6 Sep 2021 | All day | ONLINE |
- Description
- Programme
- Call for Papers
Description
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Convenors
This conference is organised by the coordinators of FemQuant:
Jenny Chanfreau (UCL Social Research Institute)
Rose Cook (Policy Institute at King’s)
Youngcho Lee (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)
Sara Rose Taylor (Framework Convention Alliance for Tobacco Control)
Heini Väisänen (University of Southampton)
Speakers
Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning)
Lauren Klein (Emory University, Departments of English and Quantitative Methods)
Anna Lindqvist (Lund University, Department of Psychology)
Summary
The decades-old myth that quantitative research methods are ‘masculine’ and therefore antithetical to feminist goals has been debunked. However, still today the relationship between feminism and quantitative methods is rather distant, with many feminist researchers preferring qualitative methods and most quantitative research not being informed by feminist theories and methodologies. Bridging such disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological divides, we seek to bring together researchers committed to feminist research using quantitative methods to discuss and explore combinations of feminist theory/methods and quantitative methods.
In particular, much of current quantitative social science research tends to operationalise ‘gender’ as a binary variable with male and female representing fixed and oppositional classification. This often results in the failure to account for more complex gendered identities and processes, including the exclusion of the experiences of trans, non-binary, and other queer individuals. Building on an understanding of gender which is relational and intersectional, we would like to advance feminist quantitative research which goes beyond using gender as a binary variable. This would include recognition of gender identities beyond the male/female dichotomy as well as diverse and heterogeneous experiences within categories of gender.
This one-day online conference aims to provide an opportunity for participants to discuss and debate the possibilities of a feminist quantitative research, and to learn from each other’s successes and difficulties in integrating feminist theory with quantitative methods. Together, we hope to contribute to feminist quantitative methods and research which is not only interdisciplinary but furthermore committed to a more “ethical, collaborate, participatory, transformative, intersectional, accountable, accessible, and open” (Leung et al., 2019) production of knowledge.
Supported by:
@femquant
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Programme
All times are UK time zone (BST) | |
10.00 - 11.15 | Welcome and Opening Keynote: Anna Lindqvist (Lund University) Chair: Jenny Chanfreau and Rose Cook |
11.15 - 11.30 | Break |
Session 1-A: Queering the census data collection 1. Kevin Guyan (University of Glasgow) 2. Kirstie English (University of Glasgow) 3. Christina Pao (University of Oxford) Discussant: Joe Strong Chair: Heini Väisänen
Session 1-B: Beyond uni-dimensional measurement of gender 1. Zuzana Dancikova & Wendy Sigle (London School of Economics and Political Science) 2. Irene Marta Brusini (London School of Economics – Bocconi University 3. Anne Laure Humbert (Oxford Brookes University)
Discussant: Joseph Van Matre Chair: Jenny Chanfreau | |
12.45 - 13.45 | Lunch break |
13.45 - 15.00 | Panel discussion: Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT) & Lauren Klein (Emory University), authors of Data Feminism (2020) |
15.00 - 15.15 | Break |
15.15 - 16.30 | Session 2 – A: Femininity/masculinity and gender identity
1. Lisa Wandschneider (Bielefeld University) 2. Lena Wangnerud (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg) 3. Elizabeth Yarrow (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Anne Laure Humbert Chair: Youngcho Lee
Session 2 – B: Queer identities in surveys 1. Emma McKenna (University of Ottawa) 2. Joseph Van Matre (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 3. Nerilee Ceatha (University College Dublin)
Discussant: Kevin Guyan Chair: Rose Cook |
16.30 - 16.45 | Break |
16.45 - 18.00 | Session 3-A: Intersectional quantitative research 1. Heather Shattuck-Heidorn (University of Southern Maine) 2. Sabrina Saase (Technical University Braunschweig in Cooperation with Sigmund Freud University Berlin) 3. Alexia Pretari, Sarah Barakat & Jaynie Vonk (Oxfam GB)
Discussant: Zuzana Dančíková Chair: Youngcho Lee
Session 3-B: Reflections on the research processes 1. Joe Strong (London School of Economics and Political Science) 2. Laura Sheppard (UCL) 3. Alexis Henshaw (Troy University)
Discussant: Lena Wangnerud Chair: Sara Rose Taylor |
Call for Papers
We welcome any researcher whose work involves feminist quantitative analysis and/or methodological reflections on the conceptualisation and operationalisation of gender beyond the binary variable to submit a 250-word abstract. This could include, but is not limited to works that recognise and conceptualise:
- multiple, multidimensional and fluid gender identities;
- diverse, heterogeneous, and intersectional experiences within categories of gender;
- gender as a social structure operating on the micro, meso, and/or macro levels.
Those whose abstract is included in the conference programme will be asked to give a 15-minute presentation at the conference. They will also be asked to submit an extended abstract of around 2000 words before the conference. These will be shared with a session discussant who will engage with the presentation overall.
Key deadlines and details:
- Deadline for abstracts: 25 June 2021
- Notification of successful applicants: 9 July 2021
- Deadline for extended abstracts (around 2000 words): 20 August 2021
- Conference date: 6 September 2021