Facing Inequalities – Strategies for Change ist eine zweitägige Konferenz, die aus 18 Panels für Vorträge (jeweils 2-3 parallele Sessions) und einer Key Note besteht. Die Konferenzsprache ist Englisch.
Donnerstag, 6. November 2025
- Şebnem Bahadır-Berzig (University of Graz) - “Eternal gratitude:” (Non)Professional interpreters as instruments of (de/re)migrantisation in (postmigrant) societies
- Ines Buchegger & Azar Najafi Marboyeh (University of Graz) - Social inequalities and machine translation: A participatory research perspective
- Mirjam Purkarthofer (Stadt Graz) & Raquel Pacheco Aguilar (University of Graz) - Translation and vulnerability: An interprofessional dialogue
- Raquel Pacheco Aguilar & Ines Buchegger (University of Graz) - Translation as care work: Language, intersectionality, and inequality
- Tamara Kusimova (CEU Vienna) - Unequal Spaces and the Meritocratic Imagination: Educational Upward Mobility Among Russian Youth
- Chukwuemeke Buzome (Ignatius Ajuru University of Education) - Educational Environments and Language Practices as Mechanisms of Exclusion and Tools for Inclusion: Reframing Stereotypes in Learning Contexts
- Simangele Mashazi (Stellenbosch University) - Equality Through Acts of Linguistic Citizenship: Entanglements of Semiotic Resources, and Multilingual Repertoires
- Darija Željko Mrljak & Antonija Petričušić (University of Zagreb) - (Status of) Gender Equality in Croatia Post Istanbul Convention Ratification: Detraditionalization Amid Legislative Improvements
- Mirna Varga & Ivana Dobrotić (University of Zagreb) - Migrants and parenting leaves: how inclusive are leave policies for different migrants’ situations?
- Valentina Vučković (University of Zagreb) (Online) - Trust as a Missing Link: Understanding Fragmentation in Croatian Society
- Margherita Cusmano (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) - Intersectionality in the Mind: How Migrants’ Experiences with Multiple Inequalities Shape Their Perceptions
- Luisa Perdomo Lopez & Okka Zimmermann & Milena Drehlich (Technische Universität Braunschweig) - Reproductive Exclusion and Strategies for Change: An Intersectional Perspective on Pregnant Refugee Women
- Filyra Vlastou Dimopoulou (Paris 1 Panthèon – Sorbonne and National Technical University of Athens) - Depoliticizing a Kurdish refugee camp as a governance tool for exclusion
- Marie Tschurtschenthaler (University of Graz) - Excluded by monolingual schools: The potential of translation and interpreting for non-German speaking parents
- Kristina Kocyba & Olha Ihnatyeva (Technical University Dresden) - Towards Equality: Structural Challenges in Integrating Refugee Teachers into German Schools
- Heide Bruckner & Annette Sprung (University of Graz) - From colorblindess to anti-racist: opportunities and shortcomings in Austrian university pedagogical settings
- Valentina Kozjak (University of Zagreb) & Tea Ritoša (University of Aalborg) - Intersecting Margins: Gender, Violence, and Healthcare Access Among Minority Women in Croatia
- Barbara Mašić (University of Zagreb) - Low Voter Turnout and State Financial Allocations for National Minorities in Croatia: Challenges and Perspectives
- Ivana Spirovska (University of Graz) - Gender, ethnicity and statelessness: Stateless Roma Women in Croatia and North Macedonia
- Anastasia Karatzia & Niall O'Connor (University of Essex) - A New Paradigm for Intersectionality in Citizens’ Assemblies
- Maša Mrovlje (University of Leeds) - Reframing Circles of Solidarity in the Wake of Disappointment
- Zorica-Iva Sirocic (University of Graz) - When and why do mobilizations against gender equality fail, and when do they succeed?
