Welcome to the Women's Equality Party Conference 2020
Build Back Equal
15th - 18th October
Online
FULL PROGRAMME
TICKETS
H I G H L I G H T S
*Please note, not all events are displayed below. Download the full programme above!
H E A D L I N E R:
LAURA BATES
Saturday 17th October - 5pm
T H U R S D A Y
1 5 T H O C T O B E R
08.30 - 09.00
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11.00 - 12.00
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12.00 - 13.00 |
Conference Opening
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The Great Unknown |
Conversation With 'Cynthia Enloe' |
Official opening of the 2020 conference |
Unanswered questions about Covid |
Feminist critiques of militarizing Covid-19 |
Hannah Peaker |
Dr Hannah-Barham Brown |
Cynthia Enloe |
13.00 - 14.00
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14.30 - 15.30
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17.00 - 18.00
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Run That Bias Again |
Is It Time For A Caring Economy? |
Generation Climate Change |
How we Build Back Equal post-Covid |
Exploring WBG report 'Commission on a Gender-Equal Economy' |
Young women leading the climate change revolution |
Jude Kelly |
Shola Mos-Shogbamimu |
Sellisha Lockyer |
F R I D A Y
1 6 T H O C T O B E R
09.00 - 10.00
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10.30 - 11.30
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12.00 - 13.00
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Deputy Leaders Report |
Covid Epiphanies |
Fight Like A Girl |
Get the insider scoop and put your questions to our Deputy Leaders |
Join this mini festival of ideas birthed during Covid |
How to fight employment discrimination |
Daniella Jenkins |
Kathryn Adkins |
Harini Iyengar |
14.00 - 15.00
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16.00-17.00
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19.45 - 20.15
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Prison Abolition Is A Feminist Struggle |
Dying To Give Birth: Racism In Maternal Healthcare |
Build Back Equal With Miss Yankey |
Should women's prisons be abolished and what should be in their place? |
How maternal healthcare racism has been ignored & how to end the crisis |
Spoken word artists join forces in this bespoke performance for WEP |
Chris Paoaros |
BAME Caucus |
Esi Yankey (Miss Yankey) |
S A T U R D A Y
1 7 T H O C T O B E R
10.00-11.30
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12.00-13.00
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13.30-15.30
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Leader's Speech To Conference |
The Mother of All Crises |
Party Business (1/3) |
Kay Wesley will introduce Mandu Reid for her first Leader's Speech |
How we found ourselves in the 1970s and had we ever left? |
See Politics live in action and add your voice to the debate |
Kay Wesley |
Celine Thomas |
Mixed |
17.00-18.00
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18.00-19.00
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21.00-22.30
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H E A D L I N E R
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Activism In An Age Of Isolation |
Comedy Fundraiser |
Join our headliner, Laura Bates, founder of The Everyday Sexism project, to discuss whether men really do hate women. |
Hear from the activists shaping this era of disobedience |
An evening of SHElarity! |
Laura Bates |
Tabitha Morton |
Sandi Toksvig |
S U N D A Y
1 8 T H O C T O B E R
09.00-09.30
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09.30-11.30 |
12.00-13.00
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Music As An Agent Of Change |
Party Business (2/3) |
Campaigns Coven |
A journey through protest songs |
See Politics live in action and add your voice to the debate |
Activists pitch campaigns for a chance to win funding & support |
Holly Cullen-Davies |
Mixed |
Cath Smith |
13.00-14.00
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14.30-15.30 |
15.30-18.30
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Hustings |
The Age We Live In |
Party Business 3/3 |
Meet the candidates standing to join the Policy and Steering Committees |
How Covid has impacted those over 50 |
See Politics live in action and add your voice to the debate |
Emma Ko |
Catherine Mayer |
Mixed |