Online registration has now opened for the Austerity, Gender and Household Finance conference taking place on 18/19 June 2015.
The conference aims to initiate a critical interdisciplinary dialogue to explore and interrogate the impact of austerity on households as well as the scope and effect of existing public policies and legal and regulatory measures on families and their financial circumstances. It will explore the impact of austerity on women and the vulnerable in society and incorporates the following thematic streams:
- Austerity and Debt and Credit (organised by Dr Julia Gumy from Bristol and Dr Simone Wong from Kent)
- Austerity and Parenting (organised by Dr Ruth Cain from Kent)
- Austerity and Financialisation: What can we learn from the Global South? (organised by Kent Law School Teaching Assistant Serena Natile).
Submissions to the Austerity, Gender and Household Finance conference were invited from a broad range of disciplines including law, sociology, social policy, economics, psychology and gender studies.
Plenary speakers include: Fran Bennett (Oxford); Professor Mary Evans (LSE); Professor Susanne Soederberg (Queen’s, Canada); and Professor Rebecca Tunstall (York).
Further details are available on the conference website. Early online registration is advised; the event is free for Kent staff and students but there are a limited number of spaces.
Any enquiries can be directed to: kentausterityconference@kent.ac.uk
The conference has been organised as part of the Radical Women: 50 years of Feminism at Kent project which is celebrating past achievements at Kent, including the establishment of the first taught programme in Women’s Studies in this country. The project will also feature a public lecture in the Open Lecture series to be given by a leading figure in feminist activism and a series of feminist films to be shown and discussed at the Gulbenkian Cinema on the Canterbury campus.