09.00-10.15 (BST) Keynote Address

“The Future of Gender Equality Post COVID-19 and the Role of Flexible Working”, Dr Heejung Chung (University of Kent, UK)

10.15-10.30 (BST) Break

10.30-11.50 (BST) Parallel Panels Session 1

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1.A. Resisting Sexism and Empowering Women

• “Feminism at the Top: Gendered Leadership under Covid-19 in Taiwan & New Zealand”, Dr John Wei (University of Otago, New Zealand)

• “’I'm Broken But I'm Alive’: Gender, COVID-19 and Higher Education in Australia”, Dr Emily Gray (RMIT University, Australia), Dr Jacqueline Ullman (Western Sydney University, Australia), and Dr Mindy Blaise (Edith Cowan University, Australia)

• “The Domestic Academics: Finding the Time to Write and Care. Storying the Gendered Inequalities of Academic Research in the Global Pandemic”, Dr Vanessa Marr (University of Brighton, UK)

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1.B. Women and Health

• “The Increasing Uneven Gendered Contours of Water and Sanitation Access During Covid-19 Times in Accra”, Dr Everisto Mapedza (International Water Management Institute - Accra, Ghana)

• “#longcovid: Life Writing and Digital Health Activism”, Dr Katja Herges (University of Tuebingen, Germany)

• “‘Periods Don’t Stop for Pandemics’: The Impact of COVID-19 on Menstrual Activism”, Dr Maria Tomlinson (University of Sheffield, UK)

• "COVID-19: Global Pandemic, Governmental Response and Rights of Pregnant Indian Women", Soumya Kashyap and Dr Priyanka Tripathi (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)

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1.C. Women Working/Working with Women

•  “¡No estamos solas! Motherhood, Domestic Labour, and the Pandemic in the 2020 Work of Josephine Landertinger”, Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) and Dr Emma Staniland (University of Leicester, UK)

• “Feminist Activism on Violence against Women: Women in the Frontline of the Domestic Abuse Sector in the UK during COVID-19”, Prof Eylem Atakav, Dr Victoria Cann (University of East Anglia, UK), and Karoline Pelikan

• “Developing ‘Hybrid’ Workshops for Online Feminist Consciousness Raising during Covid-19: Reflections from our Work with the Malaysian Youth Council”, Dr Syafiqah Abdul Rahim (Malaysian Youth Council, Malaysia) and Dr Hannah Walters (Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, UK)

• "The Crisis of Covid Caring: Career and Other Impacts on Mothers Working at Higher Education Institutions" Dr Kris Kovarovic & Mothers and Mothers-to-be Support Network (MAMS) (Durham University, UK)

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11.50-12.00 Break

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12.00-13.00 (BST) Keynote Discussion

Prof Alison Phipps (Newcastle University, UK) in conversation with Dr Heejung Chung (Universiy of Kent, UK) and Dr Aviah Day (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

13.00-13.30 (BST) Lunch Break

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13.30-14.50 (BST) Parallel Panels Session 2

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2.A. Care and Solidarity Networks

• “Considerations of Queer Sociality During the Covid-19 Pandemic”, Clara Schwarz (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany)

• “Queer Cares In and Beyond Crisis”, Dr Maddie Breeze and Prof Yvette Taylor (University of Strathclyde, UK)

• “Precarity, Marginality and Solidarity: Indian Women-in-Tech During the Pandemic”, Dr Rianka Roy (University of Connecticut, USA)

• “‘It's My Only Hour of Quiet’: the Women’s Online Book Club on ‘Domestic Noir’ During the Covid-19 Pandemic”, Katharina Hendrickx (University of Sussex, UK)

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2.B. Lived Experiences of the Pandemic

• “Every Covid Has a Silver Lining: Women’s Lived Experiences and Potential Feminist Futures Beyond the Pandemic”, Dr Marina Cano (Volda University College, Norway)

• “Confined Temporalities. Reflections from a Pandemic Present through an Affective & Embodied Auto-Ethnography.”, Paula Satta (UNIBo-UGR, Italy/Spain)

•  “Reflecting on my Journey as a Novice Algerian Feminist: Challenges and Successes during Covid-19”, Khadidja Kelalech (University of Leicester, UK)

• “The Heteronormative Effects of the Pandemic and Feminist Scholarship as Solace”, Alexandra Pugh (King’s College London, UK)

14.50-15.00 (BST) Break

15.00-16.40 (BST) Parallel Panels Session 3

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3.A. Feminist Communities and Divides

• “Coming Together while Staying Apart: Feminist Memes as a Means of

Community Formation during COVID”, Dr Shana MacDonald (University of Waterloo, Canada), Brianna Wiens (York University, Canada)

• “Feminist e-Activism in the Age of Pandemic: Virtual Cultural Engagement with the Street Girls in Egypt”, Reem Kassem and Prof Katarzyna Kosmala (University of the West of Scotland, UK)

• “Feminist Activism in a Post-Conflict Space: Prefigurative and Coalitional Political Strategies”, Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool, UK) and Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)

• “Sex Workers in Spain: The Others of the Spanish Feminist Movement”, David Sanchez Garcia (The New School, USA)

3.B. Multi-Media Creative Responses

•  “Writing on the Wall: Feminist Collage in Covid-Era France”, Dr Jennifer Carr (University of Alabama, USA)

•  “‘More Than Digital Self-Defence’: (Re)Thinking Feminisms in the Post-Covid-19 Media Swirl”, Ellen Bishell (Newcastle University, UK)

• “(Breaking out of) the Heteropatriarchal Lockdown: Wendy Delorme’s Viendra le temps du feu”, Dr Michèle Schaal (Iowa State University, USA)

16.40-17.00 (BST) Break

17.00-18.00 (BST) Roundtable Discussion “Creativity in Lockdown”

Wendy Delorme, Torrey Peters and Anne-Marie Reuter in conversation with Dr Mylène Branco and Dr Dominique Carlini Versini, with an introduction by Dr Michèle Schaal