4th International Marxist-Feminist Conference

11 November 2021
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13 November 2021
11 November 2021 - 13 November 2021
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Online Conference
4th International Marxist-Feminist Conference
The conference provides theoretical debates, case studies based on examples of struggle and resistance, as well as a plenary seccion on the Thirteen Theses of Marxism-Feminism with Frigga Haug and other Marxist feminists. Watch here the full recordings.
The idea of an international Marxist feminist conference was originally brought into being, and was since then continuously organised, by the feminist section of the Berliner Institut of Critical Theory (InkriT) around the German sociologist and philosopher Frigga Haug. It was held in Berlin (Germany) for the first time in 2015, followed by an increasingly international second conference in Vienna in 2016, and the third one in Lund (Sweden) in 2018.
The 4th International Marxist-Feminist Conference is organised by transform! europe and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), along with Iratzar Foundation, Bilbo-Barcelona Critical Theory Group (BIBA CT), Berliner Institut für Kritische Theorie (InkriT), Roxa-Luxemburg-Foundation and ParteHartuz.
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Recordings
Thursday, 11 November
17:00 - 18:30 (CET): Plenary 1: Feminist Movements and strikes in the Basque Country
language: Basque (translation into English and Spanish)
Moderation:
Oihana Etxebarrieta
Key-speakers:
Lore Lujanbio
Aitziber Aranberri
Izaskun Garcia Bordagarai and Iratxe Letona Pasto
Josefina Rocco
19:00 - 21:00 (CET): Plenary 2: Challenges and analysis of contemporary Feminism I
language: English (translation into Basque and Spanish)
Moderation:
Signe Arnfred
Key-speakers:
Lorena Cabnal
Silvia Federici
Dilar Dirik
Friday, 12 November
09:30 - 11:30 (CET): Production and Reproduction in the public and the private sphere
language: English
Moderation:
Angelina Giannopoulou
Speakers:
Ankica Cakardic
Maria Sagmeister
Monserrat Galcerán
Cristina Catalina Gallego
Knowledge production, difference and vulnerability
language: English
Moderation:
Maria Do Mar Castro Varela
Speakers:
Saphira Shure
Carolina Tamayo Rojas
Leila Haghighat
Meryem Choukri
The Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) uprisings, the MeToo movement and their challenges to Marxist Feminism
language: English
Moderation:
Alanur Çavlin
Speakers:
Lara Al-Kateb
Kobra Sultani
Fatemeh Masjedi
Frieda Afary
12:00 - 14:00 (CET): Plenary 3: XIII. Theses of Marxism-Feminism
languages: English, German (translation into Spanish)
Moderation:
Heidi Ambrosch
Speakers:
Frigga Haug
Nikita Dhawan
Alex Wischnewski
Jule Goikoetxea
Katja Kipping
Maria Do Mar Castro Varela
Signe Arnfred
16:00 - 18:00 (CET): Plenary 4: Challenges and analysis of contemporary Feminism II
language: English (translation into Basque and Spanish)
Moderation:
Ozgur Gunes Ozturk and Mònica Clua
Key-Speakers:
Tithi Bhattacharya
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
18:30 - 20:30 (CET): Plenary 5: Challenges and analysis of contemporary Feminism III
languages: English, French (translation into Basque and Spanish)
Moderation:
Irene Pereira
Key-Speakers:
Elsa Dorlin
Jules Falquet
Saturday, 13 November
09:30 - 11:30 (CET): Mujeres andaluzas que hacen la revolución
language: Spanish
Moderation:
Diana Urrea
Speakers:
Pastora Filigrana Garcia
Soledad Castillero Quesada
Virginia Piña Cruz
María Montalvez Sánchez
How to become a Feminist Artivist! Art and activism from a feminist perspective
language: English
Speakers:
Julia Zdarsky
Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki
Praktika feminista erakunde mixtoetan
language: Basque
Moderation:
Aiora Epelde
Speakers:
Zaloa Perez
Elixabete Etxeberria
Jone Bengoetxea
Ana Mezo
Radiografía del escenario militante en Països Catalans y Euskal Herria
language: Spanish
Moderation:
Eraitz Saez de Egilaz
Speakers:
Maider Barañano
Nadia Pérez
Ane Alava Artuch
Cesca Gasull
Olivia Serra Bassó
12:00 - 14:00 (CET): Interseccionalidad y debates entre corrientes feministas
language: Spanish
Moderation:
Itziar Gandarias
Speakers:
María Rodó Zarate
Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni
Gaudi Delgado Falcon
Feminist strikes and new resistance
language: English
Moderation:
Ibai Atutxa
Speakers:
Desirée Enlund
Eva Schmitz
Camille Robert
Ella Petrini
Euskal Langile Andreak (IPES)
language: basque
Moderation:
Andrea Heuschmid
Speakers:
Oiane Valero
Patricia Muñoz
Lurdes Rodridguez
16:00 - 18:00 (CET): ¿Cambiar el Estado desde abajo y desde dentro? Experiencias de avances y retos
language: Spanish
Moderation:
Arantxa Tirado Sánchez
Speakers:
Aleida Hernández Cervantes
Sayuri Herrera Román
Mylai Burgos Matamoros
La lucha por el Pan y las Rosas: estrategias a debate en un mundo en crisis
language: Spanish
Speakers:
Andrea D'Atri
Diana Assunção
Alejandra Décap
Josefina L. Martínez
Cynthia Luz Burgueño
Riqueza social desde paradigmas críticos feministas y descoloniales
language: Spanish
Moderation:
Ozgur Gunes Ozturk
Speakers:
Márgara Millán
Diana Fuentes
Cintia Martínez
Josefa Contreras
Political economy, value and work
language: English
Moderation:
Agurtzane Lekuona
Speakers:
Elisabeth Zorgetz Loureiro
Fathimah Fildzah Izzazi
Audrey Laurin-Lamothe
Kwon Myoung A
Towards 2022 political actions and mobilisations
language: English
Moderation:
Alex Wischnewski
Speakers:
