The Silencing of Academics: Gender, Identity, and Voice under Authoritarianism
This panel will explore the role of both governments and academic institutions in restricting academic freedom under rising authoritarianism domestically and globally, especially on topics related to gender and identity, bringing together academics, researchers, and activists.
Tech, Power, and Gender: Navigating Control and Resistance Online
This panel will critically examine how digital technologies—especially AI and social media—intersect with rising authoritarianism, gender-based oppression, and structural inequality.
Masculinity Workshop
This interactive workshop facilitated by Equimundo invites participants of all genders—particularly men and masculine-identified individuals—to reflect on dominant models of masculinity, understand their impact on systems of power and care, and co-create pathways toward more equitable/caring and just expressions of gender.
Security for Whom? Feminist Perspectives on Militarism and Peace
This panel will bring together leading experts in feminist foreign policy, military strategy, and grassroots activism to examine how militarization and authoritarianism intersect with gender, peace, and security. Through diverse regional and institutional perspectives, the panel will explore how feminist and intersectional approaches can resist exclusionary security frameworks and reimagine more inclusive, rights-based alternatives in global affairs.
The Politics of Care: Challenging Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Authoritarianism
This panel will explore how the global care economy—shaped by capitalism and patriarchy—reinforces control, extraction, and exclusion. It highlights responses that revalue care, bodily autonomy, and justice, while reimagining caregiving as shared public infrastructure rather than a private, gendered burden. The discussion brings academic, NGO, and policy perspectives to advocate for reforms that recognize care labor as essential, political, and central to gender justice.
Our Power, Our Protest: A New Chapter in Gendered Resistance
This panel will highlight different resistance and uprisings against authoritarian regimes. Drawing on lessons learned from global resistance movements through a gender lens, it will bring together experts from academia, civil society, and policymaking backgrounds to provide insights and share their experiences on the role resistance plays in driving reforms. It is an opportunity to explore how feminist and gender justice movements globally have fought against oppression, patriarchy, and systemic inequalities.