GENDERED POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEMOCRACY

Schedule

Mon, 17 Aug, 2026 at 09:00 am

UTC+02:00
Location

Kulturhuset i Bergen | Bergen, HO

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GENDERED POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEMOCRACY
Keynote by Lyn Ossome & Roundtable
📅 Monday, August 17
📍 Kulturhuset, Vaskerelven 8, Top Floor, Bergen
🕣 Doors open at 8:30 for coffee, tea and meet&greet
🎤 Keynote at 9:00 | Opening of BeEx 2026
Can democracy truly deliver inclusion and equality? In this keynote, Lyn Ossome (MISR, Makerere University) explores democracy through the lens of African feminist thought, political economy, and decolonial scholarship, examining how democratic systems depend on invisible, undervalued labour disproportionately borne by women, and how democratic transitions can reproduce gendered exclusion rather than overcome it.
Part of the UiB GOV project Decolonizing Epistemologies: Disciplines and the University in Relation to the Society and the World (Norhed)
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Kulturhuset i Bergen, Vaskerelven 8,Bergen, Norway

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