Conferences 15 November, 2025, Saturday

Voices at the Margins: Rethinking Gender, Labor, and Belonging

15 November, 2025, Saturday Conferences

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

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