“There is no change without dream, as there is no dream without hope” Paolo Freire (1992)
In celebration of International Women’s Day, the BAM Gender in Management SIG is pleased to invite all to an online conversation with Dr Tabitha Sindani (University of Greenwich) and Dr Lara Bianchi (University of Nottingham) to discuss feminist hope and how we can transform it into action.
This conversation will be facilitated by Dr Jenny K Rodriguez (University of Manchester), Chair of the GiMSIG and Dr Elisabeth Anna Guenther (University of Vienna), Secretary of the GiMSIG.
This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment”. As we continue to call for, work and demand equitable spaces for all women and girls, where their rights are respected, and they are empowered to lead fulfilling lives, thrive and achieve their goals, we also continue to grapple with how we can take meaningful action that accelerates change.
In our challenging times, feminist hope offers us an audacious and transformative way to dream about and materialize our desire for equality and a better life for all. In reflecting about how we can dream and take action, this webinar will focus on the following questions:
> What is the meaning of feminist hope in the work that you do?
> What can we engage with feminist hope in our activities as researchers and educators?
> How do we turn hope into actions to achieve rights, equality and empowerment of all women and girls?
This session takes place the day before International Women’s Day 2025.
Provider Information
Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1, C2, C3, D1, D2 and D3, as detailed in the BAM Framework
Speakers
Dr Tabitha Sindani
Dr Tabitha Sindani is a lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Executive Business Centre, Greenwich Business School. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy with over ten years of experience in higher education. She holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship from Roehampton University Business School, UK and a Master of Science degree in Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship from Newcastle University Business School, UK. She’s currently involved in teaching postgraduate modules in entrepreneurship, innovation and technology management, leadership, applied corporate strategy, business policy as well as MBA dissertation supervision.
Dr Lara Bianchi
Dr Lara Bianchi is a Business & Society scholar with a specific interest in Stakeholder Engagement, and Business & Human Rights. Lara has recently completed a Research England Quality-related Research Policy Funding on the role of policymakers in human rights remedy for agricultural workers in the UK.
In the past three years, she acted as the Principal Investigator for a UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund and an ESRC Impact Accelerator Account projects on women's agency in conflict-affected societies. In 2022, she was awarded a Rising Star Public Engagement Award by the Institute for Policy and Engagement of the University of Nottingham.
Chaired by
Dr Jenny Rodriguez
Jenny Rodriguez is Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies and member of the Work & Equalities Institute at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester.
Her research focuses on intersectional inequality in work and organisations, and the interplay between identity, work and regulation, and has explored the transnational experiences of skilled migrant women. She is the Chair of the Gender in Management Special Interest Group at BAM.
She is also involved in scholar activism as founding member of the Decolonizing Alliance, an international community committed to intellectual and practical collaboration, translation, active solidarity and resistance to tackle intersectional inequalities and neo-colonial power relations faced by people of colour in the Global South and the Global North. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/jenny.rodriguez.html
Dr Elisabeth Anna Guenther
Elisabeth Anna Guenther is a postdoctoral university assistant at the University of Vienna’s Computational Empowerment Lab.
Her work on intersectional interference in the social practice of teaching STEM received several awards. She combines her profound knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methodologies with social theories to unveil implicit inequality practices.
Her current research focusses on intersectional reflexivity in and through digital empowerment. https://www.elisabeth-anna-guenther.eu/
Benefits of attending
- Being uplifted by celebrating International Women's Day with a community that cares for and champions women and girls;
- Engaging in discussions about the potential of feminist hope to make the world a better place for women and girls;
- Sharing and learning about how we can engage with feminist hope in our activities as researchers and educators;
- Gaining insight from collective reflection about the ways we turn hope into actions to achieve rights, equality and empowerment of all women and girls.
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
Event Fee
- BAM Members: Free
- Non-Members: £30
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Registration closes on 6th March 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
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