Panel 26: Cultural Representations, Gender and Diaspora (EN)

Chairs:

Margarida Rendeiro, CHAM-NOVA FCSH

This panel examines how women’s mobility—whether through travel, migration, or literary production—intersects with shifting configurations of modernity, coloniality, and identity from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary period. It explores how women engage with and contest dominant narratives about nation, empire, race, and belonging, revealing the deeply gendered and racialized dynamics underlying modern and late-modern social imaginaries. This panel reveals how women’s mobility—across borders, cultures, and discursive fields—generates critical perspectives on colonial legacies, racial formations, and the construction of modern identities. By centring female agency and transnational experience, the panel contributes to broader debates on gender, postcoloniality, and mobility in Europe and Latin America.

Keywords: Gendered mobility; Identity formation; Transnational feminisms; Entrepreneurship