Gender, Institutions and Change: Feminist Institutionalism after 10 years
International Conference, University of Manchester
3 -4 April 2017
Conference Programme (subject to change)
Monday 3rd April
10.15 -11.00: Coffee and Registration
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
11.00-12.30: Plenary 1: Feminist Institutionalism: Origins and Influences
The Alexander Arts Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building
Shireen Hassim
Mona Lena Krook
Vivien Lowndes
Joni Lovenduski
Fiona Mackay (chair)
Georgina Waylen
12.30-1.30: Lunch
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
1.30-3.00: Panel Session 1
Towards Gendering Institutionalism: Equality in Europe
A113, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chairs: Elaine Weiner (McGill University) and Heather MacRae (York University, Canada)
The European Social Fund and the Institutionalization of Gender Mainstreaming in Sweden and Germany
Petra Ahrens (University of Antwerp) and Anne-Charlott Callerstig (Örebro University)
Gender Mainstreaming and EU Climate Change Policy
Gill Allwood (Nottingham Trent University)
Resistance to Gender Mainstreaming in EU Research Policy
Lut Mergaert (Yellow Window) and Emanuela Lombardo
Benevolent Contestations: Mainstreaming, Judicialisation and Europeanization in the Norwegian Gender and Equality Debate
Hege Skjeie, Catherine Holst and Mari Teigen (Institute for Social Research, Norway)
Engaging the State: Women’s Policy Agencies and Mechanisms for Gendered Change
A112, Samuel Alexander Building
Chair: Laurel Weldon (Purdue Policy Research Institute)
Gwynn Thomas (University of Buffalo)
Amanda Gouws (University of Stellenbosch)
Oskana Mejere (Vytautas Magnus University)
Gender, Labour and Work
A215, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Silke Stabb (UN Women)
Have Recent Judicial Decisions Across the Globe Improved Gender Justice for Women Workers?
Jane Aberhard-Hodges (Investing in Women)
“Hostel" for Women: A Sociological Study of Women's Hostels in Mumbai
Mittal Chauhan (Mithibai College of Arts, Science & Commerce)
The Institutional Embeddedness of Household Resource Allocation in the UK, India and Pakistan
Punita Chowbey (Sheffield Hallam University)
Why Not Rip it Up and Start Again? Questioning Gender Equality in the Cocoa Value Chain
Lauren McCarthy (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Jeremy Moon
New Perspectives on the Politics of Presence
A7, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Sarah Childs (University of Bristol)
(How) Does Feminisation Change a Parliament?
Rainbow Murray (Queen Mary, University of London)
The Institutional Non-Presence of Women
Suzanne Dovi (University of Arizona)
Wendy Smooth (Ohio State University)
Diversifying Representation: Tempering Expectations for change beyond the Legislature
Jennifer Piscopo (Occidental College, Los Angeles) and Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary)
3.00- 3.30: Tea/Coffee
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
3.30- 5.00: Panel Session 2
A113, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Jennifer Thomson (Queen Mary University of London)
New Institutions, New Gender Rules? Emerging Evidence from the ESRC-DfID Political Settlements Research Programmes
Fiona Mackay (University of Edinburgh) and Cera Murtagh (University of Edinburgh)
Implementing the Good Friday Agreement: Understanding Institutional Change through Crisis and Attrition
Michelle Rouse (TJI Ulster University)
Transforming Responses to Intimate Partner Violence in a Post-conflict Environment: The Case of Northern Ireland
Jessica Doyle (Ulster University)and Monica McWilliams
International Law Norms for Gender Equality and Domestic Processes of Institutional Change: When and How the International May Matter
Catherine O’Rourke (Ulster University)
Institutional Change, Gender Justice and Conflict in Columbia
Pilar Domingo (Overseas Development Institute) and Alina Rocha Menocal (Overseas Development Institute)
Feminist Institutionalism and Social Policy
A112, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Francesca Gains (University of Manchester)
Melissa Haussman (Carleton University)
Welfare Regimes and the Development of Gender Attitudes in Post-Communist Europe
Steven Saxonberg (Masaryk University, Brno)
Silke Staab (UN Women)
Nina Suesse (King's College London)
Resisting Institutional Change: Mechanisms and Actors
A215, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Elin Bjarnegård (Uppsala University)
The Resilience of Masculinist Institutions: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Reflections
Sabine Lang (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) and Birgit Sauer (University of Vienna)
Subverting Quotas: Gendered Actors, Gendered Institutions
Leah Culhane (University of Manchester)
Reproducing Male Dominance in Europe's New Democracies
