Day 1: International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures - Gender Pasts

*Day 1, Gender Pasts*
All Day: Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum

09:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-09:45 Welcome and Introduction (Maria Misra)
09:45-12:15 Session 1: Global Pasts: The Colonial World
This panel will consider gender in pre-colonial Africa, Asia, and the Americas and the ongoing influence of colonial gender ideologies and practices

*Speakers*:
Mrinalini Sinha, (Michigan) Spectres of Mother India (2006)
Nwando Achebe (Michigan State) Female Monarch and Merchant Queens in Africa (2020)

Scott Williamson

Scott Williamson is Associate Professor in Comparative Political Economy at the Department of Politics and International Relations and a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College. His research focuses on popular politics and institutions in authoritarian regimes, support for democracy, attitudes toward foreign aid and migration, and the politics of the Middle East. Scott is the PI of the UKRI-funded ERC Starting Grant Democratic Values and Authoritarian Legitimacy (DEVAL).

Global Gender: Pasts Presents Futures - Day 3

Day 3, Wednesday 23 June
GENDER IN FILM AND FICTION
(Morning: Old Dining Room, St Edmund Hall; Afternoon: Phoenix Picture-House Cinema)
9.30-1.30, Gender and the Global Novel
In Conversation with:

Xiaolu Guo, author & filmmaker, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007); Radical: A Life of My Own (2023)

Margie Orford, Daddy’s Girl (2006);The Eye of the Beholder (2022)


2.00-c.8.00pm, Gender and Global Film
2.00pm, Welcome
2.00-4.00pm, Screening of Joyland (2022), Jury Prize and Queer Palm, Cannes 2022
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