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Women in Tech Conference “The Promise of (Un)Happiness? Gender, Labour, and Migration” is taking place at European Humanities University

As part of the EU-funded ‘Women in Tech’ project, the Centre for Gender Studies at the European Humanities University  (EHU) is organising a conference on ‘The Promise of (Un)Happiness? Gender, Labour, and Migration’. It takes place in a hybrid format, on 17-18 September, in Vilnius. At the opening ceremony, the conference participants were greeted by EHU Acting Rector Dr. Vilius Šadauskas.

This conference continues a series of events devoted to different aspects of labour at the intersection of women and technology (as part of the long-term project ‘Women In Tech’). One of the conference’s focuses is the women’s IT sphere and the transnationalisation of its labour market in the context of migration.

More broadly, the participants discuss the challenges of women’s migration in the conditions of wars, humanitarian crises and political turbulence, the impacts of migration on women’s professional identity, career tracks and working conditions, etc.
The project invites scholars from different fields (gender studies, sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, law, media studies, art and others) with various theoretical perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches, to take part in the event.

Launched by the EHU Centre for Gender Studies and funded by the European Union, ‘Women in Tech’ is an infrastructural educational and research project that aims to support women in IT, stimulate research at the intersection of technology and feminism, and promote gender equality in high technology.

Program. Press here.

LINK TO THE ONLINE BROADCASTING https://www.wintech.me/conference-2024

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