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Futures for whom? Constructions of possible futures and gendering practices in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic 

Culture and languages
Society and economy

This symposium is an online event and is open to the public. On this day, we will listen to the individual talks from our guest speakers and discuss together authoritarian longings, care as a form of power relation, knowledge production, and the place of hope in the midst of pandemic. The presentations will be followed by a roundtable discussion by our guest speakers and gender researchers at the unit for gender studies in Gothenburg.

Conference,
Seminar
Date
22 Nov 2021
Time
13:15 - 16:15
Location
Zoom
Organizer
Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg
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Futures for whom? Constructions of possible futures and gendering practices in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic 

Where will the pandemic take us? What are the possible futures following the pandemic? How can gender scholars respond to and challenge the construction of a “new” normal? There is no doubt that the pandemic will have dramatic and long-term effects, although it is still obscure what these effects may be. We are in the midst of power struggles on those yet-to-come effects, where possible futures gain legitimacy to construction of the present in discriminatory ways. This symposium address questions of possible futures and the construction of longing for futures in the midst of a pandemic, asking: futures for whom? 

Program & Guest Speakers

November 22, 2021, on Zoom
(Timezone: Sweden)

13.15-13.30 Opening speech on crisis by Mathias Ericson

13.30-15.00 Individual Talks by Guest speakers

• Ov Cristian Norocel (Lund University) on authoritarian longings and anti-genderism 
• Misse Wester (Lund University) care, biopolitics, and necropolitics 
• Maria do Mar Pereira (Uni. of Warwick) on knowledge production in relation to pandemic  
• Diana Mulinari (Lund University) on hope, social change and the future

15.10-16.15 Roundtable discussion with the participation of Gender Unit collegium & guest speakers

Please note that registration is required for joining the event. Use the link below for registration:
https://gu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50rdeysqTgpEtZUuA2mC5H9hJqxp_ZZG1P-

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