Cristina Simó, President of the Women’s Democratic Movement (Spain) and Co-Coordinator of Feminism Working Group of the Party of the European Left
Clara Alonso, Executive Secretary of Communication of Izquierda Unida and feminist activist (Spain)
Joana Teixeira, activist of the feminist collective "A Colectiva" (Portugal)
Kristina Krajnc, program committee member of the Institute of 8th March (Slovenia)
Agata Czarnacka, political philosopher, feminist activist and publicist (Poland)
18:30 - 20:30 (CET): Plenary 6: Challenges and analysis of conteporary Feminism VI
languages: English, French (translation into Basque and Spanish)
Moderation:
Jule Goikoetxea
Key-speakers:
Ochy Curiel
Nancy Fraser
Key Speakers
Tithi Bhattacharya
Tithi Bhattacharya (India, 1971) is a professor of South Asian History and the Director of Global Studies at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies(University of London) in 2000. She is the author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2005). Bhattacharya is a longstanding social justice activist and a prominent Marxist feminist. She writes extensively on Marxist theory, gender, and the politics of Islamophobia.
Lorena Cabnal
Lorena Cabnal (1973), a Maya-Xinka from Guatemala, is an advocate of community feminism. Originally from Santa María Xalapán, Cabnal is the daughter of the Xinca Maya cosmogony and co-founder of the community-territorial feminist movement in Guatemala, the Network of Ancestral Healers of Community Feminism Tzk’at (in Mayan Quiché).
Elsa Dorlin
Elsa Dorlin (France, 1974) is since 2011 Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Paris 8 and, since 2014, a member of the Center for Feminist and Gender Studies at Paris 8. In 2004, she received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne with the thesis Au chevet de la Nation: sexe, race et médecine: XVIIe-XVIIe siècles. Her studies focus on the intersections between gender, race and other systems of domination.
Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici (Italia, 1942) is Emerita Professor at Hofstra University (USA). She is a feminist activist since 1960 and was one of the main animators of the international debates on the condition and remuneration of domestic work. Her field of research is political philosophy and women’s studies, and she has also contributed various essays on educational and cultural politics. In the 1970s she was a cofounder of the International Feminist Collective. From 1991 to 2003, after a period of teaching at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, she was a co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and co-editor of the CAFA Bulletin. From 1995 to 2002 she has also helped found the Anti-death-penalty project of the U.S. based Radical Philosophy Association.
Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser (Baltimore, USA, 1947) is the Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center (USA) in 1980. She works on social and political theory, feminist theory, and contemporary French and German thought. Widely known for her critique of identity politics and her philosophical work on the concept of justice, Fraser is also a staunch critic of contemporary liberal feminism and its abandonment of social justice issues. She is President of the American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division.
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (Argentina) is a Reader in Sociology, the University of Bath, where she teaches political sociology, social and cognitive justice, Marxism, critical, decolonial and feminist theory. She is a post-disciplinary scholar-activist, member of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives’ core group and the founder and coordinator of the international network Women on the Verge, of the Standing Seminar in Critical theory and of the Decolonizing Knowledge in Teaching, Research and Practice Research Hub/Centre.
Frigga Haug
Frigga Haug (Germany, 1937) is a German socialist-feminist sociologist and philosopher. She studied sociology and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin (Germany). In 1963, she interrupted her studies to move to Cologne and give birth to a daughter, but in 1971 she graduated in sociology, and in 1976 gained a PhD in sociology and social psychology. Haug’s magazine Das Argument grew out of her opposition to nuclear rearmament. In protest at the Vietnam War she joined the Socialist German Student Union (SDS), and she also developed a feminist perspective while she participated in different socialist women’s groups. In 1988 she founded the book imprint Adiadne.
Ochy Curiel
Ochy Curiel (Dominican Republic, 1963) is a theorist, feminist activist and songwriter. Curiel holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and she is a professor and researcher at the National University of Colombia (UNC) and the Pontifical Xavierian University. She is also a spokesperson for autonomous, lesbian, anti-racist and decolonial feminism as well as she is one of the founders of the Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudios, Formación y Acción Feminista (GLEFAS). Curiel has published countless articles on the imbrication between race, sex, sexuality and class in national and international magazines and books, and she has two books that stand out: La Nación Heterosexual: Análisis del discurso jurídico y el régimen heterosexual desde la antropología de la dominación (2013) and Descolonización y despatriarcalización de y desde los feminismos de Abya Yala (2015).
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