UKFIET Conference Symposium Acceptance

A symposium proposal submitted by the Interculturality research group has been accepted at the UKFIET Conference 2021, under the conference sub-theme 'Towards building back better equitably'.  The Conference, 'Building back better in education and training? Reimagining, Reorienting and Redistributing' will be held from 13-17 September 2021 and will see symposium presentations by the Interculturality research group. 

Symposium title: Doing gender equality differently? Understanding intersections of global, national and local discourses in building back better 

Convenor: Gunjan Wadhwa, Brunel University London

Chair: Maria Tsouroufli, Brunel University London

Discussant: Mairead Dunne, University of Sussex

Paper titles

• (En)Gendering struggles for building back better in education: An introduction, Gunjan Wadhwa 
• 'Powerless, Poor and Needy?’: The reproduction of colonial discourse of gender through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan, Sulaiman Haqpana 
• Empowering Arab/North African Muslim girls in British schools, Najwa Iggoute 
• The roar at the end of years of silence, Geeta Ludhra 
• Chanting as healing and resistance against 'othering' in Higher Education, Balbir Kaur 
• Feminist solidarity and collective scholarship as resistance against post-colonial and neo-colonial discourses of gender equality and performances of whiteness’ , Maria Tsouroufli, Giuliana Ferri, and Ourania Filippakou