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Co-organised by transform! europe, this webinar is dedicated to reflecting on the growing Marxist feminist project, its possibilities and practices, as well as on its future working methods, activities and priorities, with the participation of Frigga Haug, Heidemarie Ambrosch, Nora Räthzel, Diana Mulinari and Jule Goikoetxea.
This webinar is part of the activities programmed by the organisers of the International MarxistFeminist Conference that, due to the Covid-19 crises, had to be postponed and will take place from 11 to 13 November 2021.
It is organised by transform! europe, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Iratzar Foundation, Critical Theory Bilbao-Barcelona (BIBA CT), Berliner Institut für Kritische Theorie (InkriT), the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation and Parte Hartuz.
The idea of an international marxist-feminist conference was originally brought into being, and was since then continuously organized, by the feminist section of the Institut of Critical Theory (Inkrit) around the German sociologist and philosopher Frigga Haug. It was held in Berlin for the first time in 2015, followed by an increasingly international second congress in Vienna in 2016, and the third one in Lund (Sweden) in 2018.
The 4th International Conference will be held in Bilbao (Bizkaia Aretoa), organized and funded by transform! europe and the University of the Basque Country, along with Iratzar Foundation, Bilbo-Barcelona Critical Theory Group (BIBA CT), the Institut für Kritische Theorie (Inkrit) and Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation and ParteHartuz, among others (which will be made public in the following months).
Introduction:
Frigga Haug is Professor Emerita in Sociology and Social Psychology, University for Economics and Politics, Hamburg. A founder of memory-work research, her early leadership in the field is reflected in the groundbreaking Female Sexualization: A Collective Work of Memory. Haug is a member of numerous editorial boards including Das Argument; she is editor of the Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus (Historical-Critical Dictionary on Marxism). Her research has ranged from automation and the culture of work to social science methodology and learning, as well as further areas of women's studies. Among her most recent books are: Der im Gehen erkundete Weg. Marxismus-Feminismus (The Road is Made by Walking. Marxism-Feminism, 2015); Selbstveränderung und die Veränderung der Umstände (Selfchange and Changing the Conditions of Life, 2018); Die Unruhe des Lernens (The restlessness of Learning, 2020).
Interventions:
Heidi Ambrosch works at the transform! coordination office in Vienna. She is the womens' representative of the Communist Party of Austria (KPOe), board member of the Austrian Frauenring , and co-founder of the network platform 20000frauen.
Nora Räthzel is Senior Professor at the University of Umeå, Sweden. Her main research areas are environmental labour studies, transnational corporations, and gender and ethnic relations in everyday life. Latest publications include The future of work defines the future of humanity and all living species, International Journal of Labour Research, Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today (with Khayaat Fakier and Diana Mulinari) in Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers (edited with With Diana Mulinari and Aina Tollefsen); and Trade unions in the Green Economy. Working for the Environment (edited with David Uzzell).
Diana Mulinari is a professor at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Her work aims to bridge the tradition of Marxist feminism with the contribution of Black, Chicano, and postcolonial feminist scholarship. Her latest publications are 'Pain is Hard to Put on Paper’. Exploring the silences of migrant scholars (with Despina Tzimoula), in Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality: Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism; Hegemonic Feminism Revisited: On the Promises of Intersectionality in Times of the Precarisation of Life (with Paulina de los Reyes), in NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.
Jule Goikoetxea is a Member of the Critical Theory Group Bilbo-Barcelona. She received her doctorates from the University of Cambridge and the University of the Basque Country. She was the academic director of the Master in Governance and Political Studies programme at the University of the Basque Country. Goikoetxea is currently a member of the International Gender Studies Centre at Oxford University. She was an associate editor of the University of Cambridge Political Journal and is currently senior editor of the Lisipe book collection. Her recent research has appeared in volumes published by Routledge, Springer, Francis and Taylor, and Peter Lang Oxford.
Moderation: Katerina Anastasiou, facilitator of transform! europe.
