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

Day 2: Tue 25 June
GENDER PRESENTS AND FUTURES
(Morning: O’Reilly Theatre, Keble College; Afternoon: Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum)
9.00 am: Registration.
9.15-10.30 am: Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

10.45am-c.1.00pm, Session 3 ‘Presents’
This panel will discuss today’s highly polarised debates on gender and ask why the issue has become so central to contemporary global politics and culture.

Speakers
Elzbieta Korolczuc (Stockholm and Warsaw), co-author of Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment (2021)

Full Programme

Day 1, Mon 24 June
GENDER PASTS (All Day: Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum)

9 am: Registration
9.30am: Welcome and Introduction (Maria Misra)

9.45am-12.15 noon, Session 1: ‘Distant Pasts’

A session that will explore the diverse and protean nature of gender imaginaries and orders in the longue durée, and will feature historians specialising in the ancient, medieval and early modern worlds.

Speakers

The book examines how the colonial politics of natural resources affected the making of some of the most "unlikely" states in today's world, focusing on colonial entities mainly in Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf.

As temperatures swell across India and anticipation grows for the election result next week, join us to discuss the impact of the election including the prospects for a country that has seen repression of democratic rights and institutions. How will the winning party use their new mandate? What will the result mean for minority rights?