8th of March Venue: Sofi’s Southside |
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4:00 – 4:10 |
Welcome from the organisers
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4:10 – 5:30
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WIT: Women’s Inspirational Talks with:
Pinky Ghadiali Vicki White Sonali Mohapatra Camila Cavalcante Cassandra Harrison Lynn Shaw
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5:30 – 6:30
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Networking. Screening of selected films by Fem Tour Truck. |
6:30 – 7:30
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Feminist poetry workshop with Sonali Mohapatra. |
9th of March Venue: Queen Margaret University (Conference Suite) |
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8:30 – 9:00 | Registration |
9:00 – 9:10 | Welcoming by the organisers |
9:10-10:10 |
OPENING KEYNOTE Gender mainstreaming in practice – the Swedish context by Katarina Fehir and Anders Eriksson Gender Equality Experts, Malmö City Council, Sweden |
10:10-10:40 |
Workshop I Checklist for assessment of gender mainstreaming – a tool for getting started and/or improvement by Katarina Fehir and Anders Eriksson Gender Equality Experts, Malmö’s City Council, Sweden |
10:40-11:40 | Coffee-break
Showing of non-present works. Networking. |
11:40-13:15
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SESSION I.I
“Women in Business. Entrepreneurship in Scotland” Susan Harkins Business Gateway, U.K.
“STEM: workplace equality and intersectionality in Scotland” Talat Yaqoob Equate Scotland, U.K.
Queen Margaret University, U.K.
“Agents of change – the role of women in the development of industrial cities” Agnieszka Świgost-Kapocsi Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland
Q&A’s |
13:00-14:00
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Lunch and networking |
14:00-16:30
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SESSION I.II “Autistic women, advocacy and representation: from UK to UN” Catriona Stewart SWAN, U.K.
“Women, Science, Technology and Employment” Daniel Patricio ESIC Business School, Spain
“Teleworking in the perpetuation of gender roles: Gender impact on the motivation to join telework” Caroline Feital University of Brasilia, Brasil
“Stereotypes about gender and science: women ≠ scientists” Aigerim Kussaiynkyzy Narxoz University, Kazakhstan
“Women in IT: gender inequality and oppressive practice against female workers in information technology industries.” Raquel Rosa de Oliveira Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Never the Right Time: Maternity planning alongside a science career in academia” Ebru Eren Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
“When a Rape Case Gets Derailed; Depicting Flawed Investigation in Unbelievable” Anxhela Filaj University of Debrecn, Hungary
“Principles of good practice to prevent violence against women in Australia’s Northern Territory” Chay Brown CAEPR, Australian National University, Australia
“A Post-Structural Feminist Approach to Exploring Gendered Discourses of Resistance among Women Experiencing Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya” Victoria Isika University of Nothingam, U.K.
“Can Gypsy and Traveller women be killjoys? A response to Sara Ahmed’s Living A Feminist Life” Geetha Marcus Queen Margaret University, U.K.
“Perceptions Analysis of Constructed Nursing Identities in Pakistan” Sidra Abbas University of the Punjab, Pakistan
“Status of women in Pakistan” Saba Munawar Education Department, Govt of Punjab, Pakistan
“Women as agents of change in postcolonial Northern Nigerian fiction: exploring Mohammed Umar’s Amina” Aisha Umar Federal University Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria
Q&A’s |
16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee-break. Networking |
17:00-18:30 | Workshop I
#IamRemarkable with Lina Poka
#IamRemarkable is a 90-minute workshop that will highlight to participants the importance of self-promotion in their careers and provide them with tools to practice this skill. |
10th of March Venue: Queen Margaret University (Conference Suite) |
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9:00-10:30
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SESSION II.I “Writing new her-stories: Daughters of immigrant mothers Invent maternal memories and create new her-stories” Efi Aharon Beitberl College, Ankori high school and Open University, Israel
“An Analysis of Croatian Media Coverage of the Ratification of the Istanbul Convention in the Context of Reporting on Women’s Rights” Viktorija Car University of Zagreb, Croatia and Barbara Ravbar Video Specialist at Telegram Media Group in Zagreb, Croatia
“The importance of celebrating and remembering working-class women of our past” Ray Barron-Woolford Social entrepreneur, community activist, broadcaster, playwright and author, U.K.
“Who is the ‘woman’ in the women’s museum?” Rachel Thain-Gray University of Glasgow and Glasgow Women’s Library, U.K.
“Digital displacement and loss of feminist public space: the case of the Feminist Library in London” Jill Heller Regent’s University London, Vagina Museum and Feminist Library, U.K.
Screen scrape, Women and Identity: A study of Bayonetta as an object of Fan-servicing Anamika Kukreja Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India
Q&A’s
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10:30-11:30 | Coffee-break
Showing of non-present works. Networking.
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11:30-13:00
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SESSION II.II
“Anti-feminist backlash, masculinism, legitimisation of misogyny and online radicalisation” Lucy Nichols Western Sydney University, Australia
“Something is wrong with #Feminism” Samahara Hernandez Institute of Technology and Higher Education, México
“Trapped in Gender: Understanding the concept of gender” Amalia Verdu University of Turku, Finland
“Video Art and feminism” Alejandra Bueno Director of FEM TOUR TRUCK: International Feminist Video Art Festival University of the Arts, Ecuador
“Feminism in spite of all” Ana Pardo University of Edinburgh, U.K.
Q&A’s |
13:00-14:00
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Lunch and networking |
14:00-16:00
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SESSION II.III “Honour killing under the shade of familial discourse in tribal regions of Pakistan” Mohammad Adil Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan
“Structural existence and functional acceptance of honour killing in Pakhtun society under the shade of patriarchy” Arshad Khan Bangash Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan
“Oedipal Relationships: the danger of Child Women” Sara Arroja-Schürmann University of Geneva, Switzerland
“Gender Discrimination and status of women in Pakistan” Nazia Bashir Hunergaha Welfare Society, Pakistan
“Gender impact of remittances: Empirical Evidence from Morocco” Oussama Zennati Pau University, France
“Forms of Resistance of Rural Women: The Bases for a Brazilian Peasant Feminism” Renata Kempf UFPR- Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Extreme forms of violence against women in the EU. Case study: Femi(ni)cide in Germany Aleida Lujan Pinelo Turku University, Finland
“Approaches to Tackling Gender-related violence” Ifafoye Olajumoke Morayo Stop the Violence against Women and Children Initiative (SVWCI), Nigeria
“Carving out Individuality – Differently Abled Women in the Workplace” Iti Tyagi Independent Researcher, Netherlands
“Access to Justice for women and girls. The case of victims of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes in Southeast Asia” Francesca Braga Middlesex University London, U.K.
Q&A’s |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee break. Networking |
16:30 – 17:15 |
SESSION II.IV “Police interventions in Domestic Violence: A cure or a curse for battled women in Africa, In the context of Nigeria as a part of Africa” Ifafoye Olajumoke Morayo Stop the Violence against Women and Children Initiative (SVWCI), Nigeria
“The L-Word in Business – Insights into discrimination and life satisfaction of lesbian women” Regine Graml Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
“To Set Sail and Not return: The Missing Lynns” C. Ebubechukwu, A. Hope Golah-Ebue University of Urbino “Carlo Bo, Italy
“Gender power gap – endangered security” Kata Kevehazi Obuda University, Hungary
Q&A’s
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17:15-18:30
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Panel on violence against women with
Bee Asha Singh and Lea Luiz de Oliveira, Spit it out Project and Laura Tomson, Zero Tolerance Scotland |
11th of March Venues: Queen Margaret University (Conference Suite) |
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9:00-10:30
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SESSION III.I
“Toward a progression: Artificial Intelligence between pleasure and terror as manifested in Spike Jonze’s Her “ Doaa Ahmed Hassan Ismail Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, Egypt
“The Space for Indian Women: Psychosocial experience and Bollywood” Priyanka Verma University of Bedfordshire, U.K.
“Reproductive Health of Indian Women” K. Manimegalai, Alagappa University, India
“The Social Work Collective in Chile, feminist reflections toward the conception of woman in the magazine ‘Apuntes para el trabajo social’ Gabriela Paz Rosales University of Chile, Chile
Q&A’s
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10:30-11:30 |
Coffee-break Showing of non-present works. Networking.
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11:30-13:15
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SESSION III.II
“Navigating economic empowerment and sexual agency: experiences of middle-class and upper-middle-class Muslim women in Dhaka, Bangladesh” Ishrat Khan University of Sussex, United Kingdom
“Urbanization, Women and Environmental Insecurity: An Eco-Feminist Reading of Selected Nigerian Novels.” Aisha Umar Federal University Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria
“Ultra- orthodox women trying to narrow down their opportunity gap: studying in secular college towards B.A.” Sigal Oppenhaim- Shachar Bar Ilan university, Israel and Michal Hisherik The Open University and Beit -Berl college, Israel
“Educated Arab Women in Israel: The Case of the Increase in the Number of Educated Muslim Women in Arab Society in Israel” Nehaya Awida The Open University, Israel
“Muslim Women and the Nigerian Party Politics” AbdulGafar Fahm University of Ilorin, Nigeria
“Teaching through power: Representation and positioning in the female only supervisory experience” Nicoletta Policek University of Cumbria, U.K.
“Woman’s Otherness and A Call for Equality: Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty” Merve Arslan Sussex University, U.K. Q&A’s
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch and networking |
11th of March Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh College of Art (74 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9DF. Main Building E22 Lecture Theatre) |
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14:00 – 17:00
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Discussion Panel: Women Taking risks in the arts A stimulating and informative conversation with a selection of talented Scotland based artists, led by Noe Mendelle, director of Scottish Documentary Institute.
Speakers
Aimara Reques (Venezuelan-born, Scotland-based producer)
Alejandra Bueno (Spanish, member of the cultural association Guerrilla Kulturala and director and creator of the International Feminist Videoart Festival FEM TOUR TRUCK)
Camila Cavalcante (Brazilian-born, Scotland-based Visual Artist)
Jannica Honey (Swedish-born, Edinburgh-based Photographer)
Mhairi Bell-Moodie (Scotland-based documentary photographer)
Bee Asha Singh (Scottish spoken word artist)
Lea Luiz de Oliveira (French-Brazilian filmmaker based in Scotland)
This panel discussion is part of the 7th edition of IberoDocs, the Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival in Scotland (26 FEB – 15 MARCH), and the 2nd International Conference on Gender Studies and the Status of Women. |
11th of March Venue: Akva (129 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh EH3 9QG) |
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18:00 – 23:00 | Closing party
Screening of selected films from FEM TOUR TRUCK, live Fado by Mariana Moreira, DJ Helena Holiday IberoDocs and WomenBeing strongly believe in the power of partnerships. In 2020 we are collaborating to organise a discussion panel and closing party of our events in February and March. Join us for an evening of feminist video-art with selected films curated by FEM TOUR TRUCK, Fado live music with the presence of Mariana Moreira, and network and dance with us to songs with the special flavour of the warm Ibero-American culture. |
Workshops and details about speakers