- Monia O'Brien Castro (Tours University) - Rap as Gaeilge and Kneecap: Turning US Hip Hop Into A Tool For Irish Identity and Resistance in The Post-Conflict North of Ireland
- Eva Katharina Bauer (University of Graz)
- Nicole Haring (University of Graz)
- Lena Elisabeth Leßlhumer (University of Salzburg)
- Carmenrita Bugeja (University of Malta) (Online) - Intersecting Identities in the Heat of the Kitchen: An Ethnographic Study of Diversity, Microaggressions and Resilience in Commercial Kitchens
- Aleksandar Ristovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University) - From Anti-Discrimination to Universal Dignity at Work: Toward a Hybrid Regulatory Framework Against Workplace Harassment
- Amy Weatherburn (KU Leuven) - Structural Injustice and EU Labour Migration Law and Policy: Overcoming Migrant Labour Inequalities
Freitag, 7. November 2025
- Justyna Kajta & Stefan Bieńkowski (SWPS University Warsaw) - Meritocracy in the Academic Field? On the (classed) Experiences of Becoming a Scientist in Poland
- Katerina Cidlinska & Marta Vohlidalova (Ambis University Prague) - Cumulative Dis/advantage in Academia: Gender and Field Intersection in Longitudinal Perspective
- Kyra Schneider & Nina Vischer (OTH Regensburg - Digital Hate project) - Facing Digital Violence in Academia
- Carolyn Defrin (University of Graz) & Elena Marchevska (London South Bank University) - Spoons, Feathers and Maandazi: Creative Co-Research with Parents of Children with Additional Needs as a Strategy for Addressing Inequality
- Bo Blanksma (Utrecht University) - Neurodivergent fan communities: Creating representation and visibility through online community
- Laura Jung (University of Graz) - Psychiatric Statecraft and the Politics of Exclusion in Modern Germany, 1871–1969
- Derya Özkaya (University of Graz) - The Politics of Age in Activism: Negotiating Solidarity and Hierarchy Across Generations
- Activists’ Experiences: Representatives of Omas gegen Rechts and Omas for Future, Austria
- Janroj Yilmaz Keles (Middlesex University London) - Invisible Across Borders: Statelessness and Inequality in the Kurdish Diaspora
- Shilan Fuad Hussain (Institute of Domestic Violence, Religion & Migration) - Bound by Injustice: How the Oppression of Women Deepens Inequality in Kurdistan
- Agnes Grond (University of Graz) - Having a Choice: Spaces of Reciprocity in Hierarchical Multilingual Settings
- Thomas Schmidinger (University of Kurdistan – Hewlêr) - Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies: Scripturalism, Dogmatism and Hierarchy in the Religious Field of Kurdistan
- Anna Dolce (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) - Negotiating Dissonant Citizenship: Islamic Feminisms and Religious Visibility in Europe
- Merita Meçe (Independent Researcher) - Inclusive Digital Participation in Albania: Are Rural Women Left Behind?
- Milka Dimitrovska (“Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University) - Addressing Rural Women's Intersectional Inequality: A Policy Perspective on Sustainable Regional Development in North Macedonia and Serbia
- Ana Cecilia Gaitan (Argentinean Technical and Scientific National Council) - Feminism and Poor Racialized Young Women in a Rising Conservative Era in Argentina
- Egbule Philip Onyekachukwu & Ibezim Jennifer Ogochukwu (University of Delta) - Contesting Political Imbalance and Gender Inequalities in Nigeria: The Impact of the Bring Back Our Girls Campaign
- Irida Agolli Nasufi (University of Tirana) & Eglantina Gjermeni (Albanian Politician, Diplomat, and Expert in gender Equality) - Gendered Inequality, Ageism, and Intergenerational Challenges in Albania’s Demographic Transition
- Dzenana Pupic & Klaus Wegleitner (University of Graz – CIRAC) - Diminishing Social Exclusion and Exclusion Trade-Offs: Insights from a Municipal Housing Complex in Austria
- Maroš Matiaško (Charles University) - Live-in Care on Trial: State, Solidarity and Human Rights in the Era of Care Marketisation
- Anna-Christina Kainradl & Klaus Wegleitner (University of Graz – CIRAC) - Silenced Voices at the End of Life: An Epistemic Injustice Perspective on Migration, Aging, and Gender
- Hikmet Kuran (Cappadocia University) - Struggles over the Right to the City: Grassroots Environmental Mobilizations Against Neoliberal Urban Megaprojects in Turkey
- Oche Innocent Onuche (Bingham University) (Online) - Intersectional Injustices and Feminist Urban Activism: Reimagining Gendered Resistance in West African Cities
- Anastassia Vybornova (University of Copenhagen) & Trivik Verma (University of Bristol) - You Don’t Have to Live Next to Me: Towards Demobilizing Individualistic Bias in Computational Approaches to Urban Segregation
- Aleksandra Filatova (Narxoz University) - Exhibitions as Pedagogical Spaces: Visual Language, Agency, and Knowledge Production in Kyrgyzstan’s Contemporary Art
- Biljana Puric (University of Graz) - Peripheral Solidarities: Artistic Interventions Against Class Inequality in Post-Yugoslav Societies
- Dušan Ristić (University of Graz) - Digitalisation of Cultural Heritage: Discourses on Social Inequalities in Museum Practices
- Ulla Kriebernegg (University of Graz – CIRAC) - The Politics of Age and Exclusion: Gerontocide and Social Abandonment in Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75 (2022)
- Bojana Vukojević & Borislav Vukojević (University of Banja Luka) - Digital Divide 2.0: How ‘Free’ AI Tools Exacerbate – or Mitigate – Inequalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Paola Panarese & Marta Grasso & Claudia Solinas (Sapienza University of Rome) - Situated Justice and Algorithmic Inequalities: A Socio-Technical Strategy for Inclusive Systems
- Kanki Hazarika & Akash Dewangan (University of Delhi) - Digital Resistance or Market Co-optation? The Paradox of Body Positivity Activism in in India