SPEAR team at “Gendering Transformations: Feminist Knowledge Production and Trans/national Activist Engagement” conference in Taipei, Taiwan

On Sunday October 31, 2021, Natalija Mažeikienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania), Aurelija Novelskaitė and Daiva Skučienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania), and Sybille Reidl (Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria), presented on the topic Promoting Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions: An Agenda for Feminist Institutionalism in Context of Neoliberalist Reforms at the “Gendering Transformations: Feminist Knowledge Production and Trans/national Activist Engagement” conference, during the session dedicated to “Narrating and Situating LGBT/Gender in Education”.

The conference, organized by National Central Library (Taiwan), Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (University of Copenhagen), Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association in Taipei, Taiwan from October 28 to 31, 2021, focused on the strategies for and complexities in feminist transformative practices at local, regional, national and transnational levels. Critical engagements with the possibilities and limitations of transformation – of differences that make a difference – through intersectional perspectives are important and timely in the face of a series of global challenges and crises such as economic and ecological crisis, refugee crisis, ageing society, increased inequalities and polarization of the society.