Workshop I
Checklist for assessment of gender mainstreaming – a tool for getting started and/or improvement.
Katarina Fehir is a Gender Equality Expert at Malmö City Council, Sweden.

Workshop I
Checklist for assessment of gender mainstreaming – a tool for getting started and/or improvement.
Anders Eriksson is a Gender Equality Expert at Malmö City Council, Sweden.

Dissenting in Verse: Poetry Workshop
The workshop will cover basic ideas behind writing poetry, feminist poetry and will have a hands-on session where participants will be encouraged to write and perform their own life experiences translated into feminist poetry and spoken word.
Sonali is a scientist, poet, writer and spoken word artist who performs feminist poetry under the pseudonym of “The Hysterical Lady”. She has founded the international queer/feminist magazine, Carved Voices and is a gender strategist for various organisations around the world..

Workshop III
#IamRemarkable
Lina Poka is a Marketing Consultant and Digital Trainer, with an MBA and over 15 years of business and marketing experience, specializing in digital marketing.
Lina built a successful marketing career in Toronto, Canada before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland and holds an MBA & an BBA from the prestigious Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.
For the past seven years, Lina has operated and managed her own marketing and consulting company developing, building, coaching, and mentoring over 500 companies and individuals.
Over the past year, Lina was a digital marketing coach and trainer at the Google Digital Garage in Edinburgh and was an integral part of a team that coached over 13,000 people and businesses in Scotland.
Lina is working with clients both in Canada and the UK and she is also a digital trainer for the Facebook Digital Skills Programme, delivering sessions all across Scotland, changing the face of digital education.
Lina’s international career has exposed her to a variety of projects and experiences including working with some of the largest companies in the world, managing teams of over 50 people, building numerous free and paid websites and apps with millions of visitors & downloads, managing a project for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, brokering deals with huge American & Canadian retailers, and receiving numerous international marketing awards.
Lina coaches and mentors entrepreneurs and small to medium size companies and helps them develop and execute business plans and marketing strategies that increase revenue and drive sales.
Lina’s specialties include: Marketing Plan creation and execution, Digital Strategy creation and execution, Public and Motivation Speaker, SEO and SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Email Marketing, Blogging.
Contact Lina directly at Lina@StrategicDigitalMarketingGroup.com
Lina Poka Social Media handles:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketingConsultantLina/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/marketing_consultant_lina/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/linap
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linapokamba/

Opening keynote
Gender mainstreaming in practice – the Swedish context.
Katarina is a Gender Equality Expert at Malmö City Council, Sweden.

Opening keynote speaker
Gender mainstreaming in practice – the Swedish context.
Anders is a Gender Equality Expert at Malmö City Council, Sweden.

Women’s Inspirational Talks: WIT
Chantal Mrimi
Chantal Mrimi is an author, public speaker and civil servant, bachelor in Administration Management by Abertay University, and bachelor in Politics, Philosophy and Economics by the Open University, both in Scotland. Chantal’s work experience includes working with statistics in UNHCR in order to manage and deliver on refugee’s needs, and over 400 hours of interpreting work in Swahili and Lingala for Congolese refugees in Glasgow, between 2004 and 2007. Chantal has more than 18 years of experience in developing philanthropic and charity work, and she is the founder of the Rwanda Outreach Project, and of a Sponsorship Program whereby Scottish families sponsor bright children from poor background to go to school. So far, 39 children have been educated at secondary level and 6 graduated. In 2018, she was awarded ‘Scottish Woman of the Year’ for her philanthropic work, with subsequent congratulatory motion at the Scottish Parliament.
Chantal is also a public and motivational speaker, as well as an experienced essayist and poet, and published her autobiography ‘The journey of my life from Rwanda’ in 2007.

