You are warmly invited to an online research seminar entitled

“Travelling Theories: The Affective Politics of the Circulation of Feminist Ideas”

• Friday, January 17^th
• 9.30 to 11.30 (UK time; to convert this to your time-zone, click here)
• Online event via Teams

How can feminist theories, ideas, discourses, protests, demands travel from one context to another? What happens to them when they travel? How are they negotiated in different locations? How do they open spaces and become incorporated in local power dynamics, producing potential complicities? There have been many critiques of the geopolitical inequalities reproduced when feminism travels from ‘West’ to ‘East’ or from ‘North’ to ‘South’ – but what other forms of travel may we consider and how do they complicate our analysis of the politics of circulation of feminist ideas? This roundtable features three speakers who will engage with these questions from different perspectives, but with a shared focus on the affective politics of past and present forms of international circulation of feminist ideas.

Speakers:

• Demet Gülçiçek is an Honorary Researcher at the University of Warwick and Assist. Prof. at Munzur University, Turkey. Her book Travelling Theory and Women’s Movements in Turkey: Imagining Europe is recently published (Routledge, 2024). She also analyses affective political commitments in her article ‘The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a “mood of commitment”’ (The Sociological Review, 2022). She currently works on conceptualising popular feminism and anti-gender movements in Turkey.
• Srila Roy is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her latest books are the award-winning Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (Duke University Press, 2022) and the co-edited, Intimacy and Injury: in the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2022). She is currently writing a book on Southern decoloniality, transnational feminism and higher education for Wits University Press.
• Akane Kanai is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. Her recent Australian Research Council fellowship explores the contemporary knowledge cultures of online feminism and popular culture. The project podcast, Feminist not Fearless, is available through Spotify and Apple Podcasts. She also is an investigator on another Australian Research-Council funded project investigating changing understandings of embodiment and selfhood in young people's selfie and image-editing practices.

Mary Evans will act as a discussant.

This seminar is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, CLICK HERE.

The Teams link will be sent to registered participants the day before the event.

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This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.

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