Laura Corradi Wins Global Women's Studies Award

At the 12th World Conference on Women's Studies in Thailand from 26 to 30 May 2026, Laura Corradi, a sociologist, received the award for the “Superlative presentation” for her oral presentation of her research titled “From the feminist critique of science in Sandra Harding to the construction of Jineoloji”.

Laura is a sociologist of the body and scholar-activist. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California. She has authored some fifteen books and hundreds of articles, both academic and popular. Currently, she is teaching Gender and Science, Gender Studies and Intersectional Methodology at the University of Calabria, where she is responsible for the coordination of the Decolonial Feminist Queer LAB.

In her scholarly research and feminist activism, she has interacted with Abdullah Öcalan's thoughts and ideas, and she has discovered the concept of jineoloji and the Kurdish women's revolution as pivotal in the global field of gender studies.

Her research is therefore often inspired by the concept of jineoloji, of a paradigm of democratic modernity and its techniques. Having always been close to the Kurdish women’s movement and as an internationalist, she works in close collaboration with it. Thanks to this collaboration and her important work, Corradi was awarded the prestigious ‘Superlative Presentation’ prize at the 12th World Conference on Women’s Studies.

Key Highlights:

• Laura Corradi won the “Superlative Presentation” award at the 12th World Conference on Women's Studies 2026
• Her research focused on jineoloji, a women-centered approach to gender studies and social change
• The award highlights growing global interest in inclusive and decolonial feminist perspectives

Jineoloji is becoming a more and more relevant part of academic knowledge, and of the growth of the international discussion on feminism and current social issues. Jineoloji, the science of life and of women, can be a solution for dismantling deadly, patriarchal systems of knowledge, offering a way of interpreting society through the lens of the free woman, moving away from a hierarchical and colonising perspective.

Corradi's recognition in a large international conference is indicative of the trend of international interest in new approaches to studying gender and social sciences. Her work points to the need to disrupt the existing canons of knowledge and to establish environments for other more inclusive, participatory and emancipatory types of scholarship.

The idea of jineoloji has gained more traction among scholars, activists and policymakers around the world, following the Kurdish women's movement. It brings together theory and experiences of women's self-organisation and social change, providing new insights into topics like democracy, equality, ecology and social justice.

As the dialogue on jineoloji has grown, experts point out a general shift toward a decolonial, intersectional feminist perspective in contemporary feminist discourse. Collective knowledge and women-specific experiences are becoming more relevant in supporting frameworks to meet complex global challenges as universities and research institutions respond to them.