Women’s Inspirational Talks: WIT
Pinky Ghadiali
I’m Pinky, a women’s life and business coach. I work with women across the UK and globe. I’ll help you create your killer mindset that dismiss your inner critic and puts you on the right track for professional and personal success.
As a transformational life and business coach working with female entrepreneurs and career-driven women, I’m passionate about helping my clients become empowered to achieve personal and professional goals. Whether it’s asking for a promotion or chasing leads and closing business deals, believing in yourself is the first step towards creating a life you love.
During my women’s empowerment and confidence building courses, I draw off my personal experiences and range of practical skills to help you recognise and overcome your inner fears and anxieties. With my support, you’ll learn how to deal with stress and build your confidence so you can transform your life.
I look forward to being a part of your professional and personal journey. www.bypinky.com
I also work within the local community to help Scottish ladies support each other and create new professional and business opportunities. Each month, I host the Women in Network Edinburgh (WiNE) and Women in Networking Glasgow (WiNG) event. Join us and meet all the lovely ladies or check us out www.netwomen.co

Women’s Inspirational Talks: WIT
Lynn Shaw
Lynn Shaw is a dance artist, choreographer and mental health and arts advocate who has recently completed her MEd in Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts (Dance), at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. During her studies Lynn founded Dancing Along the Borderline which is an organisation that aims is to raise awareness and educate others on Borderline Personality Disorder using dance, film and other art forms as the vehicle. Lynn co-created the documentary “Borderline” which explores her own experiences of BPD through the medium of dance and a series of interviews. The film has toured internationally at film festivals and used as a resource in the NHS to help other with difficulties around the condition.

Women’s Inspirational Talks: WIT and Panel: ‘Women taking risks in the arts’ – partnership with IberoDocs
Camila Cavalcante
Camila Cavalcante is a visual artist from the north-east coast of Brazil, currently settled in the UK. With a background in journalism, she has a varied interest in investigating the conceptual, sentimental and social perception of art. Through the use of documentary photography, her work creates a place in which the idea of ‘private’ and ‘public’ overlap and complement each other. Camila holds a Masters degree in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster and was awarded two photography national prizes in her home country. She has taken part in over 30 exhibitions and three art residencies in Brazil, the US, Mexico and the UK. Camila currently works for the London School of Photography.

“Why are there more statues of unicorns than women in Scotland’s capital city?” @ Women’s Inspirational Talks: WIT
Vicki White
Artist and Writer; BA; MSc; Diploma of Museum Studies; Associate of the Museums Association.
Vicki White is best known as the author Victoria Hendry. Shortlisted for prizes including the Society of Women Writers and Journalists’ International Life Writing Prize 2012, Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown 2014, and Alan Warner’s Scotsman Book of the Year, she is also an artist, art historian and Associate of the Museums Association.
See her publisher Saraband.net

Women’s Inspirational Talks: WIT
Cassandra Harrison
Cassandra Harrison is an Artist and Art Educator living and working in Edinburgh, UK. She graduated with honours in Fine Art and Art Education and has been working in education and the Creative Industries for nearly 20 years. Her work features in The Edinburgh Art Book (2019). She has exhibited her work at The Royal Scottish Academy and has had worked commissioned by DECIEM, small businesses and private clients.
Her passion for bringing art making and Art History to the masses is evident in her work in schools – both primary and secondary – as well as in workshops for families and adults.
“Art is for everyone, not just a select few,” was the inspiration behind her recently launched business Crash Course in Art History Art Parties for Grownups. Understanding art can be perceived as something unattainable, something that only an educated elite can achieve. “This was a sad realisation as art should be for everyone. We can connect with the stories, the images, the colours, the feelings. It connects us to the past, to the present, to other cultures, to each other, to ourselves”. Cassandra wants to bring art to everybody, no matter our background or education.
Each party is split into two sessions: Learning and Doing. During the second half of the session, each person has the opportunity to create their own artwork. It has been proven that creating art gives us time to connect with ourselves, meditate, relieve stress and enhance concentration.
www.cassandraharrison.co.uk
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Panel: ‘Women taking risks in the arts’ – partnership with IberoDocs
Mhairi Bell-Moodie
Mhairi Bell-Moodie is a Scottish portrait and documentary photographer. Her work focuses on telling the stories of those who society has marginalised, oppressed or stereotyped, meaning that she is particularly interested in working with women, people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community and others who are often neglected or misrepresented in the media. Her series Nevertheless, She Persisted gained the attention of national press, was shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society’s 161st IPE (International Photography Exhibition), included in the RSA (Royal Scottish Academy) Open 2018 and Portrait Salon 2018, as well as being exhibited in both Edinburgh and London as solo shows.

Panel: ‘Women taking risks in the arts’ – partnership with IberoDocs
Jannica Honey
Swedish-born Jannica Honey moved to Edinburgh to study photography and digital imaging after completing a BA in Humanities (anthropology & criminology) at Stockholm University 1998.
After building extensive editorial experience as The List Magazine’s in-house photographer, where she shot more than 20 covers and covered the full-spectrum of arts, travel, food and events, she began focusing on more challenging subjects in a series of photo essays. In 2011 Honey spent several months photographing lap dancers in Edinburgh for an exhibition premiered at the city’s Festival Fringe, providing a candid and unusual perspective.
The following winter she visited the Mohawk reservation in Kahnawake (Montreal) portraying residents including chiefs, peace officers and drug dealers. Later that year she returned to her native Stockholm to document the life of a group of ageing amphetamine addicts, a community her recently deceased aunt had belonged to.
In the summer of 2013 Honey was given unprecedented access to photograph the Orange Order’s controversial parade through Glasgow, capturing both the marchers and by-standers.
A significant proportion of her recent work has focused on musicians (subjects include The Killers, Proclaimers, Frightened Rabbit, The Horrors and Young Fathers) with her photographs appearing in The Guardian, LA Times, Aftenposten, Svenska Dagbladet, The Scotsman, the Sunday Herald, Vogue, Dazed & Confused, Tank, Aesthetica Magazine and Swedish Gaffa.
Honey’s latest project is her most ambitious to date and sees her working within the constraints of the brief interludes of twilight and only shooting on the new and full moon over 12 months.
’When The Blackbird Sings’ portrays the multiple aspects of the female cycle through photographs of women and nature (Sweden/Scotland).

“Access to Justice for women and girls. The case of victims of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes in Southeast Asia”
Francesca Braga
International Lawyer specializing in international criminal law and human rights, Italy.
Francesca is an International Lawyer specializing in international criminal law and human rights. She is also an International Consultant for NGOs in Southeast Asia in the areas of international criminal law, gender, migration, and labour law. She holds a Law Degree and two LLMs in International Law (United Nations 2016, Fordham University School of Law 2018). In 2019, she starts a PhD in International law (Middlesex University London).
In the last two years, she has taken part as a speaker in over 15 conferences and roundtables talking about gender issues and international law in the United States, Asia and Europe.

“Never the Right Time: Maternity planning alongside a science career in academia“
Ebru Eren
School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ebru Eren is a final year PhD researcher in the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Language Teaching from Hacettepe University in 2007 and a master’s degree in Women’s Studies from Istanbul University in 2016. She worked as a teacher in various public secondary schools for 10 years in Turkey. Her research interest includes feminist theory, Queer theory, feminist philosophy of science, higher education and critical pedagogy.

“Women composers throughout music history. What’s new in the 21stcentury?“
Sandra Soler Campo
University of Barcelona (UB), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Université Paris 8, Spain and France
Sandra Soler Campo holds a PhD in Music Pedagogy, a bachelor’s degree in Musicology as well as a degree in Music and English pedagogy. She has completed her training as a specialist in the Kodály method of music education in Budapest and earned a master degree in Applied Research in Feminism, Gender and Citizenship studies at the University Jaume I (Castellón). She currently combines her teaching and research work at the University of Barcelona (UB), the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and the Université Paris 8.

