The International MarxistFeminist Conference:Body, Work and Care in Contemporary Digital Capitalism
DAY 1 – 16 NOVEMBER 2023
(Session simultaneously interpreted into Polish)
16.30 – 18.00
The conference’s WELCOMING ADDRESSES from:Heidi Ambrosch (transform!europe) and Frigga Haug (Inkrit)Anna Grodzka (the Naprzód Foundation)Agata Czarnacka, Beatriz Realinho and Beatriz Pedroso (Scientific Committee)
moderation: Ewa Majewska (Chair Scientific Committee)
PANEL: FEMINISM IN POLAND
moderation: Elżbieta Korolczuk, with
Kasia Rakowska, labour topics
Zofia Łapniewska, feminist economy
Tomek Kitlinski, the LGBTQ+ topics
Ewa Majewska, Feminist theory and activism.
17.30-18.00
COFFEE BREAK
18.00 – 20.00
Gayatri Spivak’s keynote – Women in Primitive Accumulation + Q&A session
moderation: Ewa Majewska
DAY 2 – 17 November 2023
10.00 – 12.00 – PANEL ROUND 1
1a ABORTION PANEL
moderation: Elena Beloki
Melpomeni Paida, Efthymia Makridou, Dimitra Dalakoura, Greece. Intersecting perspectives on abortion among women and gynecologists in Greece. A qualitative analysis.
Ludmila Böhmová, Charles University, Prague, Cz.; Croatian Feminist Movement within Culture Wars in the Region – Specific Example of Right to Abortion
Aleksandra Fila, University of Graz, AT; Class Wars: Patriarchy strikes back. Unraveling the entanglements of neoliberal capitalism with neoconservative patriarchy while tracing the genealogy of the abortion ban in Poland.
1b ECOLOGY PANEL
moderation: Zofia Łapniewska
Ana Renker-Darby, University of Auckland, New Zealand; Unhealthy Diets and Non-Communicable Disease: A Crisis of Social Reproduction
Beatriz V. Toscano, University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany; Is the Smart City Feminist? A Case of Biopolitical Technologies in the Production of the Care Economy.
1c SOCIAL MOVEMENTS PANEL
moderation: Beatriz Pedroso
(Session simultaneously interpreted into Polish)
Ursula Probst, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, DE; Sex work and the reproduction of neoliberal Europe.
Ndindi Kitonga, LA, USA; Black Abolition Feminisms and Related Global Movements
12.00-13.00 Lunch BREAK
13.00-15.00 – PANEL ROUND 2
2a CLIMATE PANEL 1
moderation: Sylwia Chutnik
Zofia Łapniewska and Maciej Grodzicki, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland; Forest Wars in Poland: the feminist and political economics perspective.
Marjaana Jauhola, Violeta Gutiérrez Zamora; Ilona Steiler; Satu Sundström, Finland; Worlding Feminisms – re-thinking green transformations with ethics of care
Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University, USA; Global Capitalism, Extractivism, and the Age of the Anthropocene: Challenges from IndigenousWomen of the Global South and TheirImplications for a Marxist-FeministDeglobalizationMovement
2B LABOR PANEL 1
moderation: Katarzyna Rakowska
(Session simultaneously interpreted into Polish)
Shiva Singh, Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India; ‘Social Care’ in A Neoliberal Regime? Situating the Work of Anganwadi Workers in the Political Economy of India
Anastasia Diatlova, University of Helsinki, Finland; Desiring Labour and Labouring Desire: Men and gender nonconforming people selling sex in Finland.
Azza Basarudin, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), Helina Beyene, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Khanum Shaikh, California State University, Northridge (CSUN); Embodied Precarity: Feminist Politics, Laboring Bodies of Color, and the Neoliberal University.
2C SOCIAL REPRODUCTION PANEL 1
moderation: Ewa Majewska
Marigone Drevinja, Institute for Social Policy “Musine Kokalari”, WHO CARES? – UNPAID CARE WORK IN KOSOVO
Daria Krivonos; University of Helsinki, Finland; Those who flee are those who help: Social Reproduction and Precarious Migrant Labour among Ukrainian Nationals during Russia’s 2022 Invasion
Lea Happ, King’s College, UK, Resisting and Reproducing the Family: Care beyond family and nation-state: Thinking through Argentine abortion companionship.
15.00-15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15.30-17.30 – PANELS ROUND 3
3A CITY AND GENDER PANEL 1
moderation: Zofia Łapniewska
Angelina Kussy, Barcelona, Catalunya, The caring city? A critical reflection on Barcelona’s municipal experiments in care and the commons.
Priti Narayan, University of British Columbia, Canada; Highlighting erasures of labour and labourers: Marxist feminism for a right to the city.
Sarah Uhlmann, MATFEM collective, Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft Jena, DE. Reproductive struggles in the city – transformative power of movements around social reproduction
3B ANTIFASCISM AND ANTIGENDER MOVEMENT
moderation: Ewa Majewska
(Session simultaneously interpreted into Polish)
Olga Tyszkiewicz, DE; Bad materialists: radical feminists against women.
Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk (University of Warsaw, Poland; Södertörn University, Sweden); Globalizing anti-globalism: the case of anti-gender movement.
3C SOCIAL REPRODUCTION PANEL2
moderation Beatriz Realinho
Saskia Zielińska, King’s College, London, UK. Resisting and Reproducing the Family: Social Reproduction, Care and the State in Latin America.
Olena Lyubchenko, York University, Toronto, CA; Social Reproduction on Europe’s Periphery: Reviving Histories, Re-envisioning Struggles.
Prakriti Prabhat Sharan (SOAS, UK); The Invisible Worker: Abjection of the Female Sweeper Scavenger.
17.30 – 18.00
COFFEE BREAK
18.00-20.00 – 4 GENERAL PANEL RESISTANCE
moderation: Ewa Majewska
(Session simultaneously interpreted into Polish)
Sylwia Chutnik, Warsaw, PL; Emotional work – (still) we are not robots.
Bahar Oghalai, The Art of Resistance – Panel Proposal by bildungsLab* (https://www.bildungslab.net/en/)
DAY 3 – 18 NOVEMBER 2023
10.00 – 12.00 – PANELS ROUND 5
5A PANEL HEALTH AND CARE PANEL
moderation: Tatiana Moutinho
Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir, University of Iceland; Fatigue beyond work: A phenomenological exploration of the many faces of fatigue among ME/CFS patients in Iceland.
Liz Montegary, Stony Brook University New York USA; Fertility Disrupted: The Financialization of Family Building in the United States
Irina Herb, University Jena, DE; Wages for Pregnancy and Fertility? The Body as Commodity in the Context of Assisted Reproductive Technologies from a Marxist-Feminist Perspective.
5B LABOR PANEL 2
moderation: Malgorzata Maciewska
Laura Bäumel, University of Zurich, Swiss; Balancing Production and Reproduction in Contemporary Capitalism. An Ethnography and Political Analysis of Mothers Working in Factories.
Carissa Newsome, University of Cincinnati, USA; Sex workers and labor rights.
5C FEMINIST THEORY PANEL
moderation: Ewa Majewska
(Session simultaneously interpreted into Polish)
Daniela Vicherat Mattar, Leiden University College, The Hague, NL; Care: A source of vulnerability and resistance.
Eric Llaveria Caselles, Technical University Berlin DE; Marxism-Feminism as a framework to re-think trans politics and theory.
Suzana Rahde Gerchmann, City, University of London, UK; Gendered Subjectivity Law and Capitalism. Women’s Oppression and the role of Law in Emancipation.
12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00-15.00 – PANEL ROUND 6
6A WAR PANEL
moderation: Ewa Majewska
(Session simultaneously interpreted into Polish)
Oksana Dutchak; University of Frankfurt, DE; Imperial wars and fragile solidarities: how to build a feminist path without losing each other.
Sama Khosravi Ooryad, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; The war on women, authoritarian capitalist patriarchy, and feminist transnational and regional responsesImperialist War, Authoritarianism and Alternatives to Capitalism.
Gabriele Michalitsch, University of Vienna, AT. Masculine Toughness: Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, and Militarization
6B LITERATURE/HERSTORY PANEL
moderation: Beatriz Pedroso
Emily Marie Passos Duffy, UCP, Lisbon, Portugal; Erotic Labor and Survival: poems and a hybrid photo essay.
6C (DIGITAL) VIOLENCE, NEOLIBERALISM
moderation Marga Ferre
Anne Roth, policy advisor on digital policy for the parliamentary group “Die Linke” in the German Bundestag, Berlin, DE; Gender specific digital violence.
Sayamsiddha; Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi, India; Platformization of Patriarchy: Women in the Platform Economy in India.
15.00 – 15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15.30 – 17.30 – PANEL ROUND 7
7a STRATEGIES AND DEMANDS PANEL
moderation Katarzyna Rakowska
(Session simultaneously interpreted into Polish)
Blanka Hasterok, InicjatywaPracownicza Warsaw, PL; Situation of Polishworkersat Amazon.
Valgerður Pálmadóttir, Evelina Johansson–Wilén, Eva Schmit, Sweden; Collective Identity, Solidarity, and Sisterhood in the ASAB Cleaning Women’s Strike and the Women’s Day Off in Iceland.
7b (POST)PANDEMIC CAPITALISM AND EMANCIPATION PANEL
moderation Marga Ferre
Swantje Höft, Vienna, AT; Between Past Perfect and Future Perfect: On the Convergence between post-socialist and post-pandemic Feminist Utopias.
Nađa Bobičić and Lara Končar, University of Belgrade, Serbia; TAKING BACK THE TIME: CARE AND HOUSEWORK IN A PANDEMIC CONTEXT
7c INTERSECTIONALITY AND BEYOND PANEL
moderation: Beatriz Pedroso
Lubica Kobova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep; Popular plebeian feminisms: obstacles in forming meaningful political alliances.
17.30 – 18.00 COFFEE BREAK
18.00-19.00 FEMINIST FUTURES?
THE CONFERENCE’SCLOSING GATHERING
Moderated by the Conference’s Committee.
(Session simultaneously interpreted into Polish)