#MeToo: Thinking Ahead was the topic of the RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference and Gender Equality Studies and Training (GEST) programme online conversation series in spring 2021. The series focused on #MeToo, its gains as well as the challenges that remain in the fight against harassment, discrimination and violence. The series buildt upon two books published on the movement, firstly an Icelandic issue of Fléttur, RIKK’s book series, and secondly The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement, edited by Irma Erlingsdóttir, Director of RIKK and GEST, and Giti Chandra, Research Specialist at GEST.
The series was conducted both in English and Icelandic but the following conversations were in English:
18 February 2021 at 15:00 GMT
Absence-Presences, Memes, and Masculinity
Tonya Haynes & Jeff Hearn
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18 March 2021 at 14:00 GMT
Legal and Media Issues
Karen Boyle og Audrey Roofeh
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8 April 2021 at 12:00 GMT
Race, Immigration, History, and Contemporary Feminist Activism
Marai Larasi and Nichole Leigh Mosty
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29 April 2021
Survivor Voices and Stories
Rochelle McFee and Pamela Runestad
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4 May 2021
Spaces Opened Up by the #MeToo Movement in Academia and Work Places
Vinita Chandra and Lisa Salmonsson
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