“Women, Science, Technology, and Employment”
Daniel Patricio
Senior Professor at ESIC BUSINESS SCHOOL, Doctor in Law.Executive MBA(.IE) and PADE.( IESE), Spain
Daniel Patricio is a Lawyer (Bar Association of Madrid)
Doctor in Law.Executive MBA(.IE). and PADE.( IESE).
Has had responsibilities as a Human Resources Director in Multinational Companies and Public Sector (Healthcare)
Specialist in Labor Relations and Human Resources
Senior Professor at ESIC BUSINESS SCHOOL.
Research Projects: Gender equality & Digital workplace

“Navigating economic empowerment and sexual agengy: experience of middle-class and uper-middle-class Muslim women in Dakha, Bangladesh “
Ishrat Khan
University of Sussex, United Kingdom.
Ishrat Khan is a third-year PhD at International Development and currently working on “Economic Empowerment and Women Sexual Agency: The Shifting Terrain among Middle-Class Muslims in Dhaka”. She received the Commonwealth Scholarship in 2017 to pursue her doctoral research at Sussex.
Before commencing her PhD, Ishrat did her PGD in Gender Studies from the University of Hull, and later joined the Department of Gender Studies in the University of Dhaka from where she graduated first. She also contributed to multiple research related to gender and development funded/supported by Promundo US (Mencare Project), NWO-WOTRO (Dutch Govt funded SRHR research), UNDP, WHO, CMMS (Centre for Men and Masculinities Studies).

“Turning disadvantage to advantage: Explaining how commercial sex workers use the label of “sex worker/ whore” to their advantage in postcolonial Zimbabwe“
Chipo Hungwe
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Midlands State University in Gweru, Zimbabwe.
Chipo Hungwe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the current Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Midlands State University in Gweru, Zimbabwe. She has published on gender struggles in Zimbawe, ageing and migration.

“Ultra-orthodox women trying to narrow down their opportunity gap: studying in secular college towards B.A.”
Sigal Oppenhaim-Shachar
Bar-Ilan University, Ono Academic College, Israel.
Sigal Oppenhaim- Shachar received her Ph.D. in The Gender studies program from Bar -Ilan University, an M.A. from Bar Ilan University, and from Lesly College, and a B.A. from Tel Aviv University.
The Gender Studies Program; The Sociology and Anthropology Department; School of Education- Bar-Ilan University
School of Education- Ono Academic College.
Her lecture and writing topics centre on three main themes – girlhood studies, leadership, and facilitation of group and team processes. Within the feminist discourse framework, through the intersectionality lens.
Her research interests include myriad experiential and pedagogic expressions of education, mainly but not exclusively, through the Intersectionality lens, were published in Academic Journals in England and the U.S.A, and Israel.
A book She wrote about intervention from a feminist perspective in the life of at-risk girls was published lately in Hebrew, by Mofet institute Tel Aviv- We were counting on you: A second look at an intervention for girls from stigmatized communities. (2019)
In 2010 She initiated the “Daphna Center” – A professional development and training centre established by the Bar-Ilan University Gender Studies Program and managed the centre in the years 2010-2015.

“Factors that influence the creative females’ talent: A cross‐cultural study and Psychosocial factors associated with female talent in sport“
Maria Célia Mundim
Psychological Evaluation of Human Potential research group, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil.
Dr Maria Célia Mundim is a psychology freelance academic writer and has been involved in researching with female talent since 2011. She held a post-doctoral research position at the Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil. She is currently collaborating with the research group Psychological Evaluation of Human Potential at the same institution and with the research group Critical Thought at Salamanca University (Spain). She also collaborates with researchers from the University of Minho (Portugal). Her publications entail themes about women, creativity and talent, which can be seen at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Mundim2.She is also a founding member of the Brazilian Association of Creativity and Innovation.

“An Analysis of Croatian Media Coverage of the Ratification of the Istanbul Convention in the Context of Reporting on Women’s Rights”
Viktorija Car
Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Dr. Viktorija Car is Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, at the Faculty of Political Science – Media and Communication Department. She teaches Public Service Mediaand Media Text Research Methods at MA level, and Media Policy and Media Regulation,Visual Cultureand Photojournalismat BA level. She is a Research Fellow of the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University, USA.
In the focus of her scientific research are public service media, visual culture and visual media, media narratives, digital activism, media and gender studies, media and human rights, media and minority studies. She was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Media Studiesjournal (2010-2017; www.mediastudies.fpzg.hr), and a founding Chief-Coordinator of regional conference Media Accountability(2010-2018). She was member of the HRT Program Council (Croatian public service radio-television, 2011-2012). She was a MC memberof the COST Action IS0906: Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies: „New challenges and methodological innovations in European media audience research“ (2010-2014). She worked as a journalist and a screen-writer for the Croatian Public Service Television Hrvatska televizija(HTV, 1998-2002), at the Education Program; she was general manager of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU, 2003-2004).
Her bibliography is available on https://unizg.academia.edu/ViktorijaCar
and on http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=277195
Contact: Faculty of Political Science, Lepušićeva 6, 10 000 Zagreb, CROATIA
e-mail: viktorija.car@fpzg.hr

“The Case of the Increase in the Number of Educated Muslim Women in Arab Society in Israel”
Nehaya Awida Haj Yehya
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
Nehaya is a PhD candidate: Alternative National Education in the Private Bilingual Schools for Palestinian Arab Students Who Are Citizens of the State of Israel
Education faculty: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

“An Analysis of Croatian Media Coverage of the Ratification of the Istanbul Convention in the Context of Reporting on Women’s Rights”
Barbara Ravbar
Video Specialist at Telegram Media Group in Zagreb, Croatia.
Barbara Ravbar is Video Specialist at Telegram Media Group in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated Journalism (MA) at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Since 2017 she has been working for two commercial media outlets in Croatia – Index.hr and Telegram.hr. During her MA thesis research, she focused on an analysis of media coverage of the Istanbul Convention in the context of reporting on women’s rights. Her main interests are media and gender studies, human rights and minority studies. While studying journalism she participated in The Balkan Bridges project, which gathered young journalists from Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Albania in collaboration with colleagues from The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication from Phoenix, Arizona. Project focused on covering stories about the refugee crisis in the Balkans and refugee issues on the American – Mexican border during the presidential elections in 2016. She was a journalist at the student newspaper Global,student assistant and video journalist at Television Student and radio host at Radio Student’s show Studomatwhich covers student-related issues. She won 2nd prize for a multimedia project about Syrian refugee at the festival On the Record, and Special Rector’s prize for her work in Global. She completed several courses and workshops: Summer school of Information Technologies and the Media, Visual Storytelling workshop, Young Journalists Summer School – Challenges of Independent Community Journalism, different documentary and video workshops.

“When a Rape Case Gets Derailed; Depicting Flawed Investigation in Unbelievable”
Anxhela Filaj
University of Debrecen, Hungary.
Anxhela Filaj is a first-year PhD student at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, attending the Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies (Department of British Studies), working on film studies, film adaptations of rape, body studies, and graphic representations of sexual violence.

“Silence and pain: the experiences of women with disabilities with intimate partner violence”
Yvette Basson
University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Yvette Basson is a lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. She does research and publishes on disability and related issues. Her doctorate was awarded to her in 2015 and her dissertation focused on the international law obligation to provide social protection and an adequate standard of living to persons with disabilities.

