PANEL PROGRAMMES Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Panel 1: Migrant views Strand: 1 Beyond modern institutions Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: LS 5 Chair: Päivi Korvajärvi Migrants' employment in the Finnish service industry in a time of Austerity Laura Mankki University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland Professional status and migrant workers: the experiences of female migrant healthcare workers in the UK Nkechinyelu Edeh1, Patrizia Kokot2, Sarah Riley1 1Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK, 2University of Reading, Reading, UK Capitalising on Diversity? Diversity politics and management in non-governmental organisations Sara de Jong Department for Development Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Panel 1: Embodiment Strand: 2 Embodiment and affects Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: LS 6 Chair: Hannele Harjunen Fleshing out agency: A feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of personal and creative narratives of sex workers Karly Van Puymbroeck1 ,2 1University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada, 2Canadian Graduate Journal of Sociology and Criminology, Waterloo, ON, Canada EMBODIED PERCEPTIONS. Affective encounters with trafficking of women for prostitution in the video installation “Eight Rooms” Minna Rainio University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Using ethnographic video recording in an empirical study of affect as classed by embodiment 1 Rikke Brown Aarhus University, Copenhagen NV, Denmark Bodies, Feelings, Sex, and Capital. Capitalism as Sexualized Affective Mode of Production and Living Brigitte Bargetz, Gundula Ludwig University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria The normalisation of surrogacy in the global political economy: a feminist critique Bronwyn Winter University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Panel 1: History of the Women’s Movement Strand: 3 Feminist histories, Feminist futures Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: LS 8 Chair: Katriina Mäkinen Feminist Objects as Things that Liberate Alison Bartlett1, Margaret Henderson2 1The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 2The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Beyond the “development” paradigm: State socialism and international women’s activism after the WWII. (VIDEO PRESENTATION) Magdalena Grabowska Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Debates about women and feminism in the Polish press during the 1970s Agata Ignaciuk University of Granada, Granada, Spain From Strand 7/Panel 3 on Saturday: The Geopolitics of Nordic and Russian Feminist Studies, 1975-2005 Marianne Liljeström1, Ulrika Dahl2, Ulla Manns2 1University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden Panel 2: Feminist (Auto)biographies Strand: 3 Feminist histories, Feminist futures Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: LS 9 Chair: Seija Keskitalo-Foley 2 Casting New Shadows and Unveiling Voices: Rediscovering Iranian Women's Memoir Genre Roxanne Bibizadeh The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Asymmetries in the transnational life of Ágnes Heller Emilia Palonen University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Reflections on the History of Feminist Popular Tribunals: Consciousnessraising and Recognition Valgerður Pálmadóttir Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies at University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden Panel 1: Conceptual and Everyday Framings of Gender Strand: 4 Feminist theory, methodology, practice Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: LS 10 Chair: Jaana Vuori The perils of affirmative action for women - „token jobs" Margarethe Hochleitner, Angelika Bader, Heidi Siller Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria Feminist theory and domestic services provided by migrants: from materialism to post- structuralism and back? Anna Safuta1 ,2 1Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 2Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany Decoding Gender in Relational Work Eeva Jokinen1, Soile Veijola2 1University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, 2University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Conceptualizing social struggles beyond a recognition-redistribution dichotomy Jennifer Ramme European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany Panel 1: Feminist activism and knowledge in neoliberal times Strand: 6 Gender and politics Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: LS 12 Chair: Johanna Kantola 3 Discussing LGBTI rights in 21st century Finland: Neoliberal discourses and more Nina Järviö University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Branding the safe city: neo-liberal rule meets feminist ambitions Jennie Brandén Department of Political Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden "I think it is very important that minority women’s organizations are strong." Ambiguous struggles for women’s rights