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Feminist Research Symposium 2026 Schedule

9:30-9:40: Welcome

Symposium organizers, Elizabeth Elbourne & Hasana Sharp

I. 9:40 鈥� 11:00: Policy and the ethics of care 听

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鈥� Pengfei Cao, 鈥淯nheard Voices: Queer Chinese in the Diaspora -- Rethinking Support for Chinese International LGBTQ+ Students in Canada鈥�

鈥� Mathilde Genest, 鈥淭he Underdiagnosis of Neurodivergent Women and Girls: A Feminist and a Bioethical Issue鈥�

鈥� Bianca Hutanu, 鈥淭rauma-Informed Approaches to Tattooing: Enhancing Mental Health Literacy and Ethics of Care鈥�

鈥� Andr茅s Valencia, 鈥淩elationality, Dissensus, and More-than-Human Futures: Seven Counter-Hegemonic Logics for the University of 2050鈥�

10:40-11: Q&A

11:00-11:15: Coffee and snacks (provided by the IGSF)

II. 11:15-12:15: Queer temporalities

Chair: Dr. Alex Ketchum, IGSF

鈥� Anouk F茅lix. 鈥淭he Rise and Fall of Lesbian Spaces: Documenting and Reimagining the Notion of Lesbian Space through an Analysis of Montreal鈥檚 Lesbian Scene since the 1980s鈥�

鈥� Iulia Ganopolsky. 鈥淏e the Butch to My Femme: The Changing Relationship Between Lesbian Spaces and Identities in Montreal from the 1950s to the 1990s鈥�

鈥� Dan Levy, 鈥淪quinting With Your Ears: Re-Articulations of Beverly Glenn-Copeland鈥檚 Keyboard Fantasies鈥澨�

12:00-12:15 Q&A

12:15-1:00: Lunch provided by IGSF听(vegetarian and vegan options will be available)

III. 1:00-2:00: Gender and identity construction

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鈥� Felicit茅 Girard. 听鈥淭he Symbolic Power of Blondness: Constructing a Feminine Ideal Across Twentieth- Century Qu茅b茅cois Women鈥檚 Magazines鈥�

鈥� Inaya Huda, 鈥淭heorising Women as National Symbols: Postwar Bangladesh鈥�

鈥� Alisa Sanchez, 鈥淎 Comparative Ethnography of Masculinity in Single-Sex and Co-Educational Schools鈥�

1:45-2:00: Q&A

IV. 2:05-3:05: Feminism and technology

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鈥� Jenna Brender. 听鈥淗ow the Elites Date; A Digital Ethnography of Dating Culture amongst North America鈥檚 Top1%鈥�

鈥� Maddie Daniel. 听鈥淏reaking the Ice: Expectations for LGBTQIA+ Corporate Advocacy in the Professional Women's Hockey League and the National Hockey League鈥�

鈥� Tashika Gomes, 鈥淎 Feminist Policy Analysis of Canada鈥檚 AI Strategy and Bill C-27.鈥�

2:50-3:05: Q&A

V. 3:10-4:30: The history and politics of the left in the late twentieth century

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鈥� Natasha Bronfman, 鈥淟earn Her: Gerda Lerner and the Establishment of Women鈥檚 History鈥�

鈥� Dina Lowe, 鈥淕endered Narratives in Kazakhstan鈥檚 Post-Soviet Memory Landscape鈥�

鈥� Madison Albert, 鈥淲ages for Housework and Family Abolitionism; An Unhappy Marriage?"

鈥� Despine Green, 鈥淭he Temporality of Resistance Art: Fanon, the Medu Art Ensemble and Cultural Production鈥�

4:10-4:30 Q&A

4:35-4:50: Closing Remarks

Elizabeth Elbourne & Hasana Sharp

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Undergraduate Honours Thesis Presentations

Madison Albert. "Wages for Housework and Family Abolitionism; An Unhappy Marriage?"