“Principles of good practice to prevent violence against women in Australia’s Northern Territory.”
Chay Brown
CAEPR, Australian National University, Australia.
Chay Brown is a PhD Scholar from Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory. She has been researching violence against women for six years. She completed her Master’s research on the impact of the Northern Territory Emergency Response on violence against women in Alice Springs’ Town Camps. She has now extended that research to look at Indigenous-led projects and interventions designed to prevent violence against women. As part of this research, she recently produced a Northern Territory specific framework of principles of good practice to prevent violence against women, coupled with context-specific indicators to guide program design, delivery, and practice.
Chay has a background in International Development and Education. She has previously worked in safe houses as part of anti-trafficking programs in South East Asia as well as been involved in projects in HIV testing and counselling, micro-finance income-generating projects and teaching colleges. She has previously worked in East Timor, Uganda, U.K., Thailand and China.

“The importance of celebrating and remembering working-class women of our past, like Scot Kath Duncan whose bravery, sacrifice & jail term established National Council of Civil Liberties and more & yet has almost been erased from history”
Ray Barron-Woolford
Multi-award-winning social entrepreneur, community activist, broadcaster, playwright and author, United Kingdom.
Ray Barron-Woolford is a multi-award-winning social entrepreneur and is a life long community activist, broadcaster, playwright and author of several books including Food Bank Britain about his experience establishing the UK largest Independent Food Bank. A book that changed the way ALL food banks operate today, in the process of raising funds he established the Deptford Heritage Festival. When he came across the name of community activist Kath Duncan, which became a labour of love over 5 years researching this Scots women’s inspired life, leading to his play about Kath’s role in establishing National Council Civil Liberties. #Liberty a London Stage hit in Feb 2019 as part global LGBT history month & Deptford Heritage Festival & his new highly acclaimed biography of Kath Duncan The Last Queen of Scotland, presently optioned by Netflix which argues the case that Kath is the most important UK Civil Rights leader the past 100 years and why we must do more to celebrate the life, struggle & work of working-class heroes, especially Women. Ray continues to campaign to raise awareness of Kath’s importance on the global stage to get her restored as a National treasure, whilst continuing her work as the CEO of the new global Kath Duncan Equality and Civil Rights Network.

“Gender Discrimination and status of women in Pakistan”
Nazia Bashir
Hunergaha Welfare Society, Pakistan.
Nazia Bashir has a Masters in English literature from Punjab University Lahore, and works as an executive director of the civil society organisation “Hunergah” which aim is to help and support the women of the rural areas of Punjab and their welfare.

“WIT: Women’s Inspiring Talks”
Sonali Mohapatra
Theoretical physicist
Gender Strategist
U.K.
Sonali Mohapatra is a theoretical physicist who is currently working to translate applications of quantum theories onboard satellite missions. She is a polymath who is also a feminist, poet, writer, thinker and a disrupter. She is a gender strategist who specialises in connecting seemingly disparate ideas in highly non-intuitive and functional ways to construct effective strategies towards an equal, equitable and feminist world. She is author of the poetry collection, Leaking Ink, ex-Athena Swan representative at the University of Sussex and the founder of the international queer/feminist digital literary magazine, Carved Voices which she runs along with her co-founder Shantashree Mohanty. As a queer/feminist motivational speaker, Sonali uses a combination of the scientific method along with storytelling, poetry and music to bring a spotlight to the issues close to her heart.

“Videoart and feminism” and anel: ‘Women taking risks in the arts’ – partnership with IberoDocs
Alejandra Bueno
University of the Arts, Ecuador.
Director of FEM TOUR TRUCK: International Feminist Videoart Festival.
Alejandra Bueno is a member of the cultural association Guerrilla Kulturala and director and creator of the International Feminist Videoart Festival FEM TOUR TRUCK.
This artistic-political festival started in 2016, it’s held every two years and its main objective is the emancipation of the bodies and the subjectivities through artistic practice. The festival searchers for feminist work, searching visual proposals that show what the media don’t, sharing and standardizing the experiences and realities of the body and the most divergent thoughts of the feminist policies, women’s movements and LGBTQI+ collectives.
Each edition of the festival is a possibility for the transformation of society, and that’s why the festival is held in public open spaces, streets, squares or parks, freeing the art from its institutional framework.
The festival travels to different cities in different countries for a month, showing the selected audio-visual proposals, creating synergies with the audience through workshops, performances, and talks that open the possibility to speak about gender through art.
FEM TOUR TRUCK has been in Spain, Portugal, Scotland, France, Colombia, Mexico, U.S.A (Los Angeles) and Ecuador. The festival established a network of artists and cultural agents that share the same struggles and militances worldwide, using art and video-creation as a tool to promote women’s rights and the rights of different gender identities.

“Oedipal Relationships: the danger of Child Women”
Sara Arroja-Schürmann
PhD Student, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Sara Arroja-Schürmann is a PhD student at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After the completion of a Bachelor degree in Hispanic literature and linguistics and English literature and linguistics, I continued my studies with a Master degree in Spanish literature (specialising in medieval literature and early modern literature). I am currently doing a PhD in Spanish literature focusing on themes such as Gender, Feminism and Otherness in the Spanish golden age period. These themes represent the main focus of my research broadened from medieval to early modern literature. The other (sexual, political, religious or social) and his/her situation embody the core of her research.

“To set sail and not return: the missing Lynns”
Chika Ebubechukwu
University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy.
Chika Ebubechukwu is a Legal practitioner and a PhD Candidate in Global studies, Economy, Society and Law at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy. She holds a Master’s degree in Maritime and Commercial Law from the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and a Bachelor’s of Law from Igbinedion University, Edo, Nigeria. Her research focuses on the crimes committed at the sea and the exercise of jurisdiction and investigation. She had worked at the Legal Aid Council (Bayelsa, Nigeria) where all legal cases were done pro bono. She is a member of Academy of Law and Migration (Accademia di Diritto e Migrazioni – ADiM), Nigeria bar association and Nigerian Institute of Management.

“To set sail and not return: the missing Lynns”
Avwerosuoghene Hope Golah-Ebue
University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy.
Avwerosuoghene Hope Golah-Ebue is a PhD Candidate in Global Studies, Economy,Society and Law, at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy. She holds a master’s degree in Comparative Politics and Development Studies from the University of Benin, Nigeria. Her research project is focused on women, violence and cross border mobility. Her research areas are on Women, Gender Based Violence, Migration, Intersectionality and Security. Hope is a member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES).

“Digital displacement and loss of feminist public space: the case of the Feminist Library in London”
Jill Heller
Regent’s University London
Feminist Library, and Vagina Museum, U.K.
Jillian Heller is an intersectional feminist from Queens, New York who is passionate about creating and preserving accessible, feminist community spaces. Since moving to the UK, she has been cataloguing at the Feminist Library and researching the ways in which digitisation intersects and interferes with feminist public space in London. She also works front-of-house at the Vagina Museum in London, the world’s first-ever bricks and mortar museum space dedicated to gynaecological anatomy.

“Third gender- the conflict for sexual identity In India as transgender”
Dr. Haseena V.A.
M.E.S Kalladi College, India
Dr. Haseena V.A. is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, M.E.S Kalladi College, India. Her research focus on Environmental Economics, Gender Economics and Subaltern Studies. She received numerous awards for her work in education and is a member of the Editorial Board of Women and Gender studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology.

