Conferences

CTDC organizes Conferences to exchange and further intersectional feminist knowledge in research and advocacy between practitioners and academics in and from the Global South. Our conferences aim to envisage new ways to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Conference: Gendering the Refugee Crisis

Keynote Speaker: Nasma: A Personal Story

A powerful personal account of experiences as a refugee and the gendered dimensions of displacement.

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Our 2017 conference was held at SOAS University in London, titled: Pollicised Sexualities, Marginalised Histories. Based on the knowledge exchanged in our second conference we published a report on Conceptualising Sexualities in the MENA Region: Undoing LGBTQI Categories underlining the implications of universalist LGBTQI categories for non-normative peoples.

Conference: Decolonizing Knowledge around Gender and Sexuality

Our third conference, Decolonizing Knowledge around Gender and Sexuality, was held on November 30, 2018, at Birkbeck University in collaboration with Kohl Journal for Body and Gender Research. It resulted in a joint special issue in Kohl, exploring decolonial approaches to gender and sexuality.

Decolonizing Knowledge around Gender and Sexuality

Keynote address from the 2018 conference on disturbing binaries around knowledge production.

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