This thesis interrogates the relationship between the 1970s Wages for Housework听(WfH) movement and contemporary family abolitionism, asking whether family听abolition is conceptually integral to WfH or analytically distinct from it. Recent听abolitionist readings鈥攎ost prominently Sophie Lewis鈥攊nterpret WfH as logically听committed to dismantling the nuclear family on the grounds that unpaid reproductive听labour is constitutive of capitalist accumulation and male domination. Yet this inference presupposes that the historically specific nuclear family form is itself necessary to those structures. Drawing on foundational WfH texts by Selma James, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, and Silvia Federici, alongside contemporary social reproduction theory and abolitionist scholarship, I argue that WfH does not centrally entail family abolition. Rather, its support for family abolition is conditional and incidental to a more primary struggle over the valuation and coercion of unpaid reproductive labour. The thesis proceeds in three steps. First, it reconstructs and responds to the tension within WfH between its apparent critique of the family and its wage-based strategy, which risks reinscribing heteronormative divisions of labour. Second, it examines the charge of functionalism often leveled at family abolitionism: that it collapses the family into its capitalist function. Third, it will explore selected broader implications. 听By clarifying the conceptual stakes of conflating institutional form with structural function, the paper broadens the horizon of feminist political strategy beyond a false choice between family reform and family abolition.

Jenna Brender. How the Elites Date; A Digital Ethnography of Dating Culture amongst North America鈥檚 Top 1%听

This thesis argues that dating among elite North Americans is not merely a personal or emotional endeavor, but a structured social practice through which class distinction is actively performed and sustained. Romantic choice, self-presentation, and notions of desirability are embedded in classed aesthetics, gendered expectations, and norms of exclusivity. Through dating (particularly within elite digital environments), participants reaffirm who belongs within elite circles and who does not. In this sense, intimacy functions as a mechanism of social reproduction, translating economic and symbolic capital into affective life. By examining elite dating culture ethnographically, this study contributes to feminist sociology and cultural studies by shifting analytical attention 鈥渦pward,鈥� toward populations that are often under-scrutinized yet disproportionately influential. It positions dating apps not as neutral tools of connection, but as cultural infrastructures that shape desire, visibility, and belonging along classed and gendered lines.

Natasha Bronfman. 听Learn Her: Gerda Lerner and the establishment of women鈥檚 history

This essay revisits the life and intellectual legacy of Gerda Lerner (1920 to 2013), a scholar widely recognised as a founding figure of Women鈥檚 History in the United States. As a Jewish refugee from fascist Europe, as an immigrant woman entering academia later in life, and as a lifelong activist committed to feminist and anti-racist struggles, Lerner developed a historical methodology that rejected claims of objectivity and insisted on centring marginalised perspectives. Her scholarship challenged the exclusion of women from historical narratives and questioned the epistemological foundations of the historical discipline itself. 听This project argues that Gerda Lerner鈥檚 feminist historical method cannot be understood apart from her lived experiences of displacement, political struggle, and institutional exclusion. Rather than treating biography as background context or inspiration, I position Lerner鈥檚 life as central to her intellectual vision. Her formative years in Red Vienna, her forced exile under Nazism, her years of political activism and working-class labour in the United States, and her eventual entry into the male-dominated institution of academia all informed her critique of power and her insistence that history is never neutral. By tracing how Lerner translated lived experience into historical method, this thesis seeks to illuminate the relationship between feminist knowledge production and institutional resistance, both in Lerner鈥檚 time and in the present.

Maddie Daniel. 鈥淏reaking the Ice: Expectations for LGBTQIA+ Corporate Advocacy in the Professional Women's Hockey League and the National Hockey League鈥�

Sports always have been, and always will be, politically contentious. The advent of social media platforms such as Instagram has led to new opportunities for athletes, teams, and leagues to broadcast stances on social justice issues to large audiences. This thesis focuses on this development between January 1st, 2024, and January 1st, 2026, within both of North America鈥檚 premier hockey leagues, which are the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Professional Women鈥檚 Hockey League (PWHL). More specifically, it looks at how these leagues, as corporate enterprises, utilize Instagram (a social media platform) to send messages related to LGBTQ+ issues to their respective follower bases, and how these messages are received by these follower bases. To this end, the dominant league cultures of each organization, which are intrinsically gendered, connected with the presence/absence of out LGBTQ+ players and why fans watch each league, shape expectations for LGBTQ+ content that subsequently influence fans鈥� emotional responses and perceptions of authenticity regarding said content. Ultimately, this thesis aims to contribute to existing literature at the intersection of professional athletics and social justice to the extent that the authenticity of and emotional responses to corporate LGBTQ+ messaging on social media platforms like Instagram are not just determined by the messaging itself, but the cultural contexts that shape audience expectations.听

Anouk F茅lix. 鈥淭he Rise and Fall of Lesbian Spaces: Documenting and Reimagining the Notion of Lesbian Space through an Analysis of Montreal鈥檚 Lesbian Scene since the 1980s鈥�

Since the 1980s, the golden age of lesbianism in Montreal, all physical lesbian spaces have closed. If some ephemeral and short-lived spaces have seen the day since, the landscape of the lesbian scene has considerably changed. Therefore, this research project interrogates the reasons for this change while attempting to expand the notion of lesbian space. I start by documenting the history of lesbian spaces in Montreal, then delve into the causes and impacts of their evolution, to finally provide a reimagined definition of lesbian space. Drawing on archival materials and existing scholarship, my thesis examines how lesbo-queer history and politics, social geography, and socio-economic conditions have reshaped forms of lesbian community and visibility. Ultimately, I argue that lesbian spaces are not only physical places but also dynamic clusters evolving spatio-temporally.

