Global Attacks on ‘Gender’

18 September
11 am – 1 pm
CEBRAP (Auditorium) | Rua Morgado de Mateus, 615 – Vila Mariana, São Paulo

Global Attacks on ‘Gender’: How a Concept is Instrumentalized to Distract from Diverse Interdependent Inequalities and Demonize Conviviality 

Prof. Julia Roth (Bielefeld Universität)

Julia Roth, Professor of American Studies with a focus on Gender Studies at the University of Bielefeld, will present and discuss with us her research on the instrumentalisation of the concept of gender and the attacks on gender rights, as a common strategy of right-wing political discourses and practices across different regional contexts.

Working Language: English