Co-organised by transform! europe, this webinar is dedicated to reflecting on the growing Marxist feminist project, its possibilities and practices, as well as on its future working methods, activities and priorities, with the participation of Frigga Haug, Heidemarie Ambrosch, Nora Räthzel, Diana Mulinari and Jule Goikoetxea.
This webinar is part of the activities programmed by the organisers of the International MarxistFeminist Conference that, due to the Covid-19 crises, had to be postponed and will take place from 11 to 13 November 2021.
It is organised by transform! europe, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Iratzar Foundation, Critical Theory Bilbao-Barcelona (BIBA CT), Berliner Institut für Kritische Theorie (InkriT), the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation and Parte Hartuz.
The idea of an international marxist-feminist conference was originally brought into being, and was since then continuously organized, by the feminist section of the Institut of Critical Theory (Inkrit) around the German sociologist and philosopher Frigga Haug. It was held in Berlin for the first time in 2015, followed by an increasingly international second congress in Vienna in 2016, and the third one in Lund (Sweden) in 2018.
The 4th International Conference will be held in Bilbao (Bizkaia Aretoa), organized and funded by transform! europe and the University of the Basque Country, along with Iratzar Foundation, Bilbo-Barcelona Critical Theory Group (BIBA CT), the Institut für Kritische Theorie (Inkrit) and Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation and ParteHartuz, among others (which will be made public in the following months).
Introduction:
Frigga Haug is Professor Emerita in Sociology and Social Psychology, University for Economics and Politics, Hamburg. A founder of memory-work research, her early leadership in the field is reflected in the groundbreaking Female Sexualization: A Collective Work of Memory. Haug is a member of numerous editorial boards including Das Argument; she is editor of the Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus (Historical-Critical Dictionary on Marxism). Her research has ranged from automation and the culture of work to social science methodology and learning, as well as further areas of women's studies. Among her most recent books are: Der im Gehen erkundete Weg. Marxismus-Feminismus (The Road is Made by Walking. Marxism-Feminism, 2015); Selbstveränderung und die Veränderung der Umstände (Selfchange and Changing the Conditions of Life, 2018); Die Unruhe des Lernens (The restlessness of Learning, 2020).
Interventions:
Heidi Ambrosch works at the transform! coordination office in Vienna. She is the womens' representative of the Communist Party of Austria (KPOe), board member of the Austrian Frauenring , and co-founder of the network platform 20000frauen.
Nora Räthzel is Senior Professor at the University of Umeå, Sweden. Her main research areas are environmental labour studies, transnational corporations, and gender and ethnic relations in everyday life. Latest publications include The future of work defines the future of humanity and all living species, International Journal of Labour Research, Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today (with Khayaat Fakier and Diana Mulinari) in Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers (edited with With Diana Mulinari and Aina Tollefsen); and Trade unions in the Green Economy. Working for the Environment (edited with David Uzzell).
Diana Mulinari is a professor at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Her work aims to bridge the tradition of Marxist feminism with the contribution of Black, Chicano, and postcolonial feminist scholarship. Her latest publications are 'Pain is Hard to Put on Paper’. Exploring the silences of migrant scholars (with Despina Tzimoula), in Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality: Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism; Hegemonic Feminism Revisited: On the Promises of Intersectionality in Times of the Precarisation of Life (with Paulina de los Reyes), in NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.
Jule Goikoetxea is a Member of the Critical Theory Group Bilbo-Barcelona. She received her doctorates from the University of Cambridge and the University of the Basque Country. She was the academic director of the Master in Governance and Political Studies programme at the University of the Basque Country. Goikoetxea is currently a member of the International Gender Studies Centre at Oxford University. She was an associate editor of the University of Cambridge Political Journal and is currently senior editor of the Lisipe book collection. Her recent research has appeared in volumes published by Routledge, Springer, Francis and Taylor, and Peter Lang Oxford.
Moderation: Katerina Anastasiou, facilitator of transform! europe.
