Amal Treacher (Feminist Review, U.K.) - Working Together: Pulling Apart
This presentation will explore issues of working together as an editorial collective (Feminist Review) and the issues that arise from this endeavour. Focusing on matters of race and culture I will talk about the questions, dilemmas and issues that arise.

Firdous Azim (Naripokkho, Bangladesh) - Feminist Struggles in Bangladesh
I will concentrate on the spaces that feminist struggles in 'third world' as well as 'muslim' societies need to carve out. These are the spaces from where a transnational feminist discourse can also emerge, and from where a fruitful dialoge can take place.
Firstly, caught between the horns of perceived Islamic dictates on women, and a western representation that hones on the position of women to denigrate other societies and cultures, feminists have to carve out a space where issues get discussed, and real change can be brought about. I will use Tasleema Nasreen as a case in point, to see how her image has been circulated in different sites - that is in the west and in Bangladesh.
Secondly, in the globalised economy, issues of women's work and migration get cloaked in a rights discourse that somehow does not take on board the realities of women's lives. I will be looking at the case of garment workers in Bangladesh, as well as women's labour migration which is often conflated with the issue of trafficking in women.

Chiara Martucci (SCONVEGNO, Italy) - Crossing boundaries: identities in movement
We would like to discuss together what trans/national feminism(s) could mean. We are a feminist group (6 women) and we work together since 3 years. We will start our analysis from our personal experience, because we believe that all the contradictions that we live in a small group are present, even more strongly, in an international meeting. We recognise and stress the importance of trans/national feminist meetings first of all because they are a source of power and mutual recognition, that we then 'bring back home' and share in our local activities. We would like to try to imagine a way of creating continuities, of crossing boundaries that permits us to share a commune project. We want to bring the experience of the 'May Day', as a 'best practice' on which we could think together. Why not imagine a shared organisation of a different 8 march celebration? March attacks!

Sanjay Sharma (BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group, U.K.) - Anti-racist praxis - the (im)possibility of collective work in the academy
What kinds of critical anti-racist work are possible today in an academy which increasingly operates a neo-liberal capitalist agenda? And how does the promise of the transnational open up practices of collective struggle?

Beppe de Sario (Torino Sambaband, Italy) - Creative resistance: strategies and transnational subjectivities for alternative politics
the key words are: 1. becoming transnational and crossing the borders of political (especially national) traditions. 2. stylistic recognition among creative groups facilitates respect and trust. 3. necessity of communication of differences both during the actions and talks about different backgrounds. 4. necessity of bringing the local to the transnational questioning the creative identity/practices on connecting different issues in politics (precarious work, migrations, war/peace, local and urban environment). 5. necessity of bringing the transnational to the local changing the imaginary of local/national politics and breaking with old and residual traditions.

Joanna Hoare (NextGenderation, U.K.) - Bridging the Gap between academia and Political Activism
NextGenderation (London) will reflect upon our attempts over the past year to establish a collective that combines an academic approach to feminist questions with active political engagement. In particular, we will talk about our attempts to plan for participation in the non-offical ESF forum, and the challenges that we have faced in trying to maintain a participatory, non-hierarchical, consultative approach to this process.