“Agents of change – the role of women in the development of industrial cities”
Agnieszka Świgost-Kapocsi
Jagiellonian University, Poland
Agnieszka Świgost-Kapocsi is a geographer, PhD researcher at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). In her research she focuses on gender approach in cities, mostly industrial, especially in the context of local development (women as the agents of change, leadership). Moreover, her research interest dealing with social participation and social dimension of urban revitalization.

“Anti-feminist backlash, masculinism, legitimisation of misogyny and online radicalisation”
Lucy Nicholas
Associate Professor
Sexualities and Genders Research
Western Sydney University, Australia
Lucy Nicholas (they/them) is Associate professor Gender and Sexuality at Western Sydney University, Australia, specialising in gender and sexual diversities, social and political theory, queer theory, whiteness and feminisms. They have published two books, Queer Post-Gender Ethics in 2014, and The Persistence of Global Masculinisms (co-authored) in 2018.
Recent publications:
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (2019)
International Journal of Transgenderism (2019)

“Status of Women in Pakistan”
Saba Munawar
Education Department, Govt of Punjab, Pakistan.
Saba Munawar has a master in English literature & education professional with extensive experience delivering a quality assistance to needy women with opportunities to enhance their living standards.

“The slow progress in replacing gender biased words in Japan”
Laura Kudo
Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan.
Laura Kudo, originally from Brazil, graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, with a degree in English Language and Literature. She then earned an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Macquarie University (Australia). She has been teaching English at Japanese universities for the past 35 years. She currently works at Muroran Institute of Technology in Hokkaido.

“Woman’s Otherness and A Call for Equality: Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty”
Merve Arslan
Sussex University, U.K.
Merve Arslan, graduated from the Department of Philosophy with honor degree at Adnan Menderes University in Turkey, in 2010. After graduation, she worked as a teacher for a while.
Between 2016-2017, she studied her MA project at the University of Sussex on ‘Woman’s Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’ which was supervised by Tanja Staehler. After receiving her MA degree, she started her PhD project in September 2017. Her research focuses on the role of unidentified bodies with regards to gender politics.
Merve is interested in Feminist Philosophy, 20th century French Philosophy, Body Theories and Phenomenology, Gender Philosophy, Gender and Power Relations, Otherness and its social implications, and Disability.

“Ditching ‘Corset’, Empowered by Solidarity: Analysing the sociocultural contexts and participants’ experiences of South Korea’s ‘tal-corset’ movement”
Hyejung Park
Seoul National University, South Korea.
As a long-time activist for women’s rights, Hyejung Park co-founded the Center for Women’s Right Sallim, a direct assistance organisation for women in prostitution, South Korea. Now as a master’s candidate at the women’s studies program of Seoul National University, Hyejung is doing a research on resurgent feminist movement in South Korea.

“Autistic women, advocacy and representation: from UK to UN”
Dr Catriona Stewart OBE
SWAN: Scottish Women’s Autism Network, U.K.
Co-founded SWAN: Scottish Women’s Autism Network,in 2012, after completing her PhD research which focussed on the experiences of anxiety for Asperger girls. Catriona’s life-long commitment, as an advocate and organiser, to promoting the rights and needs of women and girls, has underpinned the development of SWAN.
SWAN has grown to run online peer-support forums, regular ‘meet-up’ groups across Scotland, including for ‘Young Swans’ aged 15-17, groundbreaking Learning Eventconferences and offers training and professional support across sectors.
Employed by Scottish Autism to develop the Right Click online resource for autistic women and girls, Scottish Government also funded Catriona’s initiative – to evidence the impact of peer mentoring – through a SWAN/Scottish Autism partnership. Modelled as a co-production and pilot study, the recently completed Under Our Wing programme was designed and led by autistic women.
Catriona was an ‘expert’ and advisor to the highly regarded 3 year National Autism Project and was an advisor to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, Scotland, competed Dec 2019.
She contributed to the collection of essays, “Spectrum Women” published by JKP in 2018which was listed by the Independent as their 2019 #1 Best Buy book on autism.
Catriona was named OBE in The Queen’s New Year Honours 2020.

“Who is the ‘woman’ in the women’s museum?”
Rachel Thain-Gray
AHRC-funded Doctoral Researcher in Feminist Museology
University of Glasgow, U.K.
Rachel Thain-Gray has worked in the field of cultural equalities for the past 20 years. Rachel is an AHRC-funded Doctoral Researcher in Feminist Museology at the University of Glasgow.
She joined Glasgow Women’s Library in 2013 delivering creative, prejudice reduction projects including Mixing The Colours, In Her Shoes and Mainstreaming Sectarianism in the Equalities. She recently co-curated the Decoding Inequality exhibition, which explored the narratives of women’s inequality and cultural ownership. She co-led the sectoral change-making project Equality in Progress, which benchmarked GWL’s grassroots museum practice to address strategic needs in current sectoral approaches and is the co-editor of Equality in Progress: Research from a grassroots museum.

“Panel: Violence against women”
Laura Tomson
Zero Tolerance Scotland, U.K.
Laura Tomson is Co-Director of Zero Tolerance. Zero Tolerance is a Scottish charity working to end men’s violence against women by promoting gender equality and challenging attitudes which normalise violence and abuse.
Current Zero Tolerance work includes improving media coverage of VAW, gender equality and violence prevention in nurseries, schools and youth work, and increasing public awareness of ‘unseen’ forms of VAW. Laura previously worked for the Young Women’s Movement and the Scottish Government, alongside involvement in grassroots feminist activism.
(For more, please visit www.zerotolerance.org.uk)

“‘Spit it out’: documentary screening and Women taking risks in the arts’ – partnership with IberoDocs”
Lea Luiz de Oliveira
Filmmaker
‘Spit it out’ Project
U.K.
Lea is a French – Brazilian filmmaker based in Scotland. While studying in Paris, she produced and directed films in Brazil, Scandinavia and Korea and used them as a way to engage debates around human rights and social issues in universities. Her first short “Until Sunrise” premiered at the International Sport Film Festival in Italy, in 2018. “I don’t want to call it Home” is her second short. She co-directed it with Nisan Yetkin. It was premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2018 and continued its festival career all around the world. Her documentary «Spit it out» was commissioned by BBC Scotland and talks about recovering from sexual trauma through spoken words and performances.
The Spit it Out project: The ‘Spit it Out’ Project is a series of screenings, exhibitions and inspiring talks about sex, consent and healing from trauma. In 2019, we made the documentary ‘Spit it Out’, which tells the story of rapper Bee Asha Singh as she realises her spoken words have the power to inspire her audience to open up about their experiences of sexual assault and mental health. ‘The Spit it Out’ Project will continue the momentum of the film, organising the events in Scotland and the UK; inviting artists who would like to share their work. We are hoping to start a conversation around topics that are too often taboo in our society. We want the next generation to be able to talk about sex, consent and mental health without shame!

“‘Spit it out’: documentary screening and Women taking risks in the arts’ – partnership with IberoDocs”
Bee Asha Singh
Rapper and Spoken word artist
U.K.
Bee Asha Singh grew up between homes with her Punjabi Father and Scottish Mother. She is one third of the hip hop trio The Honey Farm, a Scottish female rap group that promote female confidence and egalitarian views. Bee is an incredible spoken word artist. She tackles social injustice, gender equality and talks about truth, openness and her own personal experiences with trauma. The young poet has done a lot of work related to using creative outlets to heal, working on the BBC documentary, Spit It out. She is also the ambassador of Youth Intercultural Scotland since 2019.

