As the United Nations Environment Programme marks its 50th anniversary, this conference invites scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, policymakers, legal experts, and activists to think across sectors and disciplines about climate crisis and the injustices, disparities, insecurity, and militarized responses crisis often incurs. We encourage feminist analyses of and responses to growing climate-driven insecurities and their effects on women and other marginalized populations. The conference aims to create a dialogue between policymakers, activists, and academics from diverse disciplines about the goals and methodologies we can use to create a more liveable and just future.
Topics and themes may include
- Feminist solidarity in the face of climate insecurity
- Global disparities in energy use, extractivism, and exported military and agri-toxins
- Anti-colonial, decolonial, and feminist responses to climate insecurity
- Epigenetic effects on women’s health and reproductive health of environmental degradation and poisons
- Marginalized voices and re/building ecofeminist archives
- Feminist creative responses to climate crisis and militarized insecurities
- Feminist jurisprudence and climate crisis
- Globalization, monopolization and control over women/nature/fecundity
- Feminist approaches to the intersection of armed violence and climate insecurity
- Continuums between war, climate chaos, and “everyday” violence against women
- Towards a pedagogy of women, climate, peace, security
- Feminist economic theory and climate insecurity
- Local knowledges and global eco-feminisms
Confirmed keynote speakers
- Lorena Aguilar, FLASCO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Costa Rica)
- Vidhya Das, Agragamee
- Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
Organisers
Women, Climate, Insecurity is co-hosted by Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town, South Africa; the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University, England; and the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton University, USA.
Submissions by Feb. 1
Please send abstracts of 250 words and a short professional bio to hri@binghamton.edu. Panel submissions of up to 500 words, with a short bio for each presenter, are also welcome. We encourage non-traditional, interactive panels and presentations.
We aim to shape a workshop space that includes non-academic partners. We are happy to work with you to shape contributions.
Alexandra Moore