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Call for Participants! 2022 International Feminist Journal of Politics Conference
Posted on : June 08, 2022
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
2022 International Feminist Journal of Politics conference
Hybrid conference
July 21-23, 2022
Remapping the feminist global: A multi-vocal, multi-located conversation
In partnership with the International Feminist Journal of Politics and the Asian Center for Women’s Studies of Ewha Womans University, the Political Science Department of 91快活林 is co-hosting the 2022 International Feminist Journal of Politics conference. Registration is still accepted until 10th June 2022. For the Southeast Asian hub, .
This multi-location hybrid conference, Remapping the feminist global is co-convened by International Feminist Journal of Politics and Asian Center for Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University. The main conference will be based in Seoul, Korea, while our Pacific and Southeast Asia regional hubs are based in Australia and the Philippines respectively.
Feminism(s) – like other academic knowledge and global movements – bear the effects of historic and new permutations of Eurocentrism, colonialism and imperialism that continue to shape not only feminism but the global world we inhabit and seek to change. This year, the conference turns to Asia as a geographic location and imaginary that offers an important anchoring for global feminist conversations to move beyond the current hegemonic hold of the West and the (imperial) nation-state system that has pre-determined how feminism becomes a salient political and academic discourse. We seek urgently needed collective reflections on emerging hierarchies not only between West and non-West but as the focus of this call for conversation, the hierarchies and relations in and between ‘the non-West’.
More than ever, feminist scholars, editors, policymakers, practitioners, activists and teachers need to come together to exchange ideas and co-create transnational and/or global feminist futures by mending broken linkages. This is an age-old conundrum that has riddled feminist inroads into institutions and public spaces. In convening the conference, we hope to cultivate more satisfactory redress and connections in the wake of greater separate and parallel developments in feminist research in siloes, global anti-feminist backlash and polarization of politics
Livestreamed panels for the Southeast Asia hub
Panel 1: On gender and development: trajectories, challenges, and prospects
What is the state of advancing women’s rights in in the global south? How does conflict affect the gender and development programs in the region? With examples from the Philippines, these are the questions that the opening plenary of the IFJP Conference’s Southeast Asian hub will explore. The panel will also discuss the challenges practitioners experience in advancing gender-related programs. Finally, the panel offers the audience a space to reflect on the prospects of gender-related programs from the global south.
Moderators:
Bina D'Costa (The Australian National University)
Prime Ragandang III (Mindanao State University-Iligan)
Panelists:
Jinky B Bornales (WHWise: iBLEnDNICE 4 WomEn and Mindanao State University-Iligan)
Jinky is the Project Leader of the WHWise: iBLEnDNICE 4 WomEn. She leads the Gender and Development Center of 91快活林 in Iligan City, where she also served as the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Extension. She has produced a number of papers in international journals. She has actively pursued memberships in international consortiums with researchers in Germany, Japan and Portugal, resulting in student and faculty exchanges in universities abroad. She is instrumental in establishing two innovation facilities in the university, the Technology Business Incubator and FabLab.
Nery Ronatay (UN Women's Women Peace and Security)
Nery is the head of the UN Women's Women Peace and Security team in the Philippines. For two decades now, Nery has worked as a capacity builder, facilitator and program specialist in the Philippines, Malawi, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar with grassroots communities, CSOs, and the United Nations thematically focusing on conflict transformation, HIV and AIDS, gender, and rights. Recently, he was the Peace and Development Officer of the UN Human Settlement Programme (UN Habitat) in Marawi City, Philippines as part of a team that helps rebuild the city after a devastating five-month siege by a radicalized ISIS-aligned group.
Hilton Joyo Aguja, PhD (Mindanao State University-Iligan)
Hilton is a Political Science professor at 91快活林 in the Philippines. He chairs the University’s Technical Working Group for the Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Point System. He is a member of the Philippines’ National GAD Resource Pool, a group of experts that has significantly assisted the Philippine Commission on Women in providing GAD-related technical assistance to national government agencies and local government units. He has extensively lectured, researched and published on the GAD matters. He goes through life with a gender lens and infuses gender sensitivity in all facets of human interaction.
Panel 2: Transformative methodologies: the academe beyond knowledge production
What role does the academe play in helping address social issues? How does pure knowledge production evolve? This panel explores the experiences of scholars-practitioners on how their scholarships are geared towards addressing social issues. It highlights how transformative approaches in research pull us the way we create knowledge: that beyond knowledge production and theory testing, the academe has the role of proactively engaging with the community they study. The panel offers the audience a space to reflect on the research methodologies we employ and the research's utility in the society we work. Panellists brings their experiences as scholars-practitioners working on youth and women inclusion, community engagement, and post-conflict reconstruction.
Moderators:
Mary Koren Witting Acuesa (Northern Bukidnon Community College)
Septrin Calamba (Mindanao State University-Iligan)
Presenters:
Catherine Roween Chico-Almaden
Catherine is currently the College President of the Northern Bukidnon State College. She earned an undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Science in Economics major in Development Economics, Master of Arts in Economics and PhD in Development Studies major in Economics and Public Policy. She has completed over 20 research projects funded by national and international organizations, implemented locally and internationally, in multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral groups. She has also produced several monographs and books and over 15 research articles published in international referred journals indexed in the ISI-World of Science and Scopus.
Lynrose Jane D. Genon
Lynrose is currently a Faculty Member at the Department of English of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (91快活林). She is also a member of the Executive Council of Young Women + Leaders for Peace-Philippines. Her work focuses on Youth Leadership, Education, and Peace.
Dr. Nassef Manabilang Adiong
Nassef is the founder of Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort), PHISO (Philippine International Studies Organization), and DSRN (Decolonial Studies Research Network). He works on interdisciplinary research between Islam and International Relations and explores research studies on various policy, legal and legislative topics about the Bangsamoro communities while he heads the Policy Research and Legal Services (PRLS) of the Bangsamoro Parliament in the Bangsamoro autonomous region in the Philippines.
Primitivo III Cabanes Ragandang
Prime is currently doing a PhD at the Australian National University, exploring the intergenerational intersect of memory and resilience in an ayóm-ayóm political order. Since 2017, he has served as an Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department of Mindanao State University-Iligan. In 2020, he co-founded Seeds for Mindanao’s Advocacy and Youth Leadership, a youth-led organisation supported by the UN Mission to ASEAN. In 2021, he published his article entitled, “What are they writing for? Peace research as an impermeable metropole,” highlighting his experiences as a practitioner-turned-scholar from the Philippines.
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