‘Women taking risks in the arts’ – partnership with IberoDocs
Aimara Reques
Producer, Founder of Aconite Productions
U.K.
Aimara Reques is the founder of Aconite Productions, an innovative company based in Scotland dedicated to the production of high-quality creative documentaries that bring stories of global significance to the world stage. She has over 25 years of experience in the film industry in the UK and has collaborated with a number of renowned directors and producers from both the UK and abroad. She is a winner of two BAFTA Scotland Awards; a Fox Searchlight Award; an Amnesty International Media Award; and the Golden Star Award from El Gouna Film Festival; and she was nominated for the Grierson Award for Documentary at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2005. Aimara was the leading producer of Victor Kossakovsky’s AQUARELA which premiered at Venice 2018, is being distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classic and was shortlisted for the Oscars in 2020 . Other company credits include BRASILA: LIFE AFTER DESIGN by Bart Simpson, 15 IN GAZA by Rana Ayoub and Wesam Mousa and EVERYBODY’S CHILD by Garry Fraser.
Aimara completed basic medical training at the Faculty of Medicine of the ‘Universidad Central De Venezuela’, then went on to obtain a degree in Media and Film Studies at the same University. Aimara is passionate about health issues and the natural world and she studied Homoeopathy at The Scottish College of Homeopathy in Glasgow.

“Muslim Women and the Nigerian Party Politics”
Dr AbdulGafar Fahm
University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
AbdulGafar Fahm is a Lecturer at the Department of Religions, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. His research interests include Islam, Islamic thought, spirituality, and interactions of Islamic culture and contemporary society. The majority of his work focuses on how Islamic spiritual culture affects various aspects of modern Muslim.

“Trapped in Gender: Understanding the concept of gender”
Dr Amalia Verdun
University of Turku and University of Helsinki, Finland.
Phd in Law, LLM in Law, Lawyer (Madrid Bar Association), LLM in Gender Studies, Ba in Tourism Management
Amalia Verdu has been teaching on gender and law in Finland at the University of Helsinki and University of Turku. Before becoming a lawyer, she worked in tourism where she experience the “women issues” motivating her to move into gender and law research. She has been researching on gender, women and law.
Her main research focus on the concept of gender and the legal person. Now, she is also researching on legal education and how to use sex and gender as triggers to teach critical thinking.

“Writing new her-stories: Daughters of immigrant mothers invent maternal memories and create new her-stories”
Dr Efi Aharon
Beitberl College, Ankori high school and Open University, Israel.
Efi Aharon is a PhD graduate from the ‘gender studies program’ in Bar-Ilan University. She teaches at Beitberl College and at Ankori high school. Instructs graduate students at the Open University
Her doctoral dissertation focused on the main themes typifying works of literary prose written by women who are daughters of immigrant mothers and were born in English-speaking countries from the 1970s to the present day. A discussion on prose written by daughters of immigrant mothers in the West (second-generation immigrants ) is grounded in three fields of theoretical discourse: (a) feminist literary discourse that addresses the characteristics of ‘women’s literature’ and focuses on women’s writing and reading mechanisms; (b) theoretical feminist-literary-psychoanalytical discourse that examines the identity of mothers in the literary and public space, the roles of mothers, and the relationships between mothers and daughters, and (c) discourse on modes of remembrance that discusses the characteristics of memory narratives in literary works.
Today she continues her research on memory narratives in literature works writing by immigration and their children. In addition to that, she focuses on literature works regarding the Israel-Palestinian conflict, especially women’s literature works.

“The Space for Indian Women: Psychosocial experience and Bollywood”
Priyanka Verma
University of Bredfordshire, U.K.
Priyanka Verma is a final year PhD candidate and visiting lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire. Verma’s research interest lies in women’s representation and the women’s agency in Bollywood. This relates several substantive areas of the film industry, including discrimination, gender inequalities, intersectional studies and social cognitive theories. She also holds a master’s degree in Digital Film Productions.

“Teleworking in the perpetuation of gender roles: Gender impact on the motivation to join telework”
Caroline Feital
University of Brasilia, Brazil.
Psychology undergraduate student at the University of Brasilia (UNB) in Brazil. Currently part of the E-Trabalho research group, a group coordinated by Dra Gardenia Abbad that focus on work design, with an emphasis on teleworking. Was also part of the research group Body, Aesthetics and Relationship, a group that studied affective pedagogies under a feminist view of gender relations. Was a volunteer researcher in 2018 in the “CHEGA MAIS” project of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which sought to identify and improve public health service for teenagers. Interested in the study of gender diversity in the workplace and it’s impact.

“Reproductive health of Indian women”
Dr K. Manimekalai
Professor and Head, Department Of Women’s Studies
Alagappa University, India.
Dr K. MANIMEKALAI, Professor and Head, Department Of Women’s Studies, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu. She worked as a Vice-Chancellor, Mother Teresa Women University, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, former Registrar and former Dean of Alagappa university. She has 31 years of experience in teaching and research, training and extension programmes. She has produced a number of M.Phil and PhD candidates. She has published more than 55 publications as books, articles, and research reports. Her area of specialization is women empowerment, gender and development and prevention of gender-based violence. She has completed 15 research projects sponsored by National and International agencies. She has been bestowed with several honours and awards such as best Vice-Chancellor award for the year 2012-2013 by the Indian Red Cross Society and best teacher award, best student award, etc. she has presented many research papers in notation and international level and participated in several international programmes/ seminars/conference as chairperson of technical sessions, group leader, invited speaker and delegate.

“Women in IT: gender inequality and oppressive practice against female workers in information technology industries.”
Raquel Rosa de Oliveira
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Raquel Rosa is a psychotherapist and holds a masters degree in Social Psychology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Her master’s thesis was about the female workforce in Information Technology’s industries in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. She currently works as researcher collaborator in a researcher group coordinated by Prof. Dr Fernando Gastal from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro which focus on psychosocial studies and worker’s health. She has been studying themes about gender and work, female professionals in a male-dominated environment, gender inequality and Burnout.
Raquel has also a MBA in Managing and Leading People from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her final project was about Burnout Syndrome in technology’s professionals.
She is interested in Women Studies; Women in the Workforce; Gender, Work and Culture.

“Something is wrong with #Feminism”
Samahara Hernández
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education or Institute of Technology and Higher Education, México.
International Relations professional with outstanding experience in women and gender studies, social projects, research and global development. Holds a Bachelor on International Relations from the Institute of Technology and Higher Education Campus Querétaro México; and Development Studies from L’école Supérieure de Commerce et Developpement in Lyon France. Currently working for the World Bank Group in the Dominican Republic, implementing a project on sustainability and domestic violence while being part of the operations and external relations departments. Samahara has worked for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the Women’s Rights Rapporteurship in DC; collaborated for the Mexican government in the Women’s Institute of Querétaro and worked as a research assistant for Save the Children in the Dominican Republic in a project on Human Trafficking.

“A Critical Analysis of Representation of Women in the Advertisements Indian Television from Feminist Lens”
Suheba Khan
Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, India.
Suheba Khan is presently working as an Assistant Professor (Contractual) at Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. India. She is also pursuing her Ph.D. at Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies and currently working on the topic “The Failed Feminism of Contemporary TV Advertisements in India”.
Before commencing her PhD, Suheba did her Post Graduation in Women’s Studies from the Aligarh Muslim University. She was awarded with Gold Medal for getting highest marks at Post Graduate level. In addition, she has qualified UGC-NET JRF (a national level competitive exam of eligibility for assistant professor at university level) in women’s studies.

