NORA 2019 Conference

The NORA conference 2019, on critical feminist cross-disciplinary research and activities relying on contemporary and/or historical perspectives, focuses on the theme of material and symbolic borders in a period of nationalist revival, putting forward questions on the return to territoriality; the construction of new political, cultural and social boundaries; the shaping of border regimes gendering relations; the boundaries affecting work for social justice and equality as well as intersectional, gender, queer and feminist research and how feminist resistance be can organized against paternalistic modes that reinstate and reinforce relations of inequality.

Conference Keynote speakers are:
Diana Mulinari, Professor at Department of Gender Studies University of Lund, Sweden.
Miriam Ticktin, Associate Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research.
Rauna Kuokkanen, Sápmi, Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland, Finland.
Madina Tlostanova (Lostan), Linköping University, Sweden, is a decolonial thinker and writer, currently chaired professor of postcolonial feminisms at the Gender Studies Unit of the Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA), Linköping University.
Kim TallBear, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Techno-science, and Environment, is an enrolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota and also descended from the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.

Programme in PDF