Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Day 1 Program

9:30 AM – Reproductive Work Today: Assaults and Resistance

Introduction

Annabelle Berthiaume, Assistant Professor | School of Social Work, Université de Sherbrooke (Canada)
Noemi Martorano, Postdoctoral Researcher | Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology, University of Padua (Italy)
Maud Simonet, Research Director | CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre, IDHE.S (France)

9:45 AM – The Historical Temporalities of Reproductive Work

Leopoldina Fortunati, Senior Professor | Department of Mathematical, Computer and Physical Sciences, University of Udine (Italy)

10:30 AM – Theorizing Social Reproduction to Decolonize Approaches to Global Development

Alessandra Mezzadri, Professor | Department of Development Studies, University of London (UK)

11:00 AM – Break

11:15 AM – 1:15 PM – First Roundtable: Domestic Work – Invisibility, Uberization, Unionization

Moderated by Maud Simonet, Research Director | CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre, IDHE.S (France)

Politically Organizing Single Mothers: A “Social Time Bomb”

Agnès Aoudaï, Co-president | Movement of Single Mothers (France)

Unionization: Domestic Workers’ Struggles Around the World

Giulia Garofalo Geymonat, Assistant Professor | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)

In the Name of Women: The Uberization of Domestic Work

Nicole Teke, PhD Candidate in Sociology | IDHE.S, Université Paris Nanterre (France)

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM – Editorial Updates on Reproductive Work

With the bookstore El Ghorba, mon amour

1:30 PM – Lunch

2:15 PM – 4:15 PM – Second Roundtable: Social Services – Recognized Reproductive Work?

Moderated by Noemi Martorano | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Padua (Italy), IDHE.S Nanterre (France)

Commodification of Healthcare and the “Refamilialization” of Care in Belgium

Natalia Hirtz, Researcher | Group for Research on an Alternative Economic Strategy (GRESEA), Brussels (Belgium)

Social Reproduction and Colonial Care Chains

Sara Farris, Professor of Sociology | University of London (UK)

A Wage for Users: Toward a True Common Front

Camille Marcoux-Berthiaume and Gabrielle Laverdière, Activists | The Great Resignation, Montreal (Canada)

4:15 PM – Break

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM – Third Roundtable: Informalization and Criminalization of Reproductive Work

Moderated by Annabelle Berthiaume, Assistant Professor | Université de Sherbrooke (Canada)

Laws of Social Reproduction

Prabha Kotiswaran, Professor of Law and Social Justice | King’s College London (UK)

The Ultra-Right War Against Social Reproduction: A Brief Genealogy from Argentina

Veronica Gago, Professor of Social Sciences | University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Blow Jobs Are Real Jobs: Sex Work, Reproduction, and Organizing by Sex Workers in Montreal

Adore Goldman, Activist | Autonomous Sex Work Committee, Montreal (Canada)

6:30 PM – Exhibition: “Calling on the Archive, Growing New Worlds. Materials for a Feminist Future of Social Reproduction”

Barbara Mahlknecht, Exhibition Curator, Artistic Mediator, and Doctoral Researcher | University of London (UK)