Keynote Speakers

Dr. Patricia McFadden
Professor,
Zimbabwe
Biography
Patricia McFadden is a radical African feminist, sociologist, writer, educator, and publisher from eSwatini. She is also an activist and scholar who worked in the anti-apartheid movement for more than 20 years. McFadden has worked in the African and global women’s movements as well. As a writer, she has been the target of political persecution. She has worked as editor of the Southern African Feminist Review and African Feminist Perspectives. She currently teaches, and advocates internationally for women’s issues. McFadden has served as a professor at Cornell University, Spelman College, Syracuse University and Smith College in the United States. She also works as a “feminist consultant”, supporting women in creating institutionally sustainable feminist spaces within Southern Africa. Patricia is a member of the Development Alternatives for Women in the New Era (DAWN) and Akina Mama wa Afrika networks, and is also a gender trainer for the Women’s Movement and the United Nations system.
She attended the University of Botswana and Swaziland studying politics and administration, with economics and sociology as minors. She then went to the University of Dar es Salaam for a master’s degree in sociology. She received her PhD from Warwick University in the United Kingdom in 1987. She worked as a program officer in the Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies (SARIPS) in Zimbabwe, from 1993 to 2005. She worked as editor of the Southern African Feminist Review from 1995 to 2000. She served as international dean at the International Women’s University (IFU) from 1998 to 2000 in Hanover. She also taught in the Masters in Social Policy (MPS) program offered by SARIPS for the past seven years. She was an adjunct professor at Syracuse University Study Abroad program in Zimbabwe and then later at the parent location in Syracuse New York as a faculty member in the Department of African American Studies. As a writer, McFadden’s main areas of intellectual inquiry are: sexuality, reproductive and sexual health, and identity, violation and citizenship for African women. She has presented numerous papers at universities, conferences and seminars internationally in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Namibia, South Africa, Ghana, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Brazil, China, Germany, Ethiopia, the United Kingdom and others.
McFadden lives and works in Zimbabwe as well as at the level of the regional and global women’s movement. (She considers the Women’s Movement her home) She works particularly in conceptualizing gender within the African context; making the distinction between Gender as a construct and Feminism as a political ideology/stance. She also works in Sexuality and Reproductive Rights/Health, and more recently she has been focusing on issues of citizenship and relations of property between African women and the state.

Prof. Dr. Melinda Madew
Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg,
Germany
Biography
Melinda Madew is Professor of International Social Work, at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg, Germany, she has spent years working for international aid organizations in Asia, Africa and Europe as development consultant. She has done fulltime teaching in countries such as the Republic of Fiji, Philippines and Germany and enjoys doing guest lectureships in various European universities. She has conceptualized and led inter-university projects funded by the European Union including joint degree programs and curriculum development initiatives. Her teaching and research is in postcolonial social work. She currently serves as external examiner in development studies for the graduate school program of the University of South Africa, Pretoria. She is a research associate in gender and postcolonial studies at the University of Johannesburg.
Plenary Speakers

Dr. Evi Eliyanah
Universitas Negeri Malang
Indonesia
Biography
Dr. Evi is a lecturer at the Department of English, Universitas Negeri Malang. She obtained her PhD in Asian Studies from the Australian National University in 2019. She has done quite an extensive research and publication in gender, cultural and gender studies. Her latest publications on gender and Indonesian cinema can be accessed in internationally reputable journals, such as Social Sciences, International Journal on Indonesian Studies and Situations: Cultural Studies in Asian Context. Dr Evi Eliyanah is the 2019 recipient of the Ann Bates Postgraduate Prize for Indonesian Studies. Her PhD research explores gender politics in reconfiguring ideal masculinity through Indonesian cinema. She examined Indonesian filmmakers’ struggles in undermining the hegemonic ideal masculinity, known in Indonesia as bapakism. This research focuses on the crucial years of 2000–2014, during which profound socio-political and economic shifts forced changes to Indonesia’s official patterning of gender relations. Consequently, these changes provoked a requestioning of what constituted ideal masculinity, as well as femininity, in Indonesia.

Prof. Heidi Hudson
Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities
University of the Free State
South Africa
Title: “Framing the Relationship Between Gender, Time and Space: The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda Revisited”

Prof. Győző Molnár
Professor of Sociology of Sport and Exercise
School of Sport and Exercise Science
University of Worcester, UK
Title: “Politics of Gender in Sport”
Biography
Professor Győző Molnár joined the University of Worcester in September 2008. Győző is a critical sociologist with a research focus on migration, gender, identity politics and empowering marginalised populations. His current research has focused on the migratory and gendered aspects of Fiji rugby, challenging dominant perspectives in Adapted Physical Activity research and unfolding connections between sport and populist politics in Hungary. He is co-editor of The Politics of The Olympics (2010, Routledge), Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research (2016, Routledge), Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region: Domination-Resistance-Accommodation (2018, Routledge), The Routledge Handbook of Gender Politics in Sport and Physical Activity (forthcoming, Routledge) and co-writer of Sport, Exercise and Social Theory: An Introduction (2012, Routledge). Győző has lectured widely in the area of sociology of sport and exercise and qualitative research methods. Győző is the founder of the Gender, Identity and the Body research interest group and is the leader of the Inclusive Sports and Physical Activity research group. Győző has extensive experience in supervising research students and would welcome applications covering areas of sociology focusing on marginalised populations, politics and sustainability
workshop speakers

Prof. Katie Gentile
Professor and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
John Jay College
Biography
Katie Gentile, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). She is the author of Creating bodies: Eating disorders as self-destructive survival and the 2017 Gradiva Award winning The Business of being made: The temporalities of reproductive technologies, in psychoanalysis and cultures, both from Routledge. She is editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, on the editorial boards of Women’s Studies Quarterly and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is on the faculty of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and the Psychoanalysis and the Critical Social Psychology program at the CUNY Graduate Center and has taught classes on eco-psychoanalysis and human. exceptionalism at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

Prof. Lara Sheehi
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology
George Washington
Biography
Lara Sheehi, PsyD (she/hers), is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program. She teaches decolonial, liberatory and anti-oppressive theories and approaches to clinical treatment, case conceptualization, and community consultation. She is the president-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA Division 39), and the chair of the Teachers’ Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and co-editor of CounterSpace in Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. Lara is on the advisory board to the USA–Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of the book, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022).

Prof. Anthony Brown
Head of Department
Associate Professor – Inclusive Education and Life Orientation
Department of Educational Psychology
The University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Biography
Anthony Brown graduated with an EdD in Inclusive Education from the University of the Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He holds a Masters of Arts (Special Educational Needs) from Leeds University in the United Kingdom and a Bachelor in Education (English) from the University of Namibia. Anthony is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology. His research interests include LGBTI identities in Education, Home-School Involvement of families of LGBTI identities, Social Justice Education, Anti-oppressive Education, HIV education, and Critical pedagogies.
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