Join us at 16th GWO Conference in 2026!
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Date
8-10 June
Location
Nazarbayev University
City
Astana, Kazakhstan
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.
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    The Nazarbayev University’s Research Centre for Entrepreneurship (NURCE) is a new research centre within the Graduate School of Business (GSB) at Nazarbayev University (NU).

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