Nazarbayev University’s Research Centre for Entrepreneurship (NURCE) is delighted to announce the international conference “Voices at the Margins: Rethinking Gender, Labor, and Belonging” taking place 15–17 November 2025 at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan — in collaboration with the Gender, Work & Organization Journal.
This workshop is funded as part of Professor Waqar Ahmad FAcSS PhD BA initiative to celebrate Nazarbayev University’s 15th Anniversary and is further supported by the Ministry of Science & Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Call for Papers
We welcome submissions exploring gender, work, labor, belonging, and knowledge production from the margins — particularly perspectives from the Global South and Central Asia.
Themes include (but are not limited to):
- Gendered experiences of labor, care, entrepreneurship, leadership, and organization
- Community-based, spiritual, or ancestral knowledge systems as frameworks for organizing
- Post-socialist transitions and their gendered implications
- Resistance economies, collective care, and cooperative labor
- Reflexive, storytelling, and visual methods
- Reimagining academic hierarchies and epistemic justice
Abstract deadline: 20th October 2025
Please send abstracts (max. 500 words) and a short bio (max. 100 words) to shumaila.yousafzai@nu.edu.kz Shumaila Yousafzai
Limited travel and accomodation bursaries are available for selected papers to support participation. Please indicate in your email if you wish to apply for a travel bursary by 15 October 2025.
Contact information:
shumaila.yousafzai@nu.edu.kz
