of the Philippines | Women’s Rights Movements and Political Development : Examining the Role of Activism in Promoting Gender Equality in NCR Philippines |
| Cláudia Sofia Bastos Carvalho Novais | University of Minho, Portugal | Gender and repression: honour and virginity” pardons in Portugal during the Early Modern Period” |
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| Junfeng Zhu | Utrecht University, Netherlands | Measuring the mediation effect: family pressure to engage in heterosexual marriage in China and its societal and parental drivers |
| Karolien Gebruers | Heriot-Watt University, UK | I do feel like I’m tolerated, but not accepted” – Exploring the experiences of female interpreters be(com)ing International Sign conference interpreters |
| Manisha Mohanty | Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India | Re-examining Rape-revenge Cinema: Promising Young Woman (2020) and Bulbbul (2020) |
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| Blessing Chukwuka | Queen’s University Belfast, UK | Examining the Work-Life Interface: Maternal Bodies and Institutional Logics in Organizational Contexts |
| Baguma Ivan James | Gabula Royal Foundation, Uganda | Gender inequality and the significance of social –economic transformation of women in Uganda |
| Mary Oluwatobiloba Odetoyinbo | Lancaster University, UK | Academic Motherhood in Nigeria: Career Trajectories and Experiences of Nigerian Women in Higher Education Institutions |
| Mugambwa Robert | The Center-Left Think Tank in Africa, Uganda | Navigating Realities: A Case Study of LGBTQ+ Experiences in Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, and Malawi |
| Megan Williams | North-West University, South Africa | ‘Kampvegters vir die Klitterati’ – A linguistical exploration of South African Queer Identifying Women and Non-Binary Individuals. |
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| Rachana Pillai | Vellore Institute of Technology, India | Reconciliation of Indian Rainbow Parents: Transition of Psyche from Denial to Pride |
| Rachel Lofton | Graduate School of Psychology and Education, Pepperdine University, USA | Transgender Participation in Chess |
| Jana-Isabelle Dilger | Trilateral Research, UK | Resistance to anti-gender campaigns – the role of feminist change-makers |
| Safia Iftikhar | Edith Cowan University, Australia | Diasporic challenges, Patriarchal norms, and Pakistani immigrant women in Australia |
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| Anika Asthana | Princeton University, USA | Border Crossings: Race, Gender, and Abolition in the British Public Reception to Ellen and William Craft |
| Liya Ai | Nagoya University, Japan | Pride Parade Participants’ Motivation in Japan |
| Shraddha Jha | Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India | Safeguarding Women Through Rape: Patriarchal Morality in Sowmya Rajendran’s The Lesson (2015) |
| Victoria Kopperschmidt | (UKSH Kiel; Institut für Sexualmedizin und Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie), Germany | Development of an observational online questionnaire to study human sexuality |
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| Piumi LaKchani Denagamage | University of Northern British Columbia, Canada | Mapping grassroots women’s representations in academic research on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Global South |
| Natasha Gilani | University of Toronto, France | Resilience and Activism Among Queer Women in Pakistan |
| Yuchen Li | Lund University, Sweden | Flowing Body: The Collision of Power Relations, Mind and Body Agency |
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| Keren Moran | Western Sydney University, Australia | Eyebrows and eyelashes. Investigating Australian primary teachers’ implicit beliefs about creativity and gender: using AI to isolate gender as the singular changeable variable. |
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| Chiara Antoniucci | Department of Development and Social Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy | Promoting Physical Health in Older Sexual Minority Italian Adults: Resources and Obstacles |
| Nicolina Fusco | Boston University, United States | A Longitudinal Examination of Associations Between Bias-Based Harassment and Substance Use Among Sexual Minority Youth |
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| Shu Cean Chua | Birkbeck University of London, UK | An Inquiry into the Lives of Queer Chinese Malaysians: The Quest for Queer Space and Identity Reconciliation |
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| Paola Pietrosanti | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy | The Lavander Scare: Discrimination and Inequality Towards The LGBTQIA+ Community in The Past and Present U.S. |
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| Joseph Black | Chiang Mai University, Thailand | Mythologizing Asian Masculinities: A Critical Analysis of Homoerotic Instagram Imagery |
| Rasmika Naidu | Stadio Higher Education, South Africa | Reevaluating our ga(y)ze: an exploration into how Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden (2016) creates empathy for queer individuals |
| Kirsty Rackliff | University of Nottingham, UK | Caught Between the Binary: Exploring Dominant Representations of Detransition on TikTok |
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| Nadezhda Martynova | Department of General Philosophy, Kazan Federal University, Russia | Biological sex, gender roles, and sexual scripts. |
| Rama Singh | University of Exeter, UK | Undoing the Queer Discourse: Incapability of Language to Recuperate Montaigne’s Monsters |
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| Wynn Tashman | University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA | Potties and Prejudices: An Intersectional Legal Battle for Access to Public Bathrooms |
| Polina Lukyantseva | Kyoto University, Japan | DV in International Households in Japan: Interview and Questionary Survey Results on Sexual and Emotional Abuse |
| María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto | Utrecht University, Netherlands | Challenging European Belonging: Representations of Female Transnational Experiences in Marrón by Rocío Quillahuaman |
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| Kyle Williams | The Ohio State University, USA | Oskar Seidlin’s Inspiring Journey as a Gay Jewish Scholar and Soldier |
| Hsu Sun | Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University | The Desire of Recognition: Discussion on Transnormativity in Taiwan |
| Antonia Heil | Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany | Gender Equitable Interactions in Online Videoconferencing: Exploring the Dynamics of Power Relationships in Corporate Online Meetings |
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| Rukaya Al Zayani | Örebro Universitet, Sweden | Online Queer Sex Work in Turkey |