Conference 2026

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En-Gender 2026 Day 1 (20th August)

09:00-09:15 = Welcome and introduction

09:15-10:45 = Narrating Stereotypes Of Gender

Storytelling: How our parents tell us to be – Ashley Brown

  • Her Master’s Voice: The Trouble with AI Girlfriends – Clare Binning
  • Untitled – Mahmoud Farhadimahalli
  • Eating Gender: Onomatopoeia and the Narrative Construction of Masculinity and Femininity in Japanese Food Manga – Takako Kawabata
10:45-11:00 = BREAK

11:00-12:30 = Narrating The Things We Lose (chair = Jessica Albrecht)

Storytelling: The Qween in the Classroom – Anna Lynn Tom

  • The Right (Not To) Read? Analyzing Mahmoud V. Taylor’s Cultural Implications – Lior Weinstein
  • “Ora Moner Gopon Chene Na”: Gendered Affective Illegibility, Emotional Opacity, and the Politics of Misrecognition in Bengali Cultural Narrative – Suchismita Ghoshal
  • Looking for a lost identity: Memory, myth and feminist agency in Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night – Darshana Bhattacharjee/Dr. Aashita
12:30-13:30 = BREAK

13:30-14:45 = Roundtable discussion (chair = Ashley Brown)

Storytelling – Dean Leetal

  • Masculinities in Adult Men’s Stories about Relations with Parents – Katarzyna Dębska
  • What does it take to mobilize in the West? Palestinian Women, Selective solidarity, and Digital Media (mis)Representation – Ali Novello
14:45-15:00 = BREAK

15:00-16:15 = Narrating Activism (chair = Kate Skinner)

  • Knowing Gender through Liberation: Narratives of Womanhood in South African AntiApartheid Women’s Activism, 1960s-1970s
  • ‘Amar Nunca Será Malo’: Communal Narratives on Gendered Violence, Vulnerability and Decoloniality within Grassroots Mexican Transfeminist Activism – Viola Nassi
  • The Witches of Pussy Riot: Broomsticks, Corruption, and Art Crimes in Manezhkaya Square – Adrian Deveau
16:15-16:30 = BREAK

16:30-17:45 = Narrating Political Gender (chair = Adrian Devenau)

  • ‘Esi the humble kenkey seller and Madam Akua the sensational wife: how stories shaped inheritance law in Ghana.’ – Kate Skinner
  • Gendered Public Code: Narrative, Institutional Memory, and Counter-Policy in Canadian Public Life – John Bessai
17:45-18:00 = BREAK

18:00-19:15 = KEYNOTE Oona Blood Cullen
“Materializin Gendered Narratives / Narrating Gendered Materials: Casting Femme Embodiment”

(chair = Leandro Wallace)

Day 2 (21st August)

09:00-09:30 = En-Gender! Chat and Share

09:30-10:30 = Narrating How We Research Gender (chair = Viola Nassi)

Storytelling – Nirupama Jayaraman

  • What Can Be Narrated? Feminist Storytelling and Public Intelligibility – Rosallia Domingo
  • What is ‘Gender’ in ‘Anti-Gender’?: Narratives of (Anti)Gender in Contemporary Resistance to Anti-Gender Politics”. – Marianna Muravyeva
10:30-10:45 = BREAK

10:45-11:45 = Narrating Constraint and Limits (chair = Ashley Brown)

Storytelling – JD Davids

  • Defamiliarising Gendered Narratives Through Lesbian Drag Performance – Caroline Rynkevich
  • Telling Employability: Gendered Narratives of Recognition and Constraint in Syrian Refugee Women’s Labour Market Trajectories in Germany – Nihan Duran
  • Gendering the Kitchen: The Narrative of Limits – Suparna Roy
11:45-12:00 = BREAK

12:00-12:45 = Book Launch

Jessica A. Albrecht – Religion and Standpoint, Queer, Crip and Trans Theories (Bloomsbury, 2026) (chair = Leandro Wallace)

12:45-13:45= BREAK

13:45-15:00 Narrating the Past (chair = Dean Leetal)

  • Historical self- and collective-fashioning: masculinities and marginalisation – Ashley Brown
  • Narrating Jewish Lesbian Lives: Gender, Memory, and Queer Historiography from the Pale to Early Twentieth-Century America – Irina Rabinovich
  • How does Ira Sach’s film Lady (1993) exhibit post 70s/80s queer fatigue felt by lesbian women in 1990s New York? – Lucy Bennett
15:00-15:15 = BREAK

15:15-16:15 = Narrating Corporeality and Embodiment (chair = Leandro Wallace)

Storytelling – Linda Levitt

  • Corporeality and Self-Perception in Lesbian Motherhood Memoirs – Shona Floate
  • “Who is Afraid of the Body?”: Colonial Anatomy of Gender in Uganda – Anna
16:15-16:30 = BREAK

16:30-18:00 New Narrations of Queerness (chair = Dean Leetal)

  • Packing Gender: Narrative, Class, and Transmasculine Cruising – JD Davis
  • Have I forgotten the vows I made to Delia?: An asexual reading of Maddalena Campiglia’s Flori – Elisa Penha
  • Ex-Gay and Conversion Therapy Narratives: Uncovering Linguistic Markers of SOGICE through Qualitative Content Analysis – Willow Sipling
18:00-18:15 = BREAK

18:15-19:30 = KEYNOTE: Rasel Ahmed
“Action! (From 8,000 Miles Away): Queer Filmmaking in Exile”

(chair = Jessica Albrecht)