Iulia Ganopolsky. 鈥淏e the Butch to My Femme: The Changing Relationship Between Lesbian Spaces and Identities in Montreal from the 1950s to the 1990s鈥�

Lesbian spaces in Montreal have historically been fluid and self-reflexive sites for community, identity and political redefinition. Through such spaces have percolated a plethora of discourses which have centered certain identity politics and gender performances while marginalizing others. In particular, butch/femme culture has been repeatedly redefined as out-dated, heteronormative, and oppressive relational structures of the past. This work questions the changes in lesbians spaces, between the 1950s and 1990s, in how they have been organized, in inclusive or exclusive ways, along linguistic, racial and class lines. It also investigates the ideological discourses existing within these spaces and how they have aided to construct spaces, identities and communities. Ultimately, through the use of archival sources, including yellow press journals from the 1950s and 1960s, lesbian periodicals, and photographs, this work considers the place butch/femme roles and identities held within these spaces and discourses, and how understandings of these roles and identities are shaped by linguistic, racial and class differences. By employing theoretical notions of gender performativity, female masculinities, and queer geographies, this research aims to understand butch/femme aesthetics, politics and desires throughout time and space, while also thinking about how this knowledge can inform a desire to rebuild inclusive lesbian spaces in Montreal.听

Felicit茅 Girard. 听鈥淭he Symbolic Power of Blondness: Constructing a Feminine Ideal Across Twentieth- Century Qu茅b茅cois Women鈥檚 Magazines鈥�

This thesis explores the symbolic construction of blondness in 20th-century advertisements in the Qu茅b茅cois women鈥檚 magazines La Revue Moderne and Ch芒telaine. A mixed-methods approach compared representations of blonde and brunette women across 506 advertisements published between the 1920s and 1990s. Through quantitative coding and qualitative discourse analysis, this study reveals that blondness was historically produced as an aspirational and hegemonic form of femininity deeply intertwined with gendered, classed and racialized ideals. While blondes were less visible than brunettes, their disproportionate representation in beauty advertisements reinforced their symbolic elevation as an enduring beauty standard, in contrast to the traditional femininity embodied by brunettes. The repeated association of blonde women with status, admiration, whiteness, youth and hegemonic ideals further revealed the symbolic power of blondness as a component of an ultimate feminine ideal that is socially rewarded in a political economy of embodiment. From these findings, the cultural popularity of blonde hair dyeing can be understood as much more than a trivial beauty practice, but as a process of self-regulation disguised as self-expression in a restrictive and disciplinary beauty regime.

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Graduate Student Presentation Abstracts

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Pengfei Cao: 鈥淯nheard Voices: Queer Chinese in the Diaspora -- Rethinking Support for Chinese International LGBTQ+ Students in Canada鈥�

This research project focus on Chinese queer international students鈥� lived experiences and how they perceive the existing support initiatives on campus and inside the community. By using Queer Asia as Method (QAM), we reimagine Queering China as main approach to understand what forms of violence, exclusion, or marginalization they experience within West-defined 2SLGBTQIA+ spaces. This project draws on the more specific way to examine how Chineseness, queerness, and immigration status specifically intersect, emphasizing that Chinese and queer identities are negotiated simultaneously and strategically, not sequentially or in opposition to each other.

The information is gathered through second-handed data analysis of the articles that have covered similar finding of respectively Chinese as well as Asian queer, international student community. Through this research project, we highlight how Chinese queer international students are often neglected while identifying what factors shape their perceptions of existing support initiatives and what leads to their decision of help-seeking strategies.This project is not meant to disparage and police various forms and expressions of听Chinese queer diasporic existence but to seek to center the silenced voices and lived experiences. Considering what it means to be queer, Chinese, and diasporic in white settler-colonial society, this research project will show how there are more inclusive, culturally relevant ways to support for the sizable but unheard community of Chinese queer international students.