in Denmark Mia Liinason1, Marlijn Meijer2 1Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden, 2Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Setting the Stage for Arctic Development: Politics of Knowledge Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Panel 2: Politics of Care Strand: 6 Gender and politics Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: LS 13 Chair: Salla Tuori Caring in the pace of care Iiris Lehto University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Eastern Finland, Finland Transitions in Parenting: Challenges Met by Partners of Men on Paternity Leave Gerlinde Mauerer University of Vienna, Institute of Sociology, Vienna, Austria Media Representations of French Granny Au Pairs: Servants, Mothers or Exotic Elders? Priscilla Ringrose NTNU, Trondheimn, Norway Gender, parenthood and urban space - a case study of two civil initiatives in Warsaw, Poland Marta Koziej Warsaw University, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Warsaw, Poland Panel 1: Colonial Legacies Strand: 7 Postcolonial global/local Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: LS 16 Chair: Saara Särmä 4 Ending old colonialim in Brazil: the “Bolsa-Família” program as a new weapon against the northeast patriarchal coronelism Luisa Silva University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 'Mrs Somebodies', 'Beijings' and Poverty - Perceptions of Female Students' Education in the Tanzanian Context Mari-Anne Okkolin1 ,2 1University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland Politics of Belonging in Postcolonial Sápmi. Epistemological, Theoretical and Methodological Reflections Sanna Valkonen University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Panel 1: Sexual Citizenship and Economy Strand: 8 Genders, embodiments and sexualities Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: LS 17 Chair: Pia Laskar Gendering homonormative citizenship: Lesbian materialism and the paradox of the 'good' lesbian citizen Christine M. Klapeer1 1University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Making Modern Mothers: How Neoliberal Welfare Policies in Mexico Mold Low-Income Women’s Motherhood Vania Smith-Oka University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Reimagining Sexual Citizenship: UK Welfare Policy as Sexual Governance Aura Lehtonen London School of Economics, London, UK Panel 2: Dating and Relationships Strand: 8 Genders, embodiments and sexualities Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: LS 18 Chair: Marjo Kolehmainen 5 The Unconventional Woman meets the Matrix: Online Dating and the Commodification of the self Indrani Ashe Goldsmiths, Ldon, UK Affective Intimacy in Women's Written and Told Same-Sex Relationships Tuula Juvonen University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland Heterosexual dynamics in analyzing intimate relationships from a temporal perspective Raisa Jurva1, Annukka Lahti2 1University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, 2University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland 'Relive the passion - have an affair': infidelity and intimacy online Katherine Harrison University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Panel 1: Ethnicity/culture clash Strand: 9 Sexualized and gendered violence Time: Thursday 4 June at 12:30 – 14.30 Room: 117/ KTK (Faculty of Education) Chair: Suvi Keskinen Domestic Workers and the Lebanese Household, or how Neo-liberalism Won the Fight against Feminism Sabiha Allouche SOAS, University of London, London, UK Forced Early Marriage Reinforces Gendered Violence in Africa Theonestina Katundano Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, Kenya Exporting social policy to the Global South - Swedish international development policies on gender and violence against women Ann Öhman Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden IDENTIFYING VIOLENCE - Doing research on residential care girls' reflections on violence. Helena Parkkila, Mervi Heikkinen Women's and Gender Studies, University of Oulu, Finland La Bestia, narco-violence and the gendered politics of transit migration: Central American women en route through Mexico Sara Alemir Lund University, Lund, Sweden 6 Thursday 4 June at 15:00 – 16:30 Panel 2: Gendering Academia Strand: 1 Beyond modern institutions Time: Thursday 4 June at 15:00 – 16:30 Room: LS 5 Chair: Päivi Korvajärvi A Feminist materialist exploration of the relation between quality and scientific merit. Ana María González Ramos, Beatriz Revelles Benavente Gender & ICT, IN3, UOC, Barcelona, Spain Equality without Diversity: A Qualitative Study Thomas Brorsen Smidt, Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland Academic housework and symbolic capital in times of austerity Thorgerdur Einarsdottir, Thamar M. Heijstra, Finnborg S. Steinthorsdottir University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Are there jobs for experts in Women's/Gender Studies? A case study from Finland Nina Järviö, Katariina Heikkinen University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Panel