While gender studies now constitute a recognized academic discipline, its "canon" has essentially been forged on European and North American theories and experiences. This international conference aims to question the logic of gender knowledge production from, and for, the Global South. On the one hand, it is a question of analysing the local, regional and global dynamics of production and circulation of gender knowledge and, on the other hand, of taking an interest in the content of this knowledge and highlighting its specificities (or not) at the theoretical and epistemological levels.

The discussions, in English and French, will provide an opportunity for dialogue between researchers and teachers from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean.

Organizers : Emmanuelle Bouilly (Paris 1/CESSP, Université de Laval) ; Virginie Dutoya (CNRS, CEIAS) ; Marie Saiget (Université de Lille, CERAPS)

Session 1 - Development and institutionalization of gender studies

• Adebayo Adedeji & Olutayo Molatokunbo (University of Ibadan)
• Gaëlle Gillot (IEDES, DEVSOC, Université Paris 1/IRD) & Rajaa Nadifi (Université Hassan 2 de Casablanca)
• Yvette Onibon Doubogan (Université de Parakou) & Lucia Direnberger (CMH, CNRS)

Discussion : Lucas Monteil (Université Paris 8, LEGS)

Session 2 - Processes of knowledge production

• Rachna Chaudhary & Shubhra Nagalia (Ambedkar University Delhi)
• Pooja Satyogi (Ambedkar University Delhi)

Discussion : Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal (CNRS, CEIAS)

• Mar Fournier Pereira (Université de Lille)
• Florence Piron (Université Laval), Sylvie-Marianne Rhugenda (Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l’Afrique et le Moyen-Orient), Pascaline Zamunda Mukanda (République Démocratique du Congo) & Pierre Anderson (Université d’État d’Haïti)

Discussion : Delphine Lacombe (CNRS, URMIS)

Session 3 - Gender in circulation

• Chiara Bonfiglioli (University College, Cork)
• Ioana Cîrstocea (CNRS, CESSP)

Discussion : Virginie Dutoya (CNRS, CEIAS)

• Maria Martin de Almagro (University of Cambridge)
• Debarun Sarkar (University of Mumbai)

Discussion: Marie Saiget (Université de Lille, CERAPS)

Session 4 - Epistemologies of gender from the south

• Sara Panata (Université Paris 1- IMAF, IFRA Nigéria)
• Florence Wenzek (Université Paris Descartes)
• Radhika Govinda (University of Edinburgh)

Discussion : Amélie Le Renard (CNRS, CMH)