Mathilde Genest, 鈥淭he Underdiagnosis of Neurodivergent Women and Girls: A Feminist and a Bioethical Issue鈥�

听In comparison to men and boys, women and girls are less likely to be diagnosed as neurodivergent, and if they are, it tends to be later in life. Neurodivergent girls and women are underdiagnosed. This presentation argues that it is not only a feminist issue but also a bioethical one. First, I adopt a feminist perspective. I start by presenting some contributing factors to girls and women鈥檚 underdiagnosis, describing the male model of neurodivergence, and explaining the impacts of gender on neurodivergence and vice-versa. Then, I explore the framework of epistemic injustices in relation to the underdiagnosis of neurodivergent girls and women. Second, I present the bioethical framework of principlism and apply it. This reframing allows me to expand on the harms linked to the epistemic injustices previously presented and to include other harms experienced by neurodivergent girls and women due to their underdiagnosis. The double framework of epistemic injustice and principlism gives a fuller picture of the harms linked to the underdiagnosis of neurodivergent girls and women. Some of the main harms fall into the principle of non-maleficence. Not receiving a diagnosis is linked to negative outcomes for neurodivergent girls and women poor mental health, negative self-perceptions, risk-taking behaviours, experiences of trauma, social difficulties, and testimonial injustices. Importantly, applying the principle of beneficence shows us the positive consequences of a diagnosis for neurodivergent girls and women. Hence, they are harmed because they are not benefiting from positive outcomes such as hermeneutical breakthroughs, improvements in social relationships, and increases in self- esteem. The underdiagnosis of neurodivergent girls and women hinders the flourishing of their autonomy when a diagnosis fosters it through self-understanding, re-authoring their lives, and an increased sense of control. Finally, the principle of justice highlights the epistemic injustices as intrinsically wrong and gender inequality.

Tashika Gomes, 鈥淎 Feminist Policy Analysis of Canada鈥檚 AI Strategy and Bill C-27.鈥�

In 2017, Canada became the first country to launch a national artificial intelligence strategy, prioritizing investment in research and talent development. In 2022, this strategy expanded to include responsible AI and commercialization alongside the introduction of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) within Bill C-27. Since then, Canada鈥檚 approach to AI governance has evolved through consultations and strategic updates, but legislative progress has stalled due to the prorogation of Parliament in January 2025.

This paper conducts a critical, intersectional feminist policy analysis of Canada鈥檚 AI strategy, AIDA, Bill C-27, and 32 reports submitted by 28 AI Strategy Task Force members. I examine how innovation, responsibility, and public protection are articulated across these documents, with a focus on policy language, funding priorities, and equity provisions for marginalized groups. The analysis identifies key tensions, omissions, and patterns across these materials, offering insight into how AI governance is currently being shaped and whose interests it centers or excludes.

Despine Green, 鈥淭he Temporality of Resistance Art: Fanon, the Medu Art Ensemble and Cultural Production鈥�

The work of Frantz Fanon presents us with interesting reflections on the relation between colonised temporality, aesthetic production and the invention of the new human. In this paper, I present an account of Fanon鈥檚 reflections on colonised temporality in Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and Wretched of the Earth (1961) which sees the colonised being locked in a continuous present, without histories or futures of significance that can be taken up authentically as their own. The intervention that Fanon presents is the introduction of invention into life, making real the possibility of choice for the colonised as a collective practice aimed at transforming the social situation. Part of the practice Fanon highlights is the development of new forms and uses of cultural production which evince a new kind of temporality beginning to make itself known through art as it engages with other parts of political struggle. After discussing this account, I use examples of resistance culture from the Medu Art Ensemble and show how they reflect this new temporality. The Medu Ensemble were a collective of cultural workers active in the anti-Apartheid struggle in the early 1980鈥檚, based out of Gaborone, Botswana who worked across a range of media. By focusing on their posters (many of which reproduced in Antawan I. Byrd and Felicia Mings, The People Shall Govern! (2020)), I argue that their use of screen-printing, assemblage and collage represent a critical reformulation of colonised temporality aimed at furthering the development of the new human active in struggle.

Inaya Huda, Theorising Women as National Symbols: Postwar Bangladesh

This paper examines how symbolic femininity operates as a constitutive mechanism within听nationalist projects, focusing on the aftermath of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Marked听by genocidal tactics, including the mass rape of hundreds of thousands of women, the war听produced a social and political context in which gendered violence became materially and听symbolically central to the nation鈥檚 formation. As a result, Bangladesh offers a uniquely听instructive case for analysing how women鈥檚 bodies and images become embedded in the听narration of national identity and moral order.听Drawing on feminist theories of nationalism and cultural-sociological accounts of collective听identity and cultural trauma, this essay argues that symbolic femininity can function as a primary听mechanism through which nations in their early stages negotiate legitimacy and collective听identity. By bringing these frameworks into conversation, the analysis shows how gendered听symbolism operates not only at the level of discourse but as a mechanism through which national听meaning is stabilised and made politically consequential.