Cristina Chiva (University of Salford)
Fiona Buckley (University College Cork)
Political Parties and Participation
A7, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Tània Verge (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
How to Build a Women's Party (and How to Research One): Applying a Feminist Institutionalist Lens
Elizabeth Evans (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Meryl Kenny (University of Edinburgh)
Diana Højlund Madsen (Aalborg University)
Claire McGing (NUI Maynooth)
Political Origins of the Female Franchise
Dawn Teele (University of Pennsylvania)
5.00-5.15: Tea/Coffee
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
5.15-6.45: Plenary 2: Feminist Institutionalism: Key Concepts and Methods
The Alexander Arts Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building
Elin Bjarnegård
Louise Chappell
Vivien Lowndes
Fiona Mackay
Meryl Kenny
Georgina Waylen (chair)
6.45: Drinks reception and finger buffet
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
Tuesday 4th April
9.00-10.30: Plenary 3: Feminist Institutionalism in Practice
The Alexander Arts Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building
Sarah Childs
Mieke Verloo
Tània Verge
Sylvia Walby
Georgina Waylen (chair)
Laurel Weldon
10.30-11.00: Tea/Coffee
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
11.00-12.30: Panel Session 3
Studying up? Researching Gendered Institutions in International Relations
A113, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Shireen Hassim (University of Witwatersrand)
Critical Friends or De(con)structive Critics: How Should Feminist Academics Engage with Global Institutions and Gender Reform Agendas?
Fiona Mackay (University of Edinburgh) and Louise Chappell (University of New South Wales)
The Women, Peace and Security Agenda and Post-conflict Political Institutions: A Feminist Institutional Analysis
Jennifer Thomson (Queen Mary, University of London)
NATO Women: The Changing Role, Organisation and Activism of Military Women Within the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 1961-2016
Katharine. A. M. Wright (University of Winchester) and Matthew Hurley (Oxford Brookes University)
Researching Gender and UN Pre-deployment Training in the Rwanda Defence Force During Organisational Change
Georgina Holmes (University of Reading)
Understanding Policy: Change and Design
A112, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Claire Annesley (University of Sussex)
Negotiating Gender Equitable Change in Bangladesh: The Role of Informal Institutions
Sohela Nazneen (Institute of Development Studies)
Carmen Sepulveda (University of Manchester)
Josefina Erikson (Uppsala University)
Tanita Louise Maxwell (University of Aberdeen)
Feminist Institutionalism in Unstable Institutional Environments
Andrea Kirszan (Central European University) and Conny Roggeband (University of Amsterdam)
Transforming/Gendering the Legislature
A215, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary)
Cheryl N. Collier (University of Windsor) and Tracey Raney
Understanding the US Congress as a Gendered Institution: The Perspectives of Women Members
Kelly Dittmar (Rutgers University-Camden), Kira Sanbonmatsu, and Susan J. Carroll
Gendered Institutional Change: The Case of the Women and Equalities Committee in the UK Parliament
Sarah Childs (University of Bristol) and Chloe Challender
Why does the Committee on Gender Equality not Gender Mainstream Legislation?
Mette Marie Stæhr Harder (Roskilde University)
Explaining the Representation of Women in Parliament: Candidate Selection and Quotas
A7, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Meryl Kenny (University of Edinburgh)
Gender Differences in Political Career Progression: Evidence from the Republic of Ireland
Lisa Keenan (Trinity College Dublin)
Renomination and Gender Bias: Institutionalist Analysis
Michal Smrek (Uppsala University)
Change or More of the Same? Gender Quotas and the 2016 Irish General Election
Fiona Buckley (University College Cork) and Mary Brennan (University College Dublin)
Female Candidates, Female MPs: Representation, Roles and Quotas. France, 1998-2017
Graziani Ghislain (Université Paris Diderot-Paris7/Università di Bologna)
Tomas Turner-Zwinkels (University Of Basel), Marijtje van Duijn, Andreas Flache , Melinda Mills
12.30-1.30: Lunch
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
1.30-3.00: Panel Session 4
Cabinets and Gender
A113, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Gwynn Thomas (University of Buffalo)
Feminist Institutionalism and Cabinet Appointments: Tools and Numbers
Claire Annesley (University of Sussex), Karen Beckwith and Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary)
Gendering Coalition Presidentialism in Brazil
Pedro G. dos Santos (Luther College) and Maria Luiza Gatto (University of Zürich) and Kristin N. Wylie (James Madison University)
The Gendered Distribution of Ministries in German State Cabinets, 1990-2016
