Farida Feminist Magazine is holding its first annual conference, themed “Towards Feminist Approaches to Violence, Resistance, and Liberation,” on October 10 and 11, 2026. Over two days, the programme brings together feminist scholars, researchers, and writers largely working on and from Sudan, presenting papers that move between history, political economy, culture, and the ongoing war’s effect on women’s lives.

Day One, Saturday, October 10, opens at 10:00 am with remarks from Dr. Samia Al-Nager, chaired by Wini Omer. The day’s first full panel, Questioning Discourses and Knowledge, chaired by Aunnab Alman and Dr. Fatima Osheik, features Dr. Gada Kadoda on feminist knowledge production and the narratives of sacrifice, honour, courage, and heroism that emerge in wartime, alongside a paper on the biopolitics of sanitized resistance under global regimes of epistemicide and extractivism. The afternoon turns to Economics through a Feminist Lens, chaired by Mayada Hassanain, with Waha Ibrahim examining the gendered dynamics of land, labour, and food access in Sudanese households, and Sara Mouawia presenting on what goes unaccounted for in measuring women’s work in Sudan. Wini Omer closes out the day.

Day Two, Sunday, October 11, opens with remarks from Raga Makawi before moving into Thinking from Within Culture and Art, chaired by Dr. Asha Alkarib. That session includes Najlaa Osman Eltom on dowries and body politics in nineteenth-century Sudan, and Rana Salih on power relations, acceptance, and the expression of queer identity. The day continues with Spatial and Cultural Transformations in Wartime, chaired by Wafa Adam, featuring Aroob Al-Amin and Samah Osman on the spatial transformations women and girls undergo in wartime, and Noor Abdallah on how marriage and mourning rituals shift under conditions of war and displacement. The final session, Politics and Justice: Critique and Foresight, chaired by Hana Jafar, brings together Dr. Bayan Abobaker on the political economy of Sudan’s counterrevolution and Wala Salah on documentation, distribution, and what a feminist transitional justice process for Sudan could look like. Fahima Hashim closes the conference with a session on the way forward.

All times are listed in East Africa Time. Registration for the conference is open now via Google Form.