Bianca Hutanu, 鈥淭rauma-Informed Approaches to Tattooing: Enhancing Mental Health Literacy and Ethics of Care.鈥�

Literature from the past decade has shown an increased interest in tattoos as a means of identity expression, and bodily reclamation, particularly those with histories of trauma, which shifts away from the previous negative narratives and stigmatization within the modern Western world. Historically, some Indigenous communities, such as the Cherokee or Inuit, incorporated tattooing as a culturally significant practice that was supressed through generations of longstanding colonial violence, and Native dispossession (Honma & Francoso, 2023). Documenting these histories have helped artists, such as Cherokee artist John Henry Gloyne, reimagine the practice outside of the reducible distorted optics and constrains of the settler state, but also reclaim this practice. Motivations and meanings vary, yet instances of correlation of tattooed bodies with mental health are not secular; research on this has demonstrated questions of embodied storytelling and body reclamation are also explored amongst survivors of human trafficking and harmful branding practices, the correlation between tattooed individuals and the increased rates of suicidality, as well as the association with childhood abuse or neglect and tattooing. In light of these findings, while tattooing can serve as a site of healing for clients, questions arise on the tattoo artist鈥檚 practices, role within ethics of care, and their psychological impact of engaging with stories of pain, grief, and resilience, such as potential secondary or vicarious trauma. Artists often learn the technical practice through apprenticeships or informally; there is no standardization of the practice, which can limit knowledge sharing and create challenges for the artist鈥檚 and client鈥檚 wellbeing and safety.

This study aims to develop a potential framework that could support community-based learning, mental health literacy, and ethical practice among tattoo artists, guided by trauma-informed and anti-oppressive practices.听

Dan Levy, 鈥淪quinting With Your Ears: Re-Articulations of Beverly Glenn-Copeland鈥檚 Keyboard Fantasies鈥� (1986)

It has now been a decade since composer and Black trans elder Beverly Glenn-Copeland鈥檚听legendary 鈥渞ediscovery鈥� through a cassette of his 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies. During this听time, Glenn-Copeland has come to figure possibilities larger than himself for his newfound queer听and trans devotees: of long life, intergenerational trans care, and recognition for Black trans听culture-makers. The making of a cultural icon, however, invites ascriptions of value through听singularity over coalition and connection. Accordingly, journalistic narratives often reinscribe听Glenn-Copeland鈥檚 work within the periphery of the 鈥渦ncategorizable鈥� and the genre-defying.听I interrogate these narratives of rediscovery and exceptionalism, asking how, why, and by whom听Keyboard Fantasies has been taken up. I approach the album not merely as an artifact of the 鈥�80s听or the material site of Glenn-Copeland鈥檚 鈥渞ediscovery,鈥� but as a work of cultural production听which takes on meaning through the temporal breaks which characterize its reception. Through听analysis of the material conditions which animated and attended the album鈥檚 initial production, I听explore submerged and foreclosed articulations between Black electronic music and indie music听cultures of the mid-80s. Then, I examine the ways in which Keyboard Fantasies has been听adopted by queer and trans musicians, particularly in contemporary queer indie scenes.听Following Glenn-Copeland鈥檚 own phenomenological metaphor for listening to synthesized听sounds, I suggest that by 鈥渟quinting with our ears,鈥� we can orient ourselves to better listen for听sites of both affinity and alienation.

Dina Lowe: Literature Review for Thesis Titled "Gendered Narratives in Kazakhstan鈥檚 Post-Soviet

Memory Landscape"

This literature review surveys four bodies of scholarship relevant to the study of gendered memory in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Soviet gender policy in Central Asia, women鈥檚 experiences of Stalinist repression, post-Soviet nation-building and femininity, and memory studies. These fields reveal that while scholars have extensively examined both gender and commemorative practices in the post-Soviet space, the two areas have rarely been brought into direct dialogue in the Kazakhstani context. Research on Soviet gender policy shows that women's emancipation was deeply entangled with colonial modernization, which had unique impacts in predominantly Muslim areas of Soviet Central Asia. Gendered studies of Stalinist 听repression demonstrate that women were frequently targeted through kinship and familial roles rather than individual political acts. Work on post-Soviet nation-building shows that governments across Central Asia have institutionalized idealized femininities centered on motherhood and moral guardianship as tools of national cohesion. Memory studies, meanwhile, establish that commemorative sites function as intentional state practices that construct political meaning. This review finds that despite this rich body of work, gender remains underexplored as a strategic and structuring element within Kazakhstan's politics of 听remembrance. Notably, unique historical sites such as ALZhIR, (The Akmolinsk Camp for Wives of Traitors to the Motherland), a museum in Astana, Kazakhstan which memorializes solely female prisoners of Soviet repression, has received limited scholarly attention as an explicitly gendered commemorative space.

Alisa Sanchez, 鈥淎 Comparative Ethnography of Masculinity in Single-Sex and Co-Educational Schools鈥�

Elite schools increasingly frame themselves around inclusion, civility, and character development, yet subtle gendered hierarchies continue to structure peer life beneath these formal commitments. This project examines how masculinity is performed and regulated among early adolescent boys in elite school settings, with particular attention to practices such as irony, mock aggression, and ostensibly playful forms of interaction. Drawing on and departing from C.J. 听Pascoe's influential account of "fag discourse," preliminary pilot ethnography at one elite Montreal boys' school suggests that explicit homophobic policing may be receding, displaced not by greater equality, but by a different idiom. Boys deployed humor centered on assault, sexual misconduct, and racial stereotyping as mechanisms for boundary-drawing and status regulation, carefully calibrating their jokes to remain just within institutional tolerance. While scholarship on masculinity frequently centers older adolescents, boys in Grades 7 to 9 at elite Canadian schools remain understudied despite occupying a formative period in which gender norms and status hierarchies are actively co-constructed. I will expand on this project through a comparative ethnography across two Anglophone elite schools in Montreal 鈥� one all-boys, one co- educational 鈥� investigating how institutional structures shape these performances and how boys navigate formal expectations around maturity and inclusion. Fieldwork will include participant observation, go-along ethnography, and interviews with students and staff across one academic year. This project contributes to the sociology of education, youth studies, and masculinity studies by highlighting how gendered power persists through ambiguous and institutionally tolerated practices, and how boys learn to navigate hierarchy under the language of civility and leadership.

Andr茅s Valencia, 鈥淩elationality, Dissensus, and More-than-Human Futures: Seven Counter-Hegemonic Logics for the University of 2050鈥�

Universities are being reshaped by intersecting, simultaneous, and mutually reinforcing crises, such as the climate emergency, democratic erosion, rising authoritarianism, anti-gender ideologies, the rollback/shrinking of public funding, and technological disruption. These interdependent crises will transform universities by 2050. Yet institutional futures work rarely centers on sensory regimes and logics away from Western aesthetics. This presentation showcases a Qualitative Research Synthesis of seven university logics鈥攖he 听Ubuntu or decolonial, the ethically engaged, the slow, the plastic, the troublemaker, the 听pluriversity, and the queer university鈥攚hose designs push against global capitalism cultural hegemony and its systemic dysfunctions: faculty alienation, erosion of autonomy, academic labor audit, overreliance in key performance indicators, organizational 听isomorphism, blind technocracy, top-down management hierarchies, intolerant 听departmental monocultures, the fetishization of efficiency, among others.听

The presentation addresses three questions: 1) What critiques are made of the neoliberal, managerial university? 2) What are their proposals seen from an epistemic, ontological, and axiological听lens? And, 3) What can these designs/logics contribute to reenvision future universities in the 2050-time horizon, beyond patriarchal, colonial, polluting, and racist aesthetics? Preliminary findings indicate that knowledge is reconceptualized as deeply relational, slow, and rooted in unlearning and processes of becoming. Feminist and decolonial perspectives push this further, advocating dissensus, hyper-self-reflexivity, and a rejection of extractive, objectifying epistemologies. In ontological terms, profound ontological ruptures that dismantle the Western anthropocentric divide between human and nature are advocated. 听Indeed, these logics call for an ontology that repositions the university within ecological听interconnectedness and recognizes nonhuman beings as more-than-human relatives. While,听in axiological terms, counter-hegemonic university logics prioritize care, justice, and ecological survival over efficiency, foregrounding intellectual virtues such as truthfulness, patience, compassion, and open-mindedness. The presentation closes with some reflections on the universities of the future, arguing that securing a sustainable future for higher education requires more than technological innovation or administrative restructuring.