“Feminism in spite of all”
Ana Pardo
University of Edinburgh, U.K.
After four years living in Edinburgh, Ana has recently finished her PhD in History of Art at Edinburgh University. During this time, she has been involved with different art projects related to the promotion of emerging artists, constantly questioning the role of the critic in Art History. Both in Edinburgh and in Spain, her homecountry, she has been involved in different activist groups focused on questions of migration (Migrant’s Pride), feminism (Feminism in Edinburgh) or political ones (CREE, Consejo de Residentes Españoles en el Extranjero).

“Gender violence and education in debate: Analysis of Municipal Education Plans in Brazil”
Isabela Fernandes
University of Brasília, Brasil.
Isabela Fernandes is a lawyer who, since graduation, works and specializes in gender issues, such as domestic violence and discriminatory legislation. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Human Rights and Citizenship at the University of Brasília where she develops, with the support of the Higher Education Personnel Coordination (CAPES), research on the challenges of implementing gender-related educational policies in Brazil.

“Structural existence and functional acceptance of honour killing in Pakhtun society under the shade of patriarchy.”
Dr. Arshad Khan Bangash
Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan.
Dr. Arshad Khan Bangash is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Gender Studies and Education at Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. He did his PhD from University of Peshawar under title “Sociological Analysis of Honour Killing in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan”. In general, his area of research interest includes criminology and gender studies while in particular he is working on sectarian violence, violence against women and denial of female inheritance etc., with special emphasis on tribal society of Pakistan.
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“Extreme forms of violence against women in the EU. Case study: Femi(ni)cide in Germany”
Aleida Lujan Pinelo
Turku University, Finland.
I am a Mexican doctorate candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku. I am working on an interdisciplinary research on femi(ni)cide in the European context. I obtained my Master’s degree in the Erasmus Mundus Master’s Program in Gender and Women’s Studies (GEMMA) at the University of Granada and the University of Utrecht. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City.

“Aesthetic Knowledge Construction by People with Epilepsy: A Case Study of Women with Epilepsy”
Mantana Kweansungnern
Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand.
Miss Mantana Kweansungnern was born in Thailand. I successfully completed two degrees: Bachelor of Nursing Science and Master of Art in Social Psychology. At present I am a Ph.D. candidate in Development Education at Srinakharinwirot University. I work as a registered nurse at Phramongkutklao Hospital. My main interests are the women’s studies and neuroscience nursing.

“Women’s Status in Oman and their Willingness to Endure in Male-dominated Society.”
Eman Albalushi
Ministry of Education, Sultanate of Oman.
This is Eman Albalushi. I am from Sultanate of Oman. I am an English language lecturer, Ministry of Education. I have a bachelor degree in English language and Literature, SQU. I am interested in e-learning, linguistics and humanities. I have done a number of research on different fields and participated in conferences all around the world as I believe in sharing and exchanging experiences, thoughts and ideas with different cultures from different parts of the world.

“Women as agents of change in postcolonial Northern Nigerian fiction: Exploring Mohammed Umar’s Amina”
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“Urbanization, Women and Environmental Insecurity: An Eco-Feminist Reading of Selected Nigerian Novels.”
Aisha Umar
Federal University Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria.
Aisha Umar Muhammad is a research assistant with the Department of European Languages, Federal University Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria. She is also a Ph. D student with the Department of English, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. She Specializes in African women’s studies, Northern Nigerian gender literature and Ecocriticism.

“The Social Work Collective in Chile, feminist reflections toward the conception of woman in the magazine ‘Apuntes para el trabajo social'”
Gabriela Márquez Rosales
University of Chile, Chile.
Gabriela Márquez Rosales is a Chilean student with a BSSC in social work from the University of Chile. She has participated in different projects on feminism, particularly in its relation with social memory in the country where she lives. Also, she has worked for the last three years in gender thematic and currently participates in a research core on women’s indebtedness in Chile.

“Can gypsy and traveller women be killjoys? A response to Sara Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life”
Dr Geetha Marcus
Queen Margaret University, U.K.
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Psychology, Sociology & Education division at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. My research and teaching interests focus on social inequalities within public education systems. I have extensive professional experience in the field of primary education, both in classroom practice and in senior management, and in 2016 published a study for the Scottish Parliament, ‘Closing the Attainment Gap’, on educational achievement and equity. As a practitioner-researcher, I believe there is an urgent need for teachers to employ education methods that effect justice-oriented social change.
My book Gypsy and Traveller Girls: Silence, Agency and Power (2019) critically explores and documents the racialised and gendered experiences of Gypsy and Traveller girls in Scotland, within public spaces of school and private spaces of home. As a South Asian and advocate of black feminist thought and methodology, my work also explores research into the multiple identities and experiences of young people and women on the margins from a postcolonial perspective.

“Ultra- orthodox women trying to narrow down their opportunity gap: studying in secular college towards B.A.”
Dr. Michal Hisherik
Beit Berl College and Open University, Israel.
Dr. Michal Hisherik is a lecturer in sociology and gender studies at the department of education, Beit Berl College, Israel. Her PhD dissertation for the Program for Gender Studies at Bar-Ilan University deals with violence toward women in the Ethiopian community in Israel. Her areas of specialization are the sociology of the family, violence against women, intervention programs and public policy to prevent violence among women.
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“Carving out Individuality – Differently Abled Women in the Workplace”
Iti Tyagi
Certified Organizational Behaviour Strategist and Leadership Mentor, The Netherlands.
Iti Tyagi is a Certified Organizational Behaviour Strategist and award winning Leadership Mentor. She is currently designated as Software Designer for ICT Healthcare (Netherlands). Apart from her job, she pursues freelance research on various agendas such as Women Disability, Gender Bias, Pay Gaps etc. She is also actively involved in Social Media Strategy and Art awareness, and actively guides on various social platforms.

“Screen scrape, Women and Identity: A study of Bayonetta as an object of Fan-servicing”
Anamika Kukreja
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India.

“A Post-Structural Feminist Approach to Exploring Gendered Discourses of Resistance among Women Experiencing Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya”
Victoria Isika
University of Nottingham, U.K.
Victoria Kiasyo Isika is a PhD Sociology student at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her doctoral research focuses on women’s responses to heterosexual intimate partner violence (IPV) in Kenya. Prior to her PhD, she designed and managed large-scale qualitative and quantitative studies on gender-based violence and women’s empowerment in East and Central Africa. She has worked with leading organizations in this field including Innovations for Poverty Action, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, the World Bank and Women for Women International. She currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Inua Kike (Women’s Rising) and on the advisory panel of Well Told Story. She holds an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom..
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“Honour killing under the shade of familial discourse in tribal regions of Pakistan”
Dr Muhammad Adil
Bacha Khan University, Pakistan.
Dr Muhammad Adil is an assistant Professor and Head of Department of Management Sciences, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Pakistan.
He is a member of Advanced Studies and Research Board (ASRB) at Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan and convener of Graduate Study Committee at this university.
Dr Adil is a researcher reviewer of Emerald Insight (Emerald Piblishing Limited), who organised and attended different workshops and conferences.
He got his PhD from Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan, and and MBA from Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.

“Approaches to tackling gender-related violence”
Ifafoye Olajumoke Morayo
Stop the Violence Against Women and Children Initiative (SVWCI), Nigeria.
My name is Ifafoye Olajumoke Morayo, I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History and International Studies, I have done several certification programmes in the humanitarian field.