This is the third whole weekend-long Concept Workshop. We will engage in intensive analysis of particular texts together. As in all concept workshops, we will focus in the analysis on the use of the concepts ‘people’, ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ in these texts. For analysis we have selected academic texts on the connection between the Christian right and anti-gender, as well as think tank texts on anti-gender. This workshops builds thematically on the previous two Concept Workshops in which we have analyzed textual materials produced by Christian anti-gender organizations. We will go on engaging with analysis of text in the same productively practicel manner we have stablished in the two previous weekend workshops. In addition the program includes discussion on ongoing writing and the progress of the project.
PROGRAM
Friday
16:15 – 18:00 Reviewing the materials to analyse Discussing the program Discussing what has happened since the previous workshop
Saturday
10.00 – 11.00 Concept analysis together: Stoeckl, Kristina. “The rise of the Russian Christian Right: the Case of the World Congress of Families.” Religion, State & Society 48.4 (2020): 223-238.
11.00 – 11:15 15 minute walking break on the inner yard of Topelia
11:15-12:15 Concept analysis together: Dick, Hannah. “Advocating for the Right: Alliance defending freedom and the rhetoric of Christian persecution.” Feminist Legal Studies 29.3 (2021): 375-397.
13.15 Lunch Espresso Edge
13.15 – 14.30 Article manuscript under work. Aino Pietiläinen: Natural Law in the Finnish Parliament.
14:30 – 15:00 30 min Coffee Break
15.00 – 17.00 Concept analysis together: • Kratochvíl, P., & O’Sullivan, M. (2023). “A war like no other: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a war on gender order”. European Security, 32(3), 347–366.
15 minute walking break on the inner yard of Topelia
Fangen, Katrine, and Lisanne Lichtenberg. “Gender and family rhetoric on the German far right.” Patterns of Prejudice 55.1 (2021): 71-93.
17:00 – 17: 45 • McEwen, H., & Narayanaswamy, L. (2023). The international anti-gender movement: Understanding the rise of anti-gender discourses in the context of development, human rights and social protection (No. 2023-06). UNRISD Working Paper.
18:15 Dinner
Sunday
10:00 – 11:00 Concept analysis together: Grzebalska, Weronika, and Eszter Petronella Soós. “Conservatives vs. the “Culture of Death”. How Progressives Handled the War on ‘Gender.’” FEPS YAN Study (2016).
15 minute walking break on the inner yard of Topelia
11:15-12:00 Garbagnoli, S. (2016). “Against the heresy of immanence: Vatican’s ‘gender’as a new rhetorical device against the denaturalization of the sexual order”. Religion and gender, 6(2), 187-204.
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch: Fazer Café Kaisaniemi
13.00 – 14.00 Discussion on the program of the year 2026
14.00 – 15.00 Discussion on the website End discussion. Experience and next plan.