8th March 2026: Riding the anti-equality tide, building feminist futures

L’evento ‘8th March 2026: Riding the anti-equality tide, building feminist futures’ è pensato per discutere in occasione dell’8 marzo, come il femminismo, nei movimenti e nelle istituzioni, sta cavalcando oggi la sfida dell’ondata anti-gender che si oppone attivamente all’uguaglianza di genere e ai diritti delle persone LGBTQI+, e sta lavorando per costruire un futuro di equità e giustizia. 

Organizers: Emanuela Lombardo, Luca Falzea, Anastasia Barone, Greta Rossi, Cecilia Iula, Isabel Hernandez Pepe

Panel 1

 (9.30 - 11.00)

Chair: Luca Falzea (SNS)

Discussant: Isabel Hernandez Pepe (SNS) 

Speakers:

-Emanuela Lombardo (SNS)
Feminist democratic innovations in response to antigender politics in Spain

-Lucrecia Rubio Grundell (CSIC, Spain)
Divide and Conquer? Anti-Gender Politics, Feminist Responses and Intra-Feminist Debates in the European Parliament

-Anastasia Barone and Giada Bonu Rosenkranz (SNS)
Feminism as a Method in the Backlash: a Methodological Puzzle 

-Rosario Freire Saray (SNS)
Experiences of feminist mobilisation against the far-right in Chile and new challenges. Reflections from fieldwork

Panel 2 

(11.30-13.00)

Chair: Greta Rossi (SNS)

Discussant: Federica Merenda (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

Speakers:

-Anna Loretoni (Sant’Anna, Pisa)
Regression and Cultural Backlash. The Case of Sexual and Reproductive Rights

-Manuela Caiani (SNS)
Modern Sexism and the Radical Right: Gendered Dynamics of Electoral Mobilization

-Deniz Aktan (SNS)
Queer Collective Identity in Turkey Beyond Bridge: Europeanization Narratives and the Anti-LGBT State Agenda 

-Rossella Ciccia (University of Oxford, UK)
 Feminism(s) and the politics of care

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