PROGRAM
Anti-gender research: historical and contemporary approaches
Time: Friday 8.5.2026, 10.00 -16.00
Venue: University of Uppsala, Sweden
10.00 -10.30. Introductions. Introduction of the research project and its current phase by Tuija Pulkkinen.
10.30 – 11.15. Julian Honkasalo: “The relevance of Alexis de Tocqueville’s De la démocratie en Amérique for theorizing contemporary, democratic backsliding and anti-gender pushback.”
Discussants: Susanne Lettow, Anthoula Malkopoulou
11.15 -12.00. Ulrika Dahl: ”A double helix? Telling stories about the work of ‘gender’ in research on anti-gender”.
Discussants: Katja Kahlina, Tuija Pulkkinen
14.00 – 14.45. Felicia Asplund Nilsson: “Sweden Democrats gender equality discourse: the racialised threat of the 'veil' and the conceptual crisis of gender pedagogy/recognition.”
Discussants: Katja Kahlina and Julian Honkasalo.
14.45 - 16.00. Aino Pietiläinen: ”Science or Theology? The Role of Natural Law in the Parliamentary Debates on the Finnish Trans Act.”
Discussants: Kari Palonen & Susanne Lettow.