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The event ‘8th March 2026: Riding the anti-equality tide, building feminist futures’ is designed to discuss, on March 8, how feminism, in movements and institutions, is riding the challenge of the anti gender wave that actively opposes gender equality and LGBTQI+ rights, and is working to build a future of equity and justice. The idea is to highlight the gender and political research being carried out at the Scuola Normale and to discuss the topic with international experts from other institutions (Sant’Anna, Oxford, CSIC-Madrid).
‘March 8, 2026: Riding the anti-equality tide, building feminist futures’
10th March 2026
Aula Altana, Palazzo Strozzi
Scuola Normale Superiore Firenze
Organizers: Emanuela Lombardo, Anastasia Barone, Luca Falzea, Isabel Hernández, Greta Rossi
Panel 1
(9.30 – 11.00)
Chair: Luca Falzea (SNS)
Discussant: Isabel Hernández (SNS)
Speakers:
Emanuela Lombardo (SNS) Feminist democratic innovations in response to antigender politics in Spain
Lucrecia Rubio Grundell (CSIC, Spain) Divide and Conquer? Anti-Gender Politics, Feminist Responses and Intra-Feminist Debates in the European Parliament
Anastasia Barone and Giada Bonu Rosenkranz (SNS): Feminism as a Method in the Backlash: a Methodological Puzzle
Rosario Freire Saray (SNS): Experiences of feminist mobilization against the far-right in Chile and new challenges. Reflections from fieldwork
Panel 2
(11.30-13.00)
Chair: Greta Rossi (SNS)
Discussant: Federica Merenda (Sant’Anna, Pisa)
Speakers:
Anna Loretoni (Sant’Anna, Pisa) Regression and Cultural Backlash. The Case of Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Manuela Caiani (SNS): Modern Sexism and the Radical Right: Gendered Dynamics of Electoral Mobilization
Deniz Aktan (SNS) Queer Collective Identity in Turkey Beyond Bridge: Europeanization Narratives and the Anti-LGBT State Agenda
Rossella Ciccia (University of Oxford, UK) Feminism(s) and the politics of care
To join online: https://meet.google.com/kec-pgqv-kvu?hs=196&pli=1