Isabel Köhler (Georg August University Göttingen)
Institutions, Change, and Leadership: Women as National Executives in Anglo Systems
Patricia Lee Sykes (American University)
Understanding Institutional Dynamics
A112, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Anna Sanders (University of Manchester)
Doing Gender in Municipal Politics: Local Variations of Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Inviobility
Renee Andersson (Örebro university) and Gun Hedlund
Maria Bustelo (Complutense University of Madrid) and Julia Espinosa
Gender, Actors and Rules: Understanding Institutional Dynamics in the Case of Police Governance
Francesca Gains (University of Manchester) and Vivien Lowndes (University of Birmingham)
Tracing the Evolution, Structure and Content of Gender and Institutions Research
David Hudson, Bridi Rice, Chris Roche and Orlanda Ward (University College London)
Women Representing Women: Opportunities, Constraints and Contestations
A215, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Jennifer Piscopo (Occidental College, Los Angeles)
Women Representing Women: Opportunities and Incentives in Divided Powers
Grace Lore (University of British Columbia)
The Institutional Dynamics of Substantive Representation of Gender in Politics
Helena Stensöta (University of Gothenburg) and Lena Wängnerud
Where There's a Will there Isn't Always a Way: The Case of the Brazilian's Women's Caucus
Larissa Peixoto Vale Gomes (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Just Amongst Us: Women's Caucauses, Collaboration and Policy Making in US State Legislatures
Mirya R. Holman (Tulane University), Anna Mahoney (Tulane University), and Zhu Zhang
Feminists or Women? Disputes over Gender Politics in Brazilian Parliament
Maíra Kubík Mano (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
FI and International Organisations
A7, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Shirin Rai (University of Warwick)
Anne Jenichen (Aston University), Jutta Joachim, Andrea Schneiker, Nina Wüstemann
Anna Van der Vleuten (Radboud University)
Judit Fabian (University of Calgary)
Different Ways of 'Seeing' Gender Within International Organisations: The OECD and the ECLAC
Rianne Mahon (Wilfrid Laurier University)
External Influences: The Role of Interest Groups in Effecting Change in EU Political Institutions
Sara Reis (University of Sheffield)
3.00-3.30: Tea/Coffee
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
3.30-5.00: Panel Session 5
Constitutional Change and Design
A113, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Catherine O’ Rourke (University of Ulster)
Please Don't Forget Women: Women Participation in the Institutional Transformation of Colombia
Olga Patricia Velaquez Ocampo (Universidad de los Andes)
Clarisse Paradis Goulart (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Larissa Peixoto Vale Gomes
(Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Jennifer Piscopo (Occidental College, Los Angeles)
State Institutions and Women’s Rights
A112, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Carmen Sepulveda (University of Manchester)
Addressing Gender Equality in Japan: Challenges and Potentials of Transforming Institutions
Maki Kimura (University College London)
Moroccan Women and the Public Sphere: An Institutional Gendered Analysis
Amina Haddadi (Mohammed I University, Morocco)
Muslim Women and Sharia Law in 'The West'
Amira Aftab (Macquarie University)
Nicole George (University of Queensland)
The Republican Party as a Gendered Institution (Roundtable)
A215, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Ronnee Schreiber (San Diego State University)
Race and Republican Women: Latinas and the Politics of Whiteness in the Post-Trump Era
Cristina Beltran (New York University)
Republican Women in the 2016 Election: Progress or Same Old Patterns?
Kelly Dittmar (Rutgers University-Camden)
The Republican Party and the Myth of Gender Neutrality
Ronnee Schreiber (San Diego State University)
Higher Hurdles for Republican Women in U.S. Primaries
Shauna Shames (Rutgers University-Camden)
Women and the Republican Party in Comparative Perspective
Christina Xydias (Clarkson University)
International Institutions and Domestic Politics: Gendering Interactions
A7, Samuel Alexander Building
Panel Chair: Fiona Mackay (University of Edinburgh)
From Yugoslavia to the EU: Transformations of Institutional Gender Knowledge in Croatia (1980-2013)
Leda Sutlovic (University of Vienna)
Framing Gender Equality Policy in Serbia: From Unity to Disconnection
Zorana Antonijević (University of Novi Sad Center for Gender Studies)
Do International Norms Matter? The Impact of CEDAW on Italian Domestic Politics and Policy
Alessia Donà (University of Trento, Italy)
Gendering National Projects and Discourses in Feminist Institutionalism
Jill Vickers (Carleton University)
5.00: Close