22nd Gender and Education Association Conference 2026 - Ngā Manu o Te Wao: Birds of the Realm

Date: 29.11.2026 21:00 - 03.12.2026
Conference / symposium
Keywords: Gender; Intersectionality; Education; Posthuman; Ecopedagogy
Format: onsite
Language(s): English
Location: Auckland , New Zealand
Event Fee: Free

Organizer(s):
Gender and Education Association & Auckland University of Technology

The magic of the birds in flight inspires us—as academics, educators, activists, artists and scholars of gender and education—to speculation and to innovation. Casting our eyes upwards to follow the brilliance of the Toroa (albatross) as it glides into the ether, with it we begin to see beyond boundaries, that are now opened up in the sheer expanse of the sky. The limits are moved, shaken, survived, reinscribed, and urged onwards and upwards by these messengers of the gods riding on the winds. For us here, journeys will be taken in our fields and practices, that are replete with the old memories of the currents and that will cast new lines of flight. Inspired by this whakataukī, we welcome presentations that explore: - Border-crossings and by-ways: storying intersectionality in education - Gender and education in the political zeitgeist - Multiplicities, pluralities in gender and sexuality education as sites of becoming - Poetries, arts-based pedagogies as gender activism - Postcolonial intersections and encounters in Aotearoa, the Pacific and beyond - Philosophy and pedagogy across gender boundaries - Nomadic theory as feminist pedagogy - Hydrofeminism and education - “We make the road by walking”: gender and ecopedagogy - Pacific feminist climate activism as global pedagogy - Gender and class - Taking flight with posthuman feminism - Gender(ed) becomings with the more-than-human - Murmurations and collective movement - Looking to the skies and dreaming otherwise

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