16TH ANNUAL GWO 2026 CONFERENCE

Name: 16TH ANNUAL GWO 2026 CONFERENCE
Start: 2026-06-08T04:00:00Z
End: 2026-06-10T21:00:00Z

Nazarbaev University

June 8-10, 2026

16th Gender, Work and Organization Conference
(GWO2026)

The Gender, Work & Organization community warmly invites everyone to the 16th Annual GWO Conference, which will take place from 8 to 10 June at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan.

This year’s theme — Voices at the Margins: Rethinking Gender, Labor, and Belonging — calls us to reimagine what counts as knowledge, whose experiences shape theory, and how gendered forms of labor and survival are produced under conditions of precarity, displacement, coloniality, and social transformation.

Our Packages

Grounded Stories. Global Conversations

Let’s rethink what counts as knowledge.

Let’s center the margins.

Across disciplines, scholars are questioning dominant knowledge systems — yet Eurocentric frameworks still define what is valid theory, whose labor counts, and whose stories are heard. Voices at the Margins invites us to reimagine these hierarchies and bring forward the wisdom of communities, movements, and thinkers often left out of mainstream narratives.

This conference brings together global and local scholars, artists, and practitioners to share grounded insights and open space for epistemic justice and feminist solidarity.

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Key Dates

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FOR CIS COUNTRIES DEADLINE: 15 APRIL 2026
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FOR ALL OTHER COUNTRIES DEADLINE: 30 APRIL 2026

In-person delegate: USD 400 (+20% VAT)
PhD student (in-person): USD 250 (+20% VAT)

STANDARD REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 15 MAY 2026

In-person delegate: USD 550 (+20% VAT)
PhD student (in-person): USD 350 (+20% VAT)

ONLINE PARTICIPATION

Online delegate (keynotes + sessions): USD 150 (+20% VAT)
PhD student (online): USD 100 (+20% VAT)

To qualify for the PhD rate (in-person or online), participants must provide an official letter confirming current PhD enrolment from their institution.