RECON Extended: Online Schedule
A curated series of online sessions continuing the RECONFERENCE journey
Take a look at what’s ahead! From teach-ins and workshops to film screenings, each session builds on the conversations and learnings from RECONFERENCE 2025.
Time Date Name Organisation Session Brief Description HKT IST EAT CEST BST GMT EDT CST 9 April Prathama Raghavan Led by Rising Flames Deconstructing Ableism This teach-in will unpack ableism as a systemic issue while also equipping participants to reflect on their own biases and plan tangible anti-ableist practices in their organizations, activism and movements. 21.00 h 18.30 h 16.00 h 15.00 h 14.00 h 13.00 h 09.00 h 07.00 h 16 April Nishant Shah Chinese University of Hong Kong The Unbearable Oldness of Generative AI: Power, Habit and the Making of Meaning Generative AI is reshaping our worlds in ways we feel before we fully understand. This session explores how AI disrupts habits, restructures meaning and alters the conditions under which voices, bodies and narratives become legible. 15.30 h 13.00 h 10.30 h 09.30 h 08.30 h 07.30 h - - 23 April Jaya Sharma Pleasure and Danger: Through the Psyche lens Alongside addressing danger, feminists have also pushed each other to make room for pleasure. The session will offer a space to take stock of where we are at today – what linkages between pleasure and danger are we alive to, what linkages do we want to further explore. 21.00 h 18.30 h 16.00 h 15.00 h 14.00 h 13.00 h 09.00 h 07.00 h 7 May Alice M. Miller and Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe Yale University Sex, Gender and the Calls to Biology and Nature Examining contestations over sex and gender with particular attention to how calls to science, nature and assertions of biological realities are deployed. 21.00 h 18.30 h 16.00 h 15.00 h 14.00 h 13.00 h 09.00 h 07.00 h 14 May Estefania Vela Barba
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CrucigramaQuestioning Our Punitive Vision of Justice This workshop will critically examine and question the ideas of justice that feminists promote: Are our notions of justice tied to prisons? Cops? Criminal law? Why? What do we expect will happen by relying on these systems? 22.00 h 19.30 h 17.00 h 16.00 h 15.00 h 14.00 h 10.00 h 08.00 h 21 May Andrea Cornwall King's College, London Sex and Gender: Contentions and Challenges This teach-in will grapple with the contestations about sex and gender, and explore the positions taken up by feminists in the current ‘trouble with gender’. 21.00 h 18.30 h 16.00 h 15.00 h 14.00 h 13.00 h 09.00 h 07.00 h 28 May Anja Kovacs My Body, My Data: Bringing Bodies Back to Digital Governance Debates Data is an extension of our bodies; data about people is embodied data. How will we need to approach our work if we want to ensure our rights are protected in the age of datafication? 21.00 h 18.30 h 16.00 h 15.00 h 14.00 h 13.00 h 09.00 h 07.00 h 1 June Joana Varon Tech Cartographies This workshop proposes a conversation about technopolitics to instigate critical visions about the relationship between technology and the environment and to foster alternatives for technological development that stem from the needs, characteristics and potentials of our territories. 21.00 h 18.30 h 16.00 h 15.00 h 14.00 h 13.00 h 09.00 h 07.00 h 11 June Juliana Martinez Nebula Fund Narratives as Infrastructure: Deep Dive into Theory, Ecosystem and Practice Unpacking key aspects of narrative and narrative change theory, explain three key “narrative zones” (politics, culture, social connection) and dive into four strategies to build and support a flourishing narrative ecosystem. 20.00 h 17.30 h 15.00 h 14.00 h 13.00 h 12.00 h 08.00 h 06.00 h 15 June Rupsa Mallik CREA Challenging (Dis)embodiment, Reclaiming Disabled Joy and Pleasure: A Tribute to Anita Ghai Reclaiming disabled joy and pleasure as a movement and practice grounded in disability justice framework 21.00 h 18.30 h 16.00 h 15.00 h 14.00 h 13.00 h 09.00 h 07.00 h 18 June Srilatha Batliwala CREA Movements and Why They Matter Do we know what makes movements distinct and different from organizations, projects, campaigns, and other modes of creating change? Or of what makes a movement feminist? 20.00 h 17.30 h 15.00 h 14.00 h 13.00 h 12.00 h 08.00 h 06.00 h
The Film Festival will be held from 22 to 25 June, followed by Q&A sessions with filmmakers on 29–30 June.
More details to come soon!