Open lectures: Critical perspectives on anti-gender
As part of the PhD course Critical Perspectives on Anti-Gender, given within the Gender Academy Research School at Stockholm University, we offer two open lectures by Elżbieta Korolczuk and Haley McEwen, leading experts on anti-gender politics as a transnational phenomenon.
The lectures will focus particularly on the complicated entanglements between current anti-gender politics and critique of neo-colonialism, globalization and imposed “Western” values.
Elżbieta Korolczuk: “Anti-Colonial Fantasies and Imperial Realities in Anti-Gender Politics”.
Haley McEwen: “Thinking beyond backlash: Anti-gender diplomacy and international dis/re-ordering”.
Elżbieta Korolczuk is a researcher at Södertörn University and associate professor in sociology at University of Warsaw. Her work focuses on social movements, civil society, reproductive politics, and anti-gender mobilizations. Co-author of "Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment" with Agnieszka Graff (Routledge, 2022).
Haley McEwen is a researcher and associate senior lecturer of international affairs at University West (Sweden). She holds a PhD in sociology from University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and is the author of the book “The U.S. Christian Right and Pro-Family Politics in 21st Century Africa” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). She currently leads the research project Gender and Sexual Politics in a Transforming International Order.
The Gender Academy at Stockholm University
Information about the PhD course Critical Perspectives on Anti-gender
For questions about the event, please contact course coordinators Annika Berg, annika.berg@idehist.su.se or Åsa Eriksson, asa.eriksson@gender.su.se.
Last updated: 